Chapter 148: External Avatar: Death God King!

Lu Zheng glanced at the quest requirements.

【Quest Requirements: Prevent Oswaldo from completing the trial, seize the Death Divine Throne】

He took another look at the description.

The first requirement was to prevent Oswaldo from completing the trial — killing Oswaldo had already accomplished that.

The second requirement was to seize the Death Divine Throne.

It only said "seize," not that he himself had to inherit it.

Inheriting the throne of the Death God King required meeting three conditions: Death Affinity reaching 100%; completing all nine trials; and condensing a divine core.

Lu Zheng now only lacked condensing a divine core.

But he himself did not want to become the Death God King.

That would mean being completely restricted by the divine throne.

Yet the others clearly could not complete the Nine Death Trials again — after all, the ninth trial's content was to kill the other participants.

In other words, the next person would have to kill Lu Zheng to complete the quest.

Clearly, Lu Zheng did not want to inherit the divine throne, nor could he die.

Suddenly, an idea surfaced in his mind.

Was there a possibility that he wouldn't inherit it himself, but let his External Avatar inherit it instead? It seemed a bit unlikely.

But thinking it through carefully, it was a perfect fit.

The avatar was also Lu Zheng — it had passed all nine trials, its Death Affinity had reached 220%, and it only lacked condensing a divine core.

Lu Zheng's External Avatar was extremely powerful; apart from having base attributes at one-tenth of the main body, every other aspect was essentially identical to himself.

Letting it inherit the divine throne was perfectly fine.

Once Lu Zheng had this idea, it spiraled out of control — he immediately had one of his clones take the newly obtained Main God-level divine core and begin condensing its own divine core.

He even thoughtfully cast "Divine Power Blessing" to assist the avatar in obtaining divine power.

Divine power was not some particularly advanced thing.

Lu Zheng had long been able to master it — once the level restriction lifted, he could level up rapidly.

The condensing of the divine core began.

Divine power gradually gathered, and in less than ten minutes, a divine core containing pure death divine power formed within the body of Lu Zheng's avatar.

To be precise, Lu Zheng had condensed the divine core inside the avatar.

However, this divine core's rank was only equivalent to the level of a Lower God.

Just as Lu Zheng was wondering when the divine throne inheritance would begin, something unexpected happened.

He saw his accumulated experience points decrease rapidly — more than half gone in the blink of an eye.

And they were still continuing to drop.

At the same time, the divine core condensed within the avatar's body rapidly transformed and strengthened, becoming Mid God-level in the blink of an eye.

Another blink, and it became Upper God-level.

After ninety-nine percent of Lu Zheng's accumulated experience points had been drained, it transformed into Main God-level.

And at this very moment, the prompt for divine throne inheritance finally appeared before him.

【Ding! You have completed the divine trial: the three conditions for the Death God King. Now beginning the inheritance of the Death God King Throne!】

Immediately after, the aura of the avatar before him underwent a massive change.

Surging death divine power converged from all directions, instantly elevating that Main God-level divine core to God King-level.

Lu Zheng could see the changes in the avatar's information.

【External Avatar: Death God King】

【Level: LV. 949 (God King)】

【HP: 549,000 billion/549,000 billion】

【MP: 149,000 billion/149,000 billion】

Lu Zheng was truly stunned! Though he had been very expectant and confident in his heart, seeing that it had actually succeeded, he still found it somewhat hard to believe. He actually now had a God King-level External Avatar!

Controlling it was perfectly smooth, without any hindrance.

Even though this fellow's level was much higher than his own, as an External Avatar, it was completely under his control and had no independent thoughts.

It was an empty shell.

An empty shell possessing God King-level combat power!

Lu Zheng had not been happy for long after obtaining the God King-level External Avatar before the prompt for the Job Change Quest's success appeared.

【Ding! Detected that Main God-level Evil God Oswaldo has died. Seizure of the Death Divine Throne successful. You have successfully completed your job change! Promoted to Saint-level Summoner! Your unique exclusive skill Summoning Art has been upgraded to Saint-level Summoning Art.】

【Ding! Detected a massive accumulation of experience points, now partially absorbed. Your level has increased. Current level LV. 400. All attributes have been amplified!】

Even though the External Avatar's condensing of a Main God-level divine core had consumed ninety-nine percent of his experience points, the remaining one percent was still enormous.

After all, Lu Zheng had slain over 130 billion monsters above level 30, as well as numerous Lower Gods, Mid Gods, and even a Main God-level Evil God!

His level being stuck at four hundred was not a problem.

Lu Zheng began cultivating on the spot, mastering divine power, and then using divine power to break through the level restriction.

Five seconds later, the level restriction broke open.

Experience points continued to be consumed, and his level skyrocketed, reaching level 500.

The next step: condense a divine core and become a god! Lu Zheng had just successfully helped his External Avatar condense a divine core, so now condensing his own was naturally familiar territory — he obtained his own divine core very easily.

But he quickly noticed a problem.

The divine cores obtained by the avatar and the others were all in the shape of regular polyhedra.

A Lower God's divine core was a regular tetrahedron, a Mid God's was a regular hexahedron, an Upper God's was a regular octahedron, a Main God's was a regular dodecahedron, and a God King's was a regular icosahedron! But the divine core he had condensed himself was actually a sphere.

It doesn't look like a divinity; rather, it looks like the legendary golden core!? For such a difference, Lu Zheng felt a bit dazed.

But it seemed not to affect his leveling up; his level kept increasing, stopping only at level 588.

The remaining experience points were enough to let him reach this level.

To level up again, he would have to slay more gods.

The experience points generated by ordinary lifeforms are too low; unless the number of kills reaches tens of billions, it's really not even enough to fill a tooth gap!

When he broke through past level 500, a prompt sounded again in his ear.

【Ding! Congratulations on advancing to God-level Summoner! Your exclusive skill Summoning Technique has been upgraded to God-level Summoning Technique.】

【Skill: God-level Summoning Technique】

【Effect: Consuming 100 million mana points to cast a summoning technique once gives a chance to obtain a summoned beast, with the beast's lowest quality being a one-star immortal-grade spirit pet.】

Lu Zheng, seeing this effect, couldn't resist; moreover, the twenty summon slots available these past two days were still empty.

He immediately activated a summoning technique.

【Ding! Consuming 100 million mana points, successfully activating the skill God-level Summoning Technique, congratulations you obtained nothing】×1 ah?!

You got nothing, and you're congratulating me for what?!

Lu Zheng was completely speechless.

A hundred million mana points consumed, and not even a single hair was summoned.

The previous Grandmaster-level Summoning Technique at least had a rare-grade summoned beast as a safety net.

But after Lu Zheng calmed down and thought about it.

Even if he were given a rare-grade summoned beast now, he would have no interest in cultivating it, not even qualifying as cannon fodder.

For now, immortal-grade is barely worth a look, and god pets seem merely ordinary.

After all, he is a man who possesses a God King Avatar!

Legend says that god pets and immortal-grade spirit pets still require massive time and effort to cultivate, whereas a God King Level External Avatar can be taken out and used directly.

But just as Lu Zheng had this thought, he suddenly noticed a problem.

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