Chapter 155: Deprivation Curse

This divine pet's appearance was somewhat unexpected.

Because he hadn't been focusing on the summoning and his mind wasn't sincere, he actually got a result! After all, Lu Zheng had just been replying to messages, and the summoning technique was entirely in an "idle summoning" mode—he hadn't been paying much attention at all.

But with such a careless summon, he actually got a result! 【Ding! Consumed 100 million points of spell power, successfully activated the skill God-Tier Summoning Technique. Congratulations on obtaining the five-star legendary divine pet 'Yingzhao'】 ×1 【Triggered the passive effect two of the hidden talent 'Summoning of the Gods,' you have obtained the skill 'Deprivation Curse'】.

Looking at the divine pet before him with the body of a horse, the face of a human, tiger stripes, and bird wings, Lu Zheng revealed an expression of pleasant surprise.

He'd thought it would be another Constellation divine pet; he hadn't expected it to be a five-star legendary divine pet.

Moreover, the skill was equally impressive.

It was a type he hadn't mastered! 【Skill: Deprivation Curse】

【Effect: Consumes a minimum of 10,000 mana points, released on any target, permanently deprives the target of one innate basic skill. If all of the target's innate basic skills have been taken, it will instead deprive the target of health points or mana points; the degree of deprivation increases with the amount of mana consumed. There is a chance of directly acquiring the deprived skill; the deprived health or mana points have a chance of directly increasing the health cap and mana cap.】

This divine pet looked full of wickedness at a glance, and its skill was equally evil.

Directly stripping away skills, health points, and mana points.

Just this one skill alone seemed like it could turn a powerful enemy into a weakling!

However, Lu Zheng liked it very much.

And he had to praise it—truly worthy of being a five-star legendary divine pet. This skill was just as domineering as Jianma's two skills!

Lu Zheng didn't care much about the effect of potentially acquiring the opponent's skill through deprivation. With the Six-Eared Macaque's Ditian Wanfa skill, he could directly copy whatever skill he wanted.

There was no need to gamble on probabilities at all.

What Lu Zheng cared about was that it could also grant permanent increases to his health cap and mana cap.

Who would complain about having a thicker health bar and higher mana points!? Lu Zheng had never had any method other than having his summoned beasts feed back spirit attributes to increase his mana cap—now he finally had one.

It should be known that with Taotie's passive skill 'Mana Annihilation,' as long as his mana cap was high enough, he could theoretically be immune to all spell skill damage! This was a matter concerning his life and death, so Lu Zheng took it very seriously.

This Upper God-tier Evil God's dungeon had already been cleared out entirely, leaving only a vast expanse of space gradually merging with this world.

Lu Zheng had no choice but to find a Saint-tier sea beast in the ocean and began casting the 'Deprivation Curse' skill on it.

He completed the deprivation consuming only the minimum of 10,000 mana points.

This Saint-tier sea beast only had four innate skills. With 40,000 mana points, he stripped its skills clean. Casting 'Deprivation Curse' again, the next moment, Lu Zheng felt a surge of life force flood into him.

Under the effect of the True Eye, he saw this sea beast's health cap instantly shrink by half.

Yet the increase to his own health cap was only one-tenth of what it had lost!

It seemed the cost of deprivation was not small.

A Saint-tier sea beast's health cap was too low—taking half of it could only be converted at one-tenth, so the final increase was negligible.

He continued casting, stripping mana points—also half, converted at one-tenth.

Though not much, it was a tangible increase!

That was something worth being happy about.

If Saint-tier targets' health caps were too low, then he'd go strip the health and mana caps of True Gods.

Even the lowest-tier Lower God had a base health pool of over 500 million and base mana of 50 million.

Converting at one-twentieth, that meant he could increase his own health cap by 25 million points and mana cap by 2.5 million points.

Stripping 2.5 million mana points from one, 25 million from ten, 250 million from a hundred! Even a mosquito is still meat.

Of course, stripping higher-tier Evil Gods clearly offered better value.

If he could strip a Mid God, he'd gain at least 10 million mana points; stripping an Upper God would yield at least 100 million mana points; stripping a Main God would guarantee an increase of at least 5 billion! If only he could strip a God King.

Ahem, one shouldn't aim too high—better to set the goal at stripping a Main God first.

Additionally, this Yingzhao could be cultivated well, having it strip some mana and health points to serve as his mana reserves and health reserves would also be very good.

Also, he should first let the Spirit Stone Monkey and the Six-Eared Macaque learn Yingzhao's transformations and skills—these two also had tremendous potential.

Lu Zheng's cultivation strategy was to maximize the potential of every divine pet.

Right now, the two with the highest potential in his hands were the Six-Eared Macaque and the Spirit Stone Monkey, because they could learn and master all the transformations and skills of other divine pets.

In terms of overall combat power, Lu Zheng ranked first, with the Six-Eared Macaque and the Spirit Stone Monkey tied for second.

The two were evenly matched, even indistinguishable from each other.

If they weren't Lu Zheng's summoned beasts, even Lu Zheng wouldn't be able to tell which was which.

After finishing all this, Lu Zheng suddenly thought of something.

He took out his phone, took a photo of himself and Yingzhao together, and sent it to Wang Jun.

Accompanied by a line of text.

'Working hard! Got a five-star legendary divine pet! Still need six more! Let's keep it up together!'

Wang Jun, who was eating with Yang Dong and the others, couldn't help but cry out in pleasant surprise when he saw that Lu Zheng had actually taken the initiative to message him.

Yang Dong scolded him in exasperation.

"You idiot! What are you jumping about for? Did the boss contact you?!"

Wang Jun subconsciously nodded.

"Yes, a message from the boss."

Yang Dong and the others immediately crowded around, looking at Wang Jun's phone.

When they saw the content of the message, each and every one of them stared blankly.

Listen to this—is this even human speech!?

A five-star legendary divine pet, still need six more? Good lord! Yang Dong clapped Wang Jun on the shoulder, sighed, and shook his head:

"Why do you insist on showing off to the boss? The boss's first summoned beast was a five-star immortal-grade spirit pet, and now he's holding a whole handful of divine pets—you're just asking for it!"

Wang Jun fell silent; he didn't know how to respond either.

Mu Yunlan spoke up:

"We need to complete the Job Change Quest as soon as possible. Right now, our experience points are enough to reach Saint-tier, which has already saved us a great deal of effort. We can continue chasing his footsteps! At the very least, we must become gods!"

Ji Zirou echoed:

"Yes! We also want to become gods!"

Lu Zheng didn't realize he had once again inspired his former rivals and underlings.

He just casually posted a photo, merely expressing his own bad taste.

After sending the message here, Lu Zheng sensed a new high‑god‑level divine realm instance descending and beginning to merge with this world.

It is now only about one‑ten‑thousandth merged, and a preliminary stable planar link has been established.

Lu Zheng instantly teleported over.

Thanks for the support! (End of chapter)