Chapter 172: Life Extraction, Life Halo! An Unexpected Joy! (Seeking Continuation)

At the start, he passively completed a test, the rewarded skill was decent, his interest was piqued, and Lu Zheng looked at the next test content.

【Second test: Healing! Feel the process of life recovery】

Description: For at least 100,000 targets, accumulate restored HP greater than two quadrillion, and feel the rhythm of life during the recovery process.

【Reward: Life affinity +40%; Divine Skill: Life Extraction】

If another person saw the "two quadrillion" figure, they would likely be scared stiff.

After all, two quadrillion is already an extremely terrifying number.

Add another "ten thousand" and how many casts of healing would be needed to reach that figure? Lu Zheng only stared blankly for a moment, then showed a relaxed expression.

Now, his HP is 50 trillion, mana is 20 trillion; an avatar with all attributes reduced to one‑tenth has HP 5 trillion and mana 2 trillion.

Two quadrillion (2 × 10¹⁹) is just the total HP of four hundred thousand avatars.

Lu Zheng doesn't have that many avatars, but he can reuse ten thousand avatars repeatedly.

Lu Zheng selects fifty thousand avatars, lets another fifty thousand avatars use the True Blessing plus Mana Counterbalance skill, directly erasing 50 quadrillion HP.

Then he has them cast Life Hymn to restore the avatars.

Casting it in reverse once yields ten quadrillion.

Twenty million is just four hundred exchanges.

In less than an hour, the cumulative healing target is met! 【Ding! You have completed the second test of the Life God King Throne inheritance assessment: Healing! Feel the process of life recovery】

【Reward: Life affinity +40%; Divine Skill: Life Extraction】

【Current life affinity: 170%】

【Skill: Life Extraction】

【Effect: Consumes one hundred million mana to perform Life Extraction on at least one target; if half of the total HP of all targets is less than one billion, seize all; if greater than one billion but less than two billion, seize one billion; if half of total HP exceeds one billion, seize half; at most convert one billion HP to self】

The rules of this Life Extraction are similar to the previously obtained Life Hymn.

Consuming one hundred million mana directly takes half of the target's HP, even if the target has ten trillion HP; as long as its HP exceeds two billion, take half again.

When it is less than two billion, seize one billion.

If it doesn't even have one billion, take it all!

A very domineering skill, worthy of a Life God King, a rule‑based skill that arbitrarily strips half regardless of level.

Although a limit was added at the end, at most it can obtain one billion HP as replenishment.

But Lu Zheng is very satisfied with this ability.

【Third test: Life! Deprivation!】

Description: Extract HP from at least one hundred million targets, with total extracted HP not less than five quintillion (5 × 10¹⁹), and feel the passing of life.

【Reward: Life affinity +50%; Divine Skill: Life Halo】

At least one hundred million targets, if calculated per target, means five hundred million HP must be taken from each.

Fortunately it does not require each to exceed five hundred million, since that amount of HP would be at least a true god, and Lu Zheng has nowhere to find one hundred million true gods.

Completing this test is not difficult.

At this moment, ten Evil Gods of Main God level merged their Divine Nation instances, spawning countless monsters; killing one hundred million of them was a breeze.

It was completed in less than half an hour.

Meanwhile, Lu Zheng reused his old technique, letting avatars exchange to seize the opponent's HP, then used Life Hymn to restore.

After one hour, the mission was complete! 【Ding! You have completed the third test of the Life God King Throne inheritance assessment: Life! Deprivation!】【Reward: Life affinity +50%; Divine Skill: Life Halo】

【Current life affinity: 220%】

【Skill: Life Halo】

【Effect: Consumes at least one billion mana to release on a single target, causing the target to recover one hundred million HP per second and increase lifespan by at least one day】

A skill that increases lifespan appeared! Lu Zheng never expected that the long‑awaited lifespan‑increasing skill would come not from a divine pet but from inheriting the throne.

This is definitely an unexpected joy.

Ten billion mana adds one day of lifespan; it seems pricey, but Lu Zheng now has 20 trillion mana, so emptying it once could theoretically add twenty thousand days, i. e., fifty‑four years! This Life Halo should be applied to himself and his parents whenever possible; after all, mana costs nothing.

He quickly had the Lingming Stone Monkey and the Six‑Eared Marmoset learn the newly acquired skill, so that when he is absent, they can continue to increase his parents' lifespan.

After one trial, Lu Zheng discovered a problem.

Lifespan is not increased in a single burst.

It requires the Life Halo to be continuously maintained, and there is an upper limit to the increase.

After spending 10 trillion mana, it can add one thousand days of lifespan, but the halo must be sustained for ten days, averaging at most one hundred days added per day.

Even if the Life Halo is kept on constantly, it can increase lifespan by at most one hundred years per year.

Because a year is consumed, the theoretical maximum frequency is an increase of ninety‑nine years per year!

That will do.

Persisting for a hundred years can add nine thousand nine hundred years; theoretically, with this skill one can already achieve immortality.

But in reality, the condition for immortality is not endless lifespan, but undying invulnerability!

Having abundant lifespan matters little if one is still killed.

Strength is the prerequisite for longevity; every immortal species must be an absolute powerhouse.

With the three tests completed, he condenses his divine form, allowing an avatar to inherit the Life God King position.

After inheriting the God King Throne, this avatar can freely enter and exit the divine realm.

When the former Life God King's plane protection vanished, Lu Zheng directly activated his plane‑shattering ability to crush it, then used the Divine Nation Plane skill to rebuild a Divine Nation Plane on that basis.

Only then could the Elf race and the Treefolk be settled.

He had promised to grant them protection and kept his word.

The shattering of the Life God King's Divine Nation Plane also directly attracted the attention of the demon lords in the divine realm.

Although the Life God King's Divine Nation Plane is independent, it can also be embedded within the Divine Realm; its destruction would cause considerable upheaval.

Lu Zheng's avatar at this moment had taken on another form, not his own.

Sensing the Demon King approaching, he did not retreat; instead he provoked it.

Three Demon King‑level beings surrounded the Life God King; at that instant, Lu Zheng, transformed into the Death God King, wielded the "Death Pillar" and activated the skill "World‑Ending Strike", smashing down on the three Demon Kings!

Lu Zheng's current power is absolute God‑King‑level peak combat strength, with multiple buffs and damage crits doubled; under this single strike he displayed the true world‑ending might!

One fled.

The other two were killed outright by his strike! Grabbing the two dropped God‑King‑level divine attributes, Lu Zheng's true self, together with the Life God King's avatar, vanished from the Divine Realm.

Luo Se appeared in the next instant, looking at the nearly shattered Divine Realm space, and showed a puzzled expression.

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