Chapter 96: Primordial Giant Kun! Ice and Snow Nation! Bone Throne!

What Lu Zheng liked most were skills that could multiply damage, and combined with the effect of the critical strike aura, this output was heaven-defying! Moreover, the power of Geng Metal also had a defense-weakening effect.

In other words, a demigod's defense, which could originally offset twenty million points of damage, could now offset ten million at most, or even less.

Dealing more true damage made killing monsters even easier.

The third divine pet, the Kunpeng, was also a heavyweight.

In the Northern Darkness there is a fish, its name is Kun. The Kun is so large, no one knows how many thousands of li it spans. It transforms into a bird, its name is Peng. The Peng's back, no one knows how many thousands of li it spans.

This divine pet could be described in one word: huge!

An enormous body represented vast magic power and near-invincible strength.

And the skill it fed back to Lu Zheng was not an attack skill.

【Skill: Water Strike Three Thousand】

【Effect: Minimum cost of 10,000 mana. Can transform into the body of a Kunpeng, possessing the ability to change into a Primordial Giant Kun and a Golden-Winged Great Peng, riding wind and water to travel three thousand li in an instant】

This was not simply a travel skill, but also a transformation skill.

After transforming into a Primordial Giant Kun, one became the overlord of the waters; after becoming a Golden-Winged Great Peng, one could dominate the skies! This excited Lu Zheng greatly.

Although his base strength was now no weaker than a divine beast's, that enormous body, the sheer size of a giant beast, still greatly interested him.

Only after truly becoming colossal could one perceive what insignificance was!

The skills provided by the three divine pets were all impressive, while ten identical immortal-grade spirit pets fed back the exact same skill.

Lu Zheng felt he had taken a huge loss—if they had been different immortal-grade spirit pets, he could have gained nine more immortal-grade skills! 【Skill: Soul Hook and Spirit Plunder】

【Effect: Minimum cost of 10,000 mana. Against targets whose mental value is less than half of one's own, one hundred percent hooks their soul, causing them to lose all ability to resist. Against targets whose mental value is greater than half of one's own, deals a minimum of 1,000 mental damage】

This skill appeared to deal only feeble damage if the target's mental value exceeded half of one's own mental power, seemingly useless.

But in reality, even a demigod's mental value was only around two hundred thousand.

As long as one spent a million mana, one could reduce their mental value by a hundred thousand, and once their mental value fell below half of one's own, another Soul Hook and Spirit Plunder could kill them.

If the critical strike aura effect was added on top of that, it would take less than one-fifth of the original mana to kill a demigod! And with the Cave Gloom Azure Serpent's 【Blood Gloom Divine Light】 skill assisting to severely wound the target's soul, instantly killing a demigod would be an effortless matter.

Seeing this skill so powerful, Lu Zheng no longer dwelled on the loss of nine immortal-grade skills.

With three more divine pets, he now had as many as nine divine pets, and twenty-one immortal-grade spirit pets as well—this was absolutely a force capable of overturning all order!

Of course, Lu Zheng had no intention of overturning anything.

Right now, he just wanted to raise the levels of his divine pets as quickly as possible.

The sea surface was not suited for the White Tiger to fight, so Lu Zheng only released the Torch Dragon and the Kunpeng.

The Torch Dragon had a human face and a serpent's body, entirely red, with vertically set eyes. At level one, its body length already exceeded ten meters, and it released a powerful aura. He casually hauled up a level-two hundred monster, crippled it, and let the Torch Dragon finish it off. Its level surged, and its body rapidly expanded.

In the blink of an eye, it reached over a hundred meters long.

After the massive serpent body coiled up, that head with a human face became even more terrifying!

The Kunpeng's body was even larger. Since this was the sea surface, it appeared in the form of a Primordial Giant Kun upon release, over twenty meters at level one—such a size was terrifying indeed.

This Primordial Giant Kun also had a devouring ability like Taotie's, and the things it devoured could be converted into experience points, but it needed to swallow water of equal mass along with them in order to complete the final digestion and absorption.

The monster corpses killed by the Torch Dragon earlier were fed to it, immediately converted into experience points, and its level skyrocketed while its body swelled dramatically! A Primordial Giant Kun at just over a hundred levels already reached a terrifying length of two hundred meters! Such a colossal creature—just one meal a day would require who knows how many monsters to fill its belly.

More than two hours later, the Primordial Giant Kun, having surpassed level one hundred fifty, reached a body length of over four hundred meters! A Torch Dragon of the same level was only a mere one hundred thirty-some meters long.

Moreover, the Torch Dragon's body was long and serpentine, while the Primordial Giant Kun was a plump, round fellow—over four hundred meters long and nearly three hundred meters wide! When that mouth like the Gate of the Abyss opened, it was practically the same diameter as the devouring black hole released by Taotie.

The Primordial Giant Kun's mouth also had an immense gravitational pull, especially in the water. With the aid of the water's power, the vast majority of creatures could not escape at all and would be swallowed into its belly.

Its belly did not contain a separate dimension like Taotie's; there was only surging water energy that crushed everything that entered! The Torch Dragon and Kunpeng, raised above level one hundred fifty, had already reached the combat level of peak saint-rank experts. Lu Zheng had them dive deep into the sea to explore and devour more monsters.

Confined to the coastal area, the monster density was insufficient.

The Kunpeng and Torch Dragon belonged to the ocean! However, Lu Zheng was still very concerned about their safety, so not only did he have the two cooperate with each other, he also forbade them from provoking demigod-level monsters.

Although together they might have the combat power to kill a demigod-level monster, there would certainly be losses, and such a risk was unnecessary to take.

Lu Zheng liked to crush enemies with absolute strength. Winning by trickery was like dancing on a blade's edge—the slightest misstep meant death! After the frights of the first-turn and second-turn quests, all Lu Zheng wanted now was stability.

Now, although he already had two fifth-turn divine pets in Taotie and Baize, Lu Zheng still had no intention of starting the fourth-turn quest.

With nine divine pets in hand, unless four of them reached fifth-turn level or above, he would not take the risk.

With the Torch Dragon and Kunpeng left in the sea, there was no need to worry about trouble at the coast. The vast majority of monsters would be intercepted and killed by these two fellows, and if a demigod-level monster appeared, Lu Zheng could sense it immediately and rush over before any damage was done.

He left the sea area and came to the Far North.

The Far North of the Daxia Alliance was located north of the frontier main city 'Snow Crystal City.'

Snow Crystal City was one of the Daxia Alliance's important frontier strongholds. It not only had to defend against attacks from the numerous ice- and snow-type monsters on the Far North Snowplains, but also had to face the impact from the Undead Plane! The Far North possessed two saint-rank dungeons. One was 'Ice and Snow Nation,' a multi-layered dungeon like the Endless Desert, which also housed some non-human intelligent races, namely the followers of the gods.

The other was the 'Bone Throne' dungeon, connected to the Undead Plane.

The Bone Throne was a semi-open dungeon. The monsters inside would continuously accumulate, and upon reaching a certain number, an Undead Calamity would erupt. An army of undead would surge out of the dungeon, descend upon the Far North Wasteland, and then march south toward the human cities.

Calculating the time, within this half-month would be the moment of the Undead Calamity's eruption, which occurred once every three years.

It was perfect for leveling up his summoned beasts! However, the moment he arrived at Snow Crystal City, he discovered that Xuanyuan Wuji had also come, and his appearance here indicated that a serious incident had occurred.

(End of this chapter)