Picking Up Attributes From Today

Panda Novel

The night was quiet and soundless. There wasn’t even the slightest sound of crickets chirping.

A campfire blazed quietly in the quiet bushes.

A pig trotter marinated with spices was suspended at the top of the campfire. Golden-yellow grease dripped into the fire, producing sizzles and giving off an alluring fragrance.

Meng Lei’s eyes bore into the golden-yellow pig trotter, wishing he could scarf it down in one gulp. He was starving right now and had never been hungrier than this moment.

Meng Lei knew that this was an aftereffect of his transformation into an ant. Although the transformation had only lasted for a short few minutes, it had certainly exhausted all his strength.

“The ant transformation is truly too taxing on my stamina. Even with my Ninth-Grade Warrior-esque body, I actually only lasted five minutes!”

Meng Lei found this inconceivable.

A formidable Ninth-Grade Warrior! Yet it had only lasted five minutes!

Would anyone believe that?

“Also! Every time I assimilate a bloodline, my body will be strengthened. After I assimilated the first two bloodlines, my body improved by double to triple of what it originally was.

“And now, after assimilating the Golden Gods-Slaying Ant bloodline, my body has actually improved by a whole tenfold. That’s a whole tenfold!”

Meng Lei looked at his stats interface, still immersed in deep astoundment.

Host: Meng Lei

Race: Human (Contains Fire Dragon bloodline, Fire Demon bloodline, and Golden Gods-Slaying Ant bloodline)

Wealth: 7,541,721,863 gold coins

Physical Body Constitution: Ninth-Grade Warrior (10,158,587/1,000,000,000)

Spirit: Ninth-Grade Magician (1,345,142/1,000,000,000)

Magic Power: Great Ninth-Grade Magician (1,129,328/1,000,000,000)

“Before assimilation, my Physical Body Constitution was 1 million points!

“After assimilation, it became 10 million points!

“That’s a whole tenfold difference!”

Meng Lei was in disbelief, but he couldn’t help but think of what his physical body constitution was like before and after he had assimilated the first two types of bloodlines.

Before he had assimilated the Fire Dragon bloodline, it was 800 points. After assimilation, it became 2,400 points—a threefold increase.

Before he had assimilated the Fire Demon bloodline, it was 7,000 points. After assimilation, it became 14,878 points—a twofold increase.

“The results are easy to see!

“If we don’t compare the other aspects but look purely at just my body’s strengthening and increments, the Golden Gods-Slaying Ant bloodline far surpasses the Fire Dragon and Fire Demon bloodlines.

“Now, here’s the problem—what kind of living thing is the Golden Gods-Slaying Ant, exactly? Why is it such a mutant?”

Meng Lei’s gaze involuntarily landed on Little Gold. This bloodline must have dropped from Little Gold for sure.

Was Little Gold a Golden Gods-Slaying Ant? Or did it have Golden Gods-Slaying Ant blood in its body?

If that was really the case, then Little Gold’s background would truly be fearsome. It definitely wouldn’t be as simple as just the ant monarch of the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants.

Upon detecting Meng Lei’s gaze, Little Gold was instinctively rather fearful. Meng Lei gave off an aura that made it restless and antsy.

“Don’t be scared, Little Gold.”

Meng Lei stroked Little Gold’s head lightly and comforted it softly. Little Gold relaxed slightly and enjoyed his caresses docilely.

When Little Gold had more or less relaxed, Meng Lei voiced the question in his mind, “Little Gold, do you know of the Golden Gods-Slaying Ants?”

“The Golden Gods-Slaying Ants?”

Little Gold raised its head and looked at Meng Lei. Puzzlement flashed across its eyes, and it shook its little head. “I don’t know of it!”

“You don’t?”

Meng Lei was mildly taken aback.

“I don’t!”

Little Gold was very sure.

“Why doesn’t it know?”

Meng Lei’s brows knitted together slightly.

“It’s very normal for it not to know.” Ol’ Amos popped out with a decidedly complex look in his eyes. “The Golden Gods-Slaying Ants are creatures that are stuff of legends. They’ve long since become extinct, and there are very few people that know of them.”

“Stuff of legends?” A huge jolt went through Meng Lei.

“Yes, stuff of legends. It’s said that the whole world was still under the rule of the ancient Titans during those times. The Titans ruled over the skies and also controlled the lands.

“The ancient Titans! They were the one and only ruler of the Heaven’s Vault Continent… Until a certain day!”

Ol’ Amos’ eyes flickered as he said, “Golden rain fell from the skies, and an ant disaster broke out. It was only then that the ancient Titans’ rule finally came to an end!

“Later on, people realized that the golden rain that had fallen from the skies was, in fact, the eggs of a type of creature known as the Golden Gods-Slaying Ants.

“As the ant eggs hatched, baby ants were born, and a catastrophe broke out.

“Innumerable frenzied Golden Gods-Slaying Ant devoured everything that could be devoured—animals, humans, Magical Beasts, Fairies, Beast People… Including the ancient Titans, of course!

“The ancient Titans rose up in a counterattack. Unfortunately, the Golden Gods-Slaying Ants were simply too strong; not only were they indestructible, but they also possessed incredible physical strength.

“This directly led to innumerable Titans falling in battle. The ancient Titans also suffered devastating losses as a result, which ended their reign.”

“What happened after that?” Meng Lei asked incessantly, “Since the golden ants were so terrifying, who were the ones that stopped them? And who was able to stop them?”

Ol’ Amos gazed at the starry nightscape and uttered two words—”The deities!”

“The deities?”

Meng Lei was stunned.

“Yes, the deities!”

Ol’ Amos’ eyes flickered as he said, “The deities exist above the starry skies and overlook the whole world. They heard the ancient Titans’ prayers and also saw the catastrophe taking place in Heaven’s Vault Continent.

“And so, they descended upon the world!

“In the faraway ancient records, on the day that the deities descended, innumerable divine light beams cascaded from the sky. As though pillars of light that reached into the heavens and went deep into the ground, they lit up the entire sky. Even the sun hanging high up in the sky was dim and dull under the divine light’s shine.

“After that, an earth-shaking holy war broke out.

“The heavens split, and the earth cracked, and hurricanes swept across the lands!

“The floods broke loose, and earthquakes erupted!

“Dead bodies were strewn all over the wilderness as the earth and mountains shook and swayed!

“Toward the end of the war, even Heaven’s Vault Continent itself broke into pieces!”

Meng Lei sucked in a breath of chilly air.

“It’s said that a very long time ago, Heaven’s Vault Continent used to be much bigger than what it currently is. It was a whole five to six times the size of what it is now.”

Ol’ Amos went on with a sigh. “However, after that war, the continent broke and separated into many fragments. The current Heaven’s Vault Continent is one of the bigger pieces of those fragments.

“The other fragments either wandered about in the endless ocean and turned into solitary, lost continents, or they were submerged by the ocean and forever buried at the bottom of the deep ocean.”

“That great war was actually that terrifying?!”

Meng Lei was deeply astounded.

“The ones that partook in it were ultimately deities, after all.” Ol’ Amos shook his head repeatedly. “The deities’ strength is something you can never ever imagine. In front of the deities, Saint Domains are like ants in comparison to Colossal Dragons, and candlelight in comparison to the sun. It’s not something that can be clearly measured in numbers at all.”

“Are there really deities in this world?”

Meng Lei raised his head to the sky and gazed into the distance at the dazzling, brilliant stars in the night sky. A deep sense of puzzlement welled up within him.

Do deities really exist?

“Of course they do!” Ol’ Amos had no doubt about that. “Deities are higher beings that stand far above mere mortals. They are omniscient, omnipotent, immortal, and eternal. They possess a completely different lifestyle from mortals, and they truly exist at the other end of the starry sky!”

Taken aback, Meng Lei asked suspiciously, “Ol’ President, have you seen one before?”

“Of course!” A look of reverence appeared in Ol’ Amos’ eyes that were brimming with extraordinary splendor. “Our Lord, the Dragon God, that we, the Dragon God Empire, worship and believe in is a true deity. I once had the fortune to see his true form.”

“The Dragon God is actually real?”

Meng Lei was terribly shocked.

Calluses had already formed on his ears after hearing everyone going, “Oh my dragon god!” every day. He had initially thought that the so-called Dragon God was the same as the Venerable Master1, Buddha, and God on Earth, and was just an abstract, intangible religion.

Little did he expect that the Dragon God… truly existed!

That’s true!

This is Heaven’s Vault Continent where even stuff of legends like Colossal Dragons and Titans exist. Why can’t the Dragon God be real, too?