Water Affinity Deification!

Deep Sea.

A towering reef.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

Lei Wen sat cross-legged atop the reef.

Beside him lay a pile of enormous white bones, remnants left behind after the Flagrant Beast had fed.

On the surface of the sea.

Xiao Bai was fighting a Sacred Beast.

It was a Deep Sea magical beast nearly a thousand meters long, covered in thick armor-like scales.

Even though Xiao Bai was a Saint Domain dragon, he could not subdue his opponent for the moment.

Watching their battle.

A bright light appeared in Lei Wen's eyes.

Water was the softest.

Ice was the sharpest.

Water freezing into ice was a change in form.

But sharpness was a leap in quality.

Why could ice cut through metal?

Because it was hard?

No.

Because it was thin.

Concentrate all strength upon a plane only a fraction of an atom thick.

That was sharpness.

"Xiao Bai, stand down."

Lei Wen suddenly spoke.

Xiao Bai obediently shot into the sky, rising a thousand meters.

Having lost his opponent, the Deep Sea magical beast immediately turned its gaze toward Lei Wen.

Roar!

The Deep Sea magical beast roared.

A violet water pillar that reached the heavens and earth shot toward Lei Wen with devastating force.

Lei Wen raised a finger.

He merely extended his index finger and drew it through the air.

This stroke was very slow.

So slow that it seemed to stretch for an entire lifetime.

The world suddenly fell silent.

The instant the water pillar touched the trajectory traced by Lei Wen's fingertip.

That violet water pillar, filled with destructive power, silently split into eight pieces.

Immediately afterward.

The Deep Sea magical beast's roar gradually faded.

A thin bloodline, as slender as a hair, spread across the Deep Sea magical beast's body.

One finger, decapitation.

"So that's how it is."

"Sharpness is simplicity."

Looking at his own finger.

Lei Wen blew lightly on that thin thread, and it snapped apart with a crack.

Ice Edge, complete!

"Ah!"

At that very instant.

A vast, ancient, irresistible force suddenly descended.

The laws of heaven and earth.

The surrounding space instantly solidified.

The previously surging waves froze in midair in their violent forms.

The next moment.

Lei Wen felt his soul enveloped by a warm power, and it was abruptly pulled out of his body.

He "saw" his physical body still sitting cross-legged on the reef.

Before the mighty laws of heaven and earth, every living being was as tiny as an ant.

A clear message directly imprinted itself into the depths of his soul.

That was the law's judgment.

Godhood would be achieved at this moment.

Would he choose to condense his Godhead within his body, or become a god outside his body?

As a transmigrator.

Lei Wen understood the differences between the two paths clearly.

Becoming a god within the body!

His strength would rise quickly in the early stages, and the compatibility between soul and body would be perfect, but he would have only one life.

If he died, he would truly be dead.

As for becoming a god outside the body!

His soul would need to be divided in two, and his strength would rise somewhat more slowly, but he would effectively have two lives.

Even if his god avatar fell, his true body could still survive!

"Become a god outside the body!"

Lei Wen's soul gave a resolute shout amid the ocean of laws.

Boom!

The laws of heaven and earth answered Lei Wen's choice.

Immediately afterward.

An indescribable agony instantly flooded Lei Wen's consciousness.

Pain!

It hurt too much!

It was unlike the pain of physical injury.

It was more like someone using a rusty saw to forcibly split your thoughts, consciousness, and emotions apart.

Soul tearing!

That agony was enough to drive even the strongest of men utterly mad.

Lei Wen's soul howled fiercely.

His originally handsome face twisted beyond recognition.

He wanted to scream, but could not make a sound.

He could only grit his teeth and endure.

Half of his soul remained in his true body.

The other half was enveloped by the laws of heaven and earth.

Within that blazing elemental ocean, countless Water Elements gathered frantically.

A black crystal radiating a faint violet glow rapidly took shape beneath the molding of the laws.

Lower God Godhead!

Then.

Water affinity Divine Power surged forth, using the Godhead as its core to begin reshaping a divine body.

Bones, meridians, flesh, skin...

In just a few breaths.

A "Lei Wen" radiating icy violet light appeared in midair.

That was Lei Wen's Water affinity god avatar.

As the Water affinity god avatar appeared.

The ripples of the laws of heaven and earth receded like the tide.

The waves once more crashed against the reef, sending spray flying.

Everything returned to normal.

Upon the reef.

Two Lei Wens stood facing each other.

It felt wonderfully strange, like looking into a mirror.

Yet the reflection could perform completely different actions from his own.

"Hiss—"

Suddenly.

Lei Wen's true body sucked in a breath of cold air, his gaze instantly dropping to his arm.

The Hungry Ghost tattoo on the back of his hand seemed to come alive, writhing beneath his skin.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—"

A teeth-grating corrosive sound rang out.

The Hungry Ghost tattoo actually began to melt away.

Black ink seeped into his pores, passing through blood vessels and flowing with his blood toward his heart, then throughout his limbs and bones.

The pain vanished.

In its place came an unprecedented sensation of hunger.

This hunger was not the emptiness of his stomach.

It came from his genes, from the craving in the depths of his soul.

Lei Wen immediately sat down, feeling his heartbeat become slow and powerful.

Every beat sounded like it was striking a war drum.

The Hungry Ghost tattoo had completely disappeared.

No.

It had completely fused into Lei Wen's body.

From this day onward.

Lei Wen himself was a humanoid Hungry Ghost!

"This... is incredible."

Lei Wen felt the changes in his body.

The strength of his true body had suddenly increased by a huge amount.

Even without being tempered by Divine Power.

The strength of his true body was now completely no weaker than his Water affinity god avatar.

Most importantly.

Lei Wen could clearly feel it.

He had naturally mastered a divine talent!

"This... is too powerful."

Lei Wen suppressed the excitement in his heart.

Keep a low profile.

This was his sole survival principle in this world.

Even after becoming a god, he could not get carried away.

After all.

Above Lower Gods were Middle Gods, Upper Gods, and even those lofty Main Gods.

"Master!"

"You... you've become a god?"

Only then did Xiao Bai dare descend from the sky.

His enormous dragon head trembled, and his dragon eyes were filled with awe and worship.

A Sacred Beast was powerful, but before a god, it was merely a younger brother.

"Idiot."

Lei Wen patted Xiao Bai's icy scales.

Suddenly.

His movement froze.

A chill ran straight from his tailbone to the depths of his soul.

Not because of the cold.

But because of fear.

A Lower God possessed the authority of a divine domain.

Any slightest disturbance in the surrounding area could not escape Lei Wen's senses.

Even if a mosquito flew past, he could clearly count the frequency of its wings beating.

But—

Right in front of Lei Wen, less than three meters away,

at some unknown moment, an extra person had appeared.

Without any warning.

There had been no spatial fluctuations, no signs at all. Even the flow of dust had not been disturbed.

It was as if that person had always been standing there, as if he had already stood there for ten thousand years.

Lei Wen's eyes widened sharply.

It was an old man dressed in a simple black robe.

The old man was thin, with snow-white hair. His cloudy eyes had narrowed into slits as he smiled and sized Lei Wen up.

There was no energy leaking from him whatsoever.

He looked like nothing more than an ordinary old man from the neighborhood.