Devourer Talent!

The deep sea was silent.

"Many thanks to Lord Te for your guidance!"

Lei Wen bowed deeply.

Gratitude filled his voice. The other party's words had opened the door to a new world for him.

Not bad.

Te stirred that small pile of minced meat, his narrow eyes crinkling into slits.

That kid had decent comprehension and a proper attitude.

If he could become a subordinate in the future, perhaps he could offer him some guidance.

"Alright."

"Since that's the case, I'll be leaving first."

Very soon.

Te casually waved his hand.

Before his words had even faded—

He vanished like sand scattered by the wind, leaving no trace behind.

Just like that, he was gone?

Lei Wen maintained his bowing posture and waited another three seconds.

Only after the lingering sense of oppression had completely dissipated did Luo Ye slowly straighten up.

He let out a long breath.

The sea breeze, carrying the salty smell of fish, brushed against his face and dispersed the suffocating gloom from moments ago.

"Phew..."

Lei Wen rubbed his stiff cheeks.

Acting was exhausting work too.

Especially when facing an old monster who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years. Every muscle in his face had to be precisely controlled.

The slightest flaw might have allowed the other party to see through him.

"M-Master?"

A timid little sound came from beside him.

Xiao Bai was currently hiding its body beneath the reef, with only a pair of pale-blue eyes peeking out as it cautiously looked outside.

"Enough."

"He's gone already."

Lei Wen kicked Xiao Bai's tail irritably.

The little creature sprawled on the ground, trembling like chaff, utterly disgracing the dragon race.

"Waaah!"

"I was scared to death! Scared to death!"

Xiao Bai slowly crawled out from under the reef.

As a Flagrant Beast, it was even more sensitive to danger than humans.

The little creature that had seemed gentle and harmless a moment ago was now trembling all over, its face filled with the terror of narrowly escaping death.

That was the suppression of bloodline.

The innate majesty of a Divine Beast over an ordinary beast.

Lei Wen glanced at it but said nothing.

Tell Xiao Bai that was the king of the Dark Forest?

It would probably faint on the spot.

He sat cross-legged atop a reef and cast his gaze toward the North Sea, where dark waves surged.

The seawater battered the black rocks along the shore, sending up thousands of waves.

Te had gone out of his way to make this trip, seemingly only to deliver a few words of advice.

In truth?

Other than that discussion about the fusion of laws, the old monster had not revealed anything useful.

Still.

Lei Wen had not expected anything in the first place.

He had never hoped to pry anything out of Te.

He understood that Lord God's personality far too well.

That guy only did things according to his mood.

Not slapping him today already meant he was in a good mood.

But so what?

True strength was never gained by relying on handouts from others.

Lei Wen closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking into his body.

His attention focused entirely on his own bloodline.

After becoming a god with Water affinity.

The Devourer pattern on the back of Lei Wen's hand had completely fused into his body.

The Devourer's Form had fully awakened.

With the complete awakening of Devourer's Form—

Lei Wen directly received a special innate divine ability.

An innate divine ability!

Divine Beasts, or lifeforms possessing special bloodlines—

Upon becoming gods, they would awaken innate divine abilities belonging to them.

Te's "Devour God" allowed him to ignore all physical defenses, directly devour Godheads, and even make powerful gods fear him.

The combined innate divine abilities of the four Divine Beast ancestors could even contend head-on with a High God.

What about his own ability?

Lei Wen pressed down the excitement in his heart and carefully examined that power.

After a long while.

Lei Wen opened his eyes.

Within his originally pitch-black pupils, two streams of black mist slowly emerged.

They seemed intent on swallowing all the light around them.

Xiao Bai, beside him, suddenly sneezed.

It trembled in fear, its Moon Soul quivering slightly as though it had encountered a natural enemy.

"M-Master, you..."

Xiao Bai retreated several steps, its enormous body curling into a ball.

Lei Wen said nothing.

The corners of his mouth could not stop twitching upward, finally forming an unrestrained arc.

"Hahahaha!"

Wild laughter echoed over the sea, startling a flock of seabirds into flight.

"Good!"

"What an incredible Devourer Talent!"

Lei Wen rose to his feet, divine power surging through his entire body.

He had finally figured out what his innate divine ability was.

[Devourer Talent]

The name was simple and crude, but its effect was enough to make one click their tongue in amazement.

It transformed into a Devourer phantom capable of devouring targets.

Naturally, it had limitations—it could only devour lifeforms weaker than himself.

But that was not a problem at all!

The strong devoured the weak. That was the true law of this world.

Most crucially, it possessed the effect of Devouring Assimilation.

"Digest."

Lei Wen clenched his fists, feeling the power contained in his palms.

Devouring was not merely about eating a corpse.

It was about seizing its essence.

When ordinary Divine Beasts devoured, they mostly replenished energy and strengthened their flesh.

When the Devour God Mouse devoured a Godhead, it assimilated the Godhead's essence to enhance its own divine power.

But "Devourer Talent" was plunder in every sense!

Take the laws he had comprehended before.

Lei Wen had relied on the Spirit Domain Demon Core, comprehending some mysteries of the laws within it.

Yet those mysteries were only tiny fragments.

Perhaps only one ten-thousandth of the whole.

It was precisely because of that.

Lei Wen had eaten at least a hundred Sacred Beasts in the sea region before forcing his Water affinity into godhood.

But "Devourer Talent"—

After devouring a Water-affinity Sacred Beast.

Following a brief period of digestion.

Lei Wen could directly obtain roughly one ten-thousandth of the other party's comprehension of laws.

That was practically cheating!

When ordinary people comprehended laws, they were like looking at flowers through the mist, like feeling their way across a river by touching stones.

Lei Wen, on the other hand?

He was directly moving someone else's "workbook" in front of himself.

Even if the workbook had been torn apart, he could still understand most of it by piecing together the fragments.

And—

Comprehension of laws was merely the appetizer.

What truly made Lei Wen's heart race was an even deeper possibility.

"There's a certain chance of obtaining the other party's ultimate techniques, innate talents... even bloodline!"

Lei Wen's breathing grew heavy.

This was the true heaven-defying ability.

In this world's cultivation system, innate talent determined one's upper limit.

Why were Moon Soul Mutations so powerful?

Because they could fuse laws of different affinities.

Why could the four Divine Beasts do whatever they wished?

Because they possessed heaven-defying innate divine abilities.

The talents Lei Wen currently possessed were only Water affinity, Fire affinity, and the Moon Soul's all-encompassing law fragments.

That was enough to make him a prodigy in the Yulan Continent.

But in the Infernal Realm—

He was merely an ordinary passerby with a little more luck than most.

If he only wanted to become an ordinary High God and rule one region, that would be enough.

But since Lei Wen had come here.

How could he possibly be content with mediocrity!

"If..."

"If I devour a Light-affinity Divine Beast, or a god..."

"Then I'll have a certain chance of awakening a Light-affinity cultivation talent!"

"..."

Lei Wen's gaze grew profound as he looked toward the turbulent sea.

Once he awakened it.

It would mean he could cultivate a fourth affinity.

Then, if he devoured an Earth-affinity Divine Beast, that would be a fifth affinity...

So long as there were enough things to devour, and he digested them thoroughly.

In theory.

Lei Wen could become a monster capable of cultivating the laws of every affinity!

He could even... make his soul stronger!