The kitten still did not want to submit. Seeing that she made no move, Lucas assumed she was unwilling to submit. Since he could not tame such a gifted cat, and they had already fought, she would probably hold a grudge against him. Leaving her alive would threaten him and his family, so Lucas began gathering power in his spear, intending to kill her in a single strike.
At that moment, the kitten sensed the offensive power contained in Lucas's spear and told the little bear Anton that she was willing to submit. But Lucas had to tell her why he could withstand two of her soul attacks.
The little bear Anton relayed her words to Lucas. After Lucas agreed, the kitten spat out blood, and Lucas bit his finger. He dripped his blood onto the magic formation the kitten had formed. Once he finished, the formation became two triangular marks, which entered Lucas's soul and the kitten's soul respectively.
Then Lucas heard the kitten ask him in a childlike voice, "Tell me, how did you withstand my soul attacks? I can use that move to kill even other Level Nine Magical Beasts!"
Lucas himself cultivated the Death Edict and had gained an elementary understanding of it. Although he had not yet devised any offensive abilities using the Death Edict, during his years of refining corpses, he had experimented and discovered some of its soul-protecting effects. Thus, Lucas was confident that, with his peak eighth-rank soul power, he could withstand more than two soul attacks from a newly advanced Saint who had not comprehended an edict.
Yet he had only barely withstood two crude soul attacks from this eighth-rank kitten, which spoke volumes about this magical cat's talent.
Lucas explained to her, "I've comprehended the Death Edict. Your use of soul attacks is still rather crude. By the way, what's your name?"
The kitten said to Lucas, "My name is Rihanna. I'm a death- and wind-type magical beast. What's your name?"
After hearing her name, Lucas said, "My name is Lucas, a Ninth-Rank Warrior. You're a female cat?"
The kitten Rihanna shot back, "Is there a problem?"
Lucas said, "No problem."
Then he pointed to the little bear Anton beside him and said, "This is my contracted companion, a ninth-rank glutton. A Darkness Attribute Level Nine Magical Beast!"
At that moment, the little bear Anton said, "Boss, I'm darkness- and destruction-type."
Lucas asked uncertainly, "Isn't your mother a Darkness Attribute Level Nine Magical Beast? How do you also have the destruction attribute? Why didn't you say so sooner?"
The little bear Anton immediately said aggrievedly, "You never asked, Boss!"
Hearing this, Lucas almost thought the Overgod of Fate stood at his side. Now even the glutton he had carried away back then was a mutated Divine Beast. From the looks of it, since the kitten Rihanna could use soul attacks at the eighth rank, she was definitely a Divine Beast.
He hurriedly asked happily, "Anton, does that mean you're a Divine Beast too?"
With a bewildered look on his bear face, Anton asked Lucas, "Boss, what's a Divine Beast?"
Rihanna asked Lucas the same question, so Lucas explained to them both, "Divine Beasts can automatically become gods once they reach adulthood. When do you feel you'll reach adulthood?"
Anton said sheepishly, "Boss, I feel I'll reach adulthood in another two years."
Hearing that Anton would reach adulthood in two years, half the delight immediately vanished from Lucas's expression, because he understood that if Anton was only two years from adulthood, he would definitely already be a Saint now. As things stood, the little bear Anton was merely a dual-attribute Level Nine Magical Beast. Still, that was fairly good. After all, his mother was only an adult ninth-rank Darkness Attribute black bear."
Little Kitty Rihanna said then, "I still don't know when I'll reach adulthood. I was only born ten years ago."
Hearing this, Lucas more or less understood that Little Kitty Rihanna was indeed a Divine Beast.
After all, the little bear Anton was only in his teens now. Divine Beasts generally reached adulthood late, while magical beasts of other levels matured much faster. Lucas told them both that Divine Beasts would become gods after reaching adulthood, and the little bear Anton was immediately overcome with envy. Seeing the glutton's dejected expression, Lucas rapped him on the head. Then he said, "Now do you understand why I told you to cultivate properly back then?"
The little bear Anton nodded. Lucas then told them both, "We humans have to cultivate battle qi and magic to become Saints. But I don't have magic right now, so I cultivate battle qi."
"After the ninth rank, you need to accumulate enough battle qi and comprehend the Force of Heaven and Earth to advance to Saint. Being a Saint is only the beginning of cultivation. Only then is it possible to comprehend laws or edicts. That's what makes becoming a god possible!"
Little Kitty Rihanna, who had asked Lucas about this before, asked in confusion, "Aren't you only a Ninth-Rank Warrior? But you said earlier that you'd comprehended the Death Edict?"
"It's possible to comprehend edicts before becoming a Saint. The Laws of the World are divided into the Four Edicts: death, life, fate, and destruction. There are also the Seven Elemental Laws: earth, wind, water, fire, lightning, darkness, and light."
"Only people or magical beasts who have comprehended an edict or law of their own attribute have truly set foot on the path to godhood."
Naturally, Anton did not want to be outdone by Little Kitty Rihanna, so he asked directly, "Boss, how do I become a god?"
Lucas thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know how to cultivate the Destruction Edict, but as far as I remember, the Dark Element has the Profound Mystery of Darkness Essence, the Profound Mystery of Devouring, the Profound Mystery of Shadow Clone, and the Profound Mystery of Evil. You can choose to comprehend the Profound Mystery of Darkness Essence!"
The little bear Anton was rather greedy, just as he always wanted to eat more when eating. He asked, "Boss, can I comprehend all of them at once?"
Lucas answered him with a kick, then sternly told him, "You lazy bum, I'd already be giving you too much credit to think you could comprehend the Dark Element and become a god, yet you still want to be greedy. Although comprehending Fusion Profound Mysteries is easiest at the Saint stage, your soul can't withstand too many elemental laws."
"In that ocean of elemental laws, vast as the sea, you'd struggle to advance in even one direction, yet you want to grab a handful here and a handful there. If you do that, you'll never have any hope of becoming a god."
Anton knew he was rather stupid, so he said, "All right, I'll listen to you, Boss."
After hearing Lucas tell Anton so much knowledge she knew nothing about, Little Kitty Rihanna hurriedly asked as well, "What about me?"
Lucas looked at her, then told her, "Although I've gained an elementary understanding of the Death Edict, edicts aren't divided into profound mysteries. Once you've comprehended it, you've comprehended it. I can't guide you either."
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