12: He swallowed the Holy King's essence blood whole, terrifying the entire dragon race!
Elizabeth's voice was calm and rippleless.
But what she brought out made the entire Ten Thousand Dragon Fortress erupt in a frenzy.
Source Essence Blood!
And it was the Source Essence Blood of the Life Dragon Emperor!
The value of this thing was simply beyond words.
To the Dragon Race, this was a sacred object! A supreme treasure!
A single drop was enough to give a dying dragon a new lease on Life.
A single drop could allow a Sub-dragon with impure blood to purify its lineage and gain the possibility of reaching a higher realm!
Among the offspring of Ao Yuan and Elizabeth, only the eldest son, Ao Shang, had ever received half a drop as a reward upon reaching adulthood; the other dragons didn't even have the right to get a whiff of it.
Now, Elizabeth was actually going to bestow this complete drop upon a human Infant?
On what grounds!
What right does he have!
Ao Shang, who had just been revived and was still feeling dizzy, saw this scene and his eyes instantly turned bloodshot.
An uncontrollable surge of jealousy and rage erupted from the depths of his heart once again.
“Mother Empress! You mustn't!”
Without even thinking, he spoke out in opposition again.
“The Source Essence Blood is the very foundation of our Dragon Imperial Family. How can it be so easily given to a Foreign Race! Especially such a lowly human!”
“Please reconsider, Mother Empress!”
“Yes, Mother Empress!”
“Your son refuses to accept this!”
The other dragons also began to clamor, their divine senses whipping up a storm within the Divine Temple.
They had just been stunned by Su Jue's performance, but when it came to such core interests, all reason was swept away by jealousy.
“Hmm?”
Elizabeth merely gave them a faint glance.
Just a single look.
The entire Divine Temple instantly fell silent.
Every dragon, including Ao Shang, felt as if their divine souls had been frozen; they couldn't utter another word.
This was the might of a Saint King.
Beyond question.
Beyond resistance.
“Are you trying to teach me how to do things?”
Her cold voice echoed in the deepest parts of every dragon child's soul.
Ao Shang lowered his head in humiliation, but within his dark-gold dragon eyes, his resentment was almost tangible.
He didn't understand.
He couldn't figure it out!
Why!
Why did both Father Emperor and Mother Empress favor this little bastard so much!
What was so good about him?
So what if he had good luck, could chew through a Star Core, and could withstand a strike from a Great Saint?
So what!
In the end, he was still a human! A member of a low-tier race!
On the other side...
Ao Yuan looked at his wife's domineering display and felt incredibly satisfied.
He scurried over to Su Jue's side, leaning his massive dragon head in, and spoke via divine sense that only Su Jue could hear:
“Son, look! Your mom got you something good!”
“This is the good stuff! It's even better than that drop of blood your dad gave you! Quick, thank your mom!”
Su Jue ignored him completely.
All of his attention was drawn to the drop of silver blood floating before Elizabeth's claw.
It smells so good!
It was a fragrance that originated from the very essence of Life.
Just one whiff made Su Jue feel as if every cell in his body was jumping for joy.
It tastes better than a Star Core!
It tastes better than a dragon horn!
He had only one thought in his mind right now.
Eat it!
【Ding! Detected Top-tier Cosmic Wonder: Life Dragon Emperor Source Essence Blood (Saint King Realm)!】
【Performing emergency analysis...】
【Warning! Energy level too high! Analysis failed!】
【Initiating emergency protocol... Analyzing surface-level law information...】
【Analysis successful! This essence blood contains the 'Law of Life' (ultra-high concentration), 'Law of Time' (high concentration), and over 17 types of unknown transcendent laws!】
【Devouring suggestion: Extremely dangerous! The power of the laws contained in this item inherently conflicts with the 'Law of Destruction' inside the Host's body! Forced devouring has a 99.99% probability of causing a law clash, leading to physical collapse and soul annihilation!】
【Only feasible solution: Guided by the system with one-trillionth precision, perform an annihilation clash between the 'Law of Life' and the 'Law of Destruction' to extract the most fundamental 'Power of Creation and Destruction' to reshape the Host's foundation!】
【Success rate of this solution: 0.001%!】
【Please choose carefully, Host!】
The system's notification sounds were spamming wildly in Su Jue's mind, a dizzying series of warnings and red text.
A 99.99% Death rate?
A 0.001% success rate?
Good grief, are you two even capable of raising a child?!
If any normal person saw this Data, they would probably have been scared out of their wits by now.
But Su Jue was not a normal person.
His family was gone, and he had the system backing him up.
If the system said it could be eaten...
...then it could be eaten.
As for success rates or danger, what were those? Were they edible?
“Ah~”
Su Jue opened his small mouth and took a big gulp, sucking in that drop of silver essence blood.
“Holy crap!”
Ao Yuan was startled.
“Wife, be careful!”
Elizabeth was also stunned; she hadn't expected Su Jue to be so aggressive as to go straight for the mouth.
Her original intention was to use her own power to guide Su Jue in slowly absorbing it.
Who would have known this little guy wouldn't follow the script at all?
The drop of silver essence blood turned into a streak of light and instantly vanished into Su Jue's mouth.
“Gulp.”
Su Jue smacked his lips and swallowed it down.
And then... there was no 'then'.
The entire Divine Temple fell into a deathly silence once more.
Every dragon, including Ao Yuan and Elizabeth, stared fixedly at Su Jue, waiting for the subsequent reaction.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
Su Jue let out a loud burp.
A satisfied expression appeared on his face.
That's it?
That's all?!
What happened to the law clash? What happened to the physical collapse?
“Hahahaha!” Ao Yuan burst into thunderous laughter again, “Did you see that! My son is naturally gifted! He drinks Saint King essence blood like water!”
He laughed so hard he leaned back and forth, his dragon whiskers trembling.
Meanwhile, the group of dragon children all looked as pale as Death.
Especially Ao Shang; he felt as if his worldview had been repeatedly crushed, reshaped, and then crushed again today.
An Infant swallowed Saint King essence blood whole, and then... let out a burp?
Is this damn thing really happening right before my eyes?
He wasn't dreaming, was he?
Only Elizabeth's golden dragon eyes flickered with a light of extreme shock.
Because she could clearly sense it.
The moment her Source Essence Blood entered Su Jue's body...
...a terrifying law filled with the aura of extinction and termination, which was not the least bit weaker than her Law of Life, instantly awakened!
It was Ao Yuan's Law of Destruction!
Two diametrically opposed supreme laws collided violently within Su Jue's tiny body!
The energy that erupted in that instant even made her heart skip a beat.
She was even prepared to step in and forcibly suppress that energy riot.
But in the next second...
...something happened that even she, a Saint King, could not understand.
Those two terrifying laws, capable of tearing apart a plane, actually reached a bizarre balance the moment they collided.
They didn't destroy each other; instead, guided by a mysterious power, they began to mutually annihilate, decompose, and then reorganize!
One black and one white, one Life and one Death.
The two powers, like a Taiji diagram, slowly rotated within Su Jue's body.
Finally, a wisp of Grey Current—ancient and even more fundamental than Life and destruction—was born!