18: They eat decay as food, and Sister Long's equipment exploded!
[Command confirmed...]
[Executing Plan Three...]
[Warning! The Host is about to come into full contact with the 'Decay Law'. The process will cause extreme pain. Please be prepared!]
The next second.
Boom—!
If the erosion of the Power of Decay before was a trickling stream, then now, it was a prehistoric flood with the floodgates wide open!
Endless gray mist, carrying the terrifying power to decompose all things, frantically poured in through every pore of his body and every gap between his cells!
"Ahhhhh—"
Su Jue's soul was screaming.
It was an indescribable pain.
It was as if billions of ants were gnawing on his bone marrow and biting his soul at the same time.
His body was decomposing.
His Life was fading away.
His consciousness was sinking.
[The structure of the 'Junior Chaos Dragon Body' is being forcibly decomposed!]
[Cell activity reduced to 3%... 2%... 1%...]
[Life signs are about to disappear!]
Is it over?
Is this it?
However!
At the very moment his fire of Life was about to be extinguished!
That wisp of gray airflow hidden in the deepest part of his body, born from the collision of the two supreme laws of destruction and Life—the [Power of Creation and Destruction]—finally moved!
It was like a monarch sleeping for billions of years, awakened by the noise of a group of clowns.
Buzz!
An ancient will that transcended the laws awakened from within Su Jue.
The "Power of Decay" that was rampaging through his body instantly turned from a ferocious wolf into a docile lamb before this will!
[Ding!]
[Detected that the 'Power of Creation and Destruction' has been activated!]
[The 'Life-Death Balance Cycle' system is beginning to be constructed!]
[Step One: Using the 'Power of Creation and Destruction' as the core, suppress the 'Decay Law'!]
[Step Two: Guide the 'Power of Decay' to decompose redundant energy, waste cells, and law impurities within the Host's body!]
[Step Three: Guide the 'Power of Life' to perform ultra-standard reorganization and rebirth based on the 'Nothingness' decomposed by the 'Power of Decay'!]
[Step Four: The cycle begins!]
Su Jue felt his body turn into a battlefield.
The gray Power of Decay was frantically carrying out "demolition" work in the left half of his body.
It shattered all the Star Core Energy and Life Spring energy he had previously absorbed but not yet fully digested, decomposing them into the most fundamental energy particles.
Meanwhile, the silver Power of Life was frantically carrying out "construction" work in the right half of his body.
Using those purest energy particles, it reshaped his bones, his flesh, and his divine soul in a more perfect and efficient way!
Destruction on one side, rebirth on the other.
Decay on one side, brilliance on the other.
Two completely opposite powers achieved an unbelievable dynamic balance within his body!
His body was undergoing a cycle of Death and rebirth at an unimaginable speed!
With every cycle, the essence of his Life leaped toward a higher level!
...On the shore.
In her Winter Giant Dragon form, Ao Ning's ice-blue dragon eyes stared motionlessly at the bottomless silt pit below.
Ten minutes had already passed.
Not a sound.
Normally, that little guy should have been completely decomposed by now, with not even a scrap of bone left.
But... Ao Ning felt something wasn't quite right.
Her perception, which was extremely sensitive to laws, captured that the energy fluctuations beneath the silt had not calmed down; instead, they were becoming increasingly eerie and massive!
It wasn't just the Power of Decay.
It seemed to be mixed with two other powers that made even her heart palpitate.
One was the Power of Destruction of her father, Ao Yuan.
The other was the Power of Life of her mother, Elizabeth.
No... that's not right!
There was a third kind!
A power that stood above both, like the chaos at the beginning of the universe, and like the nothingness at the end of all things!
What was that?!
Ao Ning's perennially frozen face was gradually taken over by shock.
She could no longer remain a bystander.
With a wave of her dragon claw, a giant ice crystal mirror condensed in front of her.
The mirror clearly reflected the scene deep within the silt.
Su Jue's small body was quietly suspended in the silt.
His eyes were closed, and his expression was peaceful, as if he were asleep.
Half of his body appeared gray and withered, with matter constantly decomposing and peeling away.
Meanwhile, the other half of his body radiated a divine silver glow, with new flesh rapidly growing and reorganizing!
Gray and silver intertwined within his body into a perfect Taiji diagram.
With every rotation, his aura grew stronger!
The silt around his body, those toxic things filled with the Decay Law, were now docilely surrounding him as if worshipping their monarch!
"This... this is impossible!"
Ao Ning lost her voice.
What was she seeing?
A living being was actually using the "Decay Law" as nourishment?!
Treating lethal poison as a supplement?!
This was no longer just a genius!
This was a monster!
A monster that violated the fundamental laws of the universe!
"Record it! I must record this!"
Ao Ning's scientific research soul was burning fiercely.
In an instant, she forgot this was a trial and forgot that Su Jue was her brother.
She only knew that she was witnessing a miracle sufficient to overturn the entire universe's existing theoretical framework!
Her dragon claws moved repeatedly, and oddly shaped instruments flew out of her storage space one by one, hovering above the silt.
[Law Fluctuation Frequency Analyzer]!
[Energy Conversion Efficiency Recorder]!
[Life Form Transition Spectrometer]!
...Dozens of instruments representing the highest level of dragon scientific research were activated simultaneously, aimed at Su Jue below.
Countless detection beams intertwined into a giant net, enveloping the area.
[Beep beep beep beep—]
Piercing alarms sounded from every instrument at the same time.
The needles of all the instruments instantly hit the maximum, and then... "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
A series of explosions rang out.
These incredibly precious scientific instruments, each of which could bankrupt a top civilization, were directly dismantled at the law level and blown into a pile of scrap metal the moment they came into contact with the wisp of the "Power of Creation and Destruction" leaking from Su Jue's body, as if they had met their natural enemy!
Ao Ning: "..."
She stared blankly at the rain of parts falling from mid-air, her ice-blue dragon face a mask of bewilderment.
They... exploded again?
This was already the second time!
This little brat, what on earth is he made of?!
And just at this moment.
Beneath the silt pit, that eerie energy fluctuation finally reached its peak!
Boom!
A pillar of light, interwoven with gray and silver, soared into the sky!
Stirring the eternal gray clouds of the Star of Wither!
A small figure, bathed in the pillar of light, slowly rose.
He opened his eyes.
His left eye was a deep gray that seemed capable of swallowing everything.
His right eye was a brilliant silver that seemed capable of nurturing all things.
The cycle of Life and Death was contained within them!