19: Their physique evolved; when they were starving, they would even eat mud!
[Ding!]
[Congratulations, Host! 'Life-Death Balance Cycle' successfully constructed!]
[Your physique has successfully transformed!]
['Primary Chaos Dragon Body' has evolved into—'Intermediate Chaos Dragon Body'!]
[Congratulations, Host! You have gained affinity for a brand-new law!]
[Gained 'Decay Law' affinity: 10%!]
[Congratulations, Host! You have comprehended a brand-new divine ability!]
[Gained Divine Ability: Decay Aura (Primary)!]
[Decay Aura (Primary): Can release an aura with a ten-meter radius. All non-allied targets within the aura will suffer continuous erosion from the 'Decay Law,' and their vitality and energy will be slowly decomposed.]
Su Jue felt the unprecedentedly powerful strength within his body, as well as that... wondrous feeling of being integrated with the entire world.
He looked down at his small hands.
Then he opened his mouth and let out a burp.
"Burp~"
A stream of gray air puffed out from his mouth.
It landed on a nearby black rock that hadn't weathered for ten thousand years.
"Zila—"
A soft sound.
That rock, harder than a diamond, instantly turned into a handful of fly ash.
Looking at the rock that had instantly turned to ash, Su Jue blinked.
A bit interesting.
He now felt that this world, which had previously been full of malice everywhere, had suddenly become friendly.
The aura of Decay and decline in the air, after being inhaled into his body, was no longer a poison that weakened Life, but instead felt like a special energy supplement, making him feel warm and comfortable.
It was like a fish returning to the water.
This feeling was better than ever before.
He turned his head and looked at the massive Winter Giant Dragon not far away.
Ao Ning was still in a daze.
Her ice-blue dragon eyes stared fixedly at Su Jue, her gaze filled with a shock, fanaticism, and confusion a hundred times stronger than before!
It was as if she were looking at a paradox that shouldn't exist in the world at all.
Su Jue could feel that this cheap third sister bore no ill will toward him.
Her gaze was more like that of a top student seeing a problem beyond the curriculum, or a scientist seeing a perfect experimental subject.
Pure curiosity.
"Grumble..."
An untimely sound came from Su Jue's stomach.
He was hungry again.
Although that 'Life-Death Cycle' just now had transformed him, it had also exhausted all the energy accumulated in his body.
Now he felt like he could eat a whole cow.
He subconsciously looked toward Ao Ning.
Is there anything to eat?
Ao Ning was startled by his gaze and snapped out of her shock.
She understood the meaning in Su Jue's eyes.
But... as the dignified Third Princess of the Dragon Clan and a Saint Realm Winter Giant Dragon, how could she possibly carry food with her?
Her storage space contained nothing but various scientific instruments, law crystals, and experimental materials.
These things, let alone eating them, a single lick could cause a King Realm Expert to drop dead on the spot.
Looking at Su Jue's pitiful little eyes, Ao Ning felt a bit at a loss.
After thinking for a moment, she pulled out a head-sized ice-blue crystal emitting a bone-chilling cold from her storage space.
[Ding! Detected high-grade material: Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Soul (Rank 8)!]
[Contains pure Ice Law; it is a top-tier material for refining magic treasures and setting up formations.]
[Devour Suggestion: Not recommended! The energy structure of this substance is extremely stable. If devoured forcibly, there is a 99% chance the Host will be frozen into an ice sculpture, with even the divine soul frozen solid!]
"This... for you?" Ao Ning handed over the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Soul somewhat uncertainly.
In her view, this was already the "gentlest energy" item she had.
Su Jue glanced at it with disdain.
What kind of trash is this?
Even a dog wouldn't eat it.
He shook his head and then turned his gaze toward the mud beneath his feet.
Hmm?
Curiously, he reached out his small hand and grabbed a handful of thick, stinking black mud from the ground.
[Ding! Detected inferior energy mixture: Decay Residue.]
[Formed from the decomposition of billions of organisms, it contains trace amounts of 'Power of Decay' and mixed Life energy.]
[Devour Suggestion: Can be consumed in small amounts. It can supplement weak energy and increase 'Decay Law' affinity. However, the taste is extremely poor and it contains unknown toxins; long-term consumption is not recommended.]
It's edible!
Su Jue's eyes lit up.
Under Ao Ning's "as if seeing a ghost" gaze, he grabbed a handful of mud and stuffed it into his mouth without hesitation.
"Chomp chomp..."
Hmm... the taste... is hard to describe.
It was a bit like stinky tofu mixed with expired yogurt, with an earthy smell.
But energy indeed surged into his body.
Though weak, it was better than nothing.
[Ding! Devoured 'Decay Residue,' 'Decay Law' affinity +0.01%!]
[Ding! 'Intermediate Chaos Dragon Body' experience +0.1%!]
Watching Su Jue eat that mud—which even the lowest scavengers would despise—without changing his expression, Ao Ning's worldview was once again shaken.
She silently put away her Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Soul... Meanwhile.
Ten Thousand Dragon Fortress, Life Temple.
Before the massive spatial magic mirror.
Dragon Emperor Ao Yuan and Dragon Queen Elizabeth also fell into a long silence.
Just now, at the moment Su Jue devoured the Decay Law and constructed the Life-Death Cycle.
The screen of this saint king-grade magic treasure, set up by Elizabeth herself and capable of monitoring a Major Thousand Worlds, let out a "zila" and went black.
A chaotic aura mixed with Life, death, Decay, and Destruction surged back from the mirror's surface.
If Elizabeth hadn't reacted quickly and cut off the link in time, the entire Life Temple might have been overturned by this power.
"Wife... I didn't... see that wrong, did I?"
Ao Yuan's majestic dragon face was filled with blankness.
He rubbed his blood-colored dragon eyes and asked uncertainly.
"That kid... ate the law of the Star of Wither?"
Elizabeth did not answer.
Her brilliant golden dragon eyes stared fixedly at the pitch-black mirror, waves of shock surging in her heart.
He ate it!
She had seen it clearly.
This little fellow didn't just eat it; he ate it very well!
Not only was he not assimilated by the Decay Law, but he had turned it into a part of his own power!
He even... used it as a foundation to evolve his physique once again!
How is this possible?!
The Decay Law is the absolute natural enemy of the Law of Life!
It is a power that even she, a Saint King who controls the origin of Life, finds troublesome and disgusting!
But Su Jue... his body clearly possesses the original powers of both herself and Ao Yuan simultaneously.
Life and Destruction.
And now, Decay has been added.
These three powers, which are fundamentally impossible to coexist, have actually reached a strange harmony within his body?
Elizabeth was completely dumbfounded.
"A mon... monster..."
Ao Yuan muttered to himself.
He had lived for hundreds of millions of years and traversed the universe; what kind of genius or monster had he not seen?
Any Divine Body, Dao Fetus, or Saint Fetus was no different from a stray cat or dog in his eyes.
But someone like Su Jue...