26: Call for backup! My father, the Dragon Emperor, can kill you with a single glance!
Is there even a choice?!
Of course I'm calling for backup!
Calling your parents when you can't win, isn't that perfectly normal?!
Su Jue directly pulled out that pitch-black dragon scale from his Storage Pouch!
He used all his strength to pour all the true essence in his body into that reverse scale!
“Duang!!!”
“Hmm?”
The owner of the demonic hand below seemed to sense something and let out a soft sound of surprise.
But, it was already too late!
Boom—!!!!!!
A domineering and peerless, terrifying will that seemed capable of destroying the entire primordial universe erupted from that reverse scale!
The entire Star of Wither was trembling before this will!
The eternal gray clouds in the sky were instantly torn to shreds!
The earth cracked, and space wailed!
A colossal dragon shadow, majestic beyond imagination, slowly emerged behind Su Jue.
What a terrifying dragon it was!
Its body was even larger than the stars!
Its eyes, like two blood-red suns, emitted a light that destroyed everything!
Its entire body was covered in obsidian-like dragon scales, and every single scale flowed with complete law runes!
It was none other than—the Starry Sky Demon Dragon Emperor, Ao Yuan!
“Who?”
“Dares to touch my son?!”
A majestic voice echoed through the entire cosmic starry sky.
The voice contained endless fury and killing intent!
Billions upon billions of creatures, including humans, Zerg, beastkins, and demons, were so terrified they soiled themselves, spraying uncontrollably!
The Lord of Decay below, who had been incredibly arrogant just moments ago, screamed in extreme terror the moment he felt this will, like a chicken being strangled by its neck!
“Sa... Saint King?!”
“No! That's not right! It's a... supreme existence beyond the Saint King?!”
“Beyond the Saint King...”
“This... how is this possible?! How can there be an old monster of this level in such a remote corner of the universe?!”
The Lord of Decay was scared out of his wits!
Without a second thought, it immediately released the demonic hand gripping Ao Ning and tried to retreat back into the abyss crack underground!
“Trying to run?”
Ao Yuan let out a disdainful cold snort.
He didn't even lift a finger.
Just a single look.
A gaze filled with destructive will crossed the distance of space and landed on that fleeing giant demonic hand!
“Pfft!”
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
Nor was there any world-destroying momentum.
That demonic hand, composed of pure "Origin Decay" power, silently... annihilated like green smoke under that gaze.
Not a single trace was left behind.
“Ah—!”
From deep underground came the Lord of Decay's shrill and agonizing scream.
A single look had severely damaged its origin!
“Ant.”
Ao Yuan's dragon shadow coldly spat out two words.
He seemed to want to continue the pursuit.
But just then.
In Su Jue's other small hand, the leaf of the ancient tree of life that had remained still suddenly emitted a soft silver light.
A female Divine Thought, equally cold but filled with concern and anxiety, transmitted from it.
“Ao Yuan! You're crazy!”
“Your destructive will will destroy this planet, burying our son along with it!”
“Stop it now!”
It was Elizabeth!
She had also left a strand of her will on her origin leaf!
Immediately after, a gentle force filled with the aura of Life and time gushed out from the leaf, enveloping Su Jue, Ao Ning, and Ao Yuan's domineering destructive dragon shadow.
“Wife?”
Ao Yuan was stunned for a moment, seemingly not expecting Elizabeth to follow along.
“Ahem, I just... saw our son in danger, and in my haste...”
His majestic and overbearing aura instantly weakened by thirty percent.
“Stop talking nonsense!”
Elizabeth's Divine Thought scolded.
“This is no place to linger! That thing's true body is at the other end of the abyss! Your will clone cannot kill him!”
“Take the children back first!”
The silver light enveloped the three of them, instantly merging into the spatial crack Ao Ning had opened earlier.
They disappeared from the Star of Wither.
Leaving behind only the Lord of Decay's roar, filled with malice, resentment, and fear, from deep underground.
“Demon Dragon Emperor... Ao Yuan...”
“This seat... will remember you!!!”
...Ten Thousand Dragon Fortress, Life Temple.
Space distorted.
Three figures stumbled out from the crack.
They were Su Jue, Ao Ning, and... Elizabeth.
As soon as Elizabeth's figure appeared, she transformed into her holy silver dragon form.
She looked at Su Jue, who was safe and sound in her arms and even yawning, and her third daughter Ao Ning, whose face was pale and who still had a circle of black Decay marks on her ankle; her heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled.
“Mother...”
Ao Ning's eyes turned red, and her voice carried a sob.
Just now, she really thought she was going to die.
“It's all right now.”
Elizabeth extended a dragon claw and gently touched her forehead.
A surge of pure life origin poured into Ao Ning's body.
The hideous wound on her ankle began to heal at a visible rate, and that bone-deep Power of Decay was completely purified.
“Go to the side hall and rest.”
“Yes, Mother.”
Ao Ning nodded, gave Su Jue, who was being protected in Elizabeth's arms, a complicated look, and turned to leave.
Only Elizabeth and Su Jue were left in the temple.
Oh, no.
There was also Ao Yuan, awkwardly hovering in mid-air.
“Ahem, wife...”
“So, is our son okay?”
Ao Yuan cautiously approached.
Elizabeth gave him a cold look.
“Thanks to you, he almost wasn't.”
“If I hadn't reacted quickly, that shout of yours would have shattered our son's soul!”
“Uh...”
Ao Yuan's dragon shadow visibly shrank a size.
“I was just... in a hurry...”
He lowered his head, knowing he was in the wrong.
Su Jue found the scene before him somewhat amusing.
His Dragon Emperor dad, who feared nothing and could crush stars with a single claw, was as timid as a kitten in front of his mom.
“Hmph.”
Elizabeth didn't bother to argue with him further.
She looked down at Su Jue in her arms.
Although the process was perilous.
But this child had, once again, exceeded her expectations.
Not only did he successfully survive, but he also brought back unexpected gains.
She could clearly feel that the aura inside Su Jue's body was several times stronger than when he left!
Furthermore, there was an additional... extremely ancient and majestic aura belonging to his own kind.
Storm Dragon Clan!
“Take the items out.”
Elizabeth spoke slowly.
She knew that this little guy must have scavenged some good things again.