145: Chapter 145 Stomach ache? Drink more hot water! Don't try to trick me into coming out!

"ROAR——!!!" The Thunder God corpse let out an earth-shattering roar, not knowing if it was out of rage or because... it hurt.

The feeling of someone burrowing into its heart, and then sticking their head out every now and then to complain about bad breath, was even worse than being killed!

"Come out! Get out!" Its massive bone hand suddenly lifted, carrying world-destroying lightning, and slammed down hard toward its own chest—the exact spot where Su Yang had poked his head out!

BOOM! If that palm had landed solidly, it wouldn't just be a person; it could have shattered a mountain peak.

However, at the critical moment when the bone palm was about to fall, "Whoosh!" Su Yang, like someone playing Whac-A-Mole, pulled his head in and instantly burrowed back into the heart.

BAM!!! The Thunder God corpse slammed that palm solidly onto its own ribs. CRACK! Several thick ribs snapped on the spot, and purple lightning fire splattered everywhere.

"AWOOO——!" The giant twitched all over from the pain, nearly losing its footing and falling back into the lightning pool. Was this the legendary "I'm so ruthless I'll even beat myself up"?

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you really don't cherish your own body." Su Yang's voice came from that tattered heart again, carrying his usual punchable tone.

"If you have osteoporosis, you need to take calcium; why be so violent? Oh right, I see your heart fire is quite strong; do you feel chest tightness and shortness of breath? How about... drinking more hot water?"

"Drink... drink hot water?!" The Thunder God corpse was going crazy. Drink hot water, my ass! I am a Devilish corpse! I am an ancient Thunder God! You're wreaking havoc in my heart, and you want me to drink hot water?!

"I will refine you! I will make you the nourishment for this lightning pool!" The giant stopped hurting itself and instead mobilized all its thunderous power. Zzzzt! Its entire skeleton began to glow, and countless tiny purple electrical currents flowed back through its blood vessels into its heart, attempting to electrocute the "parasite" inside to death.

"Well done!" Inside the heart, it wasn't a chamber of blood and gore, but an independent space filled with dark red lightning. Su Yang floated in the center of the space, the [thunder-guiding divine needle] in his hand having grown to ten meters long, standing there like a pillar supporting the sky.

Facing the terrifying electrical currents surging in from all directions, Su Yang didn't hide; instead, he excitedly rubbed his hands together. "Little White Strip, don't just stand there. This is ten-thousand-year-old aged thunder essence; although it has some Impurities, it makes up for it with its massive quantity. Come out and eat at the buffet!"

"ROAR!" Little White Strip on his wrist had long been drooling with greed. Although it was an ice-type Yao Beast, this high-purity energy was greatly beneficial for its evolution. It instantly transformed into an ice Dragon phantom, wrapping around Su Yang, and with a huge maw, began to crazily gulp down the surging lightning.

The divine needle in Su Yang's hand was like a bottomless pit. No matter how much lightning surged in, it refused none of it! "Suck! Suck hard for me!" Su Yang swung the divine needle, performing a "pole dance" inside the heart (strike that, he was swinging a big stick). "Not only do we need to suck up the electricity, but we also need to demolish this place!"

Bang! Bang! Bang! Su Yang swung the iron rod, smashing wildly at the inner walls of the heart. With every strike, he shattered a patch of devilish runes and dispersed a cloud of Devilish Qi.

The giant outside was currently in agony. The feeling was like someone using a power drill to bore into its heart, and without any anesthesia!

"AH!!! Come out! You get out here!!!" The giant rolled frantically in the lightning pool, kicking up hundred-meter-high waves. It clawed with its hands, struck with lightning, and even slammed its head against the rock walls, trying to get Su Yang out. But Su Yang just refused to leave.

"It's easy to invite a god but hard to send one away, understand? Since I'm already in, how could I not take some souvenirs?"

In the distance, Reba, Mary, and Chu Ling, hiding in a safe zone, watched that once arrogant hundred-meter giant rolling in the mud like a tantrum-throwing child, their expressions all extremely colorful.

"Is this... the boss's tactic?" Reba's mouth twitched. "This is too... shameless, right?"

"This is called tactical suppression." Mary was watching with great interest, even pulling a bag of melon seeds from her backpack. "For monsters of this massive size but poor intelligence, attacking from the inside is always the optimal solution."

"However..." Chu Ling watched the giant's increasingly dim lightning, a flash of insight in her eyes. "Master doesn't seem to be just destroying. He is... refining?"

Correct. Inside the heart, as large amounts of Impurities and Devilish Qi were shattered by the divine needle and frozen by Little White Strip, the color of the lightning in this space was changing. From the initially muddy purple-black, it was gradually turning into a pure purple-gold!

At the far end of the space, a ball of black mist could no longer hide. That mist slowly coalesced, transforming into a palm-sized little black figure with wings. It looked very weak, looking at the approaching Su Yang with terrified eyes. This was the true Origin Devil Soul of the Thunder Demon! That massive shell from before was merely a Puppet it controlled.

"Found you." Su Yang carried the iron rod on his shoulder, smiling as he looked at the shivering little black figure. "You hid pretty well, you little eccentric."

"Don't... don't kill me!" The Devil Soul let out a shrill plea for mercy. "I am willing to submit! I am willing to recognize you as my master! I am a sliver of a soul split from an ancient extraterrestrial Demon! I know countless ancient secret techniques! I can make you achieve Immortal Ascension and become a god!"

"Achieve Immortal Ascension and become a god?" Su Yang reached out a hand and directly pinched its little head. "I don't care for that. Compared to those illusory things, I prefer... tangible benefits. For example... your Devil Core."

"NO——!!!" SPLAT! Su Yang didn't hesitate in the slightest, pressing his fingertips together with force. That little black figure instantly exploded, turning into a thumb-sized bead that was pitch black all over but radiated extreme lightning. [Heavenly Demon Thunder Bead]! An existence even more Advanced than the previous Thunder Demon core!

RUMBLE——! With the Devil Soul destroyed, the Thunder God corpse outside instantly stopped struggling. Its red eyes extinguished instantly, and its massive body collapsed like a building that had lost its foundation, crashing down! SPLASH! It kicked up a sky full of lightning slurry once more. But this time, it never stood up again. Because all the essence within its body had been eaten clean by that "parasite."

"BURP——" Su Yang flew out of the giant's chest, holding that [Heavenly Demon Thunder Bead] in his hand, and let out a long, satisfied burp. The Qi on his body had actually broken through the Bottleneck of the Golden Core Stage, faintly touching the threshold of the Nascent Soul Stage!

"Although my table manners were a bit ugly," Su Yang wiped his mouth, looking down at the giant skeleton that was rapidly weathering away. "This meal was really satisfying. It's just... these bones shouldn't be wasted either." Su Yang's eyes lit up. "This is the bone of an ancient Thunder God! If I take it apart and bring it back to build a dog house for Mary... oh wait, no, to make a nest for Little White Strip, wouldn't that be very good for Face?"