52: Chapter 52 Eating Raw Dragon Meat, Using One's Body as Bait

A scorching torrent surged down Li Zhengyang's throat, rushing into his internal organs.

"Urgh!"

Li Zhengyang let out a painful roar, his body arching violently like a boiled shrimp.

On the surface of his skin, veins and blood vessels twisted and bulged, while a crimson-gold light flickered frantically, as if it might extinguish at any moment.

A single drop of dragon blood was enough to almost set him ablaze from within, burning him to ash.

The Dark Gold Dragon Emperor was also stunned.

It had seen warriors who feared not death, and wise men as cunning as foxes.

But it had never seen a madman like this.

Unable to defeat it, he just latched on, took a bite, and even drank its blood?

What kind of species is this?

Is it some kind of parasite?

After the extreme astonishment came monstrous rage!

This ant not only desecrated its majesty but was actually "feeding" on its body!

Roar!!!

A dragon roar, filled with endless fury and killing intent, was no longer a sonic attack but a mental roar that acted directly on the soul level.

Li Zhengyang, currently enduring the agony of dragon blood burning his body, felt as if a nuclear bomb had been dropped into his sea of consciousness.

The entire world exploded with a bang.

His consciousness was instantly torn into countless fragments.

If it were any other Martial King, even a peak Martial King, they would have had their soul instantly annihilated by this mental roar, turning into a mindless walking corpse.

But Li Zhengyang was not.

Deep within his soul, there was a system.

That cold system interface seemed to become the final safe haven for his consciousness at this moment.

[Host detected to be suffering a fatal mental shock!]

[High concentration of foreign energy detected flooding the host's body!]

["Indestructible Golden Body" automatically protecting the host!]

The Qi and Blood value on the system panel plummeted like floodwater from an opened sluice gate.

470,000... 460,000... 450,000...

Merely resisting the mental shock of the dragon roar and neutralizing the violent energy of the dragon blood was consuming his Qi and Blood reserves at a frantic rate of 10,000 points per second.

The breakthrough in realm bought with thirty million had now become his only capital for survival.

"Not enough... Still not enough..."

Li Zhengyang's shattered consciousness stubbornly gathered a spark of light in the boundless darkness.

He knew that relying solely on defense, he wouldn't last long.

He had to do something.

That drop of dragon blood was both a poison and a supreme treasure.

If he could digest it, the benefits he would gain would be unimaginable.

But how to digest it?

Relying on the passive conversion of the "Indestructible Golden Body" was too slow.

He needed a more direct, more brutal method!

A more insane idea took shape in his mind.

Since one drop of blood is already like this...

Then what if it were a piece of meat?

Li Zhengyang suddenly opened his eyes.

In those bloodshot eyes, caused by extreme pain and mental shock, two golden flames were burning.

That was unmasked greed and desire!

He saw it.

At the spot where he had just made a desperate strike with the dragon gall golden spear, the edge of that reverse scale had already shown a tiny curl.

Although it was only as big as a fingernail, underneath it was the flesh and blood of the Dragon Emperor!

He used his only remaining left hand to firmly grip the edge of the reverse scale.

His fingernails broke off at the root the moment they touched the dragon scale, dripping with blood.

But he didn't care at all.

He poured everything into his left arm!

"Open, for me!"

He squeezed out a beast-like roar from the depths of his throat.

The muscles in his left arm swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye, then burst open, revealing ghastly white bone.

But that reverse scale was actually forced open a little bit more by him!

A larger opening appeared before him.

Beneath the opening was dark gold dragon meat.

Intense, inseparable life essence, mixed with overbearing imperial-level pressure, escaped from that small gap, almost blowing him apart.

Li Zhengyang smiled.

He lowered his head, aimed at that glistening dragon meat, and opened his mouth again.

This time, it wasn't to suck.

It was to bite!

He used the greatest strength of his entire life and bit down fiercely.

His teeth shattered completely the moment they touched the dragon meat.

But he used his tooth roots to clamp down, grind, and tear!

Crack!

He heard the sound of his own jawbone breaking.

But at the same time, he also felt a slight loosening.

A piece of dragon meat, only the size of a fingernail, was forcefully torn off the Dragon Emperor's body by him!

The Dark Gold Dragon Emperor froze completely.

It felt no pain.

To its massive body, that little injury didn't even count as a mosquito bite.

What it felt was absurdity.

An unprecedented, massive sense of absurdity that overturned its thousand years of cognition.

This ant.

Is eating me?

Eating me raw?!

Just in that moment of distraction, Li Zhengyang had already swallowed that piece of dragon meat whole, along with his broken teeth and blood.

Boom!!!!

If the drop of dragon blood just now was magma.

Then this small piece of dragon meat was a supernova detonating in his stomach!

Indescribable energy instantly destroyed everything inside his body.

Meridians, bones, internal organs...

Everything turned to powder in an instant.

His body swelled up violently.

The crimson-gold light on his skin surface completely extinguished at this moment.

[Warning! Warning! Host's vital signs are disappearing!]

[Qi and Blood value cleared to zero!]

[System is about to crash!]

The cold system notification sound turned into a shrill alarm in his consciousness.

Li Zhengyang's consciousness fell into an endless abyss.

But before losing consciousness completely, he smiled.

He had succeeded.

He used his own life as bait.

He used this most barbaric, most insane method to buy the most precious few seconds for himself and for Fortress No. 7.

Because he knew that the moment that piece of dragon meat entered his stomach, he was no longer just a simple piece of food.

He had become a "vessel".

An extremely unstable "bomb" filled with the Dragon Emperor's origin energy!

This bomb could explode at any moment.

And the Dark Gold Dragon Emperor definitely did not want its origin energy to be wasted just like that.

What would it do?

It would try to retrieve it!

Sure enough, just as Li Zhengyang's body was about to explode, the Dark Gold Dragon Emperor finally recovered from its absurd shock.

It opened its giant maw, and an invisible suction force enveloped Li Zhengyang.

It wanted to devour and retrieve this audacious ant, along with that portion of origin energy inside his body!

And just at this moment.

On the eastern horizon, a bolt of lightning, brighter than the sun, tore through the firmament.

A majestic and grand voice, like rolling thunder, resounded across the entire Northern Wilderness.

"Evil beast! How dare you invade the territory of Yanhuang!"

"You must be executed!"