20: A decaying mother nest? Give me an extra dish!
He swore he had never even heard of it!
He didn't realize that it was precisely because of his unintentional sheltering that he had given Su Jue an even bigger and higher stage.
If Su Jue's system had developed normally on Earth, it wouldn't have grown this fast, because it wouldn't have been able to come into contact with these supreme laws.
He would have only been able to start decomposing and absorbing from the most basic trash.
"Haha... Hahahaha!"
After a brief moment of shock, Ao Yuan suddenly burst into heaven-shaking laughter.
"As expected of my son!"
"Incredible!"
"I knew it! I knew he wasn't an ordinary person!"
Ao Yuan puffed out his chest proudly, his massive dragon tail swinging back and forth behind him, slamming against the temple floor with loud thuds.
"Wife, did you see that?!"
"I said back then that this kid was a treasure!"
"You didn't believe me and insisted on some kind of trial!"
"How about now? Convinced?"
Elizabeth gave him a cold glance.
"Shut up."
Although she was equally shocked in her heart, she refused to admit defeat verbally.
"It was just a stroke of dumb luck, a fluke success."
"The real test is still to come."
"Hmph, keep being stubborn then," Ao Yuan curled his lip with an "I understand" expression.
He stole a glance at the slight upward curve of Elizabeth's dragon head, and his heart bloomed with joy.
Keep pretending!
Just keep on pretending!
Meanwhile, at the other end of the temple.
In the shadows of the side hall.
Having just woken from his coma, the still pale-faced Dragon Prince Ao Shang had also seen the scene just now through his secret technique.
Pfft—!
He spat out another mouthful of golden dragon blood.
The entire dragon's aura instantly withered again.
Jealousy!
Malice!
And a trace of fear that he himself was unwilling to admit!
That bastard!
That lowly human!
How could he possibly do it?!
By what right could he do it?!
That was the Star of Wither!
It was a forbidden dead zone that even his father and mother listed as a restricted area!
Back then, he hadn't even dared to approach it, yet that bastard... actually treated the laws there like a meal?!
Why?!
Ao Shang roared frantically in his heart.
He couldn't figure it out!
He was the noble Eldest Prince of the Dragon Clan! The purest-blooded Dark Gold Saint Dragon! The heir to the next Dragon Emperor!
From birth, he had enjoyed the best resources in the universe and received the top-tier inheritance!
But why... why did all his pride seem so ridiculous and fragile before that damned human Infant?!
"I don't believe it... I don't believe it!"
Ao Shang's eyes were bloodshot, his claws digging deep into the floor.
"He must have cheated!"
"Mother must have left some trump card that I don't know about!"
"Yes! It must be so!"
He could only use such reasons to numb himself and maintain his crumbling self-esteem.
"Just you wait... bastard..."
"The trial has only just begun."
"You have no idea of the horrors of the Star of Wither."
"You will surely die there! Surely!"
...On the Star of Wither.
After eating a few mouthfuls of soil to line his stomach, Su Jue felt some of his strength return.
He stood up and brushed the mud off his hands.
"Let's go, Third Sister."
He called out in a babyish voice toward Ao Ning.
Although he was still in Infant form and couldn't speak fluently, he could already express simple words.
When Ao Ning heard this "Third Sister," her body visibly stiffened for a moment.
She looked at the human cub before her, who looked like he was carved from pink jade but had black mud on the corners of his mouth, and her feelings were incredibly complex.
Brother?
Experimental subject?
It seemed... the two identities didn't conflict.
"Mhm."
She hummed a response through her nose.
"Our mission is to find the seed of immortal life."
"According to Mother's information, it should be in the place on this planet where the Decay Law is most concentrated."
As she spoke, she transformed back into her human form.
A beautiful girl with floor-length white hair and a cold temperament.
She didn't want to maintain her dragon form anymore while watching her brother eat dirt on the ground.
The scene was too 'beautiful' for her to handle.
Su Jue nodded.
He opened the system map.
After the transformation just now, the system's scanning and analysis capabilities for this planet had also been significantly improved.
On the map, areas that were originally blurred and unclear had now become distinct.
He even saw many moving red light dots.
[Ding! Map function has been upgraded!]
[You can now detect living organisms (or high-energy bodies) in the nearby area in real-time.]
"This way."
Su Jue extended a small finger and pointed toward a certain direction on the plain.
There, the map showed a massive energy source emitting a faint green light.
The energy intensity far exceeded any other area.
Ao Ning gave him a somewhat surprised look but didn't ask further.
She knew that this brother of hers was full of secrets.
The two of them, one following the other, walked toward that direction.
They walked for about half an hour.
The surrounding scenery began to show some changes.
On the flat gray Earth, some massive white substances that looked like bones appeared.
The aura of Decay in the air also became more concentrated.
Just then.
The ground ahead suddenly began to squirm.
A massive sarcoma with a diameter of over a hundred meters slowly rose from underground.
The sarcoma was grayish-white, its surface covered with wrinkles and holes, and it was constantly contracting and expanding like a giant heart.
[Warning! High-level dangerous biological entity detected!]
[Race: Decay Mother Nest (Mature Form)]
[Realm: First Level of Dharma Idol Realm!]
[Abilities: Gestating Decay Wormss, Area-of-Effect Decay Force Field, Mental Shock.]
[Danger Level: Extremely Lethal!]
With the appearance of the Mother Nest, gray worms over ten meters long that looked like centipedes began to crawl out from the holes on its surface!
Thousands upon thousands of them!
Densely packed!
They made a "shasha" friction sound as they surged toward Su Jue and Ao Ning like a tide!
Ao Ning's expression instantly became solemn.
She was just about to make a move.
But she saw that Su Jue, instead of being afraid, actually... had his eyes light up?
It was as if what he saw wasn't some terrifying monster, but a lavish buffet table?
Su Jue licked his lips.
He took a step forward and then actively activated his new divine ability.
[Decay Aura, activate!]
Buzz!
A visible gray halo instantly spread out with him as the center!
Completely enveloping a ten-meter radius!
The Decay Wormss charging at the very front slammed into the range of the aura.
Then... a bizarre scene occurred.
Their bodies, which were originally immune to the Power of Decay, actually began to decompose and rot at an even faster rate the moment they touched the aura!
It was like snow meeting a blazing sun!
One, two, ten, a hundred... every worm that stepped into the aura's range turned into a pool of pus within seconds and then decomposed into the most primitive gray powder.