29: Mom, have another spicy snack!
His skin instantly turned charred black, and his body swelled up like an overinflated balloon!
Hideous cracks continuously appeared on his body's surface, only to heal rapidly under the powerful restorative force of the Chaos Dragon Body!
"Agh—!"
A wave of intense pain originating from the depths of his soul made Su Jue let out a painful roar!
His consciousness felt as if it had been thrown into a meat grinder composed of billions of wind blades and bolts of lightning!
An ancient, majestic, and overbearing voice roared wildly within his soul!
"Humble ant! How dare you peer into this Emperor's Dao?!"
"Die!!!"
That was... a sliver of remnant will left in the Law Fragment by the Storm Dragon Emperor, Ao Cang!
This will intended to completely crush Su Jue's soul!
"Oh no!"
Elizabeth's expression changed, and she was just about to intervene.
Right at that moment!
Buzz—
A wisp of chaotic gray airflow slowly rose from the deepest part of Su Jue's body.
Then, the storm power that had been rampaging inside Su Jue's body instantly became as docile as a mouse seeing its natural predator, shivering in fear!
The Saint King's will roaring in his soul also stopped abruptly, like a rooster being grabbed by the neck, filled with terror and disbelief!
"This... what kind of power is this?!"
"Cre... Creation... and... Destruction..."
"Im... possible..."
Before it could finish its roar.
That gray airflow simply gave a gentle swirl.
Puff.
Ao Cang's overbearing Saint King's will was like a soap bubble—silently, it just... popped.
It vanished into thin air.
【Ding! ‘Power of Creation and Destruction’ has been activated!】
【Beginning execution of the plan!】
【Stripping and decomposing ‘Storm Law’...】
【Decomposition starting!】
The gray Power of Creation and Destruction began to turn slowly, like a massive millstone.
And that Storm Law, which had already lost its guiding will, was thrown into this millstone!
Crunch... crunch...
It was as if one could hear the sound of the Law being crushed!
Extreme pain once again swept through Su Jue's entire body!
If being thrown into a meat grinder was the extent of it before, now his soul and body were being ground into basic particles inch by inch!
But he gritted his teeth hard, not making a single sound!
Because he could clearly feel that while being crushed, waves of brand-new power were continuously feeding back into his limbs and bones from that gray millstone!
【Ding! ‘Storm Law’ decomposition successful!】
【Extracting ‘Wind Origin’ and ‘Thunder Origin’...】
【Extraction successful! Beginning absorption!】
【Congratulations, Host! ‘Wind Law’ affinity +3%!】
【Congratulations, Host! ‘Thunder Law’ affinity +3%!】
【Congratulations, Host! You have comprehended an incomplete Divine Ability: Wind and Thunder Battle Armor (Beginner)!】
【Wind and Thunder Battle Armor (Beginner): Can condense a layer of battle armor composed of wind and thunder power on the body surface, slightly increasing defense and movement speed. Attacks carry paralysis and cutting effects.】
【Ding! A massive amount of energy is flooding in, beginning to strengthen the physical body!】
【‘Intermediate Chaos Dragon Body’ EXP +15%!】
A series of system notifications rang out in Su Jue's mind like heavenly music!
Under the dual effects of the Wind and Thunder Origins and the Chaos Dragon Body, the injuries on his body surface healed instantly. His skin became even more translucent than before, and there was even the faint sound of wind and thunder circulating!
His aura also surged by a significant margin!
Although his realm hadn't increased, his foundation and potential had become several times more robust than before!
Phew... Su Jue exhaled a long breath of turbid air carrying electric sparks and slowly opened his eyes.
In his left eye, a wind vortex condensed.
In his right eye, thunder light flickered.
Inside the temple, there was a dead silence.
Ao Yuan's dragon shadow was completely dazed, suspended in mid-air like a fool, motionless.
And the silver dragon body of the usually cold and indifferent Dragon Queen, Elizabeth, was trembling slightly.
She had imagined many possibilities.
Su Jue being blown apart.
Su Jue being critically injured and on the verge of death.
Su Jue barely resisting and falling into a coma.
But she never expected... that he would actually... "digest" that Saint King's Law like it was milk powder?!
Moreover, looking at him now, not only was he uninjured, but he seemed... refreshed, as if he had just let out a satisfied burp after a full meal?!
Just... what kind of monster is this?!
Just as Elizabeth's worldview was being repeatedly hammered and was about to collapse.
Su Jue made a move that almost made her lose her composure on the spot.
He smacked his lips, seemingly savoring the taste from just now.
Then, he looked up, staring expectantly at Elizabeth, and then at the sealed storm dragon codex.
His eyes were clear and innocent.
His meaning was self-evident.
Mom.
Give me another one!
This "Spicy Strip" tastes pretty good!
"..."
Elizabeth's dragon face instantly darkened.
An... another one?
Do you even know what that is?!
That is the crystallization of a Saint King's lifelong efforts!
Do you think it's just some common cabbage by the side of the road?!
And you're eating it like a Spicy Strip?!
"Get lost and... consolidate your power!"
Elizabeth squeezed these words out from between her teeth.
With a wave of her dragon claw, a gentle force swept Su Jue up and threw him directly onto a prayer mat in a corner of the temple.
"Do not come down until you have completely mastered the wind and thunder power in your body!"
She was truly afraid that if she looked at this little brat one more time, she wouldn't be able to resist hanging him up and giving him a beating.
It was so infuriating for a dragon!
Su Jue landed precisely on a silver-white prayer mat in the corner of the temple like a ball.
As soon as his buttocks touched the mat, he felt a cool sensation drill in through his tailbone, instantly clearing his head, which had been a bit swollen from digesting the "Storm Law."
【Ding! Environmental item detected: Meditation Mat (Ninth Grade)!】
【Effect: Woven from ‘Time Sand’ and ‘Life Silk,’ it can calm the mind, assist in cultivation, and slightly increase the efficiency of Law comprehension.】
Good stuff!
Su Jue immediately sat cross-legged and obediently began to "consolidate his power."
Seeing his well-behaved appearance, the fire in Elizabeth's heart finally subsided a little.
But immediately after, a deeper sense of powerlessness welled up.
She realized that she... seemed to no longer know how to teach this son of hers.
Body Tempering? Bone Refining? Marrow Cleansing?
In these mundane realms, Su Jue's foundation was more solid than anyone's.
Protective Aura? True Essence?
He was already at the fourth layer of the True Essence Realm, and because of the "Chaos Dragon Body," the quality of the True Essence in his body was even purer than that of some experts in the Domain Transformation Realm.
Domains? Divine Abilities? Laws?
Dammit, this kid's current mess of law affinities was more than what she, a Saint King who had lived for hundreds of millions of years, had ever seen!