6: A human younger brother? The dragon older brothers are alarmed!
The moment he stepped through the spatial gate, Su Jue felt his vision suddenly clear.
This was no longer the cold, dead silence of the universe.
Instead, it was a vast and boundless independent world.
There was no sun in the sky, but hundreds of glowing orbs hovered there, illuminating the entire world as bright as day.
On the ground, there were rolling mountain ranges and a ceaselessly rushing golden river; flowing within the river was pure liquid energy.
The air was filled with spiritual energy so dense it had almost materialized; a single casual breath caused the Protective Aura within Su Jue's body to grow slightly stronger.
This was the core of the Demon Dragon Star Domain, the habitat of the Dragon Clan—the Ten Thousand Dragon Fortress.
Following the return of Ao Yuan and Elizabeth, streaks of incomparably powerful divine sense converged from all directions of the world.
“Welcome back, Father! Mother!”
“Father, you have returned!”
Voices filled with awe echoed between heaven and earth.
Su Jue looked up curiously.
He saw dozens of giant dragons of various sizes appearing in the distant sky.
There were Blazing Dragons with golden flames burning all over their bodies.
There were Winter Giant Dragons surrounded by frost storms.
And there were Thunder Punishment Dragons that controlled lightning, with thunder and lightning flashing as soon as they spread their wings.
Every single giant dragon emitted a terrifying aura that was at least at the King Realm or above.
The most powerful among them had even reached the eleventh stage, the Saint Realm!
They were all the offspring of Ao Yuan and Elizabeth.
Su Jue's... older brothers and sisters.
However, when their gazes fell upon the tiny human Infant in Ao Yuan's claws...
All of their awe instantly turned into bewilderment, confusion, and... thick disdain.
“What is that?”
A giant dragon with the largest physique and dark-gold scales frowned.
He was Ao Yuan's eldest son, Ao Shang, a Saint who had reached the peak of the eleventh stage.
“A... human Infant?”
“Why is there a human in Father’s claws?”
“What a filthy aura... how is he worthy of appearing in the Ten Thousand Dragon Fortress!”
Streaks of divine sense mixed with hostility were rapidly exchanged between the dragons.
The way they looked at Su Jue was like looking at a bedbug that had accidentally crawled into a palace.
“Silence, all of you.”
Elizabeth's cold voice rang out, instantly suppressing all the commotion.
Her gaze swept over her children, and her majestic will shrouded the area.
“From this day forward, he shall be your younger brother.”
A single stone stirred a thousand waves!
“What?!”
“Mother! Are you joking?”
“A human, as our brother? This is simply the biggest joke in the history of the Dragon Clan!”
The dark-gold dragon named Ao Shang was the first to stand up in opposition.
“Mother, please forgive my bluntness! This must not be done! How noble is our Dragon Clan bloodline; how can we allow a lower race to defile it!”
“Exactly! We will never acknowledge him!”
“Drive him out! Or kill him!”
The crowd was indignant.
These favored children of heaven were born at the pinnacle of the universe; they could not tolerate a lowly human standing on equal footing with them.
“Are you questioning my decision?”
Elizabeth spoke.
All the dragons instantly fell silent.
They could disdain Su Jue, but they absolutely did not dare to disobey their mother.
“Whether he is qualified or not is not for your mouths to decide.”
Elizabeth's golden dragon eyes scanned the field.
“He will undergo the Dragon Clan's most ancient Origin Trial.”
“I will select seven trial planets for him, representing the seven Origin Laws controlled by the Dragon Clan.”
“If he passes them all, he will receive his own title and become a true Dragon Clan Prince.”
“If he dies along the way...” Elizabeth’s tone turned cold, “Then it proves he is merely trash.”
Hearing this decision, the dragons who were originally filled with righteous indignation all quieted down.
Their expressions turned into various forms of ridicule and schadenfreude.
The Origin Trial?
And seven planets?
That was a trial that only the top geniuses among the direct line of the Dragon Clan royalty could complete!
Even for them back then, most of them had only completed three to four planets.
Those who could complete seven were few and far between throughout the ages!
Letting a human Infant participate?
He wouldn't even survive the storm on the first planet.
“Mother is wise!”
Ao Shang was the first to lower his proud head, his divine sense full of schadenfreude.
“Let this little bug use his own Death to prove the greatness of my Dragon Clan.”
The other dragons also chimed in one after another.
In their eyes, Su Jue was already a dead man.
Ao Yuan watched this scene, his dragon whiskers trembling with anger.
He wanted to say something, but he was stopped by a look from Elizabeth.
“Ao Yuan, do you want him to live under your wings forever?”
Ao Yuan fell silent.
He looked at Su Jue.
Su Jue seemed completely oblivious to the hostility around him.
He just felt that these big guys were very noisy and were disturbing his meal.
He bit off a piece of a star core fragment, crunching and chewing it, then looked curiously at the dark-gold dragon, Ao Shang, who was shouting the loudest.
【Target detected: Dark-Gold Saint Dragon (Saint Realm)】
【Analyzing...】
【Analysis successful! The target's body contains the 'Law of Gold' and the 'Law of Strength,' but there is a flaw in the fusion of the laws; there is a 0.3% rejection reaction between the soul and the physical body...】
Su Jue blinked.
So it was a guy with a defect.
He ignored it and continued to lower his head to munch on the star core.
Elizabeth saw all of this, and a look of approval flashed in her golden dragon eyes.
Facing the pressure and hostility of dozens of Saint Realm Experts, he actually remained unfazed, his heart untroubled.
Just this state of mind alone had already surpassed the vast majority of her offspring.
“The trial begins immediately.”
Elizabeth wasted no more words and made a light stroke in the void with her dragon claw.
A spatial rift appeared.
At the other end of the rift was a dark red planet filled with endless thunder and destructive storms.
Terrifying energy fluctuations leaked from the rift, making even some King Realm dragons feel palpitation.
“The first trial star: Storm Star.”
Elizabeth's voice resounded throughout the Ten Thousand Dragon Fortress.
“A young planet born only three hundred million years ago. Its atmosphere is filled with violent electromagnetic storms and corrosive gases, and its surface gravity is three hundred times that of the Blue Planet.”
“Go.”
She looked at Su Jue.
“Survive here until you personally crush the core of this planet.”
As soon as she finished speaking, an irresistible force swept up Su Jue and sent him into that spatial rift.
Ao Yuan watched this scene nervously, his dragon claws clenched tight.
“Wife, be gentle! He's still small!”
The spatial rift slowly closed, cutting off Ao Yuan's anxious gaze.
Within the Ten Thousand Dragon Fortress, a burst of irrepressible sneering rang out.
“Three hundred times gravity? Hahaha, that little bug will be crushed into meat paste the moment he lands, right?”
“I'm really looking forward to his expression of despair.”