82: A pill to undo regrets + the tip of the Holy King's Sword! The ultimate crook is born! [Gifts + 6 more chapters]
Time Garden.
"That... Barbaric Star System... what is it for?"
"Are the... big monsters... on the planets... tasty?"
Su Jue's mumbled words stunned the three dragons.
Ao Yuan's dragon face, which had just been contorted with rage, instantly stiffened.
Ao Shang's sinister dark golden dragon eyes shook violently.
Even Elizabeth, the Life Dragon Empress, who was always aloof and regarded all things as dust, was bewildered.
Ao Yuan slowly lowered his head, looking at the exquisitely carved Infant he held in his dragon claws, and then at the remnants of the heart of the thunder god in his arms, which had been gnawed full of holes and still flickered with electric arcs.
An unprecedented sense of powerlessness welled up from the bottom of the Dragon Emperor's heart.
He had lived for billions of years, exploding more stars than Su Jue had eaten meals, and had seen countless cosmic treasures and Primordial Human Ancestral Blood remnants.
But he had never seen a creature like this!
An Infant who gnawed on a tenth-grade energy core like chocolate, and whose first reaction to hearing about a dangerous cosmic region was "Is it tasty"!
"Tasty?!"
Ao Yuan finally couldn't hold back, his roar shaking the entire Time Garden with a buzzing sound.
"You prodigal! Do you know what the Barbaric Star System is?! It's the universe's meat grinder! A graveyard for powerhouses!"
"Every savage beast there wields the Power of Creation and Destruction! Some can twist space-time, some can corrupt divine souls, and some can even directly devour your Life!"
"Forget eating them, even if they just lick you, you'd lose a layer of skin!!"
The more Ao Yuan spoke, the angrier he got, his dragon whiskers trembling.
He originally thought his son would become more composed after experiencing a life-and-death crisis like Lei Xiaotian's, but... was this gluttonous nature etched into his genes?!
Su Jue's ears buzzed from the shouting, but he didn't care at all.
He just blinked his innocent big eyes, gnawed off another piece from the heart of the thunder god, crunching loudly.
Then, he tilted his head and asked in a milky voice, "Then... are their crystal cores tasty?"
“...”
Ao Yuan had a mouthful of old blood stuck in his throat, almost having a myocardial infarction on the spot.
He felt that if he continued talking to this cheap son, his Saint King Realm Dao Heart would collapse.
"Hmph."
Just then, Elizabeth's cold voice rang out.
"He's not wrong."
Her golden dragon eyes stared coldly at Su Jue.
"The savage beast crystal cores of the Barbaric Star System are indeed the most top-tier energy crystals in the universe. Each one contains the purest origin of laws."
"For a physique like yours that eats anything, that place is your paradise."
"Of course, it could also be your hell."
Hearing this, Su Jue's eyes instantly lit up.
Paradise?
Hell?
That wasn't important.
What was important was... tasty! And pure energy!
Isn't this a tailor-made buffet for him?!
Looking at Su Jue's eyes full of longing, Elizabeth chuckled.
She wanted to see him like this.
A newborn calf, fearless, about to plunge into the most dangerous jungle.
Only such an environment could completely force out the Power of Creation and Destruction and Primordial Human Ancestral Blood within him, which even she couldn't see through!
"Since you want to go so badly."
Elizabeth raised her silver dragon claw, and a spatial rift slowly opened before Su Jue.
At the other end of the rift was chaotic, violent, and destruction-filled void turbulence.
"Then go."
"This is your fifth trial."
"Your mission is to survive on the core planet of the Barbaric Star System, Barbaric Star, and devour the crystal cores of one hundred different law-wielding savage beasts."
"You can only rely on your own strength."
"If you fail, you die there."
"Wait!"
Ao Yuan grew anxious, his huge dragon claw subconsciously wanting to protect Su Jue.
"Wife! This is too dangerous! He's only at True Essence Realm Fifth Level! Sending him to solo Barbaric Star, what's the difference from sending him to his death?!"
"At least... at least give him something to protect himself with, right?"
Ao Yuan was truly panicked.
He could accept his son going on adventures and fighting, but he couldn't accept such a suicidal trial with no chance of winning!
Elizabeth glanced at him, her eyes cold.
"Only trash needs things to protect themselves."
"If he can't even pass this small test, then he's not worthy of being my, Elizabeth's, son."
Despite her words, a clear, silvery liquid dripped from the tip of her crystal dragon horn.
The liquid transformed into a silver scale-shaped rune in the air, instantly disappearing into Su Jue's glabella.
"Ding! Unknown item detected: hourglass of time (one-time use)!"
"Grade: ???"
"Effect: Contains the origin power of the Law of Time. When the Host encounters a fatal crisis, it can be actively activated to reset the Host's state to three seconds prior."
"Remark: A unique regret medicine in the entire universe, personally crafted by your mother."
Su Jue was stunned.
Regret medicine?
This cheap mother, saying no with her mouth, but her body was very honest!
Before he could be moved.
Ao Yuan, seeing this, immediately became unhappy.
"Holy crap! Wife, you're playing favorites! Why can you give him something, but I can't?!"
As he roared, he pulled out from between his scales... a cracked sword tip, radiating terrifying destructive energy!
The sword tip was only palm-sized and completely black.
The residual pressure on it caused the laws of the entire Time Garden to become chaotic!
"Warning! Warning! Cosmic-level dangerous item detected: fragment of the annihilation demonic sword (Saint King Level)!"
"Grade: Thirteenth Tier (incomplete)!"
"Effect: Contains the purest 'destruction' law. It was once the personal sword of a certain Saint King Realm demon lord, possessing the terrifying power to sever causality and annihilate all things."
"Devouring suggestion: Do not devour! Do not devour! Do not devour! Host, listen to my advice, this thing is really not a snack! It will format you from the inside out, along with your system panel, into nothingness!"
Hearing this.
Su Jue's saliva, however, flowed out uncontrollably.
A Saint King Level teething stick?!
Ao Yuan didn't care about any of that; he shoved the sword tip into Su Jue's arms and said in a booming voice:
"Son, take this!"
"This thing was chipped off a demon lord's sword when your dad fought with him back in the day. It's not tasty, but it's hard!"
"If you're hungry, use it to grind your teeth! If anyone dares to provoke you, just stab them with it!"
Ao Yuan wore a triumphant expression, as if he had given his son the best toy in the world.
Ao Shang, standing nearby, watched this scene, his mouth twitching uncontrollably.
He felt that his act of pulling off an origin dragon scale for this little brat to eat was simply being thrifty compared to his old man!
This wasn't giving a toy!
This was practically giving a nuclear warhead that could blow up an entire star system!
Su Jue hugged the heavy sword tip, feeling the destructive aura emanating from it, his face smiling like a chrysanthemum.
These two cheap parents of his were reliable!
They really came through when it mattered!