Bloodline Awakening?!

Deep within Flag Mountain.

Crack!

The sound of bones shattering.

In the dense forest, as silent as fallen leaves, it sounded especially piercing.

Lei Wen opened his mouth and bit down on the thigh bone as thick as an iron rod, like he was biting into a crispy breadstick.

Grease splattered everywhere.

Chunks of roasted meat slid down his throat into his stomach, yet he did not even bother to chew.

Not enough.

The hunger rising from the depths of his soul seemed determined to devour Lei Wen's sanity.

He did not care about table manners at all. With both hands, he frantically tore apart the mountain of meat before him.

A Rampaging Mammoth weighed several tons. Even roasted, its massive body would have been enough to make anyone stop in their tracks.

Yet before Lei Wen, it was disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Xiao Bai, standing nearby, trembled slightly.

Her enormous body, an Icefrost Giant Dragon towering nine hundred meters high, stood beside the food pile. Ordinarily, she could stride across Flag Mountain with ease.

But now—

As she watched her master, terror filled her huge dragon eyes.

A primal terror that came from facing a natural enemy.

The aura radiating from Lei Wen made even the scales beneath her icy armor sting.

That was not the pressure of a Saint Domain Expert.

It was something ancient, more savage, and more unreasonable.

What stood there was not a person, but a giant maw capable of devouring heaven and earth.

Xiao Bai unconsciously drew back her neck. Her massive dragon pupils contracted as she tried not to attract her master's attention.

She even suspected that, after finishing the mammoth, her master might reach out and roast her too.

Meanwhile.

Lei Wen paid no attention to the terrified beast beside him.

There was only one word left in his mind—eat.

Every bite of meat turned into scorching heat that surged through every limb and bone.

It felt so good.

Every cell was cheering, greedily devouring that energy.

The realm that had been somewhat unstable after he had barely stepped into the Saint Domain was now rapidly solidifying at a terrifying pace.

His muscle fibers were restructuring, becoming denser and tougher.

His bones groaned, letting out low sounds like metal grinding together.

The vast power flowed through his body like floodwaters bursting through a dam, endlessly scouring his channels.

That sense of swelling strength was intoxicating.

"Mm..."

Very soon.

Lei Wen grabbed the mammoth's hind leg again and viciously took another bite.

As he continued devouring.

The Devourer's Form pattern on the back of Lei Wen's hand grew brighter and brighter, as if it had been fully charged.

That faint purple glow even seeped through his skin, twisting the air around him.

Finally.

Even the last piece of bone wrapped in sinew was swallowed into Lei Wen's stomach.

The hunger that had nearly driven him mad gradually subsided like receding tidewater.

Lei Wen stopped moving.

He remained half-crouched, his chest heaving violently.

But the scarlet light in his eyes was fading, and reason had once more taken the high ground.

"Haa..."

He slowly exhaled a breath of foul air.

Lei Wen gradually straightened.

Crack, crack, crack.

The bones throughout his body exploded in rapid succession, like firecrackers going off inside him.

Strength.

Unprecedented strength.

The Rampaging Mammoth had only been a Ninth Rank Warrior, but it possessed an immense amount of flesh and blood essence.

To Lei Wen, who had just awakened the Devourer's Form, it was simply a timely rain.

Lei Wen clenched his fist.

The air in his palm burst apart with a sharp sound.

Then.

Lei Wen closed his eyes and sank his consciousness into his sea of consciousness.

There, a ball of earthy-yellow light floated quietly.

It was what the Rampaging Mammoth had been best at before its death.

Earth element.

Or, more accurately, the innate ability of the Rampaging Mammoth, which was born with an affinity for and command over earth elements.

The Devourer's Form could indeed devour even this.

Even such vague, intangible things as law insights could be extracted from flesh and blood.

Lei Wen was overjoyed.

If he could absorb this insight—

Even if it was only a tiny fraction, it could give him some understanding of the Earth Law.

In the Dragon World, mastering one more law meant one more means of survival, and one more hope of becoming a god.

He immediately focused his mind and tried to touch and analyze that earthy-yellow light.

However.

The instant Lei Wen's consciousness touched the ball of light—

Something unexpected happened.

The originally gentle earthy-yellow light suddenly flared violently.

It was as though it had encountered something repulsive, or like water droplets falling into a pan of boiling oil.

"Damn it!"

Lei Wen heard a muffled sound in his sea of consciousness.

Immediately afterward.

Before his very eyes, that ball of light silently... scattered.

Nothing remained.

Not even a trace of residue.

Lei Wen froze.

He stared blankly.

It was like winning a five-million lottery, only to discover at the moment of cashing in that the ticket had been washed into pulp.

The immense psychological gap left Lei Wen utterly devastated.

"Damn!"

Lei Wen suddenly opened his eyes.

He punched a towering tree beside him.

Boom!

The huge tree, requiring three people to encircle it, snapped at the waist, sending wood chips flying.

Why?

The Devourer's Form had clearly devoured the insight.

Why had it not remained?

Could it be because the Rampaging Mammoth's rank was too low?

Were the insights of a Ninth Rank Warrior not profound enough?

No.

Lei Wen quickly dismissed that guess.

Although that ball of light had been weak, it had dispersed very steadily. It had clearly not vanished due to insufficient quality.

That feeling was more like... incompatibility.

Moxie—it was simply incompatible.

Like plugging an Android charger into an iPhone, no matter how hard you tried, it would not fit.

Lei Wen forced himself to calm down.

He was a transmigrator and was well aware of the rules governing the Dragon World.

Cultivation in this world placed great importance on talent and compatibility.

Without the talent, even if someone stuffed a law fragment into your mouth, you still would not be able to digest it.

Lei Wen raised his hand and looked at his palm.

With a thought.

A thread of crimson flame flickered at his fingertips.

Then.

A thread of pale blue water coiled upward.

Water and fire intertwined.

Those were the elements Lei Wen could sense.

Water affinity and fire affinity.

Other than that.

Lei Wen's soul had originally been a human's, which gave him an exceptionally sharp mind capable of perceiving soul fragments.

Beyond that?

Nothing.

His affinity for earth elements was zero.

He simply did not possess the foundation to comprehend the Earth Law.

"So that's how it is..."

Lei Wen gave a bitter smile and lowered his hand.

The Devourer's Form could defy the heavens and seize another's insights.

But it could not change Lei Wen's innate talent.

The Earth Law was the special privilege of the Rampaging Mammoth, a creature favored by the earth.

Lei Wen, on the other hand, was someone who played with fire and water. At most, he could occasionally comprehend some soul-related abilities.

Want to play with mud?

Moxie.

It was like giving him a peerless martial arts manual, only for him to open it and find that it was all written in Arabic.

The pain of wanting to eat it but being unable to made him feel like crying.

However.

The disappointment in Lei Wen's eyes was soon replaced by ruthlessness.

Since he could not have everything—

Then he would eat only what he could digest.

If earth affinity would not work, then wind affinity probably would not either.

Light, darkness, life, death...

Those would most likely be out of the question as well.

But that did not mean the Devourer's Form was useless.

On the contrary.

It pointed out a path for him.

The simplest and most efficient path to becoming stronger.

Only devour what was useful to him.

Water-affinity Sacred Beasts.

Fire-affinity Sacred Beasts.

And those powerful beasts with soul-type abilities.

As long as he devoured those three types.

Their law insights would be perfectly integrated into his soul, becoming stepping stones on his path to godhood.

Even if half were wasted—no, even if ninety percent were wasted!

As long as enough was piled up, would a miracle not eventually happen?

Others relied on talent and spent decades or centuries comprehending laws.

He relied on eating.

As long as his appetite was good, becoming a god was not a dream.

Once he understood this.

The gloom in Lei Wen's heart vanished completely, and he even felt a little eager to try.