Lei Wen's Disappointment!

Sea region.

"Heidgas?"

"Ordinary name, and not much to look at either."

Lei Wen shook his head.

The sea serpent roared and charged at him.

As a Sacred Beast living at the peak of the Saint Domain, it had developed an arrogant nature.

However—

To a powerhouse at the Saint Domain's limit like Lei Wen—

This deep-sea serpent was no different from something in his own backyard.

"Seeking death!"

Hearing Lei Wen's words—

Heidgas immediately flew into a rage.

Lightning crackled wildly around the horn on its head.

"Roar!"

A thick bolt of lightning, carrying a world-destroying aura, shot straight toward Lei Wen's face.

Fast.

The defining trait of the lightning affinity was speed.

But that was only true for ordinary creatures.

In Lei Wen's eyes, the trajectory of that lightning bolt was perfectly clear, moving as slowly as a crawling snail.

He even had the leisure to assess the power contained within the attack.

The violet lightning elemental energy was crudely piled together, lacking even the slightest aesthetic sense.

"Too slow."

A black heavy sword appeared in Lei Wen's hand.

"Change—"

There was no flash of sword light.

Nor was there any earth-shattering explosion.

The air merely rippled with a ring-shaped wave.

That was the violent tremor produced when something moved so quickly that it tore through the air.

Heaven and earth seemed to freeze for an instant.

The originally roaring sea serpent froze in midair, while the lightning bolt about to strike Lei Wen's nose suddenly split apart.

Immediately after—

The enormous serpent head, which had looked utterly unstoppable, retained its furious roaring expression as it slowly slid from its neck.

The cut was smooth as a mirror.

Not even blood had time to spill, and the flesh had been neatly sliced apart as though by a precise instrument.

"Roar—!"

The massive head crashed into the water, raising a giant wave hundreds of meters high.

Then came that mountain-like body, collapsing with a thunderous crash and shaking the sea surface.

The battle was over.

It could not even be considered a single exchange.

This was the gulf between a Saint Domain limit powerhouse and an ordinary Saint Domain Sacred Beast.

"Xiao Bai."

"I'll give you this large meal. Don't leave any behind."

Lei Wen put away his heavy sword and called to Xiao Bai.

"Alright!"

Xiao Bai spread its wings excitedly, then swooped down.

The power of the Icefrost Giant Dragon was fully displayed at this moment.

It extended its enormous dragon claws, tightly gripping the sea serpent's corpse and lifting the massive chunk of flesh from the sea.

The surrounding seawater was instantly dyed dark purple.

The pungent smell of blood spread through the sea breeze, yet the area was as silent as death.

No marine creature dared approach.

The Saint Domain dragon's might, combined with the terrifying killing intent from that strike, was enough to make every creature within a hundred miles tremble in fear.

Lei Wen stepped lightly onto the sea serpent's broad back.

The scales beneath his feet were cold and hard, each one containing formidable defensive power.

But they meant nothing to him.

"Fire."

Lei Wen snapped his fingers.

A cluster of violet flames danced at his fingertips.

That was the basic application of the fire-element arcana he had learned.

The next moment—

Lei Wen flicked his fingertip.

The flames transformed into a sharp blade, slicing through the sea serpent's scales and cutting off a piece of the tenderest belly meat.

The chunk of meat was as large as a calf and trembled slightly.

The flames instantly wrapped around it.

"Sizzle—"

The sound of dripping oil rose, and the alluring aroma of roasted meat began to spread.

The flesh of a Sacred Beast contained an incomparably abundant amount of life essence and elemental energy.

Even without any seasoning, that rich violet energy alone was enough to make one drool.

Very soon—

The serpent meat was cooked.

"Chomp."

Lei Wen took a bite.

Rich meat juices burst across his mouth, and the texture was indeed excellent.

But Lei Wen was not focused on the taste.

As the meat slid into his stomach, a warm current instantly spread through him.

The Devourer's Form tattoo on the back of his hand suddenly lit up, greedily extracting the arcana fragments contained in the meat.

"Lightning armor? No..."

A scene of crackling lightning suddenly appeared in Lei Wen's mind.

Violent, destructive, swift.

In that instant, he transformed into a bolt of lightning, darting through dark clouds and tearing through the sky.

That was the lightning-affinity arcana Heidgas had spent thousands of years comprehending.

Although it was merely superficial, it still clearly appeared before Lei Wen.

"Sure enough, it's lightning affinity..."

However—

Lei Wen frowned.

The anticipation in his eyes quickly faded, replaced by disappointment.

His quiet crystal was force-type quiet crystal, naturally suited to destructive arcana.

Aside from that, he could only comprehend water-affinity and fire-affinity arcana.

As for lightning affinity—

He had no talent in that regard.

Most importantly—

Lei Wen's physical body and aura had already reached the peak of the Saint Domain.

Before becoming a demigod-level powerhouse—

Lei Wen could no longer steadily improve his body and aura through arcana.

In other words—

The flesh of this Saint Domain sea serpent could neither help him comprehend arcana nor improve his physical body or aura.

To Lei Wen, it was nothing more than tasteless garbage.

"Chomp! Crunch!"

Just then—

A teeth-grinding crunching sound came from beside him.

Xiao Bai did not have Lei Wen's picky standards.

As a Flagrant Beast, its digestive system itself was the strongest furnace.

Whether lightning affinity or water affinity, as long as it was energy, it could convert it into nutrients to strengthen its body.

The nearly hundred-meter-long sea serpent corpse was disappearing at a rate visible to the naked eye before Xiao Bai's enormous black-hole-like mouth.

The hard scales were crushed like potato chips, while the thick bones were directly ground into powder.

With every bite, Xiao Bai's scales flashed with a faint blue light.

Its aura was steadily rising as well.

Although it had not been long since it broke through to the Saint Domain, the dragons' naturally powerful physical qualities made its appetite astonishingly good.

"Eat slowly."

"No one's going to fight you for it."

Watching this—

Lei Wen shook his head.

He sat cross-legged in midair, no longer in the mood to continue eating.

Slowly—

The sea breeze brushed against Lei Wen's black robes.

He gazed at the bottomless dark-blue sea, calculating the route ahead.

The sea region of the Jade Rabbit plane was far too vast.

It was many times larger than the land area.

Finding Sacred Beasts in this boundless ocean that had comprehended water-affinity arcana was not particularly difficult.

But—

The arcana absorbed by the Devourer's Form was entirely random.

One had to know—

Water Affinity Law had six major arcana in total.

If Lei Wen's luck was poor—

Every devouring attempt might grant a different arcana.

Then Lei Wen would need to spend much more effort if he wanted to become a lower god.

Of course—

That was not necessarily a bad thing.

By comprehending several different arcana at the same time—

Lei Wen would possess even greater combat strength during the Saint Domain stage.

"Roar—"

A moment later—

A world-shaking roar interrupted Lei Wen's thoughts.

Xiao Bai patted its belly in satisfaction.

That mountain-sized Heidgas had now been reduced to only a lonely skeleton floating on the sea.

Even its bones had been swallowed by the greedy Icefrost Giant Dragon.

Seeing this—

Lei Wen's figure flashed, appearing before Xiao Bai.

"Now that you're full, let's go."

"Alright!"