Still Eating? I'm Here to Take You In!

A sacred golden light, indescribable in words, erupted uncontrollably from within Lu Changsheng's body.

This golden light was neither blinding nor possessed any of that violent, destructive power.

Carrying an absolute will that transcended this Primordial Land, it instantly flooded the entire stomach of the Old Earth Dragon.

Those corrosive gastric juices, which had been fierce enough to melt even magical treasures just a moment ago, met the golden light and reacted as if they had encountered a natural predator. They instantly lost all activity and were vaporized into nothingness.

Not only that, but the golden light spread along the stomach walls, forcibly carving out an absolute vacuum domain spanning several dozen yards.

Within this domain, all laws were warded off, and all evil was repelled!

At the same time.

Outside, above the ruins of the nameless Sha Qi Pit.

The Old Earth Dragon had just finished a contented burp and was twisting its ten-thousand-foot-long, massive body with satisfaction, preparing to drill back into the depths of the earth through the abyss channel it had dug to digest this big meal.

To it, eating a bird carrying pure Yang energy was no different from swallowing a piece of spirit-filled ore during its usual routine.

It had even begun to fantasize about whether it might be able to touch the threshold of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal after waking up from this sleep.

However, just as most of its body had submerged into the soil, with only a giant tail still swaying above ground, the Old Earth Dragon's movements suddenly froze without warning.

"Gulu?"

Its mountain-like head jerked up from underground, and a hint of human-like confusion flashed through its eyes, which resembled two blood-colored full moons.

Stomach... so hot.

This was not the burning sensation that came from eating too many fire-attribute spirit items, but a terrifying high temperature that felt as if it were about to ignite a sun inside its body!

Following that, confusion turned into shock, and shock instantly transformed into boundless fear.

The Old Earth Dragon clearly felt that, at some unknown point, a supreme aura that made its very soul tremble had appeared in its stomach.

In the face of this aura, its Profound Immortal cultivation, which it took such pride in, and its stone-skinned scales—which even a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal would find hard to break—were as ridiculously fragile as paper.

"ROAR—!"

The Old Earth Dragon let out a painful and terrified roar, its massive body rolling frantically across the earth.

It regretted it!

Although it did not possess much intelligence, the instinct of a beast told it that what it had just swallowed was not some panacea, but a living ancestor that could not be touched or provoked!

It opened its abyssal maw, desperately driving the muscles of its abdomen, trying to vomit out that hot potato.

"Ugh—ugh—"

Retching sounds erupted from the Old Earth Dragon's throat as large swathes of soil and rock debris were spewed out, smashing deep pits into the surrounding land.

However, it was useless.

That cluster of dazzling golden light seemed to have taken root, fixed firmly within its stomach.

What was even more fatal was that because Lu Changsheng had actively released Great Dao Merit to resist, the Old Earth Dragon's act of corroding Lu Changsheng with gastric acid now constituted a substantive attack against Great Dao Merit!

Cause and effect were locked in this very moment.

"Hum—"

The Primordial sky, which had become cloudless due to the reconnection of the earth veins, turned pitch black in an instant.

This was a deathly black that stripped away all light.

Immediately following, amidst this boundless darkness, a vast, cold, and ruthless pressure of destruction descended with a boom.

The strength of this pressure was such that all living creatures within a radius of one hundred thousand miles, whether fighting or foraging, were pressed flat against the ground, unable to even draw a full breath.

The Old Earth Dragon's ten-thousand-foot body, which had been rolling frantically, was frozen stiff in place the moment this pressure descended, as if struck by a binding spell.

It raised its hideous head and looked toward the pitch-black sky.

The clouds churned violently, retreating to both sides.

A single eye, condensed entirely from purple-black thunder, slowly opened in the high heavens.

There was no pity in that eye, no anger, only the absolute indifference of maintaining the operation of the laws of heaven and earth.

"Pur... Purple Heaven..."

A desperate, wheezing sound escaped the Old Earth Dragon's throat.

Although it had always lurked underground, it had experienced the Ferocious Beast Tribulation and naturally recognized this thunder, which represented the highest grade of Heavenly Punishment.

It wanted to beg for mercy.

It wanted to tell that ruthless eye in the sky that it hadn't done it on purpose, that it was just hungry and had eaten a snack, and that it was willing to cough up that ancestor completely unharmed.

However, the Great Dao did not listen to explanations.

To touch Great Dao Merit is to invite death.

"BOOM!!!"

A bolt of purple-black lightning, as thick as a water vat, descended straight from the Eye of Heavenly Punishment like a world-ending sword tearing through the darkness.

The speed of this lightning transcended the boundaries of time and space.

Old Earth Dragon did not even have time to blink before the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning struck the top of its head.

There was no violent explosion, nor was there a deafening roar.

The moment the lightning entered its body, Old Earth Dragon's indestructible grayish-brown scales began to peel away and dissipate silently, like a sand sculpture weathered for ten thousand years.

Flesh, bones, meridians...

Before the overbearing power of the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, which annihilated all karma, a Profound Immortal-level physical body could not even hold out for a single breath.

"Wuu..."

Old Earth Dragon only had time to let out a short, desperate whimper before its massive, ten-thousand-foot-tall body collapsed inch by inch in the blinding purple light, turning into gray powder that scattered across the sky.

Body and soul destroyed!

Not even a trace of its true spirit remained; it was completely erased from the workings of the Primordial Land.

As Old Earth Dragon vanished into ashes, the dark stomach that had trapped Lu Changsheng naturally disintegrated along with it.

"Thud!"

A figure radiating golden light fell heavily from mid-air, crashing into a thick pile of bone ash.

The thunderclouds dissipated rapidly, and the sky returned to calm, as if the world-ending scene from moments ago had never occurred.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Lu Changsheng lay on the ground, coughing violently while frantically retracting the Great Dao Merit he had released across his skin.

He could not even spare a moment to check his own injuries; his first reaction was to sink his consciousness inward, staring intently at the golden light within his dantian.

One second later.

A shrill, miserable scream rang out across the wilderness.

"My origin! It's missing a wisp! It's actually missing a wisp, damn it!"

Lu Changsheng knelt on the ground, clutching his head in agony, tears welling up in his eyes.

Although that wisp of merit was not even a drop in the ocean compared to his vast origin, to a miser who valued merit more than his own life, this was akin to having his heart carved out.

"You dead loach! You stinking reptile! Why the hell did you have to eat me of all things!"

"To defend against your two mouthfuls of foul stomach acid, I had to release my merit. Now look, the damage reflection triggered, but my origin has been worn down!"

Lu Changsheng cursed while pounding his fists fiercely against the bone ash on the ground.

"You owe me! How are you going to pay me back! Even if you died ten thousand times, it wouldn't be worth the value of that one wisp of my Great Dao Merit!"