novelTele Chapter 378 Star-level Remains: To Eat or Not to Eat?
Chapter 378 Star-level Remains: To Eat or Not to Eat?
Lu Sheng hovered motionless outside the enormous spherical space. He stared intently at the star-sized remains inside for a full half hour.
He was making plans in his mind.
Is it safe to eat this?
The information that Dragon Eye just fed back clearly stated "Danger Level: Extremely Lethal". The system even gave an unprecedented long string of red warnings, and even used phrases like "Strongly recommend staying away immediately".
What does this mean? It means that the remaining law imprints on the corpse inside are still operating automatically. Any living being below the Spirit Saint realm that approaches will be instantly annihilated. Even if he has one foot in the Spirit Saint realm and tries to take a bite, there's a very high chance he'll be devoured without a trace.
The system let him run.
Lu Sheng went over the suggestion in his mind, then dismissed it completely.
Run? I've been running for over thirty days, eating nothing but tasteless bones the whole way. I've finally stumbled upon this amazing feast, and you want me to turn around and run?
He never learned how to write the word "run" in his entire life. The timid starve, the bold feast. The harder the bone, the more flavorful the marrow extracted after breaking it.
He didn't rush in. He knew this thing couldn't be taken down by brute force.
Lu Sheng found a relatively intact piece of warship armor plate on the outer edge of the spherical space and sat down cross-legged.
"Get yourself into top form before you get to work."
With a flick of his wrist, he pulled a handful of high-dimensional primordial crystals from his storage space. These were all stockpiles he'd looted from the Cleaner Alliance headquarters. Without even glancing at them, he shoved them into his mouth, chewed them to a pulp with a crunching sound.
The Heaven-Devouring Furnace began to spin in the dantian, rapidly refining the energy of these crystals.
His spiritual energy reserves began to rise. The five elements of wind, thunder, water, ice, fire, and space within his body were adjusted to their most stable state. The small gray world seed remained quietly in the center of his dantian, pulsating intermittently.
As Lu Sheng chewed on the crystal, he squinted and observed the spherical space.
The surface of this spherical space wasn't solid, but rather a translucent thin film. Various chaotic lights and shadows swirled across the film. After observing it for a while, he realized that this film wasn't completely sealed off.
In a few inconspicuous corners, there were several extremely fine cracks on the membrane.
From those cracks, a faint trace of primordial energy would occasionally leak out. This energy would quickly dissipate once it reached outer space.
Lu Sheng, with his sharp eyes, directly activated the gravity of the Devouring Heaven Furnace, grabbing a few wisps of leaking aura from afar and forcefully pulling them into his nose.
These few wisps of energy had just entered the body.
Lu Sheng shuddered violently.
This feeling is too exaggerated. It's not the illusion of a full stomach you get after a big meal. It's a shock that hits your very soul.
Within these few wisps of energy, almost fading away, lies a profound and boundless principle.
A flash of inspiration struck Lu Sheng instantly.
"Rules... aren't rigid. Rules are dynamic. You can establish rules, and you can abolish them."
The idea came out of nowhere, but it took root in his mind.
"This is fucking weird." Lu Sheng opened his eyes and gasped.
Even the slightest whiff of the odor was enough to elevate his understanding of the rules to a whole new level. If he could get inside and taste the very core essence, that seed of a small world would definitely sprout on the spot.
He's determined to eat these remains today.
He stood up, dusted himself off, and flew directly to the largest crack in the membrane.
You can't just rush in; you have to figure things out first.
Lu Sheng took a deep breath, stretched out his left hand, and carefully inserted one finger into the crack.
My finger had just gone in.
hum!
A golden blade of law light flew out from the membrane without making a sound, heading straight for his finger.
The speed was ridiculously fast; Lu Sheng's eyes couldn't keep up at all.
Fortunately, his body reacted faster than his brain. The black and gold dragon scales on his left arm instantly flared up and thickened, and at the same time, he instinctively activated the spatial laws he had just begun to learn, trying to twist the trajectory of the light blade.
A snap.
The light blade forcefully sliced through the defenses of the spatial laws, grazed the back of his hand, and sliced off a large layer of dragon scales and a large chunk of flesh.
The golden blood droplets immediately floated up in the vacuum.
Lu Sheng abruptly pulled his hand back.
He looked down at the back of his hand. The wound was so deep that the bone was visible. The dragon runes glowed red, and the granulation tissue began to writhe and repair itself frantically.
"That's ruthless." Lu Sheng grinned and shook the blood off his hands.
The combined defense of dragon scales and spatial laws couldn't even stop it. The destructive power of this light blade was definitely at the level of a peak Spirit Saint.
Moreover, this is an automatic defense mechanism. As long as a living thing enters, this thing will automatically lock onto and attack.
Lu Sheng crouched outside the crack, staring intently into it.
He began to count silently.
Three seconds after the first light blade flew past, another light blade formed near the crack and aimlessly slashed across.
three seconds.
The light blade is generated every three seconds.
For someone of his physique and reaction speed, three seconds is enough to accomplish a lot.
"One every three seconds. If I just squeeze in between the two light blades, I can close the distance."
But Lu Sheng knew in his heart that this was only the outermost edge. The further in he went, the closer he got to the corpse, the more light blades there would be, and the faster they would be. At that point, there might not even be a fraction of a second, let alone three seconds.
"I can't worry about that anymore. If you want to eat meat, you have to get beaten up."
Lu Sheng straightened up and mobilized all the power within his body.
The five laws erupted simultaneously, enveloping his body in five layers of defense.
The outermost layer is the black flames of an eclipse, distorting the surrounding void. Inside lies the law of space, ready to deflect attacks at any moment. Further in are the laws of wind and thunder, used to push speed to its limit. Closest to the skin are the laws of ice and water, ready to stop bleeding and set bones at any time.
"bring it on."
Lu Sheng bent his knees slightly and stared intently at the crack.
A golden blade of light flew past.
"Walk!"
Lu Sheng's twelve dragon wings flapped suddenly, and he transformed into a black and gold afterimage, squeezing directly into the crack.