Chapter 130: Divine Abomination

Of course, the process of a divine artifact recognizing its master cannot be completed by simply dripping a drop of blood or burning a stick of incense; it requires a complex and mysterious ritual. After all, this item is essentially the weapon of a god, so it is impossible for it to have no authentication procedure, allowing any low-level life form that happens to pick it up to use it.

If that were the case, the prestige of a divine artifact would be far too low. Even the people of the Xia Kingdom know how to set up security measures on their mobile phones to prevent unauthorized use. If those deities lacked similar safeguards, how could they feel secure entrusting their treasures to their own followers?

Therefore, Huang Ze struggled for quite a while without getting the golden bow to recognize him as its master; there was not even the slightest feedback.

"Hmm, the hardness seems quite good. It probably has an indestructible property..."

Huang Ze tried gnawing on it with his golden dragon fangs and found the texture to be excellent—it had a very satisfying chewiness. He was instantly delighted; even if it wouldn't recognize him as its master, it seemed like a pretty good teething stick! After all, as a powerful black dragon, he was actually quite in need of a teething stick.

Furthermore, he had a vague intuition that if he used this golden bow for teething over a long period, his dragon fangs would surely become increasingly tough and powerful, to the point where, if he encountered any other divine artifact in the future, he might be able to snap it in half with a single bite.

The only concern was whether the artifact's owner would be enraged enough to descend from the Astral Realm to challenge him to a duel if they found out he was using their divine weapon as a teething stick.

"Wait... what am I worried about?" Huang Ze suddenly thought. "If they actually dare to come down, wouldn't that be perfect?"

"After all, in the material realm, their power will certainly be severely restricted. Forcibly coming over to duel me would just be delivering themselves to their doom. I'm no idiot—why would I actually duel them? Wouldn't it be better to just treat them to a few mushroom bombs?"

Thinking this, Huang Ze felt relieved and continued to gnaw away with peace of mind.

"Huh... is the vitality of the Titans really this strong? They are already starting to come to life again?"

Just as Huang Ze was gnawing away with gusto, he noticed that the Titans lying on the ground were recovering one by one, beginning to groan and struggle unconsciously. Come on, you guys took a nuclear bomb hit; isn't it outrageous enough that you didn't die? How are you recovering so quickly?

Huang Ze naturally couldn't accept this and hurried over to smack them a few more times with his claws, knocking them back out.

"It seems the earth is granting them power, helping them heal..."

Huang Ze observed carefully with his Eye of Truth and soon discovered the oddity: a mysterious power was continuously surging from the ground into the Titans' bodies, helping them recover from their injuries.

"Could this be the protection of the Earth Mother Goddess? This is just too much of a foul, isn't it?"

Huang Ze was dumbfounded. The relationship between the Earth Mother Goddess and the Titans was clearly much stronger than he had imagined; she was shielding them to this extent, going so far as to use her own divine power to heal them.

"What should I do now?"

Huang Ze looked around but couldn't find any tall structures; otherwise, he could have hung them up, which would prevent them from drawing upon the power of the earth.

"By the way... if I really killed a Titan, I wonder what the consequences would be?"

Huang Ze nudged a Titan beside him, his intent to kill gradually rising. These bastards had killed so many of his kin; they had committed capital crimes. Bringing them back for trial was not only troublesome but could lead to complications. It would be better to execute them on the spot!

Once this thought took root, it became unstoppable. The killing intent in Huang Ze's heart grew stronger, and he even couldn't help but think, "Since these Titans were once a divine race, their genes and their flesh must be very nutritious and delicious. Eating ten of them in one breath would surely make my strength skyrocket..."

Thinking this, the black dragon couldn't help but split his jaws, revealing his terrifying fangs, and he even began to drool.

"Saliva... a dragon's saliva, should count as ambergris, right?"

Just as the black dragon was about to lose control of his desire to feed and his murderous intent, Huang Ze's brain suddenly began to malfunction.

*Swallowing the Starry Sky: Signing In to Become a God*

"Wait... something was just now... forcibly controlling my thoughts, trying to induce me to eat these Titans?"

A loud alarm bell rang in Huang Ze's heart. He had set a bottom line for himself long ago: never to actively eat intelligent beings. And these Titans clearly belonged to the category of intelligent creatures!

Although Huang Ze's bottom line was primarily set against humans, Titans were only humanoid creatures, and they were heinous criminals. Even if he did eat them, it could be considered excusable and a cause for public rejoicing. However, Huang Ze knew very well that his previous state of mind was clearly abnormal; he had definitely been bewitched by some kind of power!

"Isn't the firewall on my soul supposed to be very advanced? Why did it suddenly fail just now? Or is it that the entity bewitching me is extremely powerful?"

Thinking this, Huang Ze suddenly felt his hind legs on the ground grow slightly stiff, which scared him into spreading his wings and flying into the sky.

Could that entity... actually be the Earth Mother Goddess?

Huang Ze subconsciously made this connection. The reason she wanted him to eat these Titans might be because there were power factors and divinity factors within them; if he ate them, he would suffer her assimilation and come under her control. If that were the case, it would be too insidious!

"That doesn't make sense. Isn't the Earth Mother Goddess supposed to be very kind and benevolent? Why would she want to mess with me like this?"

Huang Ze was not in a very good mood. After all, if a deity of great divine power had their eye on him, his future life would certainly be difficult. He might not even dare to make contact with the ground, fearing that a hand would emerge from the earth to grab him.

"No... it shouldn't be the Earth Mother Goddess!"

Huang Ze suddenly realized something. The Xia Academy of Sciences had been conducting in-depth research on deities. According to their deductions, deities of great divine power like the Sun God, the Earth Mother Goddess, and the Life Goddess had very weak self-consciousness; they were more like intelligent programs operating automatically according to certain rules.

In other words, they would almost never do anything with conscious intent. But once they did act consciously, it would inevitably be a thunderous, unhesitating strike! Just like the Sun God's divine punishment on Xiaomin last time—once he acted, it was a dimensional strike that destroyed the target physically, rather than this "boiling a frog in warm water" method of trying to achieve a goal by controlling Huang Ze's thoughts.

"As a deity of great divine power, if the Mother Goddess really wanted to deal with me, not to mention whether I could escape, why would it have to be today? After all, I have laid on the ground plenty of times before!"

Once Huang Ze's feet left the ground, his mind naturally became much clearer, and he began to think calmly. "So... that guy must be someone else!"

As for when he started feeling off... he guessed it was when he started gnawing on the golden bow. His thoughts had been polluted by the power of the divine artifact without him realizing it!

"Is it you? Is it you?"

Huang Ze was somewhat ashamed and angry. Instead of blaming his own bad habit of gnawing on random things, he took his anger out on the golden bow, constantly twisting it with his claws while making threats—when he got back, he would definitely soak it in formalin, no, throw it into a reactor!

...

Huang Ze reported the situation to Academician Ding and the others through his sub-account.

Considering the limited transport capacity of the black dragon, it was difficult to bag and bring back all the Titans, and staying there could lead to complications. Thus, Academician Ding and his team suggested that the black dragon only needed to bring back two of the Titans for trial and research, while the rest should be executed on the spot.

Huang Ze gladly accepted the order. He had been filled with anger toward these Titans for a long time. He immediately locked onto one of them and struck ruthlessly.

There was no suspense. These Titans had already been baptized by a mushroom bomb at close range and had their recovery repeatedly interrupted by the black dragon. Having no ability to resist, and facing the wrathful assault of the dragon, their fate was naturally miserable. One by one, their heads were smashed and their hearts crushed—they were dead beyond a doubt.

"If you can still have your lives pulled back by the power of the earth after this, then I truly have no way to deal with you... No, I do have a way!"

After examining them with the Eye of Truth and confirming that they were truly dead, Huang Ze was still uneasy. He planned to summon another tactical nuclear missile to return them to their most primitive atomic state and accept the most thorough destruction.

However, at that moment, the situation suddenly changed!

The corpses of the Titans were thrown together by the black dragon so that they could be concentrated for consumption by the core fireball of a mushroom bomb. Then, from some unknown source of great power, they were suddenly re-endowed with life, and they began to fuse together frantically!

Something is wrong... this is bad!

Huang Ze immediately realized the danger. Subconsciously, he wanted to summon a mushroom bomb to clear the area, only to find that his brain had, without realizing it, started overclocking again!

Passive overclocking!

This meant that the aggregation reaction speed of the opponent was extremely high, and Huang Ze's eyes and brain had to be in a high-speed state to keep up.

Fortunately, this speed was not too extreme—it was about 1:60. Not only could Huang Ze's brain handle it, but his body was not significantly affected.

However, summoning a mushroom bomb to save the day was clearly unrealistic. After all, it would take at least several minutes from the moment he sent the message back to the time the bomb was launched, and multiplied by a factor of 60, that meant several hours! In other words, by the time the mushroom bomb arrived, it would be far too late.

"...A divine spawn?"

The term flashed through Huang Ze's mind. He guessed it was a prompt from his heart, telling him what this thing below was.

So-called "divine spawns" are the products of divine power that have gone out of control. They are extremely powerful and terrifying, with a power level at least reaching the eighth rank—not much different from some low-rank or weak deities!

Fortunately, since they were the products of a loss of control, their bodies were naturally quite unstable and would basically collapse within a few days.

"So... the Titans really were a divine race. If their bodies are not handled properly after they die, they can even form divine spawns!"

No feeling of fear arose in Huang Ze's mind; in fact, he was eager to try. His body and heart began to heat up frantically, and his desire to fight was rising. He knew this battle was unavoidable.

After all, the divine power of this divine spawn was certainly much stronger than Huang Ze's. It could use the ability of "one second counting as sixty" without restraint, but Huang Ze might not be able to. In other words, if Huang Ze chose to run away, his situation would likely become even more dangerous.

Facing it head-on actually offered some chance.

Huang Ze certainly wouldn't give it the chance to keep fusing and growing stronger. He immediately pushed his physical state to the limit and charged headlong toward that ugly mass of flesh and blood.

Perhaps sensing a real threat to its life, Huang Ze's body finally erupted with unprecedented power. At one-sixtieth of the speed of time, his speed still reached an astonishing 60 meters per second!

And from the perspective of a normal person, this already exceeded Mach 10!

The divine spawn clearly did not expect that the black dragon's reaction speed could keep up with its frequency. It was struck hard on the head by the dragon's claws, letting out a shrill scream, and a large amount of pitch-black, foul-smelling blood sprayed out.

"Damn, that's disgusting!"

Huang Ze's own body was not feeling well either. The area around the divine spawn seemed to be shrouded in a very strange and terrifying halo, which caused a very powerful mental attack on the black dragon.

Moreover, its body was filled with a foul stench. This stench did not exist in the form of an odor, but rather as a higher-level state of the soul. So, even though the black dragon had wisely cut off his olfactory nerves long ago, he was still polluted, and his soul was stained with a large number of negative status effects.

However, the black dragon knew very well that if he wanted to continue, he would have to endure this discomfort, because the enemy would not be merciful because of it!

"Fortunately, before I set off, I swallowed a few mouthfuls of Uranium-235... and I haven't had time to digest them yet..."