One more catty, one more attribute point

In the blink of an eye, his belly swelled up like a millstone.

If it were Pang Shan, Lian Qing, and the others, by this point, their physical bodies would directly collapse due to being unable to bear the nutrients brought about by the blood sacrifice.

But Xie Linyuan was a strong practitioner of the Heavenly Deceit Realm, and after Su Heng had devoured his spirit source, he lost all consciousness. He did not struggle violently due to pain and fear, nor did he deliberately oppose Su Heng out of resentment, attempting to sabotage Su Heng's experiment or even take extreme actions such as committing suicide.

He was the perfect specimen for the experiment.

As Xie Linyuan's abdomen expanded to its limit, through the skin and the accumulated bloody fluid inside, one could clearly see three demon carcasses slowly merging.

His!

The moment they contacted each other.

A large amount of thick smoke billowed from Xie Linyuan's body, and his body turned bright red like a cooked shrimp.

A lingering fog enveloped the Demon Suppression Tower, the temperature rose, and it distorted. Spikes burst outward from Xie Linyuan's body, as if some alien monster was trying to rip open his stomach to drill out from his body.

Fortunately, the body of a Heavenly Deceit practitioner was strong enough.

Even with such a severe impact, it did not burst apart directly.

The strange merging of the demon carcasses gradually stabilized, and Xie Linyuan's severely swollen abdomen quickly deflated. Along with it, his skin and flesh aged as if centuries had passed over them in a hurry—losing vitality, leaving nothing but a dried-up human skin sagging on his bones.

A formidable Heavenly Deceit practitioner, all of his nutrients completely drained.

Now, what appeared before Su Heng was nothing but a twisted, child-sized dried corpse.

Because the flesh on his body dried up rapidly, his eyeballs shrank and fell out directly from their sockets. The empty eye sockets revealed no brain matter, making it somewhat creepy.

"It worked," Su Heng was fully confident.

But upon truly seeing the result, he let go of a suspended heart and couldn't help but let a hint of a smile flicker across his lips.

He flicked his finger.

A spark ignited Xie Linyuan's remaining body, burning it to ashes.

Within the flickering flames, a palm-sized black object flew out, caught by Su Heng in his hand.

His!

He pressed the still-warm, scale-like demon carcass to his own chest.

Su Heng closed his eyes, and the skin that contacted the demon carcass quickly twisted, turned black, and bulged outward, resembling a black ridge. The strange changes brought by the demon carcass continued to spread outward, quickly encompassing his entire body. A black carapace covered him completely, and a robust power emanated from within.

When awakening the Transformed Dragon State, large black scale armor would also form over Su Heng's body.

However, that armor was formed by muscle mutation.

The armor formed on Su Heng's body from the merged demon carcass was due to a mutation occurring in the skin.

Both served as protection, and since they occurred in different locations, they did not interfere with each other.

It was like wearing two layers of heavy armor over his body.

This took Su Heng's already formidable defense to an even more exaggerated realm.

[Skeleton Dragon Armor: Defense intensification, Primary Gravity Manipulation]

Defense intensification was just a bonus, adding icing to the cake. However, the Primary Gravity Manipulation offered substantial assistance to Su Heng.

Though tagged with the word "Primary,"

after preliminary measurements, Su Heng's range of gravity control increased to three hundred meters around him, and the maximum force he could exert also reached three thousand tons.

The enhancement in gravity provided a significant increase in perceptual ability. Within a three hundred-meter radius, every subtle movement was minutely perceived by Su Heng's consciousness, even if he was closing his eyes or in a pitch-dark environment.

This is because, aside from the five senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, which most people possess,

Su Heng had developed a unique "Gravity Sense" on top of these.

Beyond the range and upper limit increase,

the flexibility of Gravity Manipulation had also risen to an almost whim-satisfying boundary.

"Gravity!" Su Heng reached out, his mind slightly stirring.

Previously from the battle, large pieces of debris that had fallen on the ground gathered in Su Heng's hand, forming a huge black sphere.

Then, the gravity instantly reversed into repulsion.

Boom!

Thousands of tons of immense force fell upon it, exploding like a missile.

The bursting fragments directly shattered the entire wall in front of them, and the bright moonlight from outside the Demon Suppression Tower shone through.

"Merge!" Su Heng's eyes narrowed slightly, his gaze calm as he pushed forward with his hand.

This was a special talent inherited from the White Snake Demon Scale, capable of manipulating gravity on a minute level to alter the structure of matter itself.

The countless shards scattered on the ground returned to their original positions as if time were flowing backward, followed by the sound of friction. The complexly twisted cracks in the wall writhed and then disappeared, with the damaged wall being restored to its original state.

A satisfied smile spread across Su Heng's face.

However, he also discovered a problem, there was a limit to the exertion of force.

The more fragile and smaller the object, the less force he could apply, and the more difficult it was to operate precisely, requiring a great deal of mental effort. While the talent of Gravity Manipulation was refined, it still had its limits.

Otherwise, theoretically speaking,

Su Heng could directly launch objects small enough at speeds close to that of light, which would be unimaginably destructive.

"However, even so, it's more than enough to deal with the strong individuals from the Heavenly Deceit Realm," the power of the "Skeleton Dragon Armor," formed from the fusion of three demon corpses, far exceeded Su Heng's own expectations. Moreover, with this experience, he would be able to merge some demon corpses with similar functions in the future to achieve incredible effects.

Boom!

Thinking thus, Su Heng left from the ninth floor of the Demon Suppression Tower.

The heavy stone door closed behind him.

The supplies Zhao Meiying had promised to give had finally arrived.

Because the Demon Suppression Army was in full preparation for the war at Skull Plain, this matter had been delayed for a while.

Fortunately, there were no accidents; it was just a bit slow. Su Heng planned to check what good items were in this batch of supplies to see if there were any cultivation techniques and resources he needed.

He had devoured Xie Linyuan's memories and obtained some cultivation techniques from the Demon Elephant Sect.

But in Su Heng's eyes, the quality of these techniques was quite average, and some were even inferior to the true techniques passed down by the Demon Suppression Bureau.

After practicing the Domineering Dragon Secret Method, Su Heng became extremely selective. These techniques could only be regarded as backup options and were temporarily set aside by him.

Su Heng passed by a staircorner, meeting Jin Mingxi who was heading upward.

"Elder Jin, long time no see," Su Heng greeted with a smile.

"Lord Director!" Jin Mingxi, devoid of the aloof and cold demeanor from their first meeting, bowed respectfully and said, "Two young ladies are outside looking for you, one of them claims to be a descendant of An Shelie. I don't know if you want to meet them."

"Hmm!?" Su Heng appeared surprised.

He remembered feeling a faint hint of Dragon Power during the day of the tidal disaster.

However, since the presence of Tuo Long was so overwhelming, he had overlooked this. Now, hearing it again from Jin Mingxi, a surge of curiosity arose in Su Heng, "An Shelie still has descendants alive, let's go take a look."