Chapter 285

"Mutation!"

Su Hao looked at the three semi-transparent Molten Elder Dragon bodies appearing before his eyes, his gaze turned cold, and he fully used the Bodily Metamorphosis skill.

The next moment.

His spirit power and qi blood were rapidly consumed at a visible speed, and in an instant, half of it vanished.

At the same time.

In the cave, the Molten Elder Dragon controlling the magma surging toward Su Hao suddenly felt a sharp pain from its tail's lava hammer.

Immediately afterward, he saw the dragon's lava hammer sprouting lumps of flesh, which pushed apart the solid scales on it, revealing an irregular deformation.

More importantly, he discovered that his control over the lava hammer was rapidly decreasing as those flesh lumps appeared.

When the volume of the tail's lava hammer had irregularly deformed to more than double its size, the Molten Elder Dragon's expression drastically changed and it let out a roar.

"Roar!"

He shockingly discovered that he could no longer control the lava hammer, as if that body part no longer belonged to him.

The tail's lava hammer is the most important organ of the Molten Elder Dragon: not only is it the hardest and strongest, it stores most of the body's energy, and it is also the main organ for releasing most of its abilities.

Once the tail's lava hammer is lost, even if his Supernatural Grade remains unchanged, his strength will greatly decrease and many abilities will become unusable.

For example, now, after the Molten Elder Dragon lost control of its tail's lava hammer, the surging temperature of the magma began to quickly return to normal, and the magma rolling toward Su Hao also rapidly calmed down.

After a short while, although the temperature in the cave remained extremely high, ordinary people could not approach at all.

But, after all, this is the bottom of a volcano, where the temperature is naturally higher than elsewhere, so this situation is normal.

As the temperature dropped, the surging magma also stilled, lying quietly on the ground and no longer launching attacks on Su Hao.

"Hiss!"

"Can it still be like this?!"

Seeing this scene, Su Hao couldn't help but be slightly stunned, a look of surprise appearing on his face; the effect of Bodily Metamorphosis was stronger than he had imagined.

Strictly speaking, Su Hao had not performed a mutagenic alteration on the Molten Elder Dragon's lava hammer.

The Molten Elder Dragon's current situation is merely that the Bodily Metamorphosis skill has turned its tail's lava hammer into an environment suitable for Bodily Metamorphosis, and Su Hao has not yet further mutated it.

Even so, this also caused the Molten Elder Dragon to lose control of its tail's lava hammer, equivalent to losing an important organ.

Damn it, at the start you already deprived the opponent of an organ—how can we fight? Especially for a species like the Molten Elder Dragon, this situation is even more deadly.

Their main means of attack are all released through the tail's lava hammer; now that the tail's lava hammer is lost to control, its combat power instantly drops by at least seven tiers.

In battles between equals, not to mention losing seventy percent of combat ability, even weakening by just three tiers could directly decide the outcome.

More importantly, Su Hao's Bodily Metamorphosis skill does not merely cause the Molten Elder Dragon to lose control of its tail's lava hammer; he can also remodel and control that lava hammer!

As Su Hao's thoughts turned and his mental power and qi blood were consumed, more irregular flesh lumps grew on the Molten Elder Dragon's tail lava hammer, beginning to swell and enlarge at a faster speed.

After a short while, the Molten Elder Dragon's tail lava hammer became larger than the rest of its body.

Immediately afterward.

The flesh lumps on the tail lava hammer began to turn into spikes, emitting a sharp cold light.

"Today I will let you fully understand yourself, let you know how powerful your lava hammer is."

Su Hao smiled faintly; by this point, he had already completely gained absolute control over the tail lava hammers of the three Molten Elder Dragons.

As long as he thinks, those three Molten Elder Dragons' tail lava hammers can perform the corresponding actions.

For example, under his control, the tail lava hammer of the Molten Elder Dragon before him was casually lifted high and then slammed heavily into the magma below.

In an instant, the temperature of the magma, which had just dropped, rose again at a visible speed, increasing by thousands of degrees in the blink of an eye.

Immediately afterward.

The surrounding magma began to churn violently, forming a surging lava wave, unleashing the Molten Elder Dragon's exclusive skill—Lava Giant Wave—and launching a fierce attack on the Molten Elder Dragon.

"Roar!"

Although the Molten Elder Dragon's body possesses extremely strong fire-attribute immunity, even surging magma of several thousand degrees cannot cause significant harm to its body.

But its own tail, inexplicably out of its control, even used its strongest exclusive skill against itself, leaving it bewildered and extremely angry.

This is too bullying! I, damn it, was living fine—how could I lose control of the lava hammer? Moreover, I didn't even feel anything happen—how did this inexplicably happen?! After the surprise and anger, the Molten Elder Dragon also felt extreme terror.

If one cannot even sense what happened, how can one prevent it? And how can one restore the tail's lava hammer to its original state and regain control of that organ? As the most important organ of the Molten Elder Dragon, without its tail lava hammer, most of its abilities cannot be unleashed, leaving it to fight only with its flesh body.

In this situation, even some stronger Third-Tier Supernaturals could kill him outright.

Moreover, facing him is the strangely powerful Su Hao, who is certainly no ordinary Third-Tier Supernatural! The Molten Elder Dragon naturally understands this as well; he knows clearly that before regaining control of its tail lava hammer, he is absolutely unqualified to fight Su Hao.

If this continues, he might very well meet his end here.

Without further thought, he immediately dove into the magma, intending to escape this place.

As for the Flame Crystal on the altar, he had no intention of continuing to protect it.

Although, after his birth, a command to guard the Flame Crystal appeared in his soul.

But when life and death are at stake, the choice to preserve life instantly outweighs the command to guard the Flame Crystal.

However, when the Molten Elder Dragon's upper body burrowed into the magma, dissolving the rock at the magma's bottom, preparing to flee this place.

He suddenly shockingly discovered that a tremendous force emanated from his tail's lava hammer, preventing him from moving forward, even pulling him back a bit, ultimately causing him to float back onto the magma.

Did I let you go?

Under Su Hao's control, the magma in the cavern automatically retreated, forming a path.

He walked along this magma-free road to the altar at the center of the cavern, storing the flame crystal into his Storage Bag. Then he turned his head to look at the struggling Molten Elder Dragon, narrowed his eyes slightly, and a cold light flashed in his pupils.

Although his main goal was to take the three flame crystals at the base of the mountain range.

But these three Molten Elder Dragons are all powerful monsters of top-tier Supernatural Fourth Stage; if we just let them go like that, it would be a terrible waste.

Moreover, Su Hao also wanted to use this opportunity to properly examine the specific effects of the Flesh Metamorphosis skill; how could he possibly let these three Molten Elder Dragons leave?

As Su Hao's thoughts turned, the lava hammer on the Molten Elder Dragon's tail, which he had fully controlled, reacted violently once again.

More tumors grew out from above, and those sharp spikes also re-formed into clumps of tumors at this moment, beginning to undergo massive distortion.

Gradually, the molten old dragon's tail, which originally resembled a spherical lava hammer, turned into a giant hand flowing with magma, firmly gripping the dragon's other parts.

"Roar!"

Under the constantly increasing force of the lava giant hand, the molten old dragon involuntarily let out a painful roar; bones inside transmitted a series of crisp cracks, and other parts of its body underwent obvious deformation.

The lava hammer is the molten old dragon's strongest bodily part, akin to a human's thigh, possessing the greatest strength.

Moreover, the proportion of power that the lava hammer holds in the molten old dragon's body is far greater than that of a human's thigh.

Over seventy percent of the molten old dragon's strength resides in its lava hammer; even relying solely on brute force, the lava hammer can inflict massive damage on the dragon's body.

Furthermore, after the flesh metamorphosis, this lava giant hand also possesses the power bestowed by Su Hao; whether it be strength, temperature, or the might of other skills, it surpasses the original lava hammer.

With one waning as the other waxes, having lost its strongest bodily part, the molten old dragon has lost most of its means of attack and can no longer withstand the lava giant hand's assault.

As time passed, the deformation of the molten old dragon's other parts grew increasingly severe, ultimately accompanied by a series of "gaba" sounds, and the dragon before Su Hao completely lost its vital breath.

The molten old dragons in the other two caves fared worse; they didn't even know what Su Hao looked like, yet mysteriously lost control of their tail lava hammers.

Then they watched helplessly as their tail lava hammers turned into lava giant hands, which squeezed them to death alive.

This is not to say that the flesh metamorphosis skill can easily instant-kill three peak fourth-rank supernatural monsters.

If Su Hao's target of metamorphosis were other bodily parts besides the tail lava hammer, the outcome would be different.

As long as the molten old dragon's tail lava hammer remains, its combat power will not suffer too severe a loss.

Moreover, since fourth-rank supernatural beings possess strong vitality, he could completely destroy that metamorphosed part and then continue fighting by using the tail lava hammer.

Unfortunately, with the omniscient magic book in hand, Su Hao knew the molten old dragon's weak point at the outset of battle and launched a targeted attack.

This is equivalent to, in a fight between two humans, one person's both feet and heart being controlled by the opponent.

Furthermore, with that enhancement, the outcome is naturally clear—no need for the opponent to keep striking; the other side is killed by its own body.

The molten old dragon now finds itself in this situation.

Moreover, since the effect of the flesh metamorphosis persists, after the molten old dragon's vital breath has completely dissipated.

Having metamorphosed into a lava giant hand, the tail lava hammer not only did not die together with it, but also began invading the dragon's other bodily parts.

This caused his entire body to become covered in tumors, eventually fusing with the tail lava giant hand into a single larger arm.

"This ability is kind of interesting!"

Su Hao nodded slightly, revealing a hint of contemplation.

Judging from the current performance, any bodily part subjected to the flesh mutation will cause the target to lose control of that part.

Furthermore, it can make that part react according to one's will, producing mutations of varying degrees.

For example, the lava hammer originally on the Magma Dragon's tail, under Su Hao's control, turned into a lava giant hand and could even use the corresponding skill.

Such an ability is quite absurd; if two people are fighting normally and one person's right hand suddenly slaps themselves, the consequences are easy to imagine.

Moreover, after the Magma Dragon dies, this mutation effect does not disappear and can even erode other parts of the body.

From a certain perspective, before Su Hao ends the skill, the target affected by the flesh mutation is equivalent to becoming a temporary clone of Su Hao, which can freely control those mutated parts and the body.

According to the third effect of the Mutant Blood Demon— the introduction of the mutant clone ability— Su Hao can not only mutate-modify the clone, but also perform mutant suturing on it.

That is, it can sew together two or more different clones into a new body.

Then, can such temporary clones also be sutured to each other?

Thinking of this, Su Hao's eyes flashed slightly; he controlled the Magma Dragon corpses in the other two caves, took the two flame crystals from the altar, then used the surging-temperature magma to melt the rock and arrived at this cave.

The other two Magma Dragons, under Su Hao's control, likewise turned into a lava giant hand.

After receiving the flame crystals from those two giant hands, Su Hao's mental power and blood frenziedly flowed into the flesh-mutation rune in his soul.

The next moment.

These three lava giant hands then turned into masses of flesh tumors, merging together and ultimately forming a huge flesh ball.

Then, under Su Hao's control, the flesh ball began to stretch and elongate, eventually reaching a length of nearly a hundred meters, a thick-thin elongated shape.

But it wasn't over; at the one-third point of this elongated shape, it split into a spindle form with a larger middle and smaller ends.

After the basic shape emerged, on this basis grew hand and foot spikes, as well as patches of scales flowing with magma.

Finally, those three lava giant hands once again took the form of a Magma Dragon, but with a larger size, possessing three even larger lava hammers, and the whole body radiated scorching heat.

Those three huge lava hammers, even without using any skill, their mere presence raised the surrounding temperature further, making it difficult even for a Supernatural Second Rank to stay long in this cave.

Judging by its aura, this three-tailed Magma Dragon is two to three times stronger than a top-tier Supernatural Fourth Rank Magma Dragon, yet it still does not give Su Hao the feeling of a Supernatural Fifth Rank.

"Such strength is barely enough; let's try transforming it into a clone and see if any other changes occur."

Su Hao rubbed his chin, controlling this three-tailed Magma Dragon as it walked toward him.

If he could have a Supernatural Fourth Rank three-tailed Magma Dragon clone, his combat power would see a considerable increase.

(End of chapter)