Altar

The Dragon King's skeleton vanished, and in its place appeared a massive black hole that spewed black mist and blood qi.

The black mist was chilling, carrying a sinister and terrifying aura. Yet the blood mist contained not the slightest baleful energy; instead, it surged with pure spiritual qi.

"The earth has a spirit. This is Earth Bloodline—good stuff!" The pair of dragon horns atop Zhou Tong's head released strands of light as he simultaneously employed a divine ability he had comprehended from the Dragon Clan Sacred Tree. Blood-colored essence immediately came gushing forth.

As though wielding unparalleled, terrifying divine power, Zhou Tong continuously drew up the Earth Bloodline. Bloodlight shimmered around him, dyeing everything crimson as it gradually formed a blood-colored divine cocoon around his body.

At that moment, time seemed to stop. Zhou Tong immersed himself in a state where there was neither self nor things. The blood-colored spiritual qi flowed endlessly into his body like a great river, continuously replenishing his Deep Sea.

The power contained within this Earth Bloodline even surpassed the divine power Zhou Tong had drawn from the Sea of Taboo surrounding Dragon Island.

The incomparably terrifying spiritual qi washed over him, and Zhou Tong's realm quietly rose another step. His sixth death tribulation descended, and his body slowly fell into extinction while bathed in the blood-colored spiritual qi.

During this process, every ancient tree in the forest began to glow. This oasis resembled an enormous jewel. All souls approaching from the nearby Sacred Mountain were wrapped up by the branches and leaves of those ancient trees, then devoured outright.

The forest seemed to have come alive, its enormous branches resembling human arms. But Zhou Tong had entered a state of extinction, causing these ancient trees to mistake him for dead. They did not