Return to Tian Yuan City

Inside the transmission hall of the Gold Spirit Race's blessed grotto-heaven, the deathly silence was broken by a dull yet powerful pulse.

Zhang Tie sat cross-legged at the center of an intricate and unfathomable Sacrifice Refining Array. His Blood Qi surged around him like underground magma rushing forth.

At times, his Blood Qi was like a breeze through a deep valley, raising only imperceptible ripples across his body as red light flickered beneath the veins under his skin. At other times, it was like thousands of troops charging and crashing within him, producing a low, continuous humming roar that made the dust around him tremble and dance.

Every surge of Blood Qi caused the spirit stones embedded in the array foundation to flicker, casting shifting shadows through the dim space.

Time trickled by, and the rhythm of this Blood Qi conversion grew faster and more urgent.

His body seemed to have become a massive furnace, frantically refining, purifying, and absorbing the immense energy gathered atop the altar.

As his pores opened and closed, strands of pure, visible Blood Qi escaped before being drawn back in, over and over again. After roughly the time it took to drink a cup of tea, this violent cycle reached a critical point!

Suddenly, a terrifying shockwave erupted from Zhang Tie's body without warning!

"Boom—!"

The shockwave was not invisible. It took the form of thick, bloodlike dark-red ripples that swept in all directions with the force of a collapsing mountain and a raging sea!

Wherever it passed, the air was compressed into piercing explosions, while the hard stone floor cracked and overturned inch by inch like rotten wood!

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

Several layers of sturdy array barriers protecting the outside of the formation abruptly appeared beneath the destructive impact.

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