Crystal Ball Anomaly

The moment Lin Ji swallowed the Blood Elixir, a wildly violent force instantly surged from his dantian like a volcanic eruption.

His originally lean figure swelled abruptly as if being blown up like a balloon, his bones emitting a teeth-aching "crack" sound, his muscles bulging and tightening, and his clothes instantly torn to shreds.

Even more terrifyingly, the flesh and skin atop his head ripped apart, and a single horn, pitch-black as ink and gleaming with a metallic luster, violently pierced outward, pointing straight at the firmament. His entire skin cracked inch by inch, only to be rapidly covered by densely packed, newly generated blood-colored scales, every single scale forged as if from refined steel, with sharp edges and reflecting a chilling, blood-red light.

His spine lengthened violently, emitting cracking, popping sounds, and a thick tail like a giant python, covered in dark red scales, burst out from his body, smashing heavily into the ground and sending rock chips flying from the hard bluestone slabs as it whipped them.

"Boom—!"

The next moment, densely packed, multicolored spell light-projectiles and magic tools of various shapes, carrying a piercing whistle, smashed like a storm onto the body he had just finished mutating.

Blazes, ice spikes, wind blades, and golden glows wove into a net of destruction, instantly swallowing him up. The sound of explosions was deafening, spiritual light flashed chaotically, and smoke and dust filled the air.

However, right at the core of this violent attack, a giant roar filled with pain and tyranny—one that could by no means be emitted by a human—suddenly exploded: "Roar!!!"

Accompanied by this earth-shaking roar, a visible, incomparably fierce ring of magical power fluctuation expanded aggressively from the monster Lin Ji had transformed into, using him as its center!

The air was sharply compressed, emitting a