At first, they could still see the tiger-dragon struggling violently, using its sharp claws and fangs to tear apart the scarlet fungal carpet formed by the Blood-Patterned Flower Fungus Cluster.
Yet the clusters kept splitting and growing at a rate visible to the naked eye, swiftly patching the tears until they were sealed tight.
Masses of hyphae also streamed through the tiger-dragon's wounds and seven orifices, invading its body and winding around every blood vessel, nerve, bone, and muscle fiber.
The tiger-dragon was like something that had fallen into a bottomless pool of blood. Its struggles grew weaker and weaker as it gradually sank to the bottom.
At last, it released a groan of pain, grief, fury, helplessness, relief, and exhilaration... a groan so tangled and complex it defied description, and then it moved no more.
Wrapped in the scarlet fungal carpet, the tiger-dragon became a massive cocoon.
The cocoon wriggled continuously, as though a precise and terrifying reconstruction and upgrade were taking place within.
It also resembled an ugly demon heart, thumping with a "thump, thump."
Everyone present heard the demon's heartbeat.
Even with Tempered Glass separating them, they still felt as though someone had seized their hearts in a savage grip.
No, the test was far from over.
Although the chunks of Sword Halberd Demon Pig flesh scattered around them had all stopped twitching and bouncing.
The Blood-Patterned Flower Fungus Clusters entwined around the carcass fragments also looked like weeds scorched by blazing flames, withered yellow and charred black, all life extinguished.
Yet the demon heart encasing the tiger-dragon continued swelling amid its violent pulses, transforming into the bud of a gigantic Man-eating Flower.
The dark crimson flower bud radiated a dim, eerie glow.
Faintly, countless blood-vessel-like things could be seen coiling inside the bud.
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