Threads of pitch-black essence blood, radiating terrifying fluctuations, were forced out from the depths of Wei Yelan's heart and flowed down from his claw tips.
Wei Yelan's face twisted slightly from this self-mutilating act. Forcing out this Natal Essence Blood was clearly no easy task for him, yet the madness and killing intent in his eyes only burned hotter.
Wei Yelan extended a sharp claw drenched in black essence blood. Rather than searching for any array-pattern node, he pressed it directly onto the very center of the stone tablet mural.
The moment the essence blood touched the mural's surface, it did not slide down. Instead, as if alive, it swiftly seeped and spread, automatically flowing along the ancient engraved lines and tracing their patterns.
"By my blood, I draw the lead! By my soul, I make the sacrifice! Trace the path of space—open!"
Wei Yelan roared in a low voice, every word seeming to contain strange magic that resonated with the flowing essence blood.
With his incantation, the black essence blood spread over the mural at a sudden, accelerated pace, emitting an eerie light.
The entire mural seemed to have been activated by the Demonic Blood and began to tremble violently. Across its originally ancient stone surface, rings of dark-red ripples spread out, completely different from those when Chen Fei had opened it.
These ripples were not orderly spatial fluctuations, but more like a forcible resonant search. They captured the residual Origin Energy aura, spatial disturbances, and a trace of the Life Imprint aura belonging to Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu left behind when Chen Fei had opened the portal.
The mural shook violently as the dark-red demonic light grew ever brighter.
Wei Yelan's three demonic eyes stared fixedly at the center of the mural, sensing the resonance between the