Beneath the Black Wind Ridge mine.
The golden light had yet to disperse, and the entire mine was still humming and trembling.
Within a fissure in the rock layer three zhang below.
Fine metallic powder was swept up by an invisible force field, transforming into wisps of golden haze that drifted slowly along the cave walls.
Wang Yuan stood amid that golden haze, fine golden dragon markings emerging across the surface of his skin, layer upon layer intertwining and flowing slowly from without to within.
He was feeling the utter fullness brought by the complete settling of the transformation within his body.
Every sinew in his body was taut as a fully drawn bowstring, every bone as hard as divine iron tempered a thousand times.
But in the very next breath.
The residual force of the long-suppressed transformation deep within his body suddenly lost control and burst outward!
Buzz!
Centered on Wang Yuan, a visible wave of golden air exploded outward, blowing all the rubble in the mine backward into the walls with a thunderous crash.
The Iron-Scaled Giant Rat, which had been crawling flat against the ground, was flipped over by the blast. It rolled three times before slamming into the rock wall with a low whimper.
Then, Wang Yuan's body began to swell violently!
His frame had originally been slender, balanced, and upright, but at this moment, the dragon tendons and tiger bones throughout his body stretched madly while his muscles and fascia expanded violently.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The sounds of bone growth rang out in dense succession, the sounds of sinews intertwining continued without end, and the dull booms of swelling muscle fibers shook the ears.
One inch, two inches, three inches...
Five inches, one foot, two feet...
In the span of merely ten breaths, Wang Yuan's