The phantom of the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor had already become half-solid. Its massive head hung low, its snake eyes gleaming with a faint, eerie green light.
Dugu Bo did not rush to attack. Standing beside Prince Xue Xing, his gaze slowly swept between the blood pool, Yu Xiaogang, and Flender.
He was a Titled Douluo, yet the aura emanating from the blood pool before him felt deeply wrong.
Yu Xiaogang raised his head from the center of the blood pool.
An unprecedented calm appeared on his face, as though an expression that did not belong to him was covering his original features.
His lips moved slightly, as if silently chanting something.
Then the dark red liquid in the blood pool began to churn. The surface continuously heaved, as though something was rising from the bottom.
Several thick bloodlines shot out from the pool. They circled his body twice before suddenly tightening, and the aura around him surged sharply. A thin dark red pattern appeared along the edges of his pupils.
Flender and Lu Qibin's bodies shuddered at the same time.
Those fine bloodlines extended from beneath Yu Xiaogang's feet and silently wrapped around their ankles.
A faint Bloodlight also emerged over their bodies. Flender felt the Soul Power suppressed within him begin to circulate anew, while Lu Qibin straightened from his half-crouched posture.
Flender said nothing and made no attempt to break free from the bloodlines.
The Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor's venom had already spread through most of the cavern and would soon trap them all. The instant the Poison Mist spread over them—
The bloodlines entwined around Yu Xiaogang's body suddenly exploded, turning into a dark red curtain of light that enveloped the three of them and formed a massive blood-colored cocoon.
Dugu Bo immediately urged the Jade