Dragon-Devouring Thorn Pierces Bone, Withered Glory Vein Refinement

The bone-chilling command echoed within the Silent Abyss Shuttle. "Begin extraction."

Blood Hidden Elder stepped out of the shuttle in a single stride, his withered figure hovering steadily above the churning lake of black lightning slurry.

Below were the pair of abyssal black-diamond vertical pupils forcibly imprisoned, burning with violence and venomous resentment—the World-Devouring Thunder Dragon, "Gluttonous Beast." The viscous black lightning slurry, thick as asphalt, emitted the terrifying aura of Annihilation of All Things, mixed with the beast's distinct stench of blood and sulfur. Every breath felt as though it scorched the lungs.

An invisible storm formed by violent energy currents and fragments of chaotic will struck ripples across the protective halo around his body.

He slowly raised his withered right hand.

The Purple Gold Sacred Edict floated silently above his palm. As his will drove it, the thunder runes flowing across the edict's surface abruptly accelerated. A stable yet profound beam of rune-light, no thicker than an arm, silently extended from the edict's core.

Buzz!

After transforming, the rune-light became a strange weapon and fell into Xue Yin's hand.

It was around three feet long, neither metal nor jade, its entire body a translucent grayish-purple, as if forged from congealed thunder and some kind of void crystal stone. It resembled a carefully polished spike with sharp ends, its surface covered in incredibly fine vortex-shaped runes that flowed endlessly. These runes were specially designed to counter the powerful defenses and regenerative traits of Primal Chaos Life forms—this was the specially made bloodline extraction tool, the Dragon Devouring Thorn.

The Dragon Devouring Thorn felt slightly heavy in his hand. The icy sensation it transmitted made Blood Hidden Elder feel as though an ordinary person were grasping ice barehanded in minus twenty-degree weather. It actually stung!

Surprise showed in Xue Yin's