The Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon's enormous body lay collapsed within the golden sea of lightning, its aura weakened to the extreme. The Lightning Rune pierced through its brow continuously leaked pure Origin Power of lightning, while the light of its consciousness rapidly dimmed, as though it might completely dissipate at any moment and return to being mindless lightning energy.
Mo Lin floated before its massive dragon head. Watching this once overwhelmingly mighty emperor of lightning reduced to such a state, a trace of complexity flashed through his eyes.
He was not someone who delighted in killing. The Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon was a wonder of heaven and earth that had developed consciousness only after endless years. Erasing it just like that would be a pity.
"Overwhelming power is the greatest obstacle to your gathering consciousness..." Mo Lin murmured, as if confirming a certain idea. He slowly extended his palm and gently pressed it against the most crucial dragon scale between the Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon's eyes. That was the source of its consciousness and strength.
"Yin Yang Transformation Feather, Creation Stripping!"
With a thought from Mo Lin, chaotic Yin Yang Energies surged from his palm. They were not destructive; instead, they transformed into countless threads finer than hair, like the most precise surgical blades, carefully probing into the Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon's violently turbulent energy core!
What he intended was not devouring, but—stripping!
He would forcibly extract the terrifying power within this thunder dragon, power so immense that its newly born consciousness could not fully control it at all! He would leave behind only the most essential trace of spiritual origin!
This was an exceptionally dangerous process. It required control over power so meticulous that it bordered on the absurd. The slightest mistake would not only