The dark red Battle Armor on his body creaked under the swelling pressure. Blinding dark red light burst from the gaps between its plates, then the armor shattered piece by piece like porcelain forced apart, sending fragments flying everywhere.
The fragments traced meteor-like paths through the void before swiftly fading away, dissolving into the most basic Cycle Force and merging back into the surrounding space.
Beneath the Battle Armor, the Undying God King's true form began to emerge.
He was a colossal lizard, more than ten thousand zhang long.
Dark red scales covered his entire body. Each scale was as large as Phoenix City's central square, its surface gleaming darkly like congealed blood.
The edges of the scales were razor-sharp, like carefully honed blades, leaving fine cuts wherever they swept through the void.
His limbs grew thick and powerful, and his five digits became claws that looked forged from steel. A cold dark red gleam played across their tips; each claw could tear open the void and pierce a star.
His head warped as it expanded. His once-imposing face lengthened and twisted into the savage outline of a giant lizard. His jawbones rose high, and his mouth filled with sawtooth fangs, each one gleaming like metal tempered over and over.
His eyes remained dark gold, but his pupils had narrowed into vertical slits like a snake's. The majesty that had once resembled solidified magma had become pure madness.
But most striking of all were his tails.
Twelve Tails extended from his tailbone, each writhing through the void like an independent dark red python.
Each tail stretched over five thousand zhang and bore the same dark red scales as his body. Their forked tips flicked like serpents' tongues, leaving fine spatial rifts in the void with every movement.
The Twelve Tails