Whoosh!
Beneath the deep waters of the North Sea, a streak of light suddenly broke through the surface, stepping into the void.
The Apricot Realm light screen immediately locked onto it.
Everyone looked over and saw a sallow-skinned old man, his waist and back slightly hunched, his face deeply lined with wrinkles.
There was no doubt about it—Shennong Hundred Herbs! Not only did He show no respect for Master Shou and refuse to address him as "Ancestor Shou," but as He emerged from the water now, His eyes brimmed with murderous intent.
It was completely different from His earlier display of being driven into a corner by Zero.
The moment He appeared, the fingers of one hand were already stained blood-red, while a life spirit talisman had long been traced across His chest. He chanted aloud:
"Bearing the lifeblood of ages past, drawing upon the splendor of Heaven's fortune."
"Forging the fruit of life and death, nurturing the Dao embryo of reincarnation."
He raised His joined fingers and slashed upward, tearing apart the life spirit talisman.
Boundless life radiance sprayed forth from it, like a plague of locusts sweeping across the sky, yet all of it converged upon the Medicine Ancestor's body.
The old man lifted His head. Savage light shot from His eyes as He stared fixedly at Xu Xiaoshou on Heting Mountain, as though looking at a dead dog with no power to resist.
"Life-Wheel Body: Wu, condense!"
With that final decree, an explosion erupted around the Medicine Ancestor.
Countless bloody cracks split across His body, yet flesh and blood writhed madly from the wounds, multiplying and expanding outward at terrifying speed, as though His vitality had burst beyond all bounds and overflowed with nowhere to spend itself.
Before long, the Medicine Ancestor's body had swollen into a