Hiss! Roar...
After the fifth-tier spirit serpent was tainted by a trace of Heavenly Demon Power, it began to change rapidly. Its body swelled at an astonishing pace, and its scales started turning green.
It hissed and roared as the light of intelligence quickly faded from its eyes, replaced by a savage, cruel demonic glow. Its jaws gaped wide, sharp fangs growing rapidly into a terrifying sight. Jagged bone spikes also burst through the flesh along its back, lining its body.
Its aura surged just as swiftly, nearing the limit Liang Ji's Natal Star could currently contain.
Finally, with a furious roar, the now massive, grotesque serpent broke free of Liang Ji's restraints and lunged at him with its jaws wide open.
"Hmph!"
Liang Ji gave a cold snort. Within his Natal Star, he was the Heavenly Emperor, master of everything on the star. Was he really going to let this mutated spirit beast turn on him?
He didn't even need to lift a finger. At the turn of his thoughts, winds and clouds stirred across the land, and a vast force of heaven and earth bore down, pinning the mutated, rampaging serpent down once more.
This time, under the force of heaven and earth Liang Ji had brought to bear, the mutated serpent struggled and lashed out as much as it liked, but it could no longer break free.
Liang Ji watched the pinned serpent, but had no intention of killing it just yet. Instead, he kept his eyes fixed on its transformation, observing the effects and changes caused by the aura of Heavenly Demon Power within the spirit serpent.
Boom! Crash...
At last, as the giant serpent's twisting transformation reached its extreme and its aura and might were on the verge of breaking through the limits of Liang