Yun Qingyue's terrified voice rang out behind him.
Lu Chen ignored her.
The Demon Core entered his stomach, and an even more immense surge of energy flooded in!
The two streams of energy collided madly within him, nearly tearing his meridians apart!
That agony was beyond words, as though every inch of his flesh were being seared by flames and every bone hammered by a giant mallet!
Yet his aura finally broke through that threshold!
"Boom!"
A terrifying pressure erupted from his body!
Mid-stage Longevity Realm!
He had broken through!
But at the same time, the remnant soul mark on his right shoulder began to throb violently.
The Undead Monarch had said that the day he broke through to the mid-stage Longevity Realm, the mark would fully awaken.
It had not lied.
Those ghostly green patterns began to spread wildly, covering his entire right arm in the blink of an eye as they surged toward his chest!
The Undead Monarch looked at him, a smug gleam flashing through its eyes.
"I told you, you can't escape."
Lu Chen raised his head and looked at it.
That mocking smile still hung at the corner of his lips.
"Who said I was going to run?"
He raised his left hand and clamped it around his right shoulder!
His five fingers hooked like claws, sinking deeply into his flesh!
Blood spurted out!
Yun Qingyue cried out, "Lu Chen!"
Tuoba Shan shouted, "Brother Lu!"
Lu Chen ignored them.
Gritting his teeth, he clenched his fingers and forcibly tore those ghostly green patterns out of his flesh bit by bit!
That was his flesh, his meridians, his bones.
Every inch he tore away brought unimaginable agony.
But he did not stop.
He frantically activated the Dragon Soul Mirror, refining and devouring those torn-out ghostly green