Lu Chen's roar was forced back down her throat.
The golden patterns receded from his eyeballs, revealing his pupils again—not black, but amber-gold.
Just like a dragon's eyes.
[Thrusting Vessel Unblocking Progress: 90%. Eyeball draconification in progress.]
His vision changed.
He could see every fiber in the tent canvas, every gap between those fibers, even the air flowing through those gaps.
He could see every fine hair on Yun Qingyue's face, see the golden light reflected in her pupils—the light shining from his own eyes.
[Thrusting Vessel Unblocking Progress: 95%.]
The medicinal power flowed back down from his cranial cavity, charging along his spine. It passed through the thoracic vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, sacral vertebrae, and finally converged at the coccyx.
The coccyx was the endpoint of the Thrusting Vessel.
When the medicinal power surged into his coccyx, he felt his tailbone split apart—not truly split, but grow, extending outward from his body.
One segment. Only one, less than an inch long. Golden, growing from the tip of his coccyx, buried beneath flesh and skin.
[Dragon tailbone newly formed. Draconification Level: 25%. Dragon Thunder True Form weakened period reduced to eight hours.] [Thrusting Vessel Unblocking Progress: 100%. Third stage complete.] [Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill medicinal power fully fused. Medicinal Power Fusion Rate: 100%.] [Realm breakthrough in progress.]
Boom!
The capacity of his dantian burst apart—the old dantian could only hold the true essence of the middle Longevity Realm, but now the medicinal power flooded in and expanded it threefold.
Golden-red Dragon Thunder true essence churned within the new dantian like a golden sea.
``` [Breakthrough complete. Realm: late Longevity Realm.]
[Total true essence increased by 300%. Dragon Thunder true essence attribute: golden-red. Damage to death qi +150%; damage to undead-type targets +250%.]
[Dragon Thunder Nine Transformations