Duowen Venerable's body suddenly stiffened, frozen rigid on the spot like a statue.
Threads of pale golden blood flowed from his seven orifices. The blood was as viscous as mercury. Lightning tore through the sky, and the golden blood actually reflected a grim, cold gleam like metal. Yet the blood was swiftly sucked back into his seven orifices, as though a massive vortex within Duowen's body were madly devouring everything he possessed.
A slender rootlet extended from Lin Qi's fingertip, accurately following one of the major blood vessels in Duowen's brain before rapidly piercing his heart. Duowen's soul let out a shrill, miserable howl, then transformed amid a blue radiance into a strand of pure soul power ten times stronger than Lin Qi's own soul origin. It swiftly flowed into Lin Qi's sea of consciousness and was absorbed by his soul.
The instantaneous influx of soul power made purple light blaze within Lin Qi's eyes. His entire body went numb and tingling as if he had been struck by lightning, leaving him unable to move.
His soul was strengthening at a terrifying rate. Lin Qi felt as though he had eaten himself sick. His spiritual power transformed into invisible filaments and rapidly spread in every direction, covering a space more than twenty miles in radius around him in the blink of an eye. Lin Qi gulped down breaths of air, and every breath stirred up the elemental energies of heaven and earth around him. He could clearly sense their existence. Elemental energies of every color leaped and cheered at his side, seemingly unable to wait to merge with him.
Osmanthus Tree's voice drifted out, faint and distant.
"Abundant harvest. The Lotus Amitabha Sutra of Killing to Save the World, Lotus Amitabha Indestructible Foundation Sutra, and Lotus Amitabha Great Wisdom Radiance