Tearing Open the Sea of Knowledge Rift (Thanks to Scarlet Silver Lotus for the Grandmaster Certification)
Oden's reminder made Lu Yuan understand. This truly was an opportunity.
The Worm of Knowledge carried Lu Yuan and retreated further back.
Almost at the same time, the Person on the Wall began to plummet.
The enormous floating head seemed pinned down by an invisible crushing weight, sinking inch by inch toward the sea of blood.
The ancient consciousness within the Gray Mist let out a soundless roar.
Halfway through its descent, the gray mist that had originally only coiled around itself suddenly surged outward. It poured from the head's eye sockets, between its teeth, and every seam in its bones, forcibly holding up the Crown of Flesh pressing down upon it.
The head barely halted in midair and stopped sinking. At the same time, its previously listless aura began to surge wildly.
At this moment, the Person on the Wall no longer looked half-dead and at anyone's mercy.
It was, after all, a taboo whose primordial consciousness was nearly intact. What it had always lacked was merely a body capable of bearing its own might.
Now that it had been forced to this point, it simply revealed the power it had kept hidden all along.
The gray mist abruptly shifted from defense to attack.
Countless slender strands of mist stretched out from the head and curled back toward the newborn taboo that was half-man, half-tree. Wherever they passed, the surging dark red flesh withered and peeled away in sheets, even vanishing directly into the vast fog.
The newborn taboo's nine gazes contracted at once.
It had clearly not expected that the head it had crowned in reverse and pressed downward would still be able to bite back.
Its massive body of flesh suddenly churned. Sheets of roots and fleshy tendrils shot out from all directions, weaving into an impenetrable