When two blood-red lights opened, Lin Feng was still seated cross-legged at the bottom of the stone pool.
A yellow pillar of light surged up from the pool floor, and only a thin layer of Source Marrow remained.
His Sovereign Core had completed ninety-nine percent of its transformation, yet the final trace of origin remained impossible to fill. The dark-red markings on his right arm had crossed his shoulder and were spreading toward his chest.
A heavy scraping sound came from deep within the Rift.
A massive skull smashed through the rock wall, and shattered stones crashed into the stone pool.
Lin Feng opened his eyes and gripped the Myriad Tribulations Heavenly Halberd in his left hand.
A head covered in dark spots emerged from behind the rock wall. Its bloody maw opened, revealing three interlocking rows of fangs. Venom dripped from those fangs, burning deep pits into the rock the moment it hit the ground.
[Target: Dark-Spotted Venomous Flood Dragon.] [Realm: Sovereign Fourth Order Peak.] [Target is locking onto the host.]
The Dark-Spotted Venomous Flood Dragon gave Lin Feng no time to catch his breath.
It had smelled the Earth Vein Source Marrow within the stone pool and sensed the origin in Lin Feng's body that was undergoing transformation.
It wanted all of it.
"Didn't you just wake up?"
The Abyss-Armored Earth Dragon huddled in the corner of the Rift, its claws dug into the rock, not daring to lift its head. "Why did it wake up too?"
Lin Feng stared at the Venomous Flood Dragon's gaping bloody maw.
"It smelled food. Naturally, it woke quickly."
"And you're still sitting there?"
The Earth Dragon shifted another several feet backward. "After it eats the Source Marrow, it'll eat you."
"It has to get in first."
"You haven't even