"Gather!"
Gu Yunzhou formed hand seals with both hands, creating a strange seal before his chest.
His five fingers interlocked, fingertips pressed together.
A faint dark-red glow flowed between his fingers.
The entirety of Everjoy City suddenly fell silent.
Throughout the city, countless pale-faced people began to tremble violently, their skin shriveling at a visible rate.
The red flowers on everyone's chests suddenly lit up in the next instant, turning into streams of red light that gathered toward the rear courtyard of the City Lord's Manor.
In the end, they formed a thick blood-colored pillar of light that crashed into the blood pool above the courtyard.
His body trembled, and his eyes suddenly widened.
The flower bud on his lower body swelled to nearly twice its size in the blink of an eye.
The bud, originally only a little over a person's height, instantly grew to nearly two people tall, while the aura around him began to soar at a heart-palpitating speed.
Late Qi Refining...
Initial Sha-Condensing...
After breaking through Sha-Condensing, the speed of his advancement slowed somewhat, but it still did not stop.
"Is he burning his blood essence, or breaking through his realm?"
Chen Mo recalled the Shadow Puppet Giant Spirit God to guard before him, his gaze fixed tightly on the rapidly expanding figure above the blood pool.
At the bottom of the blood pool, countless roots surged out madly, already covering the entire City Lord's Manor.
They were still spreading outward at high speed.
Yin Sutang recalled the White Bone Heart-Locking Hammer hanging in midair, her expression equally grave.
"It isn't simply burning blood essence."
"He's attempting to break through the eighth transformation."
Yin Sutang gripped the hammer's handle tightly. "The Corpse Liberation Method has nine transformations in total. The first seven do not improve one's