This was the first time Zhang Tie had truly felt the immense power of a Phantom Knight's manifested entity...
At the instant he was swallowed by Gao Tianzhao's giant python manifestation, Zhang Tie felt as if he had been sucked by a massive undercurrent and whirlpool into a cave deep within an ocean trench. That force even temporarily rendered his God's Dominator ability useless.
After a spell of dizzying disorientation, Zhang Tie felt himself plunge into a body of liquid. His entire body instantly tightened, leaving him unable to move an inch. Everywhere around him was crimson bloodwater.
The bloodwater was incredibly dense—far denser than mercury—and as viscous as molten steel. It pressed against his Chaos Armor. Beyond its immense density, the bloodwater was also fiercely corrosive. Amid its corrosion, Zhang Tie seemed to hear faint sizzling all over his armor, like water droplets falling onto red-hot iron.
Before that dreadful blood-like liquid could corrode and destroy the Chaos Armor, he still had another layer of protection. For now, the bloodwater could not corrode his protective Battle Qi. But judging by the fact that it could even corrode armor forged from Abyssal Demon Iron, corroding Battle Qi would likely pose no problem for it.
Countless black, snake-shaped runes floated through the liquid. Zhang Tie looked closely and discovered that the snake-shaped runes linked together like serpents—or rather, like chains—wrapping around his hands, feet, waist, and neck, binding him tightly and leaving him unable to move. Worse still, those rune chains kept tightening. When Zhang Tie struggled, he found the strength throughout his body rapidly draining away, continuously siphoned off by those rune chains. The feeling was the complete opposite of using rune equipment like the Ring of Vitality, which rapidly restored one's strength. It made Zhang Tie so miserable he