Flakes of red snow fell onto the Marrow Eaters' bodies, drawing groans from them.
Amid sensations of overwhelming comfort, their bodies gradually began to change.
It started with the Black Bone within them, which continuously mutated and spread through their bodies, replacing every bone. Their flesh began to melt, turning gelatinous.
Red tentacles emerged from the ground and pierced into their bodies through their lower halves. That inexplicable sound of flowing water traveled from the earth into the tree trunks, then into their bodies.
Their appearances gradually became grotesque.
Wounds split open across their bodies, and tree-like tentacles pushed out from within through those wounds.
Like ropes, they formed knots around the wounds, fixing them in place as though displaying them.
Red light transformed into tough, sensitive blood marks that protected their wounds.
At that moment, the nurturing power the entire Marrow Eater family had discovered through a failed experiment was fully activated, allowing them to undergo a collective leap.
Of course, this ascension had originally been a dead end for them.
Neither their souls nor the essence of their lives met the standard, and they understood nothing whatsoever about the "nurturing" trait.
But Wu Heng was here.
Hidden within the Flesh-Weaving Machine, Wu Heng had no need to risk exposing his power. He only needed to give things a push.
He first helped the seed, guiding it onto the right path and bringing its hidden "nurturing" trait into manifestation.
This accelerated the transformation of the entire clan territory.
Now that the entire Mire Abyss had taken shape, it needed a supply of power. No energy came from nothing.
According to the original plan of the Marrow Eaters' ancestor, every Marrow Eater would have needed to be sacrificed before countless Black Bones could condense that unknown power beyond the level