Lu Xiao saw the girls chatting animatedly. After giving them a few instructions, he entered the cultivation room and sat cross-legged on a cushion. With a thought, a round, plump crimson-gold pill appeared in his palm.
The pill felt warm in his hand, its surface flowing with fine golden patterns. Upon closer inspection, one could even see a golden dragon continuously circling within the center of the Golden Dragon Blood Essence Pill!
The golden dragon's eyes were the color of rubies, its pupils filled with savage, frenzied light. The scales covering its body shimmered with magnificent radiance, each one diamond-shaped and brimming with sharpness.
Feeling that violent, domineering dragon might, Lu Xiao murmured, "The system only said it drew a portion of the Golden Dragon King's divine essence power. It never said how much!"
"It should... be fine, right...?"
Before his words had even faded, Lu Xiao stopped hesitating and tipped his head back, swallowing the Golden Dragon Blood Essence Pill.
The pill melted as soon as it entered his mouth. The warm medicinal liquid slid down his throat into his dantian, where it instantly exploded with surging, boundless power.
Boom!
It was as though a thunderclap had detonated within Lu Xiao's body. The Golden Dragon King's violent divine essence power surged through his meridians like wild horses breaking free of their reins.
Everywhere it passed, his meridians swelled with dull pain, as if they might burst apart at any moment.
That violent aura unique to the Golden Dragon King battered his sea of consciousness, leaving his mind briefly dazed. It seemed as if deafening roars rang out beside his ears.
"Steady your mind and circulate the Nine-Turn Dragon Transformation Art!"
Lu Xiao bit through the tip of his tongue. The sharp pain instantly cleared his head, and without daring