At this moment, the scenery within the secret realm had completely darkened.
In the sky, the boundless clear expanse that had stretched as far as the eye could see was, in the blink of an eye, shrouded beneath layer upon layer of heavy storm clouds.
Deep within the dense black clouds, so thick they seemed ready to drip ink, bolts of lightning slowly slithered and coiled.
Terrifying pale-purple lightning flashed wildly. Each flicker cast Shrek City into alternating light and shadow, making it appear especially gloomy and oppressive.
Within this secret realm, Gu Yue sat quietly in meditation.
An unmistakable expression of pain hung on the young woman's exquisitely delicate face.
Her palm rested lightly against Tang Wulin's brow. From her fingertips, streams of incomparably pure golden power, mixed with a faint trace of blood-red, continuously flowed into Gu Yue's own body.
Because she was extracting the power in reverse order, Gu Yue had actually been drawing out the eighteenth seal buried deepest within Tang Wulin's body during these past attempts.
What that seal contained was the Golden Dragon King's most terrifying and frenzied will, as well as the most complete portion of the Dragon God's will.
Mixed into those wills were some ancient memories belonging to the Dragon God himself.
Those memories were things Gu Yue had originally been qualified to possess.
At this moment, as that immense power continuously merged with her, it would not only broaden Gu Yue's store of knowledge, but also make her spiritual power increasingly stronger.
However, this forceful stripping of the seal also placed an immense burden on Gu Yue herself.
Fine beads of sweat already covered her smooth forehead.
Golden scales began appearing one after another across the surface of her body, gradually covering the young woman's slender frame.
The layer of