A violet-gold radiance burst from your body and engulfed the entire courtyard in an instant.
Wherever it shone, every blade of grass and every tree withered. Even the soil took on eerie violet-gold patterns.
The light could sear the heart and soul. Anyone struck by it would struggle to avoid a backlash of inner fire, and the flames consuming their soul would be nearly impossible to extinguish.
Moreover, this spell was a form of heavenly tribulation. All defensive spells were useless against it; one had to withstand it head-on.
Against cultivators weaker than you, it was all but certain death.
Once a celestial-horned ant reached adulthood, its mountain-moving strength aside, its divine abilities held little advantage over those of other true spirits. Yet the Violet-Gold Light had earned it a fearsome reputation.
Even cultivators at the Great Dao Golden Core realm had to guard against it carefully.
You slowly ended the technique and looked down at your ink-black ant body.
Your six legs seemed cast from dark iron. Violet-gold patterns shimmered faintly across your carapace, and your two antennae swayed without conscious thought.
The novelty of this inhuman body made you touch your mouthparts with a foreleg.
It was your first time not being human. That felt rather new.
Even when you looked with the fourth level of the Jade Emperor's Qi-Observing Art, you saw a genuine true-spirit celestial-horned ant.
The mysteries of the Seven Treasures Wondrous Form Scripture far exceeded your imagination. From bloodline to soul, you were now no different from a real violet-gold celestial-horned ant.
For the first time, you truly sensed how differently the Heavenly Dao treated different races.
With a true spirit's bloodline, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth surrounded you like a gentle stream, showing a natural affinity whenever you breathed in and