This time, absorbing the avatar's power boosted Huo Ling far more than he had imagined.
Huo Ling had already been one foot across the threshold into the twenty-sixth tier of legend. With the avatar's aid, he crossed it in one stride.
Huo Ling's body involuntarily grew larger. He transformed into a gigantic red dragon, his immense form coiling through the great hall.
The avatar had never been able to cast spells, only unleash a few spell-like abilities. Thus, over these years of the Blood War, all its cultivation had strengthened its physical power.
After Huo Ling absorbed that physical power, it was directly added to his own body.
His red dragon form continued to expand, nearly doubling in size in the blink of an eye.
The enormous red dragon possessed a powerful physique, its muscles bulging. Runes formed from laws were branded across its dark crimson scales.
Tiny flames endlessly flickered into being and perished upon those scales.
Huo Ling's dragon body remained coiled within the hall, his eyes tightly closed as he absorbed this immense power.
Every breath the dragon took stirred up a fiery whirlwind through the hall.
Scorching heat poured from his breath, even melting the floor of the hall into lava.
It had to be known that this hall had been his avatar's workplace, and even its flooring had been forged from materials at least of the Sanctuary tier.
Yet beneath the heat radiating from Huo Ling, it proved no more fire-resistant than ordinary dirt or ceramic tiles.
Huo Ling's body was still expanding. His true body had already grown considerably through these years of cultivation, and now, nourished by the avatar, it became even larger.
More than ten days passed before Huo Ling awoke from his slumber of absorbing power.
He drew in a deep