Across the parched, cracked earth, blood spread like lava, roaring as it surged into the depths of darkness.
Vast spirituality, vast life force.
As the ground collapsed with a thunderous crash, terrifying fissures split open one after another. Rubble was blasted away, and blood mixed with an ocean of spirituality burst forth like a breached floodgate, only to be swallowed by endless darkness.
Gu Jianlin frantically devoured the life force in the river of blood, feeling the spirituality within him nearly exhausted.
It was fine. One bottle of Azure Blood would restore him to his peak again!
The color of the surging blood river gradually faded, its life force growing thinner and thinner. He had no idea how much of it he had devoured.
Any ordinary Divine Priest would have long since mutated or exploded to death.
Gu Jianlin was different. He could transform chaotic life force into Ancient God Blood. He was a bottomless abyss by nature.
He did not know whether this would stop the blood sacrifice.
He could only gamble!
Thump! Thump!
Amid that pounding heartbeat, an enraged roar shook the underground palace.
Gu Jianlin vaguely sensed a vast rhythm of life, like rolling thunder, rising steadily in the depths of the darkness, its might towering to the heavens.
Kui had still absorbed an enormous amount of life force!
It was just far less than expected!
"What is going on? Why is It so furious?"
Hasegawa Shinichi was baffled. "With this much life force, It should have been able to emerge long ago! There's no time. Those Yan Family bastards have arrived, and there may be other high-ranking Ascenders too. Damn it!"
At this moment, his upper body was completely covered in hard exoskeleton.
Like a mutated insect, terrifyingly sharp jointed limbs grew from him.
With a