A thunderous rumble spread from the safe zone of the Asura Sword Formation. Accompanied by a dragon's roar that echoed through the heavens, rolling clouds of dark green poisonous mist surged into the sky.
Fortunately, the blood-red barrier of the Asura Sword Formation kept them contained. The rumbling, dragon's roar, and dark green poisonous mist did not leak outside.
Having heard Dugu Bo's cry of alarm, Su Qi set aside his thoughts about the five Soul Cores. Riding the Asura Demon Sword, he flew over the mountain and entered the safe zone.
In the center of an open rocky clearing, Dugu Bo's grievous injuries appeared to have fully healed. He stood there brimming with vigor.
He had completely absorbed the medicinal power of the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, and layers of dense earthy-yellow radiance circulated around his body.
The thirty-meter-long Jade Phosphor Snake Emperor Martial Soul churned through the air. Dark golden patterns emerged across its scales, while its body kept extending and lengthening amid a series of crackling bone explosions.
Meanwhile, Dugu Bo's originally aged, shriveled flesh rapidly petrified along with the Jade Phosphor Snake Emperor Martial Soul's transformation, eventually turning him into a two-meter-tall stone statue.
The Earth Dragon Golden Melon was indeed suitable for Dugu Bo. Not only could this immortal herb promote the evolution of dragon-type martial souls, but it could also strengthen the consumer's control over the earth element.
Although Dugu Bo's petrification ability was a poison-element skill attached to the Medusa Skull, its petrifying effect was somewhat related to the earth element.
Now that he had absorbed the Earth Dragon Golden Melon's medicinal power, Dugu Bo's petrification ability had unexpectedly mutated after the Jade Phosphor Snake Emperor Martial Soul gained the Earth Dragon Bloodline.
Dugu Bo's transformation into a stone statue was not a