With a deafening bang, the Five-Colored Lightning chains binding Ying Xiao at the center of the Zhou Tian Thunder Domain exploded apart, revealing him once more.
He opened his bloodshot eyes, his expression savage. Even his entire body glimmered with a hazy bloodlight, and his aura had instead grown stronger than before.
Within his Sea of Consciousness, the spirit bird phantom formed from his divine soul had turned completely blood-red. Its power surged, extinguishing every last strand of Moon-Slaying Divine Light.
Yet Ying Xiao's forced enhancement did not come without a price, for he had used a drop of his origin blood essence.
He possessed only a dozen or so drops of origin blood essence in total. Once he expended more than a certain limit, it would cause irreversible damage.
Over all these years, he had only consumed two drops of origin blood essence when Lord Xuanyi had hunted him down before.
It had taken him two hundred years and countless resources afterward to barely restore those two drops.
Yet now, he had no choice but to use another drop of origin blood essence.
There was no helping it. His divine soul had always been his weak point, while Ning Fa's divine soul attacks were exceptionally formidable.
In particular, he could sense the terrifying killing intent around him mounting. If he allowed Ning Fa to continue, he might even perish here, forcing him to use a drop of origin blood essence.
To be driven to such a state by a Nascent Soul Cultivator, even one possessing a Five Elements Thunder Body, filled him with unbearable humiliation.
He had no time to be angry now. The boiling Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy around him made him feel as though thorns were pressing against his back. A flash of fear appeared in