"Bzz—!"
Just as Jiang Xuan had expected, the Eerie Blood Moon Power was extraordinarily corrosive, carrying with it a terror that made one's heart quail.
The moment it touched him, an indescribable sense of wrongness surged up from the depths of his body and soul, as though countless tiny worms were trying to gnaw away at his will from within.
"Boom!"
Faced with this foreign erosion, the Golden Divine Tree naturally would not sit and wait for death.
The dazzling Golden Power surged out like an enraged tide, its radiance blazing and its might magnificent as it twisted forward to tear apart the Eerie Blood Moon's power.
Yet in the next instant, Jiang Xuan witnessed just how troublesome the Eerie Blood Moon Power was.
Surrounded and attacked, it did not choose to clash head-on.
That wisp of blood-red abruptly changed, transforming like spilled mercury into a form identical to Golden Power before silently blending into the tree itself.
The nearly homologous powers instantly rendered the Golden Divine Tree's strangling attack useless—just as one blaze could not burn away another blaze.
After merging in, that strange power did not settle down. Instead, it slithered like a venomous snake, seeping deeper toward the Golden Divine Tree's branches.
—Jiang Xuan did intend to use the Eerie Blood Moon Power to temper himself and advance along the path of the Weird-Eater, but he was neither foolish nor reckless.
From the very beginning, he had firmly confined that wisp of Blood Moon Power to a single isolated branch of the Golden Divine Tree.
That way, even if something went wrong, the losses would remain within what he could bear.
Now that he saw the Eerie Blood Moon Power attempting to lay its claws upon the tree's trunk, Jiang Xuan naturally would not allow it.
"Boom!"