Awoo—raaah—whoosh!
A great wind rose through the mountain forests, sounding like dragons crying and tigers roaring.
A vast surge of Spirit Mechanism rushed from underground into Xuanming. Through Spirit Mechanism resonance and the mysteries of unity between Heaven and man, he seemed, in a daze, to see Floating Cloud Mountain's Earth Vein turn into a Flood Serpent, baring its fangs and claws as it roared at Azure Dragon Mountain's main vein.
Through the Flood Serpent's eyes, he saw an Earth Vein dragon stretching ten thousand miles, its aura fading as it clung to its last breath. Four enormous pillars of light pinned it underground, leaving it unable to move.
Rumble!
Sensing the unusual aura, the four pillars blazed with light and swiftly expelled the Flood Serpent. Yet the main vein's earth dragon still seized that opening to force its heavy eyelids apart and breathe a mouthful of dragon breath onto the branch vein's earth serpent.
That breath was like a potent tonic, transforming Floating Cloud Mountain down to its very bones. In pain and excitement, the Earth Vein Flood Serpent struggled and rapidly grew, lengthening from a hundred miles to a hundred and twenty, then a hundred and forty...
Spirit Mechanism erupted from the Earth Vein like a volcano. Two Spirit Veins coiled around it in the configuration of Yin and Yang, occupying its Yin and Yang sides. As they breathed Spirit Mechanism in and out, they rapidly strengthened, gradually transforming into Flood Serpents, while the Earth Vein itself showed signs of becoming a Flood Dragon.
The nourishment seemed somewhat excessive. As the Earth Vein fed energy back to him, Spirit Mechanism flooded Xuanming's body, filling every limb and bone with immense power. He immediately withdrew his attention, stilled his mind and breath, and circulated the Primordial Unity Qi Formula,