The moment the Blood Jade Gourd was unleashed, heaven and earth seemed to be stained with a layer of bloody light. Runes flickered across its surface, and it radiated a heart-quaking aura, laying bare the terrifying power of an eighth-tier inferior-grade Spirit Treasure.
The eighth-tier black dragon sensed the grave threat the instant the Blood Jade Gourd appeared. Its enormous, savage body writhed violently, every hardened scale gleaming with a cold, eerie light that seemed capable of slicing through the void. It opened its blood-red maw, its sharp teeth like daggers flashing with icy light, and frantically spewed black mist into the sky. Like an ink-black tsunami, the mist surged forth with the force to topple mountains and overturn seas, staining space itself with the blackness of despair wherever it passed.
No sooner had the Blood Jade Gourd appeared than it streaked through the void like a blood-red meteor, shooting toward the eighth-tier inferior-grade black dragon. An eerie, intense bloody glow radiated from its surface, dazzling against the void.
At some point, an immense vortex abruptly appeared at the mouth of the Blood Jade Gourd. Like the most mysterious and terrifying black hole in the universe, it spun rapidly, each revolution carrying the power to destroy heaven and earth. Cold light flickered along its edges like countless keen blades, slicing through the surrounding air with sizzling sounds. Its suction was terrifying beyond measure. As though confronted by its natural nemesis, the sky-filling black mist could offer no resistance and was dragged wholesale toward the gourd's mouth. As the vortex devoured it ravenously, the black mist dispersed like a defeated tide and was soon swallowed entirely.
With the hindrance of the ink-thick black mist removed, the Blood Jade Gourd was like a primordial beast that had broken free of layer upon