At the same time, inside the Boundary Gate, Li Chen underwent a startling transformation before Xiao Die and Xiao Ying's eyes.
His body melted as though immersed in strong acid. Flesh, blood, and bones rapidly vanished, leaving a monster composed of nothing but a brain and the nerve bundles from his spine, joined together like a horse's tail.
This made him look somewhat like a tadpole, but there was nothing comical about it-only the grotesque strangeness of an alien life-form.
Then a mucus-like substance appeared out of thin air. A body resembling sludge and minced meat wrapped around the brain and nerve bundles once more, and a monster with thirty-six tentacles appeared before them, its entire body covered not in suckers, but in eyes.
The monster swelled as though the wind itself were feeding its growth. In the blink of an eye, it expanded to hundreds of zhang tall, and continued growing at a staggering rate.
One thousand zhang, two thousand zhang, three thousand zhang... nine thousand zhang!
Only after reaching over nine thousand zhang did it finally stop.
Deep in the distant starry sky, within the Azure Billow Immortal Abode aboard the Bone Kun Warship, the pure white orb of light Heavenly Pivot had become flickered, releasing fluctuations like those of a living being.
"Master's condition is abnormal!"
"Life energy in disarray, energy signatures in disarray, mental link severed!"
"Activate emergency protocol. Force the Primordial Spirit Projection out of the body!"
The next moment, the enormous octopus monster let out a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar. A streak of spiritual light shot skyward, and the Primordial Spirit that condensed all of Li Chen's true-self spirituality, divine soul essence, intelligence, and thought broke free. At that hairbreadth moment, it escaped the contamination targeting his mind and consciousness.
Li Chen floated before the