An Eight-Armed Evil Dragon that resembled a silver phantom struggled free from Bai He's body, then plunged into the Dragon Crystal in his hand.
As if Pandora's Box had been opened, a vast surge of life essence immediately flooded out of the Dragon Crystal and into Bai He's body.
"Ah!"
Bai He screamed and collapsed to the ground. The Dragon Crystal fell from his hand as well. The immense essence from beyond the Longevity Realm was simply more than his current self could endure.
Yet because of the Eight-Armed Evil Dragon Soul, although the Dragon Crystal had left Bai He's body, the endless stream of life essence did not stop. Instead, it continued flooding madly into him.
As vast quantities of life essence poured in, Bai He felt as though his entire body were about to split apart. Even his soul began to ache intensely. Unable to withstand it, his skin cracked, and threads of blood seeped from the wounds.
No... this can't continue. I have to think of something!
Amid the agonizing pain, Bai He desperately searched his mind for a way out of his current predicament.
Suddenly, inspiration flashed through his mind, and Bai He immediately thought of a solution.
He had encountered a similar predicament when he swallowed the dragon egg on the beach. His body had been unable to bear the excessive life essence, leaving him in unbearable pain. Back then, he seemed to have successfully refined that immense essence through the Heavenly Tablet Mystic Skill.
That was it! The Heavenly Tablet Mystic Skill!
Since he had always been using the dragonification divine abilities derived from the Eight-Armed Evil Dragon Soul within him, Bai He had nearly forgotten that he possessed an unfathomable divine art capable of refining almost anything—the Heavenly Tablet Mystic Skill!
Having found a solution, Bai He struggled to his feet and began practicing the Heavenly Tablet Mystic Skill.
As one Heaven-Sent Qi Refining Diagram after another slowly passed through his mind, the life essence within him, originally immense and chaotic, began circulating in an orderly fashion along with the cultivation art and was refined by Bai He.
Layers of dazzling silver colored light began winding around Bai He's body. Surging silver flames leaped wildly across him like burning fire. This was the manifestation of the inexhaustible life essence within the Dragon Crystal!
Baptized by endless life essence, Bai He's body began another transformation. The enormous life essence slowly circulated through him, passing from flesh to bone, then through his meridians, and finally into his internal organs, completing one cycle after another.
Scoured by the limitless life essence, Bai He's body even began to turn transparent, crystal-clear like a gemstone. Faintly, the flawless white-jade bones within him could be seen, along with his heart beating thump, thump.
Under the effects of the Heavenly Tablet Mystic Skill, the immense life essence continuously flooding into his body was gradually refined. The former tearing agony began to fade, replaced by the exhilarating sensation of cleansing his meridians and marrow and remaking his body!
After practicing the Heavenly Tablet Mystic Skill an unknown number of times, Bai He's once jade-white skin had become covered in a layer of black filth, making him look as though he had turned into a black man...
On the stone platform carved from Yellow Jade, the silver-white Dragon Crystal, once larger than a human head, had shrunk to the size of an egg. The dazzling colored light that had surrounded Bai He had vanished, while the surging silver flames over his body began flickering weakly.
As it was refined by the Heavenly Tablet Mystic Skill, the Dragon Crystal atop the stone platform grew smaller and smaller. From egg-sized, it became the size of a pigeon egg; from a pigeon egg, it became the size of a longan. Then it continued shrinking until it was as tiny as a grain of sand, before finally disappearing completely.
As though in sync with it, the silver flames burning over Bai He's body also grew dimmer and dimmer as the Dragon Crystal gradually shrank, until they finally went out.
The endless life essence ultimately condensed into a silver point of light the size of a grain of rice and sank into the Zhongting Acupoint in Bai He's chest.
The shining silver point rested within it, making that acupoint seem as though it had been deified. Compared with the other acupoints in his body, this deified acupoint shone as brilliantly as a lamp in the night.
Slowly exhaling a breath of stale air, Bai He abruptly opened his eyes. A gleaming light flashed from his silver-white pupils.
Light arose in the empty chamber!
Although his body was covered in a layer of black filth, the silver-white Deified Acupoint still shimmered with brilliant radiance, making it easy for Bai He to see.
This was... a Deified Acupoint?!
Looking at the silver point of light, no bigger than a grain of rice yet incomparably dazzling, a name slowly surfaced in Bai He's mind.
He vaguely remembered that this Deified Acupoint seemed incredibly powerful, but because it took too long before it could display its might, Bai He had already forgotten exactly what made it so extraordinary.
It seemed to be something about the acupoints of the heavenly cycle manifesting deities...
Forget it!
Bai He shook his head. Since he could not remember, he could not be bothered to dwell on it any longer.
Sensing the incomparably immense life essence stored within the Zhongting Acupoint, Bai He could not help forming an idea.
Since the life essence in the Dragon Crystal had already been refined by him, could it replace true qi for his use?
But before Bai He could test this hypothesis, a silver-white Eight-Armed Evil Dragon appeared where the Dragon Crystal had originally been. It was translucent like a phantom and shimmered with dazzling colored light.
It was the Eight-Armed Evil Dragon Soul after devouring the Dragon Crystal.
"Roar!"
After devouring the Dragon Crystal, the Eight-Armed Evil Dragon Soul, now far more solid than before, let out an excited roar. It circled in the air for a moment before shooting into Bai He's body.
At once, that familiar sensation returned as an inexplicable power flooded into Bai He's body.
"Ah!"
Bai He screamed again.
What the hell? Again?!
The Eight-Armed Evil Dragon Soul, glittering with dazzling colored light, transformed into a tattoo attached to Bai He's body and began roaming all over his skin. Waves of inexplicable energy spread outward with it.
As this mysterious energy poured in and spread, Bai He immediately entered his dragonification state—layers of silver scales grew over his body, while sharp bone spikes gleaming with cold light extended from between his bones.
But it did not stop there. As the dragon scales and bone spikes emerged, Bai He's spine let out a series of violent creak, creak sounds, while the flesh around it began writhing.
Before long, a silver-glittering tail grew from between Bai He's buttocks. The long tail was robust and powerful, with sharp bone spikes extending from it.
A while later, a tremendous crack came from Bai He's shoulder blades. Four slender arms covered in silver scales actually grew from the flesh around his shoulder blades. At the same time, a silver horn shimmering with faint colored light slowly emerged from his hair.
Now, Bai He looked as though he had transformed into a humanoid Eight-Armed Evil Dragon. His current form was no longer dragonification, but something that could be called dragon transformation—the Eight-Armed Evil Dragon Transformation!
Once the changes to his body finally stopped, Bai He at last let out a breath of relief.
There was no other reason! It simply hurt too much!
If the pain of his previous dragonification evolution had been comparable to broken bones, then this pain was roughly on the level of childbirth.
Forcing another tail and four arms to grow out of his body was practically no different from giving birth.
He now looked as though he had been fished out of a pool of blood, his body covered in specks and streaks of blood. This was the blood that had sprayed out when his new limbs burst from his flesh.
At the same time, as his bodily transformation finally came to a complete halt, eight oddly shaped pictographic ancient characters slowly emerged in Bai He's mind.
Although he did not recognize those ancient characters, Bai He could clearly understand their meaning.
Summoning Wind and Rain, Overturning Rivers and Seas!
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