Like a great whale drawing in water, he sucked the immense energy and savage will contained in the Khaine Shard into his mouth in an instant. A visible torrent of blood-red power surged into his body.
"ROAR!!!"
An inhuman roar, mingling divinity with bestial fury, erupted from Liu Zhipeng's throat. His body began to swell violently, muscles knotting, bones cracking, countless blood-red fissures appearing across his skin. Golden flames and bloody divine power collided wildly within him, making him look like a star on the verge of exploding.
In mere seconds, his body shot up from twelve meters to twenty, thirty... even fifty meters! A towering giant of war stood within the temple, radiating such pure killing intent that even the battle-hardened warriors present felt their legs weaken.
"He's losing control!" a seer from Biel-Tan cried in terror.
Yet Yvraine and Eldrad remained extraordinarily calm.
"No," Eldrad said, wisdom gleaming in his eyes. "Keep watching."
Just as the giant was about to burst through the temple dome, he threw back his head and roared. Golden [primordial fire] erupted from his body like a solar storm, instantly overwhelming the blood-red divine power.
"Not a bad appetizer." Liu Zhipeng's voice, now immeasurably vast, resounded in everyone's minds.
He began devouring all the Khaine Shards on the altar, one after another. With each shard he swallowed, his body expanded before compressing again. Bloody light and golden flames intertwined across him, as though forging him on a divine scale.
His body steadily shrank from fifty meters to forty, then thirty... Yet with every fraction he lost in height, the aura he radiated grew denser, that power perfectly contained and compressed within him.
Finally, when he had devoured the last shard, the light and oppressive presence inside the temple abruptly vanished.
A figure stood quietly