[Purchase successful. Elysium Points deducted: 39,000. Beginning "Mirage Mist Body" bloodline enhancement.]
The Enhancement Stele released black light that enveloped Yang Xiu, forming a huge energy cocoon.
He immediately felt as though his body had become a boiling furnace.
The blood in his veins turned into scalding mist that coursed through him, and every bone groaned under the unbearable strain.
Black energy continually scoured his body, like a heavy hammer striking him again and again.
Looking down, he saw fine cracks covering his skin.
Agony pierced his marrow like millions of red-hot steel needles. Yang Xiu threw back his head, a beastlike roar bursting from his throat.
There was no anesthesia, no mental shielding... he had to endure the bloodline enhancement through sheer willpower. He watched his bones shatter inch by inch beneath his ruptured skin, yet under the black energy, no blood strangely spurted out. Only beads of blood slowly seeped through.
Then black mist rose from the gaps between his bones, piecing the broken fragments back together and weaving them into a translucent, glasslike structure.
The enhancement proceeded inside and out simultaneously, as though an invisible surgeon were controlling this bizarre bloodline replacement operation.
It was called a bloodline replacement, but to Yang Xiu, it seemed more like replacing his entire body.
"Fuck!"
Yang Xiu clenched his teeth as his ribs burst inside his chest.
The intense pain nearly made him pass out.
Just as Yang Xiu thought he might not withstand this agonizing transformation, his pupils abruptly contracted into two silver lines.
Kaleidoscopic lights appeared on his bloodstained retinas.
Countless overlapping scenes, real and illusory, flowed through his vision: giant whales dancing over coral reefs, bronze cities hanging upside down among the clouds, desert oases burning with ghostly flames. The Mirage Mist Body's bloodline memories