As these branches forcibly pumped Snake Demon essence blood into her body, they also ceaselessly drained the blood containing the power of her divine soul from her and fed it into the Grand Formation.
When she first woke, her earlier weakness and the shock of the explosion had kept her from noticing anything wrong with her body. Then the deafening explosion of the magical artifact had left her dizzy and disoriented, and she still had not noticed.
Only now, when she saw those terrifying branches embedded in her body like countless tiny straws sucking away her life, did Bai Susu suddenly feel waves of piercing, bone-deep pain from the places they had penetrated!
Especially when she had abruptly sat up out of concern for Cui Jiuyang, she had unknowingly torn open some of the wounds around the branches. The pain there grew even sharper, as though several hooks were churning through her flesh!
But Cui Jiuyang lay in a pool of blood not far away, his fate unknown. Frantic with worry, Bai Susu wished she could throw herself to his side at once.
She tried to circulate her demonic power and break free of the branches embedded in her body, only to discover that her dantian was completely empty. All her demonic power had vanished with her flowing blood like floodwater through an opened sluice!
For the moment, she would probably struggle to escape the branches' restraint.
All she could do was crane her neck desperately, straining to see Cui Jiuyang on the ground.
The magical artifact's self-destruction had been so powerful. Though the little Golden Gong was sturdy enough to withstand most of the impact, Young Master Cui was flesh and blood, after all. Struck head-on by such an enormous Golden Gong, he could not have escaped serious injury.