A vicious gleam flashed through Chu Feikong's eyes. His hands swept rapidly, and a complex formation diagram instantly coalesced in the air before stamping itself like a brand onto the entrance to the secret passage.
With a muffled rumble, the entrance was forcibly sealed shut.
Having finished, Chu Feikong abruptly threw back his head and let out a low, crazed laugh:
"Heh... hehahaha... hahahahaha-!"
His laughter echoed through the cavernous blood-pool cave abode, filled with hair-raising madness.
Then a series of teeth-grating cracks erupted from the bones throughout his body!
His entire form began to undergo a horrifying mutation, twisting between substance and illusion, neither human nor ghost.
His aura became uncanny and unfathomable.
Unable to withstand this power, his robes ripped to shreds with a tearing sound.
His exposed skin turned an ominous dark red at a speed visible to the naked eye. Countless fine strands of blood writhed and bulged madly beneath it like living things!
The nails on all ten fingers abruptly turned black, sharp, and slender, like poisoned hooked claws!
An invisible shackle that had shrouded his body all along, concealing his true aura, shattered with a crash at that moment!
The immense evil power he had kept suppressed surged out without restraint, impossible to conceal any longer!
At the same time, his cultivation aura began to soar wildly!
His cultivation, originally only at peak Qi Refining, actually broke through some limit at that moment and brazenly entered an entirely new level! A realm that left Qing Chen somewhat dumbfounded.
It brimmed with savage power.
At that moment, Chu Feikong's eyes were as red as blood.
Witnessing this, Qing Chen was filled with indescribable shock. Poised to descend and attack, he instantly restrained that impulse.
*Could this be the [Boundless Blood Sea Body] they mentioned? Didn't