227: Blood Dragon? Hell Dragon?

The speck of dust that the prison dragon talisman had transformed into was now shrouded by the terrifying evil power beyond the fourth rank that had suddenly descended; like a grain of sand in a stormy sea, it endured unimaginable pressure.

Gao De felt as if his Divine Soul were about to be torn apart and assimilated by this chaotic, greedy, and destructive will originating from the Heavenly Demon Evil Dragon!

The endless darkness of the Void Realm within the Talisman World was also trembling violently, and at its edges, fine cracks appeared, as if it were about to be forcibly crushed by an external force!

"I can't resist it head-on!" Gao De made an instantaneous judgment.

The level of this power was too high; meeting it head-on would be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

Enduring the tearing pain in his Soul, he withdrew his external Divine Sense and sank his entire mind into the core of the prison dragon talisman, fully activating its Origin of "suppression" and "isolation," completely losing his perception of the outside world.

Within the Talisman World, the endless darkness seemed to be infused with an unyielding will, becoming deeper and heavier as it strove to resist the erosion of the external evil power.

At the same time, Gao De controlled the external speck of dust, no longer attempting to fight the evil power shrouding the entire blood sea space. Instead, like a slippery fish, he followed the "momentum" of the surging evil power and the churning blood sea, rapidly "drifting" toward a direction where the energy was relatively less concentrated!

He wanted to use the enemy's strength against them, utilizing the energy turbulence generated by the Blood Sacrifice itself as cover and propulsion to find a possible weak point and carve out a path to survival!

At that moment, the dragon girl Ao Xue, whom he had just taken into the Talisman World and isolated in a separate layer of space, underwent a sudden and startling change!

The descent of the external Blood Sacrifice power and the Heavenly Demon Evil Dragon's will seemed to have provided an unprecedentedly strong stimulus to her mutated Bloodline!

The blood-colored dragon horn pattern on her forehead erupted with blinding blood-light, and the miniature blood-colored dragon shadow raised its head and let out a long roar. A strange Dragon Clan aura, mixed with the violence of the blood sea, burst forth from her body!

This aura clashed violently with the pure evil dragon will descending from the outside!

To Gao De's even greater surprise, this aura actually produced a faint resonance with the prison dragon talisman in his hand!

It was as if Ao Xue's Bloodline contained some ancient power fragments related to "suppression" and "imprisonment"?

"Her Bloodline... could it be..." A vague guess flashed through Gao De's mind, but he had no time to ponder it now.

Ao Xue's transformation, while attracting some of the external evil power's attention, also briefly disrupted the evil power's lock on the "foreign object" that was the Talisman World!

Gao De keenly seized this sliver of an opening, controlling the speck of dust to make a sharp turn and plunge into a spatial turbulence rift created by the embryo's violent struggle and energy opposition!

This rift led to the unknown; beyond it could be a dead end, or a way out!

But staying in place meant certain death!

The moment the speck of dust entered the rift, the terrifying pressure of the external evil power seemed to weaken slightly.

But Gao De didn't dare relax in the slightest, because he could feel that beyond the rift was an even more violent and chaotic center of an energy storm—the very front line where the Dragon Transformation Pool's core embryo, the purple crystal stone, and the external Blood Sacrifice power converged and collided!

Outside the Dragon Transformation Pool, the main battlefield.

The scene had already become like a Hell of Shura.

Boundless blood sea resentment miasma poured out from the opened entrance of the Dragon Transformation Pool, combining with the Wanling Guiyuan Great Array driven by Shadow Erosion to form a massive blood-colored purgatory covering dozens of miles!

The entire Secret Realm was sealed off; no one could escape.

Within the purgatory, the Essence Blood and Souls of countless Dragon Clan and aquatic tribe members were forcibly extracted, turning into streaks of scarlet airflow that, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, surged frantically into the depths of the Dragon Transformation Pool. They were injected into the dark purple crystal stone completely eroded by the Demonic Seed and the painfully struggling embryo beneath it!

Dragon King Ao Guang bore the brunt of it.

He had the deepest connection with the "holy fetus," and to deepen that connection, he had even fused a portion of his Divine Soul into it. Now, this connection instead made him the core target and primary channel for the Blood Sacrifice.

His luxurious dragon robes were shredded, and his revealed dragon body was covered in eerie dark-red patterns—the marks of the Demonic Seed's erosion.

Bleeding from his seven orifices and his face contorted, he let out roars of pain and fury, desperately circulating his cultivation to try and suppress the Demonic Seed within him and sever the connection with the outside, but to little effect.

His Essence Blood and Dragon Soul were being continuously drained, and his aura withered at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The three princes and their rebel forces, along with a large number of Dragon Palace soldiers and guests who failed to escape in time, were likewise struggling bitterly in the blood-colored purgatory.

They were either corroded by the resentment miasma or forcibly drained of their Essence Blood. Screams, roars, and the sounds of Magic Treasures exploding blended together like a doomsday elegy.

One of Prince Ao Qin's arms had been turned to bone by the resentment miasma, Ao Lie's surrounding flames were dimming, and Ao Bing was even bound by several blood-colored chains, his ice crystal armor shattering inch by inch.

"Shadow Erosion—! I will see your body and Soul utterly destroyed—!!!" The Dragon King's eyes were nearly bursting as he glared fixedly toward the Guanchao Pavilion.

He could feel that the source of everything was there!

The secret chamber of the Guanchao Pavilion had already collapsed, and the Black-Robed Person "Shadow Erosion" floated above the ruins, his entire body shrouded in dense dark-purple evil light.

He held both hands high, like a pious priest, chanting the incantation for the final descent.

The altar had merged with him, and the strange face phantom expanded and solidified behind him, with countless tentacles dancing, greedily devouring the Blood Sacrifice power gathering from all directions.

"Soon... soon... the passage is about to be completely stabilized! Lord Heavenly Demon Evil Dragon's will is crossing the boundary wall!" The blood-light in Shadow Erosion's eyes was almost overflowing, his face filled with extreme fanaticism and distorted joy.

However, at the very peak of the Blood Sacrifice, the moment the descent ceremony was about to be completed—

An anomaly occurred, once again exceeding everyone's expectations!

The core of the Dragon Transformation Pool, the exit of the spatial turbulence rift.

The speck of dust controlled by Gao De was "spat" out from an extremely unstable spatial node like a thrown stone.

The scene before him shook his heart and Soul!

He had actually appeared directly above that massive dragon-shaped embryo!

Below was that flashing crystal stone, almost entirely occupied by the dark purple Demonic Seed, and the boiling "placenta" essence beneath the crystal!

Surrounding it were twelve frantically rotating blood-colored tornadoes connecting to the external Blood Sacrifice purgatory!

Endless Blood Sacrifice energy was pouring into the embryo and the crystal through these tornadoes!

And the embryo itself, after absorbing a massive amount of Blood Sacrifice energy and the Dragon King's Origin, had expanded several times in size. The dark-gold scale phantoms and blood-colored patterns on its surface were interlaced, and those eerie eyes were wide and round, filled with pain, madness, and... a gradually adapting chaotic will belonging to the "Heavenly Demon Evil Dragon"!

It seemed about to complete its final metamorphosis, break out of its "shell," and transform into the true "Evil Dragon True Body"!

Gao De's appearance in this highly sensitive core area, where the energy was violent to the extreme, was like dropping a drop of water into boiling oil!

"Buzz—!!!"

The embryo and the dark purple crystal stone both shook violently!

A chaotic intent, mixed with the embryo's instinctive resistance, the pain of the Demonic Seed's erosion, and the greed and alertness of the newborn evil dragon's will, suddenly locked onto the tiny space where he was!

Crap!

He'd been discovered!

And in the most fatal of locations!

Alarm bells rang in Gao De's heart; he was nearly in despair.

Being exposed here, let alone seizing anything, there wasn't even a place to run!

Just at this critical moment—

Within the Talisman World, that wisp of dark-gold dragon blood essence previously stolen from the edge of the "placenta" suddenly began to boil on its own, seemingly stimulated by the same-source and infinitely larger Essence Blood aura outside!

A pure, ancient, and majestic aura carrying a sliver of an unyielding Dragon Soul emanated from this Bloodline!

At the same time, the blood-colored dragon horn pattern on the forehead of the dragon girl Ao Xue, isolated in another layer of space, shone with great light!

She seemed to sense the massive power within the embryo outside—power that shared the same source as hers yet was its polar opposite. A strong instinct of hatred and confrontation from the depths of her Bloodline was completely triggered!

She unconsciously let out a clear dragon roar, the blood-light around her body surging. That miniature blood-colored dragon shadow abruptly detached from her forehead and, passing through the barriers of the Talisman World, projected an extremely weak yet strangely "evil-breaking" and "devouring" blood-colored light shadow, pointing toward the embryo outside!

What surprised Gao De even more was that the half-broken silver light spear tip he had previously collected in the Talisman World—the one flowing with moonlight-like luster and containing the "Law-Breaking" Dao charm—now also seemed to receive some kind of call or stimulus, vibrating of its own accord as a sharp, peerless killing intent faintly seeped out of the talisman!

These three—the dark-gold dragon blood, Ao Xue's Bloodline projection, and the Law-Breaking Qi of the silver light spear tip—actually produced an extremely subtle and indescribable resonance and linkage within the special environment of the prison dragon talisman, under the pressure of the external terrifying evil power and the embryo's chaotic intent!