78: Chapter 78 The Empress's Blessing, Ice Phoenix Divine Blood!
Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Empress's Gift, Ice Phoenix Divine Blood!
The moment Lin Qingzhi's cold, jade-like hand pressed onto the top of my head, I felt as if I had been struck hard by a bolt of world-creating thunder!
"Boom—!"
A surge of energy, pure to the extreme and containing the most fundamental laws of the Ice Phoenix Divine Race, poured frantically into my body like the breached Milky Way of the Nine Heavens, sweeping everything away!
That wasn't ordinary blood.
That was her... Origin Essence Blood!
It was the crystallization of her entire cultivation and Dao Fruit as the Empress!
Every single drop was enough to make the great experts of the Xuan Realm fight to the death!
And now, she gave everything that represented her life and Dao path to me, without reservation!
"Sizzle... Crack..."
In an instant, my body reached its limit of endurance!
Bone-chilling coldness and vast, majestic life energy frantically intertwined, collided, and annihilated within my body!
Under the impact of this overbearing and peerless energy, my tough carapace cracked inch by inch like fragile glass, and hideous fissures rapidly spread across my entire body!
Intense pain!
The intense pain originating from the deepest part of my soul almost tore my consciousness into fragments!
I felt like a balloon being forcibly filled with the volume of the entire Pacific Ocean, capable of turning into nothingness with a "bang" at any moment!
"Devour... it... for... me!"
I held onto the last shred of clarity and let out an unyielding roar from my soul!
I frantically operated the myriad manifestations evolution codex, pouring all my will into devouring and transforming this massive energy!
[Ding! Warning! Ultra-high concentration of God-grade energy influx detected. The Host's internal energy is severely overloaded! Vital signs are extremely unstable!]
[Ding! Warning! Carapace damage at 90%!]
[Ding! Warning! Fissures have appeared in the Demonic Power core; it is about to collapse!]
The system's warning alarms rang frantically in my mind like a death knell.
Outside, Ghost Hand's black Ghost Claw, which was enough to crush a mountain peak, was already close at hand!
"Little beast! Die!"
"Buzz—!"
Just as the Ghost Claw was about to crush us both into meat paste, an even more vast and sacred terrifying pressure suddenly erupted from within my body!
That was a brand new power that fused the supreme laws of the Ice Phoenix Divine Race with the most primitive devouring instinct of my Blood Fiend Poison Mosquito race!
At this moment, my body, which was about to shatter, was completely enveloped by a dazzling, eerie purple-blue light!
Within the light, my shattered carapace rapidly fell off and reorganized!
The newborn carapace was no longer pure black, but instead displayed a deep, starry-sky-like blue-purple color. On it, Phoenix Totems composed of pure ice crystals slowly emerged, emitting a heart-palpitating chill and majesty!
My wings became broader, and with every flap, they would stir up countless tiny ice-blue energy light spots, like brilliant star dust surrounding a star!
My proboscis became sharper and more slender, and its tip condensed a point of Extreme Cold Ice Crystal that was more brilliant than a diamond and enough to freeze everything!
And my Demonic Power core, which had been on the verge of shattering, did not collapse after absorbing the Origin Essence Blood. Instead, it was like a Phoenix Nirvana! It spun and compressed frantically, finally condensing a rice-grain-sized Dao Seed Prototype that flickered with ice-blue divine light inside the core!
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host! Successfully absorbed [Ice Phoenix Source Essence Blood] and completed an ultra-limit evolution!]
[Ding! Racial rank increased! Blood Fiend Poison Mosquito → Ice Prison Poisonous Brilliant Mosquito!]
[Ding! evolution points +500!]
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for comprehending a new Bloodline Divine Ability—[Frost Toxin]!]
[Frost Toxin]: Transformed from the fusion of [Advanced Hallucinogenic Toxin] and [Deep Paralysis] with Ice Phoenix Divine Power. It possesses the triple effects of [Paralysis], [Hallucination], and [Freezing]! It can be injected through the proboscis or condensed into a Frost Poison Mist for area-of-effect attacks!]
Boom!
An unprecedented feeling of power filled my entire body!
I felt that with just a thought, I could freeze the sky of this Desolate Ruins!
And that menacing black Ghost Claw, the moment it touched the layer of purple-blue Protective Demonic Qi around my body, actually made "sizzle sizzle" sounds like snow meeting its nemesis, and rapidly melted and disintegrated at a speed visible to the naked eye!
"What?!"
For the first time, the face of Ghost Hand hidden under the hood revealed shock and disbelief from the soul!
He never would have dreamed that I, an ant in his eyes, could complete such a terrifying, heaven-defying transformation in just a few seconds!
He could even sense a faint fear originating from Bloodline Suppression from my body that made even him feel trepidation!
And I, after completing the evolution that was like being reborn, the first thing I did was slowly turn my head.
I looked at the Girl in White Robes who, for my sake, did not hesitate to burn her divine soul and give everything, and had now completely fainted.
She lay there quietly, her aura so weak it seemed it could dissipate at any moment, but a faint, relieved smile hung on the corner of her mouth.
An indescribable, burning emotion filled my chest.
From this moment on, you will be protected by me.