The Heart of the Crimson Drake was a force of nature, far more potent than any essence he had previously devoured. His Heaven's Blood Immortal Root responded with its own savage hunger, tearing into the foreign Qi, trying to absorb it, to transmute it into his own. But the sheer volume, the raw, untamed ferocity of the drake’s power, was overwhelming.
Crimson energy erupted from Jian’s pores, not just his blood Qi, but raw, untamed spiritual essence, forming a swirling vortex around him. The ancient defensive arrays of the cavern, decaying for centuries, suddenly flared to life, their runes glowing with a desperate, pulsing light, struggling to contain the forbidden energies that threatened to rip through the mountain itself.
Far above, on the majestic peak of Sky Cloud Mountain, the air
