The fissure beneath the Earth-Core Giant beast’s left collarbone was a deep gap of smoldering agony. He stood at the cliff edge of the jagged dark rock crevice. Lin Xiao peered down into the depths of the wound with calm, analytical eyes.
The living inside of an earth-core titan was unlike anything found in the mortal realm. Instead of red blood and soft crimson muscle, the creature’s living tissue consisted of dense, interwoven fibers of semi-solid fiery dark rock, pulsing with streams of bright, liquid gold fire that functioned as heart blood-vessels. It was an astonishing marvel of deep-rock biology, an ancient ecosystem of stone marrow and magma breath flow that had operated in harmony with the planet’s earth-shaking heartbeat for over a hundred thousand years.
Yet, buried nearly two meters into this fiery body wonderland was the foul, festering blight of the ancient Ghost King Sect.
The nine-foot dragon-bone stake was wedged squarely across the titan’s main heart artery. Its surface was carved with ninety-nine tiny soul-binding magic charms that drank the beast’s vital heat. It turned it into a nonstop, oily discharge of purple rotting poison. Around the base of the stake, the bloated, lamprey-mouthed corpse-leech continued to pulse, its semi-clear belly distended with stolen molten gold life-essence.
