"Now."
The moment the command dropped, the scarred brute and his companion frantically poured their demonic energy into the arrays beneath their boots, while Ni Tian unleashed two thick streams of dark, suffocating Qi from his palms straight into the remaining two nodes.
WUMMMM—!
The basalt floor trembled as violent, blood-colored light erupted from all four cardinal nodes.
Intricate runic veins etched into the volcanic rock ignited with a blinding, incandescent crimson, snaking across the stone like ravenous scarlet serpents before converging straight onto the central platform.
The moment the energetic circuit snapped shut, the central array jolted awake with an unearthly, soul-shredding shriek.
The air turned instantly frigid, saturated with the metallic reek of fresh gore and ancient malice.
From the glowing blood-red grooves carved into the stone, dozens of sickly crimson tendrils, thick, writhing strands of condensed baleful Qi, sprouted like parasitic vines.
