Chapter 5748

Now that Jared grasped the hidden mystery inside the Blood Ganoderma, every trace of doubt drained from him.

Resolve settled in his chest like a drawn blade, steady and gleaming.

He drew a deep breath, then stilled even the beat of his own pulse. At the tip of one finger shimmered a single pale gold drop of blood-his life force mixed with the regal authority of his Dragon lineage.

Mimicking the careful motions he had watched the giant ape perform, he lowered that drop toward the oldest, most radiant ganoderma in the patch. Each inch felt like lowering a crown onto a sleeping king.

A resonant hum rolled through the basin, low and endless, as if the earth itself had begun to sing.

The moment his blood touched it, a pillar of crimson light burst upward, fiercer and brighter than anything the ape had summoned.

The ganoderma quivered-alive, awakened-its flesh turning crystal clear while a tiny golden dragon darted inside its stem like a heartbeat made visible.