"Jin Geng... so that meant Daozong was here too!"
Zhang Chen was currently being blasted backward through the maze passage by the immense force of lightning explosions. The piercing strike of the Primordial Lightning Tribulation Spear had even left a lightning-burn mark on the Black Plague Ghost Robe covering his back. Unlike Chong Ying's highly poisonous essence, both the black plague and True Ghost aura composing the Black Ghost Robe were substances inclined toward evil. When faced with Jin Geng's overwhelmingly powerful Bright Lightning Yuan, they were naturally somewhat suppressed in terms of attributes.
Before Zhang Chen could finish thinking, a finger hovered directly before the center of his forehead, instantly halting his rapidly retreating body.
"Damn it!"
A starlike glint flashed across Zhang Chen's brow. A finger-sized hole was punched straight through his forehead, and the blood inside the wound could not congeal, instead turning directly into a stream of sand.
Daozong's finger-sword attack had directly exceeded the Sand Mercenary Doppelganger's maximum limit of endurance. In Daozong's view, once Zhang Chen's cerebral core was destroyed, everything afterward would be much easier.
"Unfortunately, my brain was no longer confined to one part of my skull." Back in the third chapter, "Devour Brain," of the first volume of the Body Devouring Heart Sutra, Zhang Chen had devoured and reconstructed his brain, dispersing and integrating it into every cell throughout his body. Even his hands and feet possessed independent judgment.
Zhang Chen immediately turned and kicked toward Shi Xuyun's side. Though Daozong appeared frail, he saw Zhang Chen's kick clearly. He first blocked it with his right palm, making a subtle pushing motion resembling the Tai Chi principle of using four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds, then swung the back of his left hand toward Zhang Chen's lower leg.
"Your strength