Zhunti and Jieyin stood frozen in midair, their backs already soaked with cold sweat.
Facing this ruthless man who had crushed a Half-Step Heavenly Dao demon god's body beneath a single stomp, the two Western Saints' hearts pounded like drums, terrified that Niu Ben might dispose of them in passing as well.
Niu Ben looked the two of them up and down.
Six arms had been torn from Zhunti's Dharma Image, golden blood streamed from his chest, and his aura had weakened to the utmost.
Jieyin's Twelve-Grade Merit Golden Lotus had dimmed even more severely. The laws of the Devil Dao had corroded his body and primordial spirit, leaving his face a frightening waxy yellow.
Niu Ben wasted no words. He raised his right hand and lightly flicked his sleeve.
Hum!
Two beams of flawless azure radiance whistled from his palm and plunged straight into Zhunti and Jieyin.
They were creation Dao rhythm and pure chaos vitality.
The instant the radiance entered him, Zhunti shuddered violently.
A warm, tingling sensation spread through the stumps of his Dharma Image's six severed arms.
Golden buds of flesh grew wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, the severed arms were restored, without so much as a scar.
The searing pain deep within his primordial spirit vanished like smoke in the wind, and his faltering Saint Dao fruit stabilized on the spot.
Beside him, Jieyin's entire body also shone.
Under the cleansing wash of that azure radiance, the otherworldly demonic energy invading his body dissolved completely in an instant.
The damaged Twelve-Grade Merit Golden Lotus beneath his feet gave a joyous hum. Its twelve tiers of petals blazed with dazzling golden light once more, even brighter than before!
Zhunti stared blankly at his intact hands, his