Li Huowang, nailed to the bamboo shoot, could not move. He could only passively feel the things inside his body growing without stop.
Just then, Bai Lingmiao rushed before Li Huowang. With a fierce sweep of Second God's sharp black nails, the bamboo shoot beneath Li Huowang snapped cleanly at the root.
Xuanpin also arrived before Li Huowang at that moment. With a swift flick of his tentacles, he cut a bloody line straight down from Li Huowang's brow.
Four hands seized Li Huowang's left and right arms and pulled hard. Before Li Huowang could react, his entire body split in two in an instant.
Xuanpin reached into Li Huowang's split-open body and tore out the continuously growing bamboo shoot. Then he swiftly brought his hands together again, pressing the two halves of Li Huowang back into one.
Xuanpin then swept his hand across him, wiping away the split bloody line down the center of Li Huowang's body.
Xuanpin rapidly retreated with Li Huowang, putting as much distance as possible between them and the range of Zuoqiu Yong's Heavenly Dao influence.
It sounded like a long time, but all of this had happened within only a few breaths. A few breaths later, Li Huowang had not only broken free of control, but his injured body had fully recovered as well.
Though he had temporarily escaped, there was not the slightest joy on Li Huowang's face as he looked at Zuoqiu Yong, who stood before him as vast as a mountain.
This enemy was too powerful. The immense pressure crushed him until he could barely breathe. He knew his chances of victory were truly slim—so slim they might as well have been nonexistent.
Yet even so, Li Huowang still did not want to give up. Because Zuoqiu Yong wanted Bai Lingmiao's