"A weakness?"
Fang Chen's eyes narrowed. Using the Misty Turtle Steps, he flashed behind the azure mantis. Hu Li, inside the creature, sensed his movement and went pale. He immediately made the mantis beat its wings furiously.
Buzz, buzz, buzz...
The beating wings hurled Fang Chen back. The azure mantis wheeled around, lunged at him, and swung its Scythe-like blades.
Fang Chen's expression changed. He caught a blade with the Floating Immortal Sword, but a tremendous force sent him flying. He crashed into the ground like a meteor, leaving a deep crater.
Every bone in Fang Chen's body felt ready to come apart. The azure mantis was terrifyingly strong. But the Floating Immortal Sword's Spiritual Power restored him to full strength in an instant. The immense power flooded his dantian until he thought it might burst.
The azure mantis threw back its head and shrieked. Turning into a streak of green light, it swept its two Scythes through the air, sending slash after slash down at Fang Chen.
At that moment, the twelfth layer of the Glazed Qi Refining Art and the Floating Immortal Art flashed through Fang Chen's mind.
The next instant, the Twelfth Layer Glazed Qi Refining Art and the Emerging Sword Art fused together. No longer in conflict, they instantly refined the Spiritual Power filling Fang Chen's dantian into True Qi.
Boom!
A Fire Origin appeared at the heart of Fang Chen's True Qi Vortex, and a powerful aura erupted from him. The Body Protection Spiritual Light around him grew from eleven layers to twelve.
The azure slashes raining from above struck Fang Chen and burst apart. He remained completely unharmed.
"The Twelfth Layer of Qi Refining?"
Hu Li and the other Eight Trigrams Gate disciples inside the azure mantis stared in shock. They had never imagined