"No, no, spare..."
The Ghost-faced Man's Divine Infant never got to utter its final, anguished cry before the black specks churned it into a vast cloud of sparkling fragments.
At the moment of his death, the Ghost-faced Man's resentment had reached its peak. If resentment could stir the will of heaven, then the sky at that moment should have been blanketed in goose-feather snow.
Ever since he'd fought Xu Yi, the Ghost-faced Man had been aggrieved beyond measure.
He considered himself a Lightning Tribulation Expert. Yet when it came to offense, his attacks were strong but couldn't seriously wound Xu Yi; when it came to stamina, he was far outmatched.
As for defense, Xu Yi was practically a freak.
But that wasn't all. The worst part came afterward.
He transformed, and so did Xu Yi. Then the Aspect Summoning Art he'd long relied on to dominate the world ran into Xu Yi's Dragon Elephant Aspect. It was like Li Gui dressing up as Li Kui.
Being outmatched in supernatural abilities was one thing. He'd simply called out his Divine Infant to fight. Surely that was where he had the advantage.
In any case, a Lightning Tribulation Expert facing a Calamity Tribulation Layer One cultivator, with his Divine Infant backing him up, should have had the victory in the bag.
But Xu Yi's Divine Infant had been absurdly powerful. Who would have thought a Divine Infant at Calamity Tribulation Layer One could be so formidable that even a Lightning Tribulation Divine Infant couldn't crush it in a head-on clash?
And when he used a Divine Infant technique, he was injured by some inexplicable evil creature.
Fine. All of it had been the Ghost-faced Man testing just how strange Xu Yi's Variant Infant was.
In truth, the instant Xu Yi's Divine Infant