A Drowning Dog

However, Ghost Master's determination to kill Xu Yi had nearly become an obsession.

Even if it meant damaging the Jade Bone Skeleton, he was going to kill Xu Yi first.

What's more, the Calamity Cloud overhead was growing thicker by the moment. Ghost Master didn't have much time left.

At that moment, Ghost Master had gone mad. His body became almost a whirlwind as he lunged at Xu Yi.

Xu Yi simply closed his eyes, opened his senses to the fullest, and gripped the Coral Horn tightly. Then he charged headlong into the onrushing storm.

Boom, boom, boom...

One large and one small, one black and one white, the two figures tangled together. Shrill screams and bloody rain mingled with furious roars and flying chunks of flesh.

The storm formed by the interwoven black and white figures swept across half the imperial grounds in an instant, stretching for miles. Wherever it passed, it left a purgatory on earth. The magnificent imperial grounds were reduced to a muddy mire, and clods of earth more than ten feet deep were swept up from below by the raging storm.

Everyone soared into the sky, as if the world below had become a demon's domain.

With a thunderous crash, the black and white figures finally separated once more.

This time, Xu Yi detonated his last four Heavenly Thunder Pearls. The terrifying explosions blasted the demon and the ghost dozens of yards apart.

Xu Yi's entire demon body crashed into the muddy pool. There wasn't a single patch of uninjured flesh on him; blood drenched his whole body. His shoulder was nearly mangled, his left shoulder caved in, and his nose was completely crushed. His thrust-forward mouth was torn wide open, exposing a hideous gumline and a mouthful of broken teeth.

A mass of thick,