Fragile Balance
Holy crap, this was bad!
Li Bai broke into a cold sweat. He had finally refined that stubborn clump of solidified spiritual energy that would rather die than submit, only for disaster to strike without warning. A terrifying presence had been hiding inside it.
That voice was unmistakable. It belonged to the Outer Heavenly Evil God whose descent into this world he and the Big and Small Demonesses had fought with everything they had to prevent.
By rights, after the Heavenly Gate collapsed, even if the other party hadn't been banished into the endless dimensions, it should have been sent back to wherever it had come from.
But no matter how hard Li Bai tried, he couldn't imagine that the Outer Heavenly Evil God had disguised itself inside a shell of solidified spiritual energy and hidden deep within his middle dantian.
It was laughable. He had worked so hard to refine that outer layer of spiritual energy, like some foolish fisherman who'd stupidly broken King Solomon's seal and released the devil from the copper bottle.
The Outer Heavenly Evil God could no longer remain hidden. Laughing wildly, it tried to possess Li Bai and erase his consciousness. It hadn't expected the Chaos Green Lotus, which he had been keeping under basic refinement alongside Xuan Star, to suddenly awaken. Amid its seven-colored, glassy radiance, the swelling red cloud seemed mired in a swamp and could no longer expand by even an inch.
This Innate Exotic Treasure was the undisputed boss of the upper dantian. Even Li Bai, its rightful owner, had to rely on it heavily. The Outer Heavenly Evil God had slammed straight into a wall. It must have been thinking, "MMP, should I say it or not?"
In the space of just two seconds, both Li Bai