No!
At the sight, Shi Ji's eyes nearly split with rage.
Ron's deduction was right. The power in the Silbaz Family's blood was indeed something Shi Ji had prepared for his revival.
But Ron didn't know one thing: even if Rayleigh died, that power wouldn't vanish.
It would simply scatter again and gather in other living members of the Silbaz Family.
If Shi Ji wanted, he could make a new puppet at any time.
But...
That raised the crucial question.
Would he get the chance?
Looking at Ron before him, Shi Ji knew the answer with perfect clarity.
No!
Forget gathering the power to make another puppet. Right now, he didn't even have time to absorb the power inside Rayleigh.
Rayleigh couldn't die. He had to stay alive!
If Rayleigh was killed, Shi Ji would be left with only the little power this newly revived body had taken from Imu.
Facing both the cunning, dangerous Azure Dragon and that colossal beast from the stars with so little power could end only one way.
Even if Shi Ji won, it would be a brutal victory.
He might even fall back into a deathlike sleep.
By then, Imu would be devoured, the Saintess of the Sea sealed away, Shi Ji asleep again, and the Azure Dragon's body destroyed, sending him into the next cycle to wait. Everything would go exactly as Ron wished...
No gods would remain in this world!
What a ruthless scheme!
Only someone merciless even to himself could be capable of such cruelty.
Ron's fist, wreathed in black lightning, was about to strike Rayleigh. Blue light blazed across the half of Shi Ji's body it had already covered, then became an azure streak that vanished from sight.
Boom!!
A figure flew backward, still gripping a long, vicious-looking black halberd.