Qi Zeng activated Substitute Puppet and narrowly escaped disaster, his figure vanishing.
With the doubled power of Bai Xiaowen's Seven Fiends Great Hand Seal, there were very few Lord Tier experts who could escape that grab, let alone with the Qi-Nourishing Method's bonus to the power of a first strike.
Not just anyone who used spells like Substitute Puppet could escape Bai Xiaowen's grasp. Anyone else would have found it difficult even to breathe under that crushing pressure, much less activate an escape technique.
Qi Zeng's escape showed just how formidable the fleeing skills of the "Star Alliance's Second Assassin" were. His Substitute Puppet skill had surely reached at least Mastery level.
Bai Xiaowen narrowed his eyes. His Spirit Sense instantly swept across the battlefield, yet he failed to find Qi Zeng after his second concealment.
"The reason is that I expended some Spirit Sense on Xiao Xing..."
Bai Xiaowen abruptly withdrew his Spirit Sense from Xiao Xing's Sea of Consciousness, chopped the side of his neck with one hand to knock him unconscious, and simultaneously injected a wisp of Death God's Power into his body, temporarily Imprisoning the circulation of Xiao Xing's Spirit Force.
In any case, Bai Xiaowen had already obtained secondary authority over the Seven-Star Formation of Bone-Melting Fief. Xiao Xing was no longer of any use.
The reason Bai Xiaowen did not kill Xiao Xing and instead chose to Imprison him was that once Xiao Xing died, the Boundary Stele of Bone-Melting Fief would become ownerless. If someone else took advantage of the situation, inherited Bone-Melting Fief, and revoked Bai Xiaowen's secondary authority, that would be counterproductive.
Leaving aside that the Boundary Stele was not here, even if it were, deciding how to handle an ownerless Boundary Stele would inevitably cause considerable dispute. Although Guo Baisheng