"Whatever happens, stay alive!" Amid Wang Qi's heartfelt shout, golden Sword Qi struck the arm in which the giant held the Ice Corpse. The Ice Corpse had thought Wang Qi's words were merely mocking her, that he intended to crush her to death the moment she lowered her guard, so she used every ounce of strength to reinforce her body.
"You can 'harden' too?" Wang Qi laughed. This fellow's defensive technique was to withdraw the means of "ice crystal transformation," rendering herself incapable of movement. The surplus power was then all used to "absorb heat," taking away the kinetic energy of every atom in her flesh. Thus, no matter how fierce the external force, the atoms in this body would not undergo the slightest relative movement.
Objectively speaking, that was "hardening."
But for Wang Qi, it actually made what came next more convenient.
After the Sword Qi's heat energy melted it, the Beast Mechanism in the arm could temporarily move. The entire Beast Mechanism then transformed, sealing the Ice Corpse in from every direction without leaving even the tiniest gap.
At the same time, a mass of Devil's Great Curse spirits lurked within. Although a Lesser Vehicle Magic-level Devil's Great Curse could not launch remote attacks in an environment that nearly prohibited interactions between microscopic particles, if it resided within the Beast Mechanism, it could still persist for a long time.
If the temperature within the Ice Corpse rose even slightly, or if she extended spiritual sense, soul, or anything of that sort, the Devil's Great Curse would contaminate it.
Then, almost instinctively, the giant controlled by Wang Qi assumed a special stance. He faced the enormous fireball. Driven by the hidden perverse amusement within himself, Wang Qi had unconsciously made the gigantic Mechanism Beast strike that pose.
The Mechanism