"Body seizure! He's been taken over!"
Zhao Ke cried out in horror.
Chen Xian did not respond, his gaze fixed on Tiger-Faced Zhang Huai.
The body that belonged to Zhang Huai was now on all fours, its spine arched backward at an impossible angle. Sharp claws had sprouted from its limbs, as though he had truly become a tiger.
"Roar!!"
A low roar rumbled from his tiger mouth.
The monster raked his foreclaws hard across the azure jade slabs, scraping up a shower of fragments.
The next instant, before Chen Xian could even blink, a streak of light crossed a hundred meters and lunged straight at his chest.
He was so fast that Chen Xian almost failed to react.
"Get back!"
Chen Xian shouted, sweeping his left hand out and sending Zhao Ke dozens of zhang away on a gust of force.
At the same time, Chen Xian stamped his right foot forward, shattering the jade slab beneath it.
The Martial Dao blood-qi within him surged with a roar, and a Dao Aspect dozens of zhang tall took shape once more.
Boom!
The Dao Aspect brought its arms together, turning them into two massive hammers that smashed head-on into the approaching streak of light.
Fists and claws collided in midair.
The violent force stirred a ring of spatial ripples. Azure jade slabs within dozens of zhang of the impact were torn up in swathes, then pulverized before they could fall.
Chen Xian's body shuddered violently.
The arms of the martial aspect above his head burst apart inch by inch the instant they met the tiger claws, scattering into a sky full of red light.
The savage force surged through, even blasting apart his protective blood-qi power.
That single strike sent him sliding backward uncontrollably for more than thirty steps, each