Clang!!
The sound was deep and heavy, as though someone had struck an enormous bronze bell in the sky.
Rolling waves of sound descended from above, carrying a soul-shaking pressure.
Diwu Chijin abruptly looked up, his orange-gold pupils shrinking to two pinpricks.
He dared not hesitate in the slightest. He darted backward, seemingly trying to escape the shadow closing over him.
Just then—"Hum!!"
An enormous golden birdcage burst out of the mist.
It was woven entirely from strands of golden light, each as thick as a thumb, crisscrossing into an impenetrable net.
A hemispherical dome crowned the cage. Its bottom was open, its edges curling downward into a ring of sharp, triangular teeth.
It plunged straight through the hole Diwu Chijin had stomped through the roof of the Qilin Virtue Hall, bearing down on him with the irresistible force of a storm crushing rotten wood!
"What..."
Diwu Chijin's expression changed drastically. He hastily thrust out both palms—"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Two chains blazing with orange flames blasted toward the golden birdcage.
Yet this time, the technique that had conquered every obstacle and won every battle since his "debut" produced only two sharp clangs as it struck the golden birdcage.
Then the golden bars knocked the chains away.
The golden birdcage's ferocious descent had not been slowed in the slightest!
With a crack, the cage hit the ground.
The instant the golden birdcage landed, the ring of teeth at its base sliced into the white marble floor with a crunch.
Crash!
As fragments of stone scattered, golden light suddenly flashed around the ring where the cage met the floor!
The formerly grayish-white marble tiles instantly took on a brilliant golden sheen, their substance becoming incomparably hard.
With that, Diwu Chijin was completely imprisoned inside the birdcage.
"Damn it!!"
As he snarled through gritted