"Ha, that brat Qin Yao really is easy to fool!"
Once his delight subsided, Diwu Chijin clenched the fists of the body he had acquired through Body Snatching.
A trace of regret involuntarily flitted through his heart.
After all, he had spent a long time preparing to seize this body and be reborn.
Not only did it possess cultivation at the "foundation establishment early stage," but even Diwu Chijin's "grade-A spirit root" had not weakened in the slightest!
Now, with no other choice, he had to enter Qin Yao's body.
That meant abandoning his current "Foundation Establishment Realm" cultivation and starting over from the "Qi Refining Stage"!
And if the other party's spirit root was of poor quality, things would be even worse!
"Tsk, however frustrating this is, I have no choice now!"
Diwu Chijin frowned.
He knew perfectly well that the only way to break out of this deadly predicament was to change bodies, shedding his shell like a golden cicada.
Otherwise... he could only obediently await death!
The cultivators of the Supreme Good Sect had actually pursued him all the way here from the Cultivation World. There was no chance they would leave him a path to survival.
As befitted a former fiend of the Cultivation World, Diwu Chijin thoroughly understood the principle that "sunk costs have no place in major decisions."
After a brief pang of regret, he acted decisively!
His orange-gold pupils flickered slightly-"Whoosh~~"
A strand of invisible, intangible soul consciousness quietly pushed a bulge out from between his brows.
The bulge grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, almost touching the cage's golden-threaded wall!
Yet Diwu Chijin did not panic in the slightest. "Hehe, even if this legendary Phoenix-Imprisoning Cage can trap a Nascent Soul Cultivator's body and soul, it still can't hold