Three Realms Manifestation: Seven Days Underground (4)

Changes were afoot over on Bao Yun's side, and looking back at the Death Demon, the situation was identical.

After absorbing that black smoke, the Death Demon had at first resembled a rakshasa fiend even more. Though it originally possessed a towering body twelve feet tall, it had suddenly surged by another five feet; yet as the suppressing talismanic seals within its manifested body lit up and some wondrous power took effect, its form actually shrank back down.

Plummeting all the way down from a height of nearly two realms, it didn't even stop at twelve or thirteen feet, continuing to shrink downward until its height was a mere four feet in the end, and its ferocious features appeared far more comical.

What was especially worth noting was that the Death Demon showed neither ferocity nor obedience at this moment, instead converging all of its expressions entirely so that it looked rather wooden. The dead qi within it operated and transformed, yet grew increasingly intense, oddly capable of being reined in properly like the tide in the dead of night—its form unseen, yet its pressure impossible to ignore.

Even when Yu Ci held it in a firm grip and observed it closely, he could not completely clarify the profundity of its operations, solely because the moment he focused upon it, changes would arise within it. Just like true death itself, it clearly existed, yet remained impossible to grasp, and this was rather interesting.

Yu Ci found his mind too difficult to divide any further and no longer forced the issue, simply changing his train of thought. Instead of letting the Death Demon maintain this state, he had it expand in reverse, growing all the way up to seventeen or eighteen feet like a small mountain to restore its previous fierce