Just as Ye Jingcheng thought Venerable Origin Toad was bound to die, the mirror's spiritual light flickered.
The two clones that had gone out to meet the attack suddenly appeared at Venerable Origin Toad's side.
One before and one behind, they became flesh shields, blocking the frenzied bombardment of the Yin-Yang Twofold Ritual Pearl and the divine ability jade talisman.
Amid flying spiritual light, the two clones exploded into motes of radiance.
Yet Venerable Origin Toad himself did not suffer any serious injuries. His eyes merely turned even redder, his face more twisted and savage, while strange spikes sprouted across his body, making him resemble an ancient demon even more closely.
"This..." Even Zhou Hao felt his scalp go numb.
Venerable Origin Toad's body had already been terrifyingly powerful under the augmentation of his secret art. Now that he possessed the Mid-Grade Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure, the Water-Moon Illusory Cloud Mirror, it was equivalent to having two extra lives.
While the others hesitated, a surge of spiritual light poured into the mirror, and another clone condensed.
Although the two clones had not formed at once, indicating that the Water-Moon Illusory Cloud Mirror's clones were not inexhaustible, that was at least good news.
But they still had to face the equivalent of two body cultivators at the Void Refinement Late Stage—and ones that had fallen to demonic corruption at that.
Boom! On the other side, the Vermilion Bird spirit shadow swallowed the Highly Venomous Black Toad once more. The flames that blasted it away nearly burned through all the poisonous pustules and spikes on its body, turning them into toxic smoke that rose into the air.
At the same time, the concealed crimson fire-pillar Dharma Manifestation transformed into a spear and stabbed in through the toad's belly, brutally pinning it through