The Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body was an incarnation infused with Xiao Yan's own soul force, while the Heartblood Clay Puppet was a wondrous item that used Xiao Yan's blood essence as a medium and could shield its owner from fatal injuries.
Yet when Xiao Yan used them together and guided them with the Heavenly Flames, the two unexpectedly merged into one in a manner no one could have imagined.
The fusion process lasted an entire day. Throughout it, Xiao Yan felt the connection between himself, the phantom body, and the clay puppet gradually becoming alike until, in the end, they completely merged into one, leaving only a single connection.
Xiao Yan examined the incarnation before him. No one would have expected such a change to occur when the clay puppet and the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body came together. The incarnation's strength had not changed at all. Xiao Yan had it move freely, and there was no difference from before.
Xiao Yan took out the Lightning Storage Pearl from his Storage Ring once more. An enormous amount of compressed lightning force swirled within it, though after Xiao Yan's reckless use, only half of its original lightning force remained.
Xiao Yan directed the lightning force within the Lightning Storage Pearl continuously toward his phantom body. He had already tested the body's limits before; now, he wanted to see whether the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body could rise to another level after merging with the clay puppet.
However, after the phantom body had bathed in the lightning force for more than the time it took to burn an incense stick, it had already become somewhat unstable from the bombardment. Its strength still remained at the eight-star Dou Zong level, without the slightest change.
Seeing this, Xiao Yan could only stop what