Black Flame's Assistance

The four violent flames in Xiao Yan's palm rapidly fused under his precise control.

The unified assault of the Ancient Clan placed enormous pressure on Xiao Yan. He knew very well that if he continued to clash head-on with them, he would gain no advantage in the end. Xiao Yan's chosen method was simple. Since the Ancient Clan members were so proficient in joint attack techniques, he would break them with sheer force!

The Ancient Clan's joint attack could not possibly be flawless. Xiao Yan did not believe there could be such an absurd method of directly boosting one's strength without any weakness. There had to be a flaw somewhere, and what Xiao Yan needed to do now was use the simplest and most direct method—the Buddha Fury Fire Lotus—to shatter the Ancient Clan's combined attack by force!

However, fusing the fire lotus required time. Yet Xiao Yan was fighting alone within the Ancient Clan, with no companions to buy him time. The only person he could rely on was himself!

Fortunately, Xiao Yan still had two methods that could stall for time while his true body fused the fire lotus. One was the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body. Ever since cultivating the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body, Xiao Yan had increasingly come to appreciate the usefulness of this avatar, which was likewise under his control. Although the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body's strength was fundamentally different from that of his true body, the effects of such an external incarnation could often yield unexpected results on the battlefield.

Not to mention that, with Xiao Yan's increasing use of it, the continuous strengthening of his soul power, and several fusions of the Heartblood Clay Puppet with the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body, the might of this Dou Technique had actually continued