Although Yu Bi had seen through his true identity, Song Wen still wore a faint smile.
"Yu Bi, as you said, I truly have little mana left. But..."
Song Wen's voice paused. Dense blood mist instantly spread around him, and his body rapidly withered at a visible rate.
Yet his somewhat weakened aura began surging in an instant, swiftly climbing back to its peak.
"Hmph, a blood sacrifice technique!"
Yu Bi's tone carried a measure of disdain.
Naturally, he recognized that "Gu Huang" was merely burning his blood essence to forcibly restore his mana.
"Gu Huang, you are merely drinking poison to quench your thirst! Excessive depletion of blood essence will inevitably weaken your physical body, perhaps even bring it to the brink of collapse. Besides, how long can this forcibly boosted mana of yours last?"
"That need not concern you. You should spend more time thinking about how to escape!"
As Song Wen spoke, a blood-colored crystal suddenly appeared in his hand.
The crystal was only the size of a thumb, but the instant Song Wen crushed it, his body split into a hundred identical figures.
Like the Blood Shadow Clones from before, these hundred figures were impossible to distinguish as real or false; no one could tell which was Song Wen's true body.
There was one difference, however. They were extraordinarily fast. Quite a few evaded the corpse-qi giant python's blockade and continued closing in on Yu Bi.
Yu Bi had already witnessed Song Wen use Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions, so he was not overly surprised.
The only thing he could not fathom, and which faintly unsettled him, was why "Gu Huang" kept trying every possible means to approach him.
*Could he be planning to bring out that Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure shortsword again and launch a sneak