Just as Ancestor Yang Mei found this strange, Ancestor Hongjun lost focus for an instant, and Luohou's Godslayer Spear pierced straight through his chest.
Seeing Ancestor Hongjun stare at his own chest in utter disbelief, Luohou could not help laughing triumphantly. Looking into the void, he said, "Old Yin Yang and Old Qiankun's self-destructions failed to do anything to me. Now Old Hongjun has been severely wounded by my spear, with only two incarnations left. Yang Mei, you're next..."
But before he could finish gloating, a figure emerged from the body he had pierced through, raised the Heaven-Opening Axe, and chopped straight down at the overconfident Luohou.
The distance was too short and the strike too fast. Luohou only had time to raise the Godslayer Spear before the Heaven-Opening Axe flashed with dazzling light and struck it in an instant.
The next moment, the Godslayer Spear snapped. The massive axe cleaved into his forehead, splitting his head in two as the Heaven-Opening Law rampaged through his body once more.
Even with his head split in half, Luohou did not die. He merely stared at Ancestor Hongjun in disbelief. The sight was bloody, bizarre, and more than a little horrifying.
Ancestor Hongjun said expressionlessly, "Thank you, fellow Daoist, for cutting away that incarnation of my obsessive self. To repay you, I shall send you back to heaven and earth!"
Behind him, the Ancestor Hongjun whom Luohou had pierced through sat up from the ground. Looking at the wound in his chest, he watched it heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Luohou, whose head had been restored, and Ancestor Yang Mei both looked as though they had seen a ghost. They could not make sense of Ancestor Hongjun's methods at all. Was that really his incarnation?
But what kind