Silver-white power poured into the low platform.
The forty-eight main locks lit up in sequence and flowed into the maintainer slot. All the engraved patterns beneath Bai Zhu's feet unfolded, while the numbers on the system page soared wildly.
[Current usable Reiatsu: 103271] [Current usable Reiatsu: 106498] [Warning: External energy input has exceeded the current load limit] [Recommendation: Immediately close the external interface]
Bai Zhu raised a hand and dismissed the prompt.
Close it?
That thieving bird had pinned him down and beaten him around the city for half the day, and he had only sixty-seven points of Reiatsu to use sparingly.
Now that the recharge had come through, he was supposed to close it? Supposed to hold back?
What kind of joke was that?
"I'll close it later."
The system issued another warning.
[Current usable Reiatsu: 109764] [Physical load capacity: 197%] [Continued connection may cause spiritual body structure collapse]
Bai Zhu dismissed that too.
"Hasn't it collapsed yet?"
All the feather crests atop Hecatos's head stood upright.
It had already noticed where the silver-white power was flowing. The Black Crow Guanyin turned its body, and over a hundred arms curved around the altar, their palms all facing the low platform.
Once the maintainer slot was destroyed, the external power would no longer be able to enter Bai Zhu's body.
"Sever it!"
Hecatos swung down its bony wings.
Dozens of giant palms crashed down from above.
Several other palms burrowed through the feathers along the way, crossed the sealing steel cables before the platform, and rose from beneath Bai Zhu's feet.
Ging braced himself against a stone pillar and straightened up.
His left arm still hung at his side, blood from his shoulder dripping to his fingertips. That corrosive Nen flow was still writhing inside the