You really think I wouldn't dare fight back! Rage surged through Shen Luo's heart. The Zhenhai Refined Iron Rod blazed with golden light in his hand as he prepared to unleash Heaven-Rending Chaotic Staff again.
But the pitch-black skeletal claw was far too fast. Before he could launch his staff technique, it seized the Zhenhai Refined Iron Rod.
The Zhenhai Refined Iron Rod could no longer budge, but Shen Luo's expression remained unchanged. A streak of golden light shot from his sleeve and bound the black skeleton tight. It was the Gourd-Gold Rope, which he had yet to finish refining.
"The Gourd-Gold Rope!" The Black Skull sounded startled. Black light flashed over his body, and he suddenly grew several times larger.
But the Gourd-Gold Rope erupted with ten thousand rays of golden radiance, growing along with the Black Skull and binding him firmly without snapping.
Yet black light flashed over the Black Skull again, and his towering body abruptly shrank to less than a tenth of its size.
He shrank with astonishing speed, many times faster than he had grown. In an instant, he went from a giant skeleton to a dwarf barely a foot tall.
But the Gourd-Gold Rope immediately shrank too, as though it had grown onto the skeleton's body, giving him no room to escape.
"Die!" Shen Luo sneered, his eyes faintly reddening. He swung the Zhenhai Refined Iron Rod, and sixty-four staff shadows appeared around the Black Skull, twisting inward savagely.
The Black Skull showed no sign of impending doom. Instead, he looked at Shen Luo's reddening eyes, a strange glimmer flashing within his hollow sockets.
But in the next instant, the sixty-four staff shadows blazed with golden light, engulfing the Black Skull.
With an explosive boom, the Black Skull burst apart into a skyful of