"After holding back for so long, this was what you were waiting for?" Shen Luo asked curiously.
"I couldn't break your Earth Barrier from the outside, so I could only find a way to break through from within," Azure-Spirit Mysterious Lady said with a smile.
Shen Luo's expression grew increasingly grim, while the strange sensation in his abdomen seemed to intensify. At last, unable to endure it any longer, he toppled headfirst forward.
Immediately afterward, the yellow sphere of light surrounding him gradually dissipated.
The instant a crack appeared in the yellow sphere, all the black flames surged inside like living creatures and fell onto Shen Luo.
A miserable howl escaped his lips. Struggling to his feet, he charged toward the stone wall on the other side.
Seeing this, Azure-Spirit Mysterious Lady raised her hand and slashed downward with two fingers. A streak of black light descended from above, instantly cleaving both the ceiling of the stone chamber and Shen Luo in two.
A bloody line immediately appeared across Shen Luo's body. Before he could even split apart, he was buried beneath the falling rubble from above, blood spraying everywhere beneath the crushing stones.
After delivering that strike, Azure-Spirit Mysterious Lady did not linger. Black light flashed over her body, and she vanished from where she stood.
After she left, Shen Luo's mutilated corpse amid the rubble suddenly lost its color, turning into two halves of a White Paper Puppet that burned to ashes amid flickering sparks.
At the same time, a figure silently appeared in the mountains several dozen li away. It was Shen Luo, who had escaped with his life.
"That was close. Good thing Daoist Hua gave me this White Paper Puppet for Tribulation Substitution. Otherwise, I might not have been able to withstand that blow..." He