Ultimately, although Houtu now possessed a Primordial Spirit, its cultivation was far inferior to that of her physical body.
The magical power cultivated by a mere Daluo Golden Immortal's Primordial Spirit might have countered Minghe's Dao arts to some extent, but how could it possibly withstand them?
Naturally, her defenses shattered in a single blow. Countless Blood God Clones swarmed toward her!
Yet just as Houtu thought disaster was upon her, that those countless Blood God Clones would surely devour the Primordial Spirit she had painstakingly cultivated...
An extraordinarily terrifying force suddenly erupted from Houtu's sea of consciousness.
To be precise, it came from that fruit.
The unnamed fruit Dao Xuan had given her.
As that terrifying force swept outward, the entire world seemed to freeze.
The countless Blood God Clones flying through the sky, their faces hideous and vicious; Minghe, grinning savagely as he awaited Houtu's miserable fate; and the churning Blood Sea, throwing up countless monstrous waves...
At that moment, they all abruptly stopped. Not a single thing moved!
"Humm!!"
The terrifying power unleashed itself. Even Houtu could not explain exactly what kind of power it was.
All she sensed within it were intense vitality and death. These two opposing forces, as incompatible as fire and water, had formed an indescribable balance.
They had melded together into a new power. This was that power.
Then Houtu saw the Blood God Clones seemingly stripped of their vitality by that force in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, they all became lifeless matter and reverted to their original substance-masses of water from the Blood Sea!
"Splash!"
Countless Blood God Clones were wiped out in an instant, all turning back into blood-colored water that fell into the Blood Sea like a shower of bloody rain.
The sight was utterly