Capture Black Sheep Alive, Steal the Divine Path Origin!

At the heart of Chaos Bone Ridge, dust and splintered wood flew together.

Under the relentless bombardment of Five-Element Arts, Black Sheep's hill-sized wooden body had long since been battered beyond recognition.

He discovered in terror that no matter how much he drained the Earth Vein's yin energy, he could not heal as fast as that monster could destroy him.

"One last round. Then you're finished."

Chu Bai's voice rang out evenly above the ruins, without a trace of strain.

His fingertips trembled. With Subtlety-level control of his Spell Power, he condensed the moisture in the air in an instant. Hundreds more Spirit Water Needles, black as ink, appeared from nowhere and plunged into Black Sheep's charred wounds like a dense swarm of bees.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three more waves of impact followed without pause. The ancient wooden roots Black Sheep depended on finally cracked beneath the strain.

The roots connected to the Earth Vein snapped inch by inch under the Strangulation of fire and metal spiritual energy, dissolving into foul-smelling black water.

"No... spare me..."

Black Sheep had not finished his hoarse plea when Chu Bai moved.

This time, he used no Spell Arts. Drawing on the explosive force of Firestep Dash, he became a streak of dark-gold light and shot straight through Black Sheep's broken defenses.

"Get out here!"

Chu Bai barked. His hands blurred with the Formless Cloud Hand, and the full force of Iron-Bone Body Tempering surged forth.

Relying on a body so brutally powerful it seemed inhuman, he tore through Black Sheep's last layer of charred bark armor. His hand clamped around the neck of Black Sheep's true body, shrunken by excessive woodification, like an iron vise.

Crack!

Chu Bai squeezed with one hand. His Subtlety-level Spell Power precisely sealed every acupoint in Black Sheep's