Seeing Li Rockstone fall to Di Cangqiong's sneak attack and apparently suffer Body Snatching, everyone in the Heavenly Secret Bureau flew into a rage. Di Xiangyou roared loudest of all: "King Wu Cheng! Rockstone risked his life to save you, and you turned around and harmed him? You're worse than a beast!"
The back of Li Rockstone's body, twisted beyond recognition, split open to reveal a terrifying ghostly face. It gave a few cackles and replied, "Trading a mere True Person for a Demon God is a fine bargain. Besides, if he was willing to die to save me, isn't what I'm doing now exactly what he wanted?"
Purple qi surged across Di Xiangyou's face, and boundless lightning rose from his body. In an instant, he had almost become a mass of thunderbolts, forcing the Mohist School experts fighting together to hold him back to retreat step by step.
But he did not seize the chance to charge through. Instead, he reached into empty space with his right hand and pulled out a colossal pillar of lightning, five or six zhang long and thicker than a man. With a sweep of his hand, he hurled it like a spear at Di Cangqiong, who had seized Li Rockstone's body.
"Shameless old thief! Take this thunderbolt!"
Just as the lightning reached Di Cangqiong, the air before him suddenly went black and tore open. Great quantities of blood poured from the gap, forming a Blood River around him that blocked the lightning pillar.
The pillar struck the Blood River and threw up a spray, then burst into rolling arcs of electricity. Like countless golden snakes leaping through the blood, they made vast stretches of the river boil in an instant. Thick bloody mist rose, shielding Di Cangqiong within.
Murderous rage filled Di Xiangyou's