Volume Four: The Buddha Saves None; Only I, the Demon, Deliver Them - The Demon Face (Part One)

"Old Seventeen, how many can you break in one strike?" Luo Qian asked uneasily. Old Seventeen shook his head. "Seven at most." Luo Qian reckoned Golden-Armored Automaton No. 1 and Golden-Armored Automaton No. 2 could break seven between them. That would leave eight stone arms for him. He clenched his fist and made up his mind. "Old Seventeen, get ready!"

The Mirage Tide Pearl rose higher and higher, luring the mountain-shaped monster into extending its stone arms. At the highest point, Luo Qian suddenly put the pearl away, plunging everything back into darkness. "Now!" At his shout, Old Seventeen fired seven steel needles without hesitation. The two Golden-Armored Automatons roared forward, wielding their respective treasures as they lunged at the stone arms. If No. 1's Magic Treasure had not been corroded by venom that morning, and No. 2 had a suitable Magic Treasure, the pair could have broken at least nine arms.

Luo Qian clenched his right fist, and the Nine-Dragon Claw Arm lit up...

Boom... A barrage of attacks struck the mountain-shaped monster before it understood what was happening. Everything it had dreamed of seeing had vanished in an instant, only to be replaced by one deadly attack after another. The first two waves brought fourteen arms crashing down. They hit the ground like enormous stone pillars and shattered.

Then a flash of light carrying the aura of a Sacred Beast appeared before it. Rings of light spread like ripples across a pond, tearing through its remaining arms layer by layer. Stone peeled away, and all eight arms snapped. The Nine-Dragon Claw Arm's strike still had power to spare. Its ripples swept outward, felling swaths of the giant stone monsters in the surrounding formations. The waves were more fearsome than the wind; with every ring that passed, dozens of