After Shi Feiyang destroyed the Golden Lamp Tree and found Monk Chuan Deng, the monk was in the cavern where Xiong Manniang was trapped.
The wicked monk had hidden his physical body, revealing only his life-bound Gods-demon.
This Gods-demon had originally been his primordial spirit. Through a series of demonic cultivation practices, he had refined it into a Gods-demon. It, too, was dressed as a monk and looked exactly like his physical body, except that it had six arms.
It stood over ten feet tall. Even standing on the ground, it towered over Xiong Manniang, who sat on the Ritual Platform. Looking down upon her, it formed spell seals with all six hands, enclosing her between them.
A vast expanse of Demon Light shrouded Xiong Manniang. Within the light was fire, and within the fire were demons: shadows of Demon Souls, men and women, old and young, and human heads clinging to the light. They wept and shrieked at Xiong Manniang in their midst. Some cackled, some wailed, some cursed, and some pleaded.
Two rings of light, one Lan and one yellow, encircled Xiong Manniang.
The Mother-and-Child Dragon Sparrow Rings truly deserved their place among Master Lianshan's Four Demon-Refining Treasures, which guarded his mountain. Ranked third, ahead of even the Myriad Forms Jade Radiance Ruler, this treasure consisted of two pairs, mother and child. The mother rings, one red and one Bai, were in the hands of the Two Elders of Mount Song. The child rings, one Lan and one yellow, had passed through Dong Xiu of Purple Cloud Palace before finally reaching Xiong Manniang.
Though she possessed only half the set, the halos revolved, their Lan-yellow radiance shimmering as they protected her body and spirit. They held the surrounding Demon Light at bay, and whenever their radiance swept past,