Chiyou's most formidable Hunyuan Mystic Ice had been taken by the water mother Ji Xuan, while Shi Feiyang had suppressed his Lesser Twelve Heavenly Divine Swords with the Haotian Treasure Mirror. With his two greatest mainstays broken, he could only rely on a life-bound core and a pair of great axes to contend with Shi Feiyang and Shi Zhu.
In truth, Chiyou still had plenty of powerful spells, but their usefulness depended on whom he faced. Shi Feiyang likewise possessed heaps of magic treasures, yet only a handful of his ultimate trump cards could be brought out in a magical battle of this caliber.
Shi Zhu commanded the five golden dragons formed from the Xuanyuan Sword, hacking and slashing at Chiyou without pause. Chiyou sent his twin axes flying around himself, whirling like two enormous wagon wheels. They clashed with the Xuanyuan Sword, bursting into showers of golden sparks that rained down like fire.
Having held off the Xuanyuan Sword for the moment, he took out a banner and spat blood onto it. Then he raised both hands, sending the banner spinning into the air. It rose higher and grew larger, until it actually blocked the light of the Haotian Treasure Mirror.
Shi Feiyang was astonished too. The Haotian Mirror could illuminate all the heavens, yet this banner was powerful enough to block its light!
He focused his gaze on the tattered banner and recognized it at once as an ancient object, presumably handed down from ancient times. It was patched and mended all over, stained with blood, painted and drawn upon, and embroidered with densely packed talismanic symbols and pictures, all depicting countless Monster beasts.
As the banner spun, vast billows of bloody vapor rose from it. Within that vapor appeared all manner of Monster beasts—tigers, leopards, jackals, wolves,