Chen Miao froze for a moment as Yu Huatian suddenly burst apart, turning into a vast cloud of rain mist that drifted near the ceiling of the Main Mausoleum cavern.
Then he understood what Yu Huatian was trying to do.
Having witnessed the ferocity of his physical attacks, Yu Huatian had dispersed into shapeless rain mist to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses.
Chen Miao had to admit that Yu Huatian's judgment was quite accurate.
In fact, the Yin Fiend Path Master's judgment earlier had also been correct. He had simply been unlucky enough to encounter Chen Miao, who also possessed baleful banner's favor.
Chen Miao had not incorporated the baleful banner's favor into the Divine-Blessed Vajra. Earlier, he had merely infused that state with his divinity, creating a baleful banner far stronger than the Yin Fiend Path Master's and using it to capture the man's soul body.
Chen Miao had fused only five states in total to create the Divine-Blessed Vajra.
The diamond water-fire ape was itself a fusion of four states, so the Divine-Blessed Vajra incorporated eight states altogether. This fusion had consumed a full hundred and twenty jin of yin virtue.
Adding a ninth would require another hundred and twenty-eight jin of yin virtue!
Even though Chen Miao had obtained over four hundred jin of yin virtue in one go, he could not afford to squander it like that.
So, after weighing his options, Chen Miao had fused only these four states into it: Deer God’s Blessing, fox immortal's favor, Yin Iron’s Favor, and no-self favor.
He had settled on those four after careful consideration.
Deer God’s Blessing specialized in crowd control, with defense as a secondary function. After the fusion, Chen Miao had even developed several powerful abilities from it, though none had been