All manner of thoughts flashed through Liu Yu's mind, and he made his decision.
But he did not rush. Instead, he quietly waited for the right moment.
"Roar!"
A dozen breaths passed before the Fire Spirit Grand Elder's roars, filled with grief and fury, suddenly rang through the valley.
Through round after round of combat, his wounds gradually accumulated, and his strength waned from its peak.
Although an Elemental Body's "elementalization" granted immunity to most physical attacks, that only applied against lower-level beings.
At the third tier, attacks from treasures were no longer purely physical; they also possessed the properties of spells.
The power of true treasures likewise possessed both physical and magical properties, making them more effective at dealing heavy blows to elemental beings.
Against beings below the third tier, an elemental body offered an enormous advantage. Against fourth-tier opponents, however, that advantage was much smaller.
After repeated rounds of attrition, the Fire Spirit Grand Elder had been weakened to the extreme. Sensing that the moment had come, Devil Lord Black Heaven immediately formed a hand seal.
"Go!"
His robes billowed as he enlarged his bonded true treasure, the Yama Hall, to three hundred zhang, transforming it into an imposing Samsara Palace.
An eerie radiance blazed from the treasure as vast quantities of heaven and earth spiritual energy poured into it, raising its power even further.
"Buzz, buzz!"
The three-hundred-zhang Samsara Palace shuddered, then descended to crush the black tiger on the ground, seemingly slowly but actually with tremendous speed.
The Fire Spirit Grand Elder, in black tiger form, had already exhausted every trick and could only resist with everything he had.
"Roar! Roar!"
He threw back his head and roared, his thunderous cries echoing through the valley.
Yet those resounding tiger roars carried an unmistakable desolation, like a