Xiao Xuan had been contending with the raging inferno, repeatedly wielding Origin-Time Return to the Ultimate, when he suddenly saw the flames die out and the wind and thunder vanish. A flicker of surprise rose in his heart.
Then a fine, misty rain fell upon him.
The [sin], as boundless as the World Sea and as heavy as a Spirit Realm, actually began to recede. Another, subtler change quietly took place within him.
"Something's wrong!"
Xiao Xuan's expression changed. His cultivation was vanishing along with the [sin]. In a single instant, several thousand years of painstaking cultivation were gone.
"Heh." Chu Mo smiled. "Fellow Daoist Xiao Xuan, I have always been merciful. I cannot bear to see people entangled in sin, so today, I have made a special effort to absolve you."
"Of course, absolving sinful karma requires a tiny little price." He raised his hand, bringing his thumb and forefinger almost together in a gesture indicating "just a little."
Didn't you conjure up this sinful karma and slap it on me yourself?!
Xiao Xuan cursed him inwardly, but his rapidly draining cultivation left him no time to think further. In the time it had taken his opponent to speak that single sentence, he had already lost tens of thousands of years of cultivation.
And it was still plummeting.
At this rate, it looked set to knock him straight out of the Seventh Realm.
"Origin-Time Return to the Ultimate!" Xiao Xuan hurriedly wielded his Divine Ability, intending to repeat his old trick. But after their prolonged struggle, how could Chu Mo give him another chance?
The Reincarnation Disc abruptly blazed with light, breathing in and out boundless black and white.
Transcendence Light fell upon Xiao Xuan. Before he could utter even a single word, his primordial spirit was forcibly dragged