The instant that hand clamped onto the back of Blood Butcher's head, every muscle in his body tensed.
He did not turn around. As a Nine Evil Sect expert who had condensed a Dharma Body, he had forged his path through mountains of corpses and seas of blood. His combat experience needed no explanation.
The force pressing against the back of his head was so immense that even the protective true qi of a Profound Connection Realm expert had no time to react. Turning around now would only hand his life to his enemy.
Without the slightest hesitation, Blood Butcher's true qi erupted like a volcano.
"Blood Demon Dharma Body!"
He stepped forward with his right foot, driving through his waist and abdomen as the true qi within him surged along his meridians toward his qi sea.
Boom!
His true qi surged against its flow, and blood flames poured out of his chest and abdomen, passing through his clothes to envelop his entire body.
His short tunic burst into scraps, exposing a rapidly swelling body.
Blood Butcher's shoulders rose, his spine bulged outward, and his arms grew a full size thicker. The swirling blood flames flowed over his flesh, forming a dark-red keratinous layer, while hideous protrusions emerged from his chest, shoulders, back, and elbows.
Blood flames enveloped his head as well. His features hardened and coarsened, and his eyes turned dark red.
Blood Demon Dharma Body.
It was the Dharma Body of the Nine Evil Sect's Spirit-Blood God lineage. Only Profound Connection Realm experts who had truly condensed a Dharma Body could summon it, and each manifestation burned away thirty percent of their vital blood essence.
Once his Dharma Body appeared, Blood Butcher's strength increased severalfold. Drawing on its immense power, he wrenched backward and forced a gap in