Ghosts and gods wailed, and venomous insects spat curses.
Formlessness Wind blew down from the heavens, sinking straight into the eastern reaches of White Ravine. It brought an oppressive, terrifying aura, and the shrieks of ghosts and gods rose from within it.
High in the sky, a woman in a long dress of cloud brocade and colored silk suddenly plummeted, blood spraying from all seven orifices. The rosy clouds around her rapidly dispersed, and she fell like a tattered rag.
"Witchcraft. Blood sacrifice. What a fine Li, what a fine immortal!"
Her words held both mockery and astonishment. At her waist, a Yellow Jade Seal released ten thousand rays of yellow-white mysterious radiance, manifesting mountains and rivers, the realm, and a sovereign ruling over his myriad subjects.
But Formlessness Wind gave her no further chance to react.
The yellow-white mysterious radiance shattered in an instant. The shrieks of ghosts and gods rang incessantly in her ears, and something seized her limbs, twisting them backward with the teeth-grating crack of breaking bones.
Yet Tuoba Cai's expression settled. The Great Void behind her abruptly split open, and countless streams of white Water Transformation light surged out, merging into her body.
Rip!
All four of her limbs were torn off, but her remaining head and torso fell into the white torrents of Water Transformation. Her wounds healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a pair of pale, pink-tinged arms and legs grew back in an instant.
Elsewhere, Slaughter Sin was not faring so well.
She had already been burned by Li Fire and gravely wounded. All this time, she had hidden underground, manipulating baleful intent to help stabilize the corpse puppet rather than confronting the enemy directly. Now, however, Formlessness Wind had found her.
A young girl in a blood-red