"Dugu! Qingxiao!"
Suddenly, the Mad Monk in the distance threw back his head and roared in fury. Flames surged sky-high from his Black Lotus Sacred Body.
Behind him, black Buddha light shone with a five-colored halo.
The aura radiating from him even seemed to be catching up to Dugu Qingxiao's.
Boom!!
The next moment, with a tremendous crash, the Mad Monk's Black Lotus Sacred Body abruptly grew to over a thousand zhang tall.
His sixteen massive arms reached for Dugu Qingxiao from every direction like python flood dragons.
In an instant, they enclosed Dugu Qingxiao like an enormous embrace.
Boom...!
Then, with another tremendous crash, a giant black lotus appeared beneath Dugu Qingxiao's feet, its petals rapidly closing one by one.
Whoosh...!
Almost simultaneously, a gale carrying a terrifying aura of destruction blew toward them from where the Mad Monk and Dugu Qingxiao stood.
Upon sensing the destructive aura within that gale,
Xu Taiping's heart suddenly trembled. He thought,
The Mad Monk actually has another move up his sleeve!
Just as he was thinking this, the black lotus abruptly closed, and golden Buddha seals lit up on the palms of the sixteen surrounding arms.
An aura of vast, majestic grandeur abruptly swept toward them.
Seeing his Second Senior Brother enveloped by the black lotus, still showing no sign of emerging, Xu Taiping's heart lurched.
Second Senior Brother may be in trouble!
Beside him, however, Blade Ghost said calmly,
"From the moment your Second Senior Brother fully assimilated the Yama Inheritance, this Great Dao strife between him and the Mad Monk was already over."
Bang!!
Xu Taiping was about to ask Blade Ghost why he was so certain, but before he could speak, an earsplitting explosion suddenly rang out ahead.
Looking closely, he saw that Dugu Qingxiao's Dharma Body had abruptly