"Roar!" Having suffered a minor setback, the Ghost King bellowed. Black light flashed across its body, and it sprouted two more arms, bringing them down viciously on the Blood River.
The Ghost King's four arms once again smashed the viscous Blood River apart. This time, however, the severed river did not reform. Instead, blood-red light flashed, and the entire river swept over the Ghost King.
Caught off guard, the Ghost King had not expected the young man opposite it to have such a move. Unable to dodge in time, it was caught beneath the descending Blood River.
The viscous blood clung to its body with a sizzling hiss. In the blink of an eye, its flesh was corroded into a mass of rotting, fist-sized holes.
Xiao Yu sucked in a breath, inwardly startled. The Blood River Shi Yu had unleashed was powerful enough to easily corrode even the Ghost King's visibly formidable body.
"Quick, Fellow Daoist Jin!" After unleashing this move, Shi Yu's face had lost every trace of color. He looked utterly drained.
"Yes! Well done, Fellow Daoist Shi!" Jin Xuan praised him. Forcing down his injuries, he gathered all his magical power and poured it frantically into the small hammer and awl in his hands. Then, with every ounce of his strength, he struck them together.
With a sharp pop, a white lightning spear as thick as an arm and twenty feet long burst from the awl's tip, then shot toward the Ghost King in a flash.
"I'll tear you into ten thousand pieces!" Enraged by its injuries, the Ghost King roared. Billowing yin energy poured from its body, turning the entire square as cold as an ice cellar.
The yin energy closed around its body, washing away every trace of the viscous, filthy blood coating it. Its