"Little darling, get up!" Xiao Hua roared. His body bent slightly, and the As-You-Wish Staff swept toward the battle puppet's legs.
Before Xiao Hua's As-You-Wish Staff could touch the battle puppet, lights flickered all around the stone walls. With a swish, countless green fragments fell like raindrops, shrouding both Xiao Hua and the battle puppet!
"Damn..." Xiao Hua was greatly alarmed. Not knowing what these green fragments were, he abandoned his attack on the battle puppet and hurriedly raised a hand. The Sea-Overturning Seal rushed out of his storage space. As it hummed, its bronze-colored radiance shielded Xiao Hua!
With a chaotic sizzle, like water droplets falling into a wok of oil, the bronze radiance was swiftly corroded. Even the Sea-Overturning Seal itself trembled faintly in midair...
Xiao Hua hurriedly circulated his magical power and formed hand seals. The Sea-Overturning Seal boomed again, struggling with all its strength to resist the green fragments.
Just then, with a muffled pfft, a sharp stabbing pain erupted beneath Xiao Hua's abdomen. A burst of violent magical power instantly surged from the source of that pain into Xiao Hua's Dharma Body, wreaking havoc on it like ten thousand horses trampling through!
Xiao Hua lowered his head in disbelief. The spear that had previously been in the battle puppet's hand had somehow already pierced his abdomen. When he looked up again, the battle puppet, which had just been so tightly bound hand and foot, now had blue light and shadow rapidly flowing across its body. Xiao Hua's Silk-Binding Technique had long since been broken by those green fragments. One massively elongated, thick arm gripped the spear and thrust it hard, while its other arm clenched into a fist and swung toward Xiao Hua's left cheek...
"Courting death..." Xiao Hua was furious. For the sake of