"Whoosh..." Three fire beads instantly formed a triangle around Xi Bohong. "Rise, rise, rise..." Xi Bohong roared three times, and three clusters of Vast Righteous Qi burst forth from the void near the fire beads. With a boom, they were all ignited. Immediately afterward, the three fire beads exploded even more violently than fire talismans...
"Boom boom, whooo..." The two powerful waves of fire soon collided, letting out a mournful howl like a hurricane. The flames, mingled with golden cloud brocade, surged skyward like a gale, buffeting even Xiao Hua in the distance until his body swayed.
If Xiao Hua was affected like this, how could Xi Bohong fare any better? Though the three fire beads exploded around him and lessened the impact of the fire talismans, beneath the crushing pressure of the fire waves, he was like a scarecrow standing before an ocean gale. "Crack crack crack..." Crisp cracks rang out in succession. The flames around Xi Bohong immediately went out, and the fire armor on his body instantly split apart, flying off his body amid the fire waves and vanishing somewhere in moments! It was at that instant that Xiao Hua saw Xi Bohong's true form. His body, nearly devoid of flesh, was all jutting bones; his skull-like face glowed a faint gold. Most especially, his two eyes were black, hollow pits without eyeballs at all!!!
Yet in no more than the time it took to snap one's fingers, countless flames leaped forth from Xi Bohong's body again, completely shrouding him.
"Hahaha... Xiao Hua, Xiao Hua, you truly are formidable!" Forced into such a state by Xiao Hua, Xi Bohong was not angered but delighted instead. He laughed several times and said, "I have never seen a cultivator capable of driving me to such a pass through Fire