"Right! Doesn't this Xiao still have Metal Essence Gold Marrow? How could I have forgotten it at a time like this?!" Xiao Hua suddenly came to his senses. With a hurried sweep of his hand, the Metal Essence Gold Marrow he had obtained from the grand formation in the Sword Tomb was immediately sent into his meridians. At the same time, he circulated his cultivation technique to refine it. The dense metal-attributed true essence entered his lower dantian, transforming once more into fine crystal threads that rushed from the void into his Nascent Soul...
"This... is this Xiao Hua's demon pet?" Leng Qingge was greatly shocked as he watched the pitch-black little monster land atop Xiao Hua's head and shield him from the Five Qi True Thunder. He had never seen any demon creature capable of resisting the Five Qi True Thunder! Unable to hold back, Leng Qingge cried, "How could a demon pet possibly withstand Heavenly Punishment Lightning? Let alone a demon pet—even a Literary Sage... would not dare take the Five Qi True Thunder head-on! Wasn't His Majesty informed of this when he obtained it?"
"Kill!!!" As Leng Qingge pondered in secret, Xi Bohong roared furiously in the distance. The fire qi above his head suddenly surged upward. Once Xi Bohong moved, Leng Qingge and the others had no choice but to move as well—pull one hair and the whole body moved! Five streams of true qi surged onto the Execution Stage. Driven by those five streams, the Vast Righteous Qi within the Five Brocade Cloud Diagram poured into the Execution Stage once more, and five-colored lightning again burst forth from the void...
"Crack-crack..." Another bolt of Five Qi True Thunder descended. This time, the lightning did not merely strike Little Lei—it struck the Nascent Soul as well...