"Little darling, get up!" Xiao Hua roared, bending slightly as he swung the As-You-Wish Staff at the battle puppet's legs.
Before Xiao Hua's As-You-Wish Staff could touch the battle puppet, lights flashed all around the stone walls. With a swish, countless glowing fragments fell like raindrops, shrouding both Xiao Hua and the battle puppet!
"This is bad..." Xiao Hua was greatly startled. Not knowing what those glowing fragments were, he abandoned his attack on the battle puppet and hurriedly raised a hand. The Sea-Overturning Seal flew out from his storage space. As it buzzed, its ancient bronze radiance enveloped Xiao Hua in protection!
With a chaotic sizzle, like water droplets falling into a wok of boiling oil, the bronze radiance was rapidly corroded. Even the Sea-Overturning Seal itself trembled slightly in midair...
Xiao Hua hurriedly circulated his magic power and formed hand seals. The Sea-Overturning Seal rumbled once more, straining with all its might to resist the green glowing fragments.
Just then, with a muffled pfft, a sharp, piercing pain erupted beneath Xiao Hua's abdomen. A violent force instantly surged from that point of pain into Xiao Hua's Dharma Body, wreaking havoc upon it like ten thousand horses trampling through!
Xiao Hua lowered his head in disbelief. The spear that had previously been held in the battle puppet's hand had somehow already pierced his abdomen. When he looked up again, the battle puppet, which had been bound hand and foot just moments ago, was now overflowing with blue light and shadows. Xiao Hua's Threadbinding Technique had long since been broken by the glowing fragments. One of the puppet's thick arms had abruptly lengthened greatly, gripping the spear and thrusting with all its strength, while its other arm clenched into a fist and swung toward Xiao Hua's left cheek...
"You're courting