Whoosh... Three fire pearls instantly formed a triangle around Xi Bohong. "Rise, rise, rise..." Xi Bohong shouted three times, and three masses of Vast Righteous Qi burst forth from the void around the fire pearls. With a boom, they were all ignited, and the three fire pearls exploded even more violently than fire talismans...
Boom boom, woooo... The two fierce waves of fire soon crashed together, letting out a hurricane-like howl. Flames mingled with golden cloud brocade and surged skyward like a wild gale, making even Xiao Hua's body sway in the distance.
If Xiao Hua was affected like this, how could Xi Bohong fare any better? Though the three fire pearls exploded around him and weakened the impact of the fire talismans, beneath the crushing pressure of the fire waves, he was like a straw man standing against an ocean gale. Crack crack crack... A series of brittle sounds rang out as the flames around Xi Bohong were immediately extinguished. The fire armor on his body cracked apart in an instant, flew off him amid the fire waves, and was swept away to who knew where in the blink of an eye! It was also in that instant that Xiao Hua saw Xi Bohong's true body. There was scarcely any flesh on him, his bones protruding beneath his skin. His skull-like face gave off a faint golden glow, and especially within his two eyes was nothing but pitch-black hollows—there were no eyeballs at all!!!
In merely the span of a finger snap, countless flames leaped out from Xi Bohong's body again, completely enveloping 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. He laughed several times. "I have never seen a cultivator who