"Snap..." Light as a newborn sprout, a faint touch of dark green emerged from the Book Immortal's forehead. Terror beyond words filled his eyes, and he could not help raising his flute as he cried, "Forbidden Body... truly formidable!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, emerald radiance burst skyward from the Book Immortal's forehead. Within that green light, his shell split apart, its fragments ground to pieces by the power of life like Law-Binding Chains. Yet at the instant everything was annihilated, Wu Daoist saw clearly again: a wisp of true qi threaded with blood patterns silently slipped into the void and vanished in a flash. Even Ya Bi's power of life could not kill it!
"Something is wrong!" Wu Daoist stared at the vanished true qi and suddenly cried, "This... this does not seem to be some Six Arts clone. This true qi contains dense life force! This is one of the Five Qi the Book Immortal cultivated within his chest!"
As Wu Daoist came to this realization, Xiao Hua was already fighting the first Book Immortal to appear until heaven dimmed and earth darkened. That Book Immortal had long since assumed the garb of a warrior. After being unable to defeat Xiao Hua barehanded, he took out a battle axe. The axe did not appear to be a true immortal artifact, but was merely condensed from Law-Binding Chains. Yet within the Penal Formation, its power far surpassed that of ordinary spirit artifacts. Time and again, Xiao Hua unleashed the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors. Sometimes they split the battle axe in two; sometimes they cut the Book Immortal in half. But the moment the scissors departed, both the axe and the Book Immortal restored themselves! Even when Xiao Hua used divine abilities to seal the surrounding space,