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Lingding Ocean, Nameless Island.
Cheng Xinzhan felt the unseen force dragging at his head disappear. He knew that the second bolt of Altar Thunder he had summoned had taken effect and destroyed the altar over there.
So he had Lion escort his head back to his body.
In that short span, the Golden Silkworm Gu had already broken through Lion's defenses of fur needles and bells. Lion concentrated all his power around his mouth, keeping Cheng Xinzhan's head safe for the moment, but his own torso, tail, and limbs had been bitten full of holes and left in tatters.
Fortunately, Lion was not flesh and blood. His body, formed from mountain rock, was incomparably solid. Even riddled with so many holes, he showed neither blood nor bone and had suffered no damage to his foundations.
Lion came beside the body, opened his mouth, and spat out the head.
At this, both the Golden Silkworm Gu chasing Lion and Cheng Xinzhan's head and those surrounding Cheng Xinzhan's body swarmed forward to kill his head and prevent the two from reuniting.
By now, Lion had long been seething with anger. With his mouth finally free, he faced the densely packed Gu Insects, mustered every ounce of strength, and opened his mouth to roar.
"Roar-"
Lion's roar contained the intent of a spell Cheng Xinzhan had taught him: the [Disperse] spell. Shouted from Lion's mouth, it possessed a little less composure than Cheng Xinzhan's, but a little more ferocious force. Combined with the ringing of his own bells, the roar seemed to strengthen and complement them. The bells amplified his spell-roar, while the roar imbued the bells with spell intent. For a moment, it sounded as though thousands upon thousands of lions were roaring together.
The void before Lion