"Mm..."
At the sight of the dazzling talisman light shining from Celestial Master Zhang's chest and his abruptly halted figure,
Gu Chenfeng's eyes could not help but brighten.
"It worked."
Just now, Gu Chenfeng had discovered that the incomplete runes on Celestial Master Zhang's chest were actually identical in style to the runes formed by the half-sheet of talisman paper nourished with chaos qi in the Divine Ruins Space.
Even their missing portions could fit together without the slightest gap; they were clearly one whole.
Gu Chenfeng had instinctively realized that this was his only chance of survival.
So he had not hesitated to expend his last Substitute Puppet, successfully deploying the talisman and completing those runes.
What Gu Chenfeng had not expected, however, was that the yin baleful qi within Celestial Master Zhang would nearly destroy the talisman light.
At the critical moment, it was Zhang Xiaoyun, a Sub-Saint cultivator, who had played the crucial role.
Gu Chenfeng and Zhang Xiaoyun exchanged a glance, both letting out a long breath, feeling as though they had escaped death.
At that moment, they saw that the blood light from the Eight Trigrams mirror in Celestial Master Zhang's hand was still devouring the energy of everyone in the Underground Palace.
The two stepped forward together, about to find a way to dispel the blood light.
Suddenly, Celestial Master Zhang's body, which had been standing rigidly in place, moved.
Under Gu Chenfeng and Zhang Xiaoyun's utterly astonished gazes,
he extended a large, pale hand, gently pinched the talisman paper over his heart, now restored to its complete form, and slowly peeled it off, laying it across his palm.
"Hiss...!"
The sight made Gu Chenfeng's scalp prickle.
Could even these talismans lose their effectiveness against Corpse Refining entities at the Celestial Master level?
Yet