Qing Chen was just about to summon the Immortal-Burying Coffin again when a chill struck his heart, as though ice water had been poured over his head.
The layers upon layers of demon seed divine sense restrictions he had placed on the Fire Lingzhu included fully nine insidious methods for controlling the divine soul and triggering self-destruction, each imbued with divine soul power at the Nascent Soul Peak level. Yet now they had been wiped utterly clean, without so much as a trace remaining!
Since mastering the "Demon Seed Golden Lotus," he had never encountered anything like this. This Zhao Ningyi was formidable indeed!
Just who was she? He was beginning to find her unfathomable.
This was a treasured divine soul method of the Immortal-Locking Cult. What right did she, a city lord's daughter of mortal origins, have to do this?
He, Qing Chen, had only mastered this method through heaven-given aptitude, talent, and fortuitous opportunities-not one of which could have been missing. What right did she have?
Before he could catch his breath, the Fire Lingzhu shuddered again. With a hum, three-colored flames gushed from the pearl and coalesced in midair into a fire dragon some hundred zhang long. Its scales were sharply defined, its whiskers and brows distinctly visible. Baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, it lunged at Qing Chen!
The dragon's jaws gaped wide, three-colored flames surging within like a tide. Waves of heat struck his face, roasting his skin until it tightened.
Qing Chen dared not delay. He instantly drove the Lawless Devil Aspect to its utmost, dark gold radiance winding around his body. He thrust the Blood River God-Slaying Spear forward, and the blood path rules thread at its tip suddenly blazed. Merging with the power of blood path rules within him, it became