"Scree!!!"
A piercing Gu Chirp suddenly exploded, stabbing straight into the divine soul.
Tie Shou had already been gravely wounded and unconscious, yet now he convulsed violently atop the wrecked deck, his whole body arching.
Blood seeped from his seven orifices.
Qing Sanxiao, that fellow playing dead, had been slumped motionless over the broken timbers. Now he finally failed to keep up the act and let out several muffled groans, his eyelids trembling violently. Clearly, his sea of consciousness had suffered no small injury.
After all, even Qing Chen felt his sea of consciousness shudder violently, a sharp pain striking between his brows.
His Nascent Soul Peak-level Demon Lotus Platform, that divine soul defense condensed from the "Demon Seed Golden Lotus," actually gave a crack, and a long, narrow fissure appeared across it!
Though the Demon Seed Divine Sense soon repaired the fissure, that instant of excruciating pain had already left cold sweat streaming down his back.
And this was only an area attack! What would happen if it unleashed its full power?
Yet the Fire Lingzhu merely turned gently.
"Crack."
It actually chewed up the Fifth Tier Heart-Rending Gut-Breaking Gu that had made Qing Chen feel as though he faced a formidable enemy.
The Gu's blue-gold body split apart inch by inch, its back shell shattered, and the red threads behind its tail writhed like snakes, spraying great swaths of sickly green Gu power.
But the moment that Gu power flew out, the Three-Colored Flames swept it back and burned it clean, turning it into wisps of supremely pure, dark-green currents that all merged into the pearl.
The Fire Lingzhu had first obtained nearly half of Golden Toad Granny's essence. Now, after devouring all the essence of this Fifth Tier Heart-Rending Gut-Breaking Gu, it seemed as though a living