"Aah-!" Purple Spider True Lord let out a piercing scream as he plummeted.
Gravely wounded as he was, his eyes instead blazed with a final surge of madness and the will to live!
"You forced me to do this!!"
He violently spat out a mouthful of blackish-purple essence blood, which condensed into an eerie talisman in midair.
"Junior! Since you've driven me this far, I'll let you taste the power of the Heart-Devouring Purple Spider Gu!"
The talisman abruptly split open, and a spider phantom flew out, only the size of a fingernail, its entire body translucent as purple jade.
The phantom seemed feeble, yet a chill killing intent spread from it, piercing the heart and corroding the soul.
"Go!" Purple Spider True Lord's face instantly turned ashen; clearly, unleashing this art exacted an enormous price.
The Purple Jade Centipede Phantom flashed, actually ignoring the distance across space to appear directly three inches before Qing Chen's brow, opening its mouth to bite!
Qing Chen felt a stabbing pain in his divine soul.
This vicious gu curse could actually attack the divine soul directly, making it difficult for ordinary magic treasures to defend against!
"Nine-Petal Demon Lotus!"
A tiny lotus suddenly appeared at his brow, like a miniature lotus dais, and sucked the Purple Jade Centipede Phantom inside with unerring precision!
Szzzt-!
That supremely venomous centipede phantom was actually trapped fast by the lotus dais and worn away at a speed visible to the naked eye!
"What?! The Immortal-Locking Heretical Cult?" Purple Spider True Lord was frightened out of his wits. His last-resort, life-saving Divine Soul Mystic Art had actually been blocked so easily?
In that very instant when his concentration broke!
The contingency Qing Chen had long since secretly laid;
-the five demon banners that had been lurking in the