A piercing crimson light erupted from the [Blood-Marrow Self-Destruct Talisman] crushed in Xiao Huo’s palm.
Within half a heartbeat, every drop of blood and residual Qi inside Xiao Huo’s body began to boil in reverse. His chest inflated like an overpumped leather bellows, glowing with a jagged web of scarlet cracks.
Even though Su Nuannuan’s honey-lemon water had crippled his Strange Fire, the explosive backlash of a former Rank 7 cultivator detonating his own heart-blood. Moreover, Dantian core at point-blank range was enough to vaporize a ten-block radius of Blazing-Flame City!
Worse still, the Heavenly Script in the upper atmosphere wasn’t willing to let its World #1 protagonist die without leaving a permanent trauma scar on the Nalan Clan and the Gu family.
Hum—clang!
A thick, translucent red barrier covered in faint golden script-runes snapped around Xiao Huo’s swelling body like an iron turtle shell.
“Watch out! He’s detonating his dantian core!” Patriarch Nalan Hong roared from the VIP box, Vaulting over the marble railing and slashing down with his Rank 6 Peak ancestral flame saber to cut Xiao Huo down.
Before long, He could reach the porch.
