Dream on! How many years have you been cultivating?

" Fu Yundi's body shook; a wild, violent essence burst forth, and essence of incredible density formed behind him a deity with eight arms and eight heads. He had all but refined the false into the true; the eight-armed, eight-headed god wrought of his essence had nearly taken on substance!

In the hands of the deity behind him were eight ritual implements, likewise refined until they were very nearly real!

A City Lord of Crimson Dragon City possessed extraordinary means, as was only fitting! "The Eight Aspects Divine Art is indeed a remarkable art, but remarkable is all it is. It is far from reaching the realm of the divine!

" Granny Zhu giggled.

Suddenly the husk of skin sloughed away, and out of the old woman's shell stepped a woman in the full flower of her beauty, none other than that peerless beauty of the City Lord's mansion, the widow of the sect master!

She darted forward; at the same time the silk threads transformed from the Great Nurturing Nether Demon Sutra flew swiftly to and fro. Fu Yundi roared, and saw the palm of that beautiful sect master's widow strike at him head-on; he sneered, "Si Youyou, you are no more than a hundred-odd years old.

How could your power run deeper than mine? " Boom.

The two palms met, and "Granny Zhu" was blasted high into the air. "Trying to flee? " Fu Yundi leaped and sprang into the sky as well, then suddenly felt something strange.

"Why have I grown so light.

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" He looked down, and saw standing upon the river a skinless man of blood. He looked at himself, and screamed.

He had become a sheet of human skin, and the man of blood below was himself, flayed!

In the instant "Granny Zhu" exchanged palms with him, the silk threads of the Great Nurturing Nether Demon Sutra had bored into his body, sealing his three souls and seven spirits in the blink of an eye and stripping away his skin. That "Granny Zhu" was blasted into the air, but in truth she had leapt up of her own accord, and with one hard pull of the thread in her hands she had peeled his human skin off him, clean and neat!

"Fu Yundi, nothing more than that. " "Granny Zhu" reached up and caught the sheet of skin; with a swish she draped it over herself, and in appearance and bearing she was exactly like Fu Yundi.

Below, Fu Yundi's skinless corpse sank into the water and was carried off by the current. Her figure fell, and when it touched the river's surface, the river-bearer carrying Shen Mu and the Blind Elder had arrived at that very spot.

"The City Lord of Crimson Dragon City?

" Shen Mu's scalp went numb; the Chubao Sword at his waist gave a ringing chime, ready to strike at any moment. "Shen'er, it's Granny.

" From Fu Yundi's mouth came Granny Zhu's voice, then Fu Yundi's again, the two virtually indistinguishable.

"The armies of Jingping should be arriving soon, shouldn't they?

When will the village headman and the rest come? " The Blind Elder tilted his head.

"They have most likely already entered the city.

The Imperial Preceptor Jingping comes in menacing temper this time. Granny, in the guise of Fu Yundi, you must not betray the slightest crack, or with the Imperial Preceptor's abilities he may take your life in a single move. Fu Yundi's Eight Aspects Divine Art, can you imitate it?

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