Caught in the lava lake, Shi Lei had been mistaken by the Thunder-Fire Flood Dragon for an old enemy, and the beast now demanded a fight to the death. Shi Lei was completely at a loss, stunned and bewildered. When he discovered he could not move a muscle and had been reduced to a puppet, a nameless terror gripped him at his own drastic transformation.
The surface of the lava lake suddenly caved inward, forming a swirling vortex as twelve pillars of purple light rose from the bottom of the lake, arrayed like stars in the night sky.
Shi Lei's battered body hung suspended at the center of the formation, and the purple threads of light radiating from his chest had already pulled him taut like a marionette. His left arm was crystallized and translucent like glazed glass, while the lotus platform spinning within the gaping wound on his right chest emitted a starved, humming drone...
Chapter 472