The lotus struck home, grievously wounding the puppet. On pure instinct, he reached into his chest, pulled Guan Lijuan out, and hurled her into the distance, roaring, "Go!"
"No!" Guan Lijuan shrieked in despair as she was thrown through the air.
"Heh. You forced me to go all out; the two of you can be proud of that. But did you really think you could just leave whenever you please?"
As Zhang Deming muttered to himself, his Heart Spirit stirred. The Spirit Species Guan Lijuan had absorbed earlier couldn't be activated because of the puppet's external barrier.
Now that she was exposed, Zhang Deming activated his Technique. Guan Lijuan, still flying through the air, let out a piercing scream and plummeted to the ground.
"AHHH!!!"
"Lijuan!" the puppet whispered weakly. But having forcibly torn Guan Lijuan from his body only made his grievous injuries worse. The auras of them both began to fade.
