Above the Floating Palace in Zhu Yuan, an explosion rang out, startling the surrounding living beings into looking over.
Having advanced to the Void Source Lord Rank, Liu Yun summoned the Source Lord Authority and obliterated the Backstage Manipulator, who was also a Source Lord, into a cloud of blood mist.
However, the Backstage Manipulator's true body had not perished. It was still within the Dim Starry Sky, lying dormant inside a concealed folded space.
After all, he was an old monster who had lived for Endless years and had always acted cautiously. What he had sent to Zhu Yuan this time was merely an Origin Essence Doppelganger.
Liu Yun did not know this, but he was quite puzzled at the moment.
Logically speaking, after he devoured the surrounding blood mist, the Devouring voice and attribute acquisition notifications in his mind should have sounded.
Yet there was nothing.
Not only that, the living beings around him who had been turned into neither human nor beast by the Backstage Manipulator's methods had not returned to normal. They still roared madly and attacked their subordinates.
Could that old man have left behind some method unknown to This Seat? Liu Yun pondered.
Soon, he let it go.
He had sufficient confidence in his strength. Even if some method had been left behind, he was confident he could handle it with ease.
"Soldiers come, generals block; water comes, earth dams. This Seat would like to see what other methods you have left."
Liu Yun came back to his senses, looked at the monsters around him that were neither human nor beast and still attacking, then sneered.
"Since that is the case, let them all be annihilated!"
He had originally intended to eliminate the Backstage Manipulator and restore everything to normal, but the situation now