"How should I know whether you're just blowing hot air? Besides, even if you really were extraordinary in the past, right now you're a fallen Phoenix worse than a chicken. Now that you've taken over this Puppet Corpse Demon's body, what we should be discussing is how you're going to compensate me."
Lin Xuan's slow voice entered his ears. With all his experience in the cultivation world, he was hardly someone so easily fooled.
When the old man heard this, his expression turned somewhat ugly.
His status had been noble to the extreme. If he had not been plotted against by that Ancient Demon and fallen into this neither-human-nor-ghost state, even the Three Demon Emperors and Six Sea Kings would not have dared speak to him like this. Truly, when the tiger fell to the plains, even dogs bullied it.
But frustration would not solve the problem. In the cultivation world, strength was what mattered.
He understood this principle well, and so he could only take a deep breath and suppress the fury in his heart.
"Believe it or not, that is up to you. Now that this old man has fallen to such a state, whatever I say is useless. You want me to compensate you, but at present I possess nothing at all. Only after no small amount of effort did my soul merge with this Corpse Demon. If you want me to give it up, that is impossible. If you truly insist on forcing me, then there is only battle."
A trace of cold laughter appeared on the old man's face. Although his realm had fallen to the middle stage, and because his body was that of a Corpse Demon, it conflicted somewhat with the cultivation methods he had practiced before, causing his abilities to be greatly