After learning of the Sun-Treasure Divine Pagoda from the Blood-Haired Severed Head and seeing this mysterious place, suspected to be a tribulation-crossing secret realm, with his own eyes... no matter how foolish Flame Spirit King was, he would not still think, as he had when he first unexpectedly acquired this demon, that it was merely an ordinary Demon Venerable.
Thus, this demon revealing that it was at the Devil Ancestor realm had, in truth, always been within Flame Spirit King's expectations.
As a great Integrated-Body cultivator, although there was a gulf as vast as heaven and earth between him and an Ancient Demon at the Devil Ancestor realm, he still had some confidence in dealing with an Ancient Demon's remnant body that had been sealed for many years and whose strength had greatly declined.
—He had initially "trusted" this demon only after ascertaining that its strength was insufficient to threaten him. Only then had he believed it for a short while.
"Could it be that on the fifth floor of this Sun-Treasure Divine Pagoda, there is something you can rely on to kill this old man in return?"
Flame Spirit King snorted coldly. In that instant, his immense divine sense inspected the fifth-floor hall inside and out—a hall scarcely different from the main hall on the first floor of the Sun-Treasure Divine Pagoda.
"You are quite clever, to have guessed that." The Blood-Haired Severed Head spoke in surprise. As one side of its lips moved and it chanted a demonic incantation, using the billowing demonic qi around its body to batter the dozens of talismans affixed to its head, it also let out a shrill, terrifying howl.
Beneath that piercing demonic sound.
Outside the hall doors, a jade-green sharp claw the size of a palm-leaf fan suddenly thrust inward. Fearless