When they heard Taiyuan Sea's words, no one answered for a moment.
After a while, True Monarch Boping finally spoke up and asked, "But... without those, does it still count as devouring?"
"Devouring has balanced elements too," Mobius Ring answered this time. "It inherently contains growth and the turning of time."
As expected of a True Monarch whose lifespan was nearing its end. With just a few words, he had explained it with exceptional clarity.
Luo Fu, however, was genuinely a little lost. "Does this mean... we still continue?"
"Of course," Great Venerable Han Li answered without the slightest hesitation. "It doesn't matter if the devouring is slower. We must ensure safety!"
"Slower... doesn't matter..." Qu Jianlei chewed over the words, helplessness showing on his face.
What he lacked most right now was time, and yet, damn it, Han Li was not wrong at all!
In fact, Luo Fu's removal of the negative factors from the devouring talent alone lasted half a month.
During this time, Qu Jianlei also did some divination and could basically confirm that Taotie's devouring talent had not originally been this powerful.
Taotie's cultivation ceiling had originally been the Out-of-Body Realm. It was just that this Taotie had another opportunity and had luckily achieved the level of a Great Monarch.
If it had only been an Out-of-Body-level devouring talent, then even with Luo Fu's half-baked Righteous Qi, removing it would not have been this difficult.
But Taotie had split its soul, so the level of its talent had naturally risen as well. The talent projection it had stripped out was naturally of the same level.
For a talent at the Great Monarch level, it was naturally very difficult for a True Venerable to remove some of its factors.
Fortunately, Righteous Qi had an extraordinary origin; otherwise,