Within the Blood Sea.
Figures sat cross-legged atop the Heavenly Pillars, each silent.
They were all people who had been defeated by Luo Chen in the battle at No-Return Valley, their fleshly bodies even having collapsed, leaving only their surviving Primordial Spirits.
The bodies they had now condensed had, in truth, been created through Luo Chen's Blood Refinement Divine Aura.
In essence, they had already become Luo Chen's slaves.
Taken to an extreme, they could even be regarded as "parasites" upon Luo Chen's powerful body.
For the rest of their lives, unless Luo Chen died, none of them could escape his control.
These were the prices they had paid for their former greed.
Yet even as slaves, they still retained a measure of the will they had possessed in life.
The stronger their former cultivation, the more will they retained.
Old Devil Shan was one such example.
He had joined in encircling Luo Chen twice in succession: once in the battle at Ba Plain, and once in the battle at No-Return Valley.
The reason he had dared to be so bold was his reliance on his Void Refinement Realm cultivation.
Now that things had come to this, did he feel even a trace of regret?
Yet his resistance to Luo Chen's enslavement had faintly surfaced earlier, when he had acted against Woody the Cripple.
Sitting cross-legged atop the Heavenly Pillar, Old Devil Shan still cultivated the method from before, trying to better harmonize with this body condensed from blood qi.
There was something deeply tragic about this.
To escape Luo Chen's enslavement, he had to possess a fleshly body!
Yet this body was supplied by Luo Chen's own blood qi. The more compatible it became, the less he could resist Luo Chen.
Old Devil Shan seemed to have instinctively forgotten