Yet Chen Cheng had no pleasant expression to spare these old fools, who looked as though they had willingly accepted defeat.
"I have many things I could say to condemn your utterly shameless conduct, but you are not worthy of hearing them."
Chen Cheng then mercilessly unfurled his Divine Domain, enveloping the old fools within it. Inside the Divine Kingdom, Kui Niu and Scorpion Lady now displayed strength far surpassing what they had possessed before.
From that moment on, Kui Niu's Reincarnation River finally gained four new souls.
Chen Cheng had not kept their souls out of mercy. At first, he had merely wanted them to taste Hell's cruel punishments. Yet after taking in those souls, the Reincarnation River had unexpectedly grown stronger.
And once he had a means of imprisoning their souls, there was no need to keep the four old fools whose limbs Chen Cheng had severed.
Chen Cheng likewise seized their souls and gathered their spirits, consigning them to the Reincarnation River.
Chen Cheng tinkered around within the Divine Kingdom for a while longer, sorting out the expanded Reincarnation River while interrogating the old fools' souls.
After a round of torture and questioning, Chen Cheng learned that their Death-Substitute Puppets had been relics left behind by the Empire.
Back then, the Empire had excavated ruins and unearthed these treasures from within them.
Besides special treasures like Death-Substitute Puppets, there had also been many formation diagrams and other cultivation methods.
The Hosting Method they used had been derived from those cultivation methods. It had originally belonged to a God-Ascension Method, but with godhood beyond their reach, they had altered it into this Hosting Method, turning it into a secret technique of the Imperial family.
There were many other techniques like it. Some proved useless after being deciphered, while