On the contrary, after having a piece of his soul devoured, the Ancient Demon God let out a crazed, agonized shriek. He turned into a ball of flame and drifted thirty meters away from Lu Yang. When he reassembled into phoenix form and looked at Lu Yang again, his eyes were filled with rage—but even more so, fear.
"Human, you dared to devour the soul of an Ancient Demon God. You will be punished!" the Ancient Demon God roared madly, but the missing piece of soul atop his skull could not be restored.
Lu Yang stared at the Ancient Demon God without speaking and walked toward him step by step. The way he looked at the Blazing Demon God was like a starving lion eyeing a full-grown bull. Either the lion's belly would be ripped open by the bull's horns, or the lion would bite through the bull's throat. Only one of them could survive.
The Ancient Demon God hated that look more than anything. Faced with Lu Yang's approach, he slowly backed away, spread his wings, and grew dozens of meters tall. "Take another step closer, and I'll eat you!"
Lu Yang sneered and continued forward without saying a word.
Seeing that he had failed to frighten Lu Yang, the Ancient Demon God hurriedly shrank back to two meters tall and snarled, "Human, don't push me too far. Do you believe I can use a secret technique to kill you right now?"
The Blazing Demon God snorted. "Don't listen to him. If he had a way to deal with you, would he have let you take a bite out of his soul?"
Malthus agreed. "This Ancient Demon God has no backbone at all. Eat him."
Lu Yang thought the same. He continued closing in. Within his soul space, whose