No one had known Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable's reaction would be this fast.
Wang Yu had not even taken his hand off the Heavenly Star Stone Tablet yet.
Then he saw the "furious" Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable completely freeze the space around Nether Child with utterly terrifying power, not giving the other party the slightest chance to explain.
His right hand mutated, his fingernails like shears, covered in a strange black-and-red life-seizing force, as though it had transformed into a mysterious property woven between nothingness and reality.
This was... Core Extraction Hand!
As an advanced technique every Core Formation Demonic Cultivator had to learn, it had clearly received a professional upgrade in Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable's hands. Not only was it layered with his own power, it could also be used in an even more vicious way.
Forcibly extracting a Nascent Soul!
Nether Child did not even have time to say a single word. And because he was at the critical juncture of breaking through, he simply did not have enough strength to resist.
All he could do was stare with eyes stretched wide, watching as Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable "dug" his Nascent Soul out of his body. That mist-wreathed Nascent Soul, carrying an intense medicinal fragrance, had not even had time to digest the effects of the spirit item.
Then this sudden calamity struck. His state of mind could be said to have fallen from heaven straight into hell.
The more smug and content he had been when he obtained the Heavenly Star Tower opportunity before, the more dispirited he was now.
Nether Child witnessed the reactions of the cultivators from every side. The cultivators of Yellow Springs Temple were horrified, yet mixed into that horror was a faint trace of relief, as if they had not wanted him