Son of Destiny

Seeing the long spear enter its body, the dried corpse came back to life. An incredulous expression actually surfaced on the giant head's face, followed by furious outrage as its mouth opened and closed. A thunderous roar echoed through the cavern:

"Impossible! How could an utterly lowly mortal make Slaughter acknowledge him as master! I am a descendant of the Origin Race; I will never meet my final end here! Sky Sealing Chains, get the hell away from me... Ah!"

Thunderous echoes reverberated endlessly through the cavern. A savage look flashed across the giant head's face as it snapped two more seven-colored chains of light. Then it suddenly opened its mouth and sucked Niu Gan Shan's body over. Its jaws clamped down and chewed fiercely, producing horrifying crunching sounds.

The very next second, however, an incomparably agonized, twisted expression appeared on the giant head's face. Countless dazzling red beams burst from its eyes, nostrils, ears, and the gaps in its shattered skull.

Within the hollow skull, a fiery red true dragon swam and rampaged in its depths. Wherever it passed, bones and remnants of brain tissue vanished into nothingness.

The giant head was like a colossal fortress collapsing in full view, caving in and dissolving at a visible rate as it rapidly assimilated into a vast expanse of brilliant red light.

"I... will not die... I am imperishable... Never... Human treachery... So it was all... a conspiracy..."

As it dissolved, the multicolored streams of light swirling around it flowed backward like a flood into the head, desperately trying to mend the imperishable soul rushing toward its final end.

Yet once the master-recognition process that had been arranged over tens of thousands of years was activated, it could no longer be reversed. The fate of this Demon Star from beyond the