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"Rumble!"

At the instant True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde's Dharma body shattered, the Wall Earth star above the Vault Sky blazed brightly, while a drizzling rain of blood began to fall between heaven and earth.

Yet the next second, Gangxing Budao True Lord's expression changed slightly. After the death of a dignified True Lord, no Gold Nature soul appeared. Only a gust of sinister wind blew past, formless and intangible, melding into the spiritual qi of heaven and earth in the blink of an eye, sweeping back the smoke and clouds as it rushed in every direction.

"Clang! Clang!"

Almost simultaneously, Gangxing Budao True Lord drew his sword. Though he had not raised his rank, the resplendent Sword Light still spread out like a prairie fire.

More than half of the dispersing sinister wind was snuffed out in an instant.

The other two True Lords of the Sword Pavilion then struck together, frantically strangling the sinister wind formed by the Heart Demon. Unfortunately, their cultivation was considerably weaker.

In the end, scattered wisps of sinister wind still escaped alive.

Though vastly fewer than when it had first emerged, for the Heart Demon, as long as a single avatar escaped, recovery was merely a matter of time.

"How could this be?"

Seeing this, Gangxing Budao True Lord finally realized something was wrong. "After being killed by this Heart Demon, even the Gold Nature soul cannot be left behind?"

"How could such a vicious thing exist in this world?"

His expression was incomparably grim, with a faint trace of regret. Yet the die had been cast, and there was nothing he could do, for the Heart Demon had already escaped.

Once it escaped, it was like a fish entering the sea, a bird soaring into the blue heavens.

From then on, it