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Yan Chen spat out a mouthful of blood, and his breathing, which had only just steadied, weakened once more.

He looked at the bright red blood on the desk before him with a pained expression.

The blood had splattered across the rosewood desk, standing out starkly under the dim yellow light.

Clutching his chest, Yan Chen sank back into his chair and turned to look at the half-open window.

Outside, a green meteor tore across the sky and plunged straight into the earth!

At the sight, Yan Chen's usually placid eyes finally filled with disbelief.

La Riluo actually fell?!

As he thought this, Yan Chen could not help reaching for his chest.

Over the past few days, he had controlled La Riluo through his domain, then used his ability to forcibly extract her Mental Power and life force!

In just a few days, he had drained nearly a third of La Riluo's Mental Power and life force!

He had stored all of it in his chest.

Although the process had later been interrupted, preventing him from directly advancing to a Fourth-Order Calamity Descendant, that did not mean the Mental Power and life force had become useless.

He only needed time to refine them and erase La Riluo's spiritual imprint before they could become resources for his own advancement.

With this accumulation of Mental Power and life force, if he continued gathering more in the future, he could find another opportunity to attempt advancing to a Fourth-Order Calamity Descendant!

So although trapping La Riluo this time had not ultimately achieved his objective, he had not suffered a loss either.

It was precisely because of that confidence that, after discovering the drastic changes in New Realm City, Yan Chen had decisively withdrawn his domain and released La Riluo.

Yet who could have