After slaying the Shadow Evil Lord, Ye Xiwen immediately withdrew from the state of Man and Talisman as One. Remaining in that state for too long inflicted far too much damage on him.
Before him, the Shadow Evil Lord's physical body re-formed. He still looked like an overlord of the world, but his Primordial Spirit had already been extinguished. He was thoroughly dead.
If his body had remained, perhaps after thousands or tens of thousands of years, it might have had a chance to give birth to intelligence anew and become another overlord between heaven and earth.
But clearly, it no longer had such an opportunity. Ye Xiwen grabbed the body and blew it apart, turning it into pure essence blood that poured into the World Tree.
On the World Tree, a World Tree Fruit slowly condensed under the nourishment of that essence blood. Though it had already taken shape, it was still not enough for Ye Xiwen.
Not enough for him to break through!
To step from the Eighth Stage into the peak of the Eighth Stage, he now needed far more energy than before—several times more, perhaps. An ordinary Celestial Venerable was nowhere near as strong as the Shadow Evil Lord.
They would not provide such a great boost to the World Tree, either.
After only a few breaths, the injuries Ye Xiwen had suffered in the battle had already healed seventy to eighty percent.
Ye Xiwen did not linger in the slightest and left directly. He knew that the three who had received the news would likely arrive before long.
Now was not the time to come face-to-face with them!
Not long after Ye Xiwen left, ripples of spatial fluctuations spread through the void, and several figures swiftly arrived.
They were none other than Crimson Purgatory Demon