He was utterly aghast.
He could not comprehend it at all.
How could that Yin-Yang Codex, which had shaken antiquity and dazzled the present, and was nearly the stuff of legend, appear on a youth who had clawed his way out of a remote border town?
What was even harder for him to believe was that a youth not yet twenty had actually cultivated this incomparably obscure and terrifying divine art to such a realm!
Back then, his Demon Race friend, whose brilliance had stunned heaven and earth, had spent three full centuries comprehending another Ancient Yin-Yang Art—one that was unknown how many times simpler than the Yin-Yang Reversal Art—without gaining anything. Yet Xiao Chen was still so young, and he could already use the Yin-Yang Reversal Art in actual battle!
"Hand over the Hidden Lantern, and I can leave your corpse intact!" Xiao Chen murmured as he advanced step by step.
Although an unparalleled demon treasure like the Heavenfire Hidden Lantern was most likely harder than divine iron and extremely difficult to destroy.
He was ultimately unfamiliar with the Heavenfire Hidden Lantern and did not wish to take the risk.
If Jin Kui jumped over the wall in desperation and annihilated the Hidden Lantern, the loss would be far too great.
"Since ancient times, heroes have risen from the young. I never imagined that I, a dignified Quasi-Emperor, would fall into the hands of a mere youth. If you want to kill me, then kill me. No need for more words. As for the Hidden Lantern, no chance!"
Jin Kui's soul body flickered in and out of view as Nether Azure blood-light continuously gushed forth. As time passed, his face grew ever paler. When the Yin Spirit Scythe had slashed into him and grievously wounded his divine soul, he