"Won't die?"
The First Lifetime Heart Demon looked intrigued. "So, you still have a trump card?"
Without warning, a huge hand suddenly covered the Evil Sword Venerable's figure, imprisoning him completely.
Yet the Evil Sword Venerable seemed utterly unconcerned.
Expressionless, he said coolly, "In all my life, I have never acted by staking everything on a single throw, much less let myself fall into a Place of Eternal Doom!"
"As for whether I have a trump card... why doesn't you, Great Lord of Sword Emperor City, take a guess?"
After saying that, the Evil Sword Venerable revealed a provocative look.
Then, his suppressed and imprisoned figure suddenly began to burn.
The First Lifetime Heart Demon frowned. With a flick of his finger, an obscure and strange Dao pattern emerged in his palm, and he reached through the air.
This strike was called Stealing Sky Thread.
Even if an opponent's soul had scattered into smoke, it could seize a thread of their extinguished soul power from where that soul had dispersed.
Yet, to the First Lifetime Heart Demon's surprise, the Evil Sword Venerable's figure burned away completely, without leaving behind even a trace of aura!
Only a charred fragment of a secret talisman remained where he had stood.
The First Lifetime Heart Demon collected the talisman fragment and gave it a cursory look. At once, contempt appeared on his face. "What a worthless coward. From the very beginning, he never intended to enter the fray himself."
Su Yi asked, "What is that?"
"A Golden Cicada Life Stealing Talisman. It refines the power of fate into a talisman and employs the secret of the golden cicada shedding its shell. It is more marvelous than a death-substitution talisman. With its power, one can create a Dao body identical to the main body—cultivation, consciousness,