After the Nightmare Beast died, its enormous body shrank rapidly, like intestines dropped into boiling water, until it became a ball of flesh barely a hundred yards across.
The ball looked like a brain, with countless Mystic Runes flickering across its surface.
The Floating Immortal Sword flew back into Fang Chen's hand. Its blade felt warm and smooth, its radiance subdued, but he could clearly sense that the power within it had risen another level. The energy it fed back to him had grown purer and more abundant as well.
Only one faint layer of rust seemed to remain on the blade. Beneath it, he could almost glimpse its true, world-shaking edge.
Not long ago, the rust on the Floating Immortal Sword had still been thickening. Now it had begun to thin again.
The myna bird and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm dropped out of their Battle Array. They watched the Dream Realm mist swiftly disperse and the ruins of the Lair collapse, still somewhat shaken.
"Just like that? It's over?"
The myna bird smacked his beak. "A late Fifth Turn Nightmare Beast, on its own turf, and we took it down that easily!"
The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm looked at the Floating Immortal Sword, awe showing in its eyes.
Fang Chen stroked the blade, feeling the surging power within it. Then he summoned the Swallowing Heaven Tower and stored the Nightmare Beast's corpse inside.
He now had two of the three most crucial ingredients for the Heaven-Deceiving Earth-Changing Pill. At last, his plan to refine it had a real glimmer of hope.
"All that's left is Fate Mist Dust."
Fang Chen fell into thought.
Information about Fate Mist Dust surfaced in his mind.
Fate Mist Dust: neither real nor illusory, formed from Manifestations drifting along the edge of the River of