"Why not give me your Devouring Power?"
The Blood God Sect's Sect Leader's eyes flashed with sharp, bloody light. A strange, sinister grin curled across his wrinkled face.
"You want my Devouring Power?"
Lin Bai was stunned. He had never heard that members of the Heaven Swallowing Race could devour one another.
Ultimately, it was because Lin Bai knew too little about the Heaven Swallowing Race.
To this day, Lin Bai had met only three members of the Heaven Swallowing Race: Qing He, on Divine Relic Ridge of the Barren Ancient Continent; Liao Lu, whom he had encountered inside the Celestial God Tomb; and Leng Xingguang, whom he had met in the Demon Realm.
Qing He and Liao Lu were both remnant souls. They retained very few memories of their lives and could not teach Lin Bai much.
Like Lin Bai, Leng Xingguang was an itinerant martial artist of the Heaven Swallowing Race and had not received the inheritance of the Heaven Swallowing Race.
Thus, neither Lin Bai nor Leng Xingguang had ever imagined that Devouring Power could devour itself.
"Just as I thought—you know nothing about Devouring Power!"
The Blood God Sect's Sect Leader seemed to know many of the mysteries of Devouring Power. As he thrust his claw into Lin Bai's abdomen, trying to dig out Lin Bai's Heaven Swallowing Dao Fruit, he spoke coldly and mercilessly:
"The Devouring Power in this world exists in a fixed quantity!"
"Since time immemorial, there have been only ninety-nine portions of Devouring Power in the world."
"Whenever a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race dies, the Devouring Power he possesses dissipates and appears on another martial artist."
"And these ninety-nine portions of Devouring Power can fuse with one another."
"That was something I... only discovered by chance after killing a member