"Hmm!?"
Gu Jinlai's mental power spread outward.
But Cangming Sacred Spirit's self-annihilation was too fast, and he had barely obtained any memories.
For a moment, he could not even tell whether the words of Cangming Devil Master, one of the five great Devil Masters of the former Demon Realm, had been meant to disrupt his perception and buy himself a chance to "commit suicide" in order to preserve the Demon Realm seed hidden in the shadows, or whether they had truly been a final outpouring before death.
After a moment, Gu Jinlai stopped probing the matter.
The deity behind Demigod Xiang Feng could descend in person at any time. This was no time to waste.
Without hesitation, he activated Void Projection again and descended into one of the rank-nine Sacred Spirits, whose strength was no weaker than Lord Xutian's.
This Sacred Spirit's foundation was clearly beyond that of recently transformed Sacred Spirits like Cangming Devil Master and Void Heaven Devil Master.
When its main consciousness was ground away and transformed into a collective will, Gu Jinlai's mental power had already been divided into more than six hundred and eighty thousand portions.
But that burden was still within Gu Jinlai's capacity to endure.
The only thing that surprised him somewhat was that after erasing this Sacred Spirit, he obtained only thirty-two strands of Clear Light.
The amount of Clear Light seemed to be related to the way these Sacred Spirits developed their believers.
After destroying this Sacred Spirit, he turned his attention to the dozen or so other rank-nine Sacred Spirits.
The rank-nine Sacred Spirits with deeper foundations possessed more than a million qualified believers, while those with shallower foundations, like Lord Xutian, had only a hundred thousand or so.
The amount each person provided in Clear Light varied.
Overall, the