"They're really gone."
Gu Jinlai confirmed the fact only when the space completely returned to normal.
This opening of the Demon Realm rift had ended.
The whole process...
Was somewhat unexpected, yet within reason.
"About a hundred and twenty demonic spirits rushed out of the rift, among which five were medium-sized demonic spirits."
This number exceeded his expected sixty to eighty demonic spirits by a wide margin.
Yet it did not exceed his expectations completely.
"My remaining spiritual intent and recovery rate should be able to handle another fifty or sixty demonic spirits... However, if this Demon Realm rift could truly spew out this many Demon Realm lives, demonic beasts would have already run rampant around Lingxiao City long ago, and even Star Province would have ended up like Dongmu Province and Nanmu Province—demons dancing wildly and the people plunged into misery."
Gu Jinlai uttered.
Recovering his composure slightly, he turned his gaze aside.
There, every set of armor, sword, and spear gleamed with flowing light and was filled with metallic luster.
He first stroked the treasured armor and battle sword.
These two treasures would acquire the characteristic of shrinking and expanding at will after absorbing sufficient spirituality.
This characteristic was of little use, but to Gu Jinlai, it was extremely convenient.
Immediately following, he turned to those ten "Thunder" Gatling guns.
He inspected them one by one.
"Bzz bzz!"
The metallic friction sound produced by the gun barrels rotating rapidly emanated from the cave.
Then...
It was the gunpowder.
"This gunpowder..."
Gu Jinlai felt somewhat regretful: "If it weren't for the fact that the original intention of refining this gunpowder was to use it as a priming charge, I could have entirely co-spirited it into ONC high-energy explosive."
As everyone knew, black powder had a detonation velocity of only