The Third Holy Son was overjoyed. "You two Daoist brothers arrived at just the right time. This round of drinks is on Kong."
As he spoke, a green shoot appeared above his head. It swayed and turned, sweeping out a field of light as well.
The three fields of light formed a triangle, trapping the Chaos Demon tightly within.
The triangle's three sides kept advancing, and the field of light shrank smaller and smaller. No matter how wildly the Chaos Demon thrashed, how it changed shape, or how it sent black qi billowing across the sky, it could never break out of the narrowing triangle.
At last, the three sides of the triangle met at a single point and burst into dazzling light. When the light faded, the Chaos Demon had vanished without a trace.
A spirit core dropped out of thin air, and the Third Holy Son snatched it up.
Xiong Bei Ming and the purple-robed man exchanged a glance and smiled faintly.
The Third Holy Son opened his palm. A pure purple spirit core, nearly transparent and about the size of an almond, shone with dazzling radiance.
A hint of undisguised disappointment flashed between the Third Holy Son's brows.
The purple-robed man laughed. "It is a little regrettable. If we'd let such a formidable high-tier demon roam free for a while longer, then with a stroke of luck, it might have broken through from purple to gold and become the highest-tier demon."
The Third Holy Son was disappointed because the spirit core he'd obtained was purple, not gold.
He had spent far too much time and effort on this Chaos Demon.
He had already slain two Chaos Demons with fourth-tier Purple Spirit Cores, but neither had been as difficult to deal with as this one.
He had thought