Even the ownerless Soul Severing Spear was bent and twisted under the merciless pressure of the earth, until it was no longer recognizable!
A mighty demon cultivator had fallen. His lifelong ambitions, his grand designs and wild aspirations, had ultimately turned to nothing with his death.
"Hm?"
High above, Murong Luoli had landed her blow, but she felt no satisfaction at all from vanquishing evil. Her long, slender brows furrowed slightly as she looked toward the Blood Demon Hall.
Deep inside the demonic hall, a surge of blood energy shot into the sky.
Blood Soul Demon Lord, whose strength had plummeted after his blood sea origin was gravely damaged, had been utterly weakened. Yet his energy suddenly surged back by several degrees.
Deep underground, amid the corpse of Li Ciyou, crushed into a pulp, a wisp of blood energy drifted lightly and leisurely free of its confinement in the endless soil and rock. It evaded the scorching flames raging outside, flew back to the Blood Demon Hall, and was swallowed by Blood Soul Demon Lord.
Having done all that, Blood Soul Demon Lord let out a satisfied belch.
Ever since his martial path had undergone a transformation, Lu Yang's eyes had gradually become able to see through the many surface appearances of the world and glimpse certain things in their essence.
Just then, in that instant, he had clearly seen a faint, almost imperceptible blood-red rune within the wisp of blood energy remaining from Li Ciyou!
Lu Yang needed only one glance to understand.
What Blood Soul Demon Lord had just used was clearly something like the method of sowing demons in the Dao heart from the martial arts novels of his previous life.
A demonic embryo was planted in the target.
That embryo would then absorb the host's life