The golden-green mantis was a rare dual metal-wood demon beast. Its two forelimbs possessed astonishing strength and could actually withstand his Earthsplitter Saber head-on, its explosive power equally formidable. However, as a sixth-rank body cultivator, Lu Xiaotian was not lacking in explosive strength himself. Coupled with his attainments in spells, unless it was a sixth-rank demon beast with outrageously exaggerated strength like the Black Abyss Elephant or the Mountain Giant Beast, most sixth-rank demon beasts would not find it easy to overpower him.
The golden-green mantis's essence soul tried to flee, but Lu Xiaotian's Soul-Seizing Art had now reached a considerable level of mastery. The gray threads flicked from between his fingers swiftly condensed into a fine net, trapping it within.
Fully refining an intact demon beast's primordial spirit essence was no easy task. Even if it ultimately failed, it would still consume a considerable amount of time.
Lu Xiaotian's ten fingers moved as swiftly as phantoms, constantly forming different hand seals. Two hours later, a massive and profound rune enveloped the golden-green mantis's primordial spirit essence.
The golden-green mantis essence soul trembled and struggled violently, but the hatred in its eyes soon became a look of confusion. The method Lu Xiaotian was using now was somewhat similar to the Soul-Losing Seal he had refined when subduing Di Kun. However, the Soul-Losing Seal would not inflict any side effects upon Di Kun's primordial spirit; it merely caused Di Kun to lose his memories. Yet it took far too long. Once one became proficient in the secret technique within the Devouring Soul Art, erasing the memories within a demon beast's primordial spirit essence required far less time. The only drawback was that a primordial spirit essence refined by the Devouring Soul Art would completely lose all possibility of autonomy. Each method