"Young man, you've got plenty of nerve. I hope that when I catch up with you, your skills are sharper than your tongue."
The old monster gave a grim laugh. His voice fell silent, but he continued closing in on Lu Xiaotian.
"The qi and blood in this boy are astonishing, and he also possesses the Void Sky Sub-Cauldrons. If we can kill him, the benefits we reap will be beyond measure. This may well be our chance to be reborn.
"The fortune on him is enough to let both of us continue to exist. There's no need for us to keep wearing each other down like this."
Kong Tianji feared his clan's ancestor to the extreme. He had still underestimated this half-step Demon Emperor.
He had thought that after clinging to life for so many years, the old monster would have little strength left, even if he hadn't breathed his last. Perhaps the fusion would be perilous, but surely the old monster wouldn't be able to do anything to him.
Only after they truly began fusing did Kong Tianji realize how simplistic his thinking had been.
The old monster's remaining strength truly wasn't much. Under ordinary circumstances, if Kong Tianji encountered an enemy of this level, he could easily kill him a dozen times over.
But Kong Tianji's goal had never been to kill the old monster outright. He had wanted to fuse with him.
Kong Tianji had made a great many preparations beforehand. But once the fusion truly began, he discovered that events had veered completely off the course he had expected.
To inherit all of his clan ancestor's abilities, Kong Tianji had opened the stone coffin and used the Soul-Melding, Spirit-Fusing Sacred Body Pill, passed down in his clan since ancient times, to fuse their bodies together.