Chen Mobai looked utterly shocked, unable to believe it.
With his current realm of Dao Integration, for someone to make him feel such emotion showed that this person was truly unexpected.
"I never thought I would meet you again under such circumstances, young friend."
Amid a sigh, the mysterious man also knew he had not hidden from the Sacred Virtue Great Dao. As he spoke, the purple-red and dark-azure radiance dispersed, revealing the figure of a Daoist with loose hair.
It was none other than the Nine Heavens Demon Purging Ancestor.
Only, compared to before, there was now the mark of a Stone Lotus between his brows. The mark was formed from dark, profound lines, condensed into a Talisman.
Seeing this, Chen Mobai already understood what had happened.
"The Devil Master planted the Primordial Beginning Demon Talisman in you?"
The Nine Heavens Demon Purging Ancestor nodded.
And at that very moment, an enormous pitch-black dragon head, dark as thick ink, emerged from the void behind Chen Mobai's head. It opened its bloody maw, and black demonic flames powerful enough to rot all things burst out in a thunderous torrent.
Faced with this, Chen Mobai did not move at all. A purple-jade Ruler appeared out of thin air and thrust into the demonic dragon's bloody maw, blocking all the demonic flames back while also piercing through and shattering the dragon's head.
Amid the demonic dragon's violent howl of pain, the dragon back on which Chen Mobai and the Nine Heavens Demon Purging Ancestor stood also shook like the heavens were overturning and the earth was quaking. Yet both men's expressions remained normal, and they began to converse as though old friends had reunited.
"How did you fall to such a state, fellow Daoist?"
Facing Chen Mobai's doubts, the Nine Heavens Demon