Without warning, he seized Yin Jiuxuan by the neck. The Source Devouring Emperor Scripture activated, dark gleams pulsing at his fingertips like some hungry living thing.
Yin Jiuxuan's Adam's apple bobbed frantically. He wanted to beg, wanted to scream, but the shadow called death had already gripped his vocal cords, leaving him able to make only the wheezing sounds of a broken bellows.
Xiong Gang was even worse off. Shen Fan had been devouring him all along, never fully stopping even while speaking with Yin Jiuxuan. His body had shrunk noticeably, and half his Dao Fruit had already been ground away.
Now Shen Fan unleashed his full strength, and the devouring speed soared!
A suffocatingly powerful suction erupted from Shen Fan's palm.
Xiong Gang let out a miserable scream, then passed out on the spot!
Yin Jiuxuan fared little better. His sacred energy, Divine Soul, and even the Dao Fruit essence that embodied all his cultivation were pouring out wildly under that suction.
"Aah—!"
Yin Jiuxuan let out the most agonized scream of his life.
He felt his vitality draining away. The Dao Fruit Power he had cultivated through millions of years of bitter effort was flowing endlessly into Shen Fan's body through his palm.
He wanted to struggle, wanted to detonate himself, but the demonic energy chain Shen Fan had left inside him had already sealed every one of his meridians.
He could only watch helplessly as his strength continued to drain away!
Shen Fan closed his eyes, feeling the power surging through his body.
The Dao Fruit essence of a Third-Rank True Saint was indeed far purer than that of those "small fry."
Just one of them equaled dozens, even a hundred peak fourth-rank Saint Ancestors!
As he refined vast quantities of Dao Fruit essence, Shen Fan's own