Crash!
The river of blood roiled and surged, sweeping toward the barely alive Venerable Terror.
Countless powerful Demon Soul Generals stirred the origin of demonic baleful intent, dragging hold of this peak sixth-order Great Demon until the river of blood completely swallowed it!
Shen Mo put away the Soul Refining Banner and sent his awareness into it for a glance. He found that Venerable Terror was still desperately resisting the blood banner's refinement, but once it had been dragged inside, becoming a Soul General was only a matter of time. It was merely making its deathbed struggle.
He then took out several high-grade pills and swallowed them, restoring his depleted mana and healing the injuries to his soul body.
Though he appeared utterly uninjured, with an air as light as clouds and gentle as wind, his soul had in fact suffered considerable damage—injuries even graver than those he had sustained in his great battle against the Devil Lord of Longevity...
After all, the Smoke Monster race was inherently adept at manipulating the Seven Emotions and Six Desires. Many of their spells, divine powers, and other killing techniques could directly wound the Divine Soul.
As a peak sixth-order Smoke Monster, Venerable Terror was among the best of them. Had its greatest techniques not been restrained by [Audacious Beyond Measure], it would have been hard to say whether Shen Mo could have defeated it at all!
After recovering somewhat, Shen Mo cast his five senses and divine consciousness down upon Bliss Island below.
After Venerable Terror had been captured by Shen Mo, the hundreds of thousands of Smoke Monsters on the island had each deployed methods to hide themselves. Yet beneath his Dharma Eyes, there was nowhere for them to conceal themselves.
As for the other living beings, including mortal and immortal