The blood stench in Ghost Soul Valley had yet to dissipate, and the air still echoed with the lingering wails of resentful souls.
Chikata knelt on one knee, his body trembling violently. Most of the bloody, baleful aura around him had scattered, and the ghostfire in his eyes was as dim as a candle flame in the wind.
He stared fixedly at Chiyo as he slowly approached. The calmness in those scarlet eyes terrified him more than any violent attack.
"You... won't kill me?"
Chikata's voice was hoarse, carrying a trace of desperate hope.
Chiyo stopped three steps before him and raised his right hand.
"Killing you would be too wasteful."
As soon as he spoke, Chiyo curled his five fingers slightly, and a terrifying suction force erupted!
"Ah!"
Chikata let out a shrill scream as the remaining King-level Demonic Power within him surged out like floodwaters bursting through a dam and was frantically stripped away.
It was not only Demonic Power. Even the living souls, resentments, bloody baleful power, and other energies he had devoured after reviving but had yet to digest were all torn from him and extracted!
The process lasted for more than ten minutes.
When the final trace of power had been extracted, Chikata collapsed to the ground, gaunt and skeletal.
Only a blood-red mark remained at his brow center, proving that he had once possessed King-level status.
Chiyo withdrew his hand and sensed the surging torrent of energy within the Yin-Yang Jade.
All kinds of energy collided, battled, and fused wildly within the jade, like poisonous insects being raised in a jar.
In the end, a thread of dark golden energy slowly separated out and flowed through Chiyo's meridians into his dantian, nourishing his body and meridians.
"Not bad."
Chiyo murmured, satisfaction flashing through his