As he watched Adam, the Golden Ancient Emperor was about to strike when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest.
What followed was a sensation of weakness rapidly spreading from his chest throughout his body. His power was draining away at an alarming rate.
What had happened?
As both his primordial spirit and soul weakened, the Golden Ancient Emperor's thinking slowed precipitously. When he lowered his head to inspect himself, he stared at his chest for a while before finally realizing it.
Ah, his heart had been dug out.
The Adam before the Golden Ancient Emperor shattered like foam, while behind him, Adam's figure slowly condensed. One hand had already plunged into the Golden Ancient Emperor's chest.
In the past, limited by his strength and the completeness of his inner world, Adam had relatively few options for feeding.
Just as when he had devoured those Ancient Race quasi-emperors before, he could only use an artifact as a medium, imprinting divine patterns and Dao marks into their bodies to convert them into energy before consuming them.
This method drew inspiration from creatures such as spiders: first digesting the prey outside the body into directly absorbable nutrients, then absorbing them.
But after Adam reached the quasi-emperor realm, not only had his feeding speed increased, but his methods had also become far more varied.
For instance, he could use an artifact or simply swallow an enemy alive, sending them directly into his inner world. There, the power of the world could digest and break down the foreign substance directly. The rules of a quasi-emperor's inner world were stable enough that outside forces could no longer affect it.
The Stone Emperor was a representative victim of this method. Adam's artifact could naturally connect directly to his inner world.
As for traditional cooking