He guided it around the Divine Silkworm War King's remnant soul, attacking only the source of the weird entrenched around it.
The source of the weird inside the cocoon sensed the threat and began a frenzied counterattack.
Pitch-black energy surged from the depths of the cocoon, trying to force Su Ming's palm away.
But Su Ming did not let go. His face grew slightly pale, but his eyes remained calm.
The devouring began.
The first wisp of the source of the weird was stripped away by void power.
It then turned into a thread of black mist that seeped through the cocoon's surface, only to be swallowed whole by the gray current.
The cocoon shuddered violently, as though suffering agonizing pain.
The Divine Silkworm War King's remnant soul churned inside the cocoon, letting out a muffled groan.
"Senior, bear with it."
Su Ming spoke.
He neither quickened his pace nor slowed it.
He simply stripped the source of the weird from the Divine Silkworm War King's remnant soul, steadily, inch by inch.
That source had been planted by Great Emperor Envy himself.
It was more tenacious and more deeply rooted than any source of the weird he had encountered in the simulations, like a venomous snake that had grown into the bones.
But void power was its natural enemy.
In the simulations, his void power had been no more than a wisp of gray current, requiring extreme caution even when devouring the sources of the Bone Emperor and You Shi.
Now, his void power was a colossal gray dragon. Devouring a Great Emperor-level source imprint took effort, but it was far from impossible.
A thread, a wisp, a clump—the pitch-black source was stripped away piece by piece and devoured piece by piece.
The cocoon's color changed from silvery white to