Heavenly Gifts

It wasn't only Shi Lan who knew that the essence of flesh and blood was precious. But these Demon Kings had been slain by the mighty being hidden in the shadows, and for a time, no one dared make a move for their remains.

One of the slain Demon Kings lay only a few hundred yards from Shi Lan. Its blood essence was almost completely intact. Shi Lan condensed her Black Domain into a thread-thin, nearly imperceptible black line and pierced the corpse, greedily beginning to plunder the treasure that had fallen from the heavens.

The energy contained within the Demon King's body was simply too vast, and unbelievably pure. The comfort of that warm energy pouring into her body nearly intoxicated Shi Lan, leaving her unable to pull herself away.

A shapeshifted Demon King could rival a Human warrior in the Myriad Forms Realm, a full major realm above Shi Lan's current cultivation.

Moreover, the Demon Race relied on the power of their bloodlines. The essence of their flesh and blood contained not only abundant energy but also a special substance.

Shi Lan couldn't describe that substance, but it felt somewhat similar to what she had absorbed from the Phoenix blood.

As the energy she absorbed was so immense, Shi Lan unconsciously relaxed her control over her body. Her blood-and-qi fluctuations, which she had kept tightly restrained, began to surge. Moments later, her blood and qi reached their peak, and a pillar of vital energy nearly a thousand yards tall burst from the ground, shooting straight into the clouds.

The dragonlike surge of blood and qi drew countless divine senses and prying gazes. Some warriors' divine senses grew a little too brazen. The moment they came any closer, an invisible Sword Qi shot from the sky and shattered them,