"Ah..."
A Myriad Manifestations Realm soul was worlds apart from one at the Heavenly Dipper Realm. Even with his body torn to pieces, the Demon King still hadn't died; his soul was still struggling.
Nine blood-red throwing knives shot from the void. In the blink of an eye, they wiped out his soul.
A Demon King had been utterly destroyed, body and soul, in the time it took to draw a breath.
Shi Lan let go, and the mangled corpse fell to the ground, revealing its true form: a huge, emerald-green mastiff, as large as a small mountain.
At the brink of life and death, Shi Lan had used the divine phoenix blood within her to be reborn through fire. Not only had her injuries healed, but she had also seized the chance to open the nine apertures in her head, penetrate the profound barrier between life and death, and enter the Myriad Manifestations Realm, extending her lifespan by more than three thousand years.
After entering the Myriad Manifestations Realm, the power of her soul had increased. It could now nourish her body, greatly extending her lifespan.
With her life force greatly increased, Shi Lan's once-snow-white hair turned black. Her long tresses cascaded down her back like a waterfall, faintly tinged with dark red.
Divine light glittered in her eyes, her skin and bones gleamed like crystal, and her entire being brimmed with vibrant vitality.
A black illusion slowly unfurled behind Shi Lan, enveloping the Demon King's remains on the ground.
Strands of blood essence were drawn out by the black domain. In the end, the mastiff, which had been as large as a small mountain, was reduced to a skeleton, while its flesh and blood became a basin-sized mass of pure blood essence.
Shi Lan didn't absorb the blood