The instant he reappeared inside the spider's belly, Li Bufan activated Nine Yang Body Protection.
Golden light flared across his skin, but this time it was noticeably different. A warm white halo mingled with the gold, which had once shimmered with five colors. Like a thread of dawn woven into the last rays of sunset, it made the light far more solid than before.
The half-gold, half-white light flowed over his body, radiating a pressure that forced even the surrounding digestive fluids to retreat.
Bolstered by Seventh-Rank Spiritual Fire, Nine Yang Body Protection had grown far stronger. The dark green fluid that had once eaten at him now evaporated the moment it touched the light, unable to come anywhere near his body.
He released his Yang God-level divine sense and took in the spider's internal structure at a glance.
What the membranes and blood vessels had previously reduced to a vague impression now became perfectly clear under the precise probing of his Yang God-level divine sense, bolstered by Threefold True Fire.
He saw thick blood vessels pulsing as they carried dark red blood. Deep in the chest cavity, a mass of pitch-black Demon Essence radiated immense waves of energy like a dark sun.
At its heart, a fist-sized black Demon Core floated motionless. Fine patterns flowed across its surface, each as mysterious as the oldest Runes in heaven and earth, exuding a profound, ancient aura.
Li Bufan fixed his gaze on the Demon Core and sent his divine sense into it, carefully examining its structure and condition.
As he had sensed before, its surface was covered in hairline fractures. They crisscrossed like cracks in a dried riverbed, running from the surface deep into the core, as though it were a piece of porcelain on the verge of shattering.
Dense Demon