This was the first time Sean had used God Devour on someone. It was an instinctive move: as long as he focused his thoughts and locked onto a target, he could use it.
Although killing the person before him would take only a single strike, he still wanted to test his ultimate innate divine ability beforehand.
Even though it was instinctive, he needed to learn a few things in advance. For example, what was God Devour's range? At what distance would it stop working?
How long did it take to recover after each use? The original story said it could be used twice in a row, after which he would need to recover for a while before using it a third time. But how long was "a while"?
As a powerful ultimate technique that could instantly kill opponents of the same level, Sean needed to understand God Devour's properties.
Given Sean's current level of physical attack power, he could easily kill an ordinary Lowgod. But if he faced a group of them, this innate divine ability would be much more convenient.
"Lord Sean, I'm willing to swear the Supreme God Oath and pledge my allegiance to you!" Andrea shouted.
The strange wave unleashed by God Devour was far faster than Sean's earlier soul attack. Andrea had no time to react.
Though she didn't know what the shadow of a rat behind Sean was, she knew it was an innate divine ability.
She couldn't understand it, either. Weren't these techniques unique to divine beasts? She had once seen a divine beast from the South Sea use one, but Sean was human, wasn't he?
But she had no time to think about it. The innate divine ability's wave struck her directly, and a strange force surged from deep within Andrea's soul toward her mind.
She was already in utter despair. Sean's earlier soul attack had badly wounded her soul, and now she was facing an even stronger move.
"No need," Sean said calmly.
Naturally, he wasn't going to leave an enemy alive. Not even if she swore the Supreme God Oath and pledged her allegiance.
There were serious loopholes in such oaths. Even a contract couldn't guarantee absolute loyalty.
For example, in the original story, Puslo had been contracted by Aliquen, but that never stopped him from wanting his master dead. He even went to great lengths to get outsiders to kill Aliquen.
Besides, an ordinary Lowgod—even one who had become a god independently—wasn't all that useful to Sean. He already had Godheads and could easily cultivate powerful gods.
Even if someone who refined a Godhead was a little weaker, the difference wouldn't be that great. It wasn't like the difference between an Uppergod who had fused Profound Mysteries and one who had refined a Godhead, which was like the difference between heaven and earth.
The foreign attack deep within Andrea's soul didn't directly harm it. Instead, it shot straight toward the Godhead deep within her Soul Defense, bypassing it entirely and leaving it untouched.
"What kind of move is this?" Andrea was even more terrified, but it was too late. The force ripped her Godhead right out of her body.
The soul inside it immediately dissipated. This innate divine ability also carried a trace of soul attack, and it killed the Saint-level True Body she had hidden inside her Divine Clone as well.
A Godhead floated out from Andrea's head. The "reclaiming" force contained in the innate divine ability drew it to Sean, while Andrea's body showed no sign of injury. She simply fell from the sky.
Sean casually shot a fireball at her, cremating her body in midair. It was, perhaps, the last respect one could show a god-level expert.
After all, there was no need to leave a god-level expert's corpse lying in the wilderness.
Although Sean didn't cultivate fire, a god-level expert could conjure a fireball with ease. Even most Saint-level experts could do the same.
Looking at the Godhead in his hand, Sean swallowed it. Back in the Planar Prison, he had absorbed just over a hundred Lowgod Godheads. His body had grown considerably stronger, but it was still far from its limit. That was also because Linley hadn't obtained many Lowgod Godheads in the original Coiling Dragon story.
For Sean, if he wanted to obtain more Lowgod Godheads, he would have to get them from the Zhongyuan Continent. He still had quite a few enemies there. If the Darkness Church didn't have a Midgod, he would have attacked them long ago.
Of course, there wasn't much point in struggling at the Lowgod level. Once he reached the Midgod level and could devour Midgod Godheads, the results would surely be much better.
But he might run into the same problem again. There weren't many Midgod Godheads in the original Coiling Dragon story, either. When Bebe was in Hell, his Spatial Ring did contain a lot of Godheads, but a bound Spatial Ring couldn't be brought out.
And there were probably only a few Midgods on the Zhongyuan Continent. By then, he might really have no choice but to go to the Higher Planes or Divine Planes.
In any case, Sean figured it would be extremely difficult to break through to Uppergod on a Material Plane, especially since he still needed to fuse Profound Mysteries.
His divine sense spread out, and he discovered that several nearby towns had suffered considerable damage. A moment later, he appeared beside a man who seemed to be the local official in charge and sealed off the surrounding space with divine power.
"My lord, who are you?" the official asked fearfully when he realized he couldn't move.
"Here are 300,000 gold coins. A lot of people's homes were damaged in this earthquake. Use this money to help them. I'll be back in a few years. If I find you've embezzled any of it, you know what will happen," Sean said coolly.
The Zhongyuan Continent was full of people. When god-level or Saint-level experts fought, it was hard not to harm ordinary people unless they arranged to duel in some remote wilderness. It was like how humans in his previous life had destroyed the habitats of countless animals in their pursuit of profit.
In the Coiling Dragon World, ordinary people were just as insignificant as ants. Sean couldn't change that; he could only offer a little compensation when he had the chance. Gold coins meant nothing to him now. Perhaps that was because it hadn't been long since he left the ranks of ordinary people. Maybe after countless years, he wouldn't care at all.
"Yes, my lord," the official replied hurriedly. That small figure from just moments ago seemed to have burrowed deep into his soul, leaving him afraid to resist in the slightest.
As soon as he finished speaking, the pressure around him lifted. The man had disappeared, leaving behind several open wooden chests filled with gold coins.
Several days later, in the Ten Thousand Mountains, another deadly region of the Zhongyuan Continent.
A black cat was basking in the sun, bored out of its mind, when a force suddenly enveloped it and left it unable to move.
"Divine Domain!" Terror appeared in the cute cat's eyes.
After coming from the Dark Forest to the Ten Thousand Mountains, it had settled near the edge of the region and turned into a little cat. Saint-level beings didn't necessarily need to eat, so it hadn't come into conflict with any animals or humans. It had kept an extremely low profile. Yet, somehow, a god-level expert had still set his sights on it.
"Ram, long time no see." A familiar voice came from above.
"Lord Sean." Hearing that familiar voice, Ram stammered, "You've become a god?"
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