"Monster!"
The True Person had no time to board his own airship. He could only whirl around and roar as he threw a furious punch at Cang Linzu. Cang Linzu silently answered with a punch of his own. Fist met fist—and shattered the True Person's arm, breaking it, folding it inward, pulverizing it into an explosion of gore. Even the shoulder on the side that had thrown the punch vanished, leaving behind a massive, fist-shaped hollow.
The agonizing pain had not even reached his brain. Rage and resolve were still frozen on the True Person's face when, in the next instant, they were replaced by boundless terror. He watched helplessly as his right arm and half his body vanished into thin air, as though devoured by some colossal beast. The violent force did not diminish in the slightest, plowing a trench dozens of miles long through the heavens and clouds behind him.
Then, an icy hand clamped around his throat. Cang Linzu seized the True Person by the neck, his grip so powerful that it shredded all the surrounding muscle and crushed the outer bones, leaving only the central spine. The neck bone, harder than divine steel, let out an overwhelmed groan between his fingers.
Gripping the other man by the nape, he asked coldly.
"Have you ever eaten people?"
His voice was distant and majestic, sounding from both here and beyond. The questioned True Person's Divine Soul trembled; he simply could not lie. He understood the true meaning behind those words, and so could only speak the truth. "I have. I have eaten many."
"But! I wasn't..."
Bang. There was no room for excuses or explanations. His head exploded.
Nor was that all. His body exploded as well. The entire True Person was utterly pulverized and blown apart, becoming