Chu Tian did not answer.
His divine sense condensed into a golden figure within the small world. That figure stood upon the crumbling earth, beside dried-up rivers, beneath extinguished stars.
He looked up at that enormous face, the corner of his lips lifting slightly.
Then he opened his mouth—not his own mouth, but the mouth of the small world.
A massive gash split open across the small world's sky. It was shaped like a mouth, a mouth stretching from east to west, from south to north.
That mouth opened and swallowed the mass of Demon Essence hovering above the small world.
The Demon Essence struggled within the small world's mouth, like a trapped beast thrashing madly.
It released black light. Within that light were reflected the corpse of the Heaven-Reaching Great Demon, those mountain-range-like patterns, and the complete phantom of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
Wherever the light passed, the small world's mouth cracked apart, fissures spreading from its corners in every direction.
But Chu Tian did not loosen his bite. He pressed all the laws of the small world upon that mouth, pressed the origins of his five Great Daos upon that mouth, pressed the power of three Heavenly Beads upon that mouth.
He staked everything he had on that mouth and clenched it shut with all his might.
Mo Feng's pupils shrank sharply.
His voice exploded from the fissures, carrying rage and madness that sank into the marrow.
"**You're courting death! The Demon Essence is the origin left behind by the Heaven-Reaching Great Demon. It contains the cultivation and insights of his entire life. You, a mere Emperor Venerable, dare swallow it? Aren't you afraid it'll burst you apart? Aren't you afraid your body and soul will both be obliterated? Even if you swallow it, I'll refine it