At the instant his physical body was about to be blasted into dust, Walisamas suddenly realized a truth.
Song Siming had never stood above the rules.
Those powerful attacks he had launched after believing he had locked onto Song Siming—
had actually been aimed at himself!
The attacks were still the same attacks, and their power remained exactly what it had been before.
The locking effect of the sure-kill items had never vanished.
Only the point in time had changed!
The means used to defeat an enemy in the past had been thrown completely out of their original temporal order, striking his future self one after another!
"So I was the one who killed myself..."
Walisamas turned to ash in sudden realization.
Because he had killed himself, it likewise triggered the rule of demons killing demons.
Thus, even though he had bound resurrection-type items, he could not revive.
"He's dead... Elder Walisamas is dead!?"
Amid the deathly silence, a demon cried out in shock.
The sudden disturbance was like tossing a lit firecracker into a swarm of flies, blasting the demons into a buzzing, chaotic mess.
"How did he do that?"
"He clearly isn't a demon... I clearly didn't sense even a trace of demonic aura from him!!"
"Was it an item effect? Why did those attacks just now look a little familiar... Like Elder Walisamas's Ten-Thousand Thunder Heavenly Prison Lock?"
"And the attack after that was hazy, but it looked a lot like Thunderbolt Palm!"
"It must be an item! He possesses an item that can replicate offensive techniques!"
"But even if an item could perfectly replicate Walisamas's attacks, it shouldn't have been able to completely kill a demon elder..."
"You have to know, Walisamas had several life-saving methods!"
"Could it be an item trait? Something like 'Fated Death,'