At the End of the Road, Cut Down the End of the Road!

Jiang Yan was astonishingly powerful, practically invincible.

Under the suppression of the Heaven-Connecting Palace, while besieged by Jiang Wang and the Heart Demon, he had crushed the Heart Demon to death with a single slap.

In other words, the Heaven-Connecting Palace's suppression had never been the most fundamental problem for him.

That also explained why Jiang Wang's cultivation had advanced so rapidly, yet Jiang Yan, hidden in the Underworld Candle, had always managed to maintain a certain degree of suppression over his Divine Soul. Jiang Yan had only needed to grow stronger alongside Jiang Wang, gradually unleashing more of his own strength.

His true Divine Soul power far surpassed Jiang Wang's.

So what had he been wary of all this time?

Why had he only acted today?

Why had he gone to the trouble of bringing the Heart Demon into being?

With the strength he had just displayed, he shouldn't have needed the Heart Demon's help at all!

Jiang Wang thought of these questions at once, but couldn't make sense of them.

He was missing too many clues.

He had never truly understood Jiang Yan.

When he had killed the Heart-Devouring Demon, Xiong Wen, the Underworld Candle had entered the Heaven-Connecting Palace for the first time.

Beyond the Maple Forest Territory, Miao Yu had assumed the Underworld Candle had been drawn in by the Bone Seed, and that was why it had fallen into Jiang Wang's Heaven-Connecting Palace. Jiang Wang had agreed with that assessment.

But looking back now, the truth was probably not so simple.

When he rescued Miao Yu, the Underworld Candle had first revealed its power, imparting the Flesh-Regenerating Soul-Returning Technique. After that, it had kept Jiang Wang's memories from being sealed and transmitted the White Bone Evasion Technique to him.

According to Jiang Yan's explanation, using