The outline of the third halberd inscription on the Myriad Tribulations Heavenly Halberd grew increasingly distinct.
Pei Yuan's pupils contracted.
He felt the crushing pressure bearing down on him.
"Get away!"
Pei Yuan spat out a mass of pitch-black flames.
Asura Poisonfire.
It was a bloodline ability exclusive to the Asura Royal Clan. Anything it touched rotted; anyone it struck died.
The black flames instantly burned the space between them into nothingness. Even the Spatial Law itself twisted and warped before the poisonous blaze.
Lin Feng darted aside, vanishing into thin air just before the poisonfire engulfed him.
Spatial Leap.
A chill ran down Pei Yuan's back.
A sense of imminent danger shot up from the base of his spine.
With no time to turn, he instinctively thrust his Asura Blood Claw backward.
Too late.
The tip of the Myriad Tribulations Heavenly Halberd had already pierced a gap between his vertebrae.
Squelch.
A jet of dark-purple blood burst through Pei Yuan's chest.
"Devour."
Lin Feng uttered just one word.
The Devouring Law erupted from the halberd's tip, pouring through the wound into Pei Yuan's meridians and surging straight toward the core of his Asura Bloodline.
Pei Yuan's screams tore through the entire starfield.
[Extracting target's core characteristics...] [Progress: 7%...12%...19%...]
The black-and-gold scales covering Pei Yuan's body began peeling off in great swaths. Every time a scale came loose, his aura dropped another notch.
Peak ninth rank of immortality.
Late ninth rank of immortality.
Middle ninth rank of immortality.
"Let me go! You lowly human!"
Pei Yuan's eyes were bloodshot, and the words spilling from his mouth were in a deep, alien tongue.
The Asura Language.
He struggled backward like a madman, desperately reaching behind himself with the blood claws on his arms, trying to catch Lin Feng.
But