Looking at the "Yellow Heaven Emperor" standing before him with a smile of deadly kindness, Xie Yuan felt his heart sink as deep despair welled up.
The stray dog he inhabited slowly backed away. As he retreated, he said, "We had no quarrel before this. Can't we each take our own road and go our separate ways?"
Huang Tian merely smiled at his words, unwilling to waste his breath. With a thought, an orange-red fireball appeared from the void and sped toward Xie Yuan. A frightened growl escaped the dog's mouth as he turned to flee, but the fireball struck his body in an instant.
Whoomph!
Flames spread across the fur on his back and engulfed him in the blink of an eye. Xie Yuan let out a scream of unbearable pain. His entire body swiftly turned to ash, which scattered through the air when the wind blew.
Clink, clink!
A ring dropped where he had stood and rolled several times across the ground, ringing clearly.
"So this must be the curio he possessed. Its properties should be the ability to grow by devouring flesh and blood, then revive once in a piece of his own flesh after his original body dies."
Huang Tian did not pick up the ring at once. He waited about five minutes, and only when nothing unusual happened did he create a spiritual-energy avatar. The avatar raised a hand and drew the ring into its grasp.
Thirty seconds after the ring entered its hand, it turned into a speck of light and drifted into his body.
Huang Tian nodded in satisfaction. The next moment, he shot into the sky like a streak of light and flew toward Changnan City, sweeping his divine sense across the cities along the way.
In every major city, countless people