"Comfortable!" Xia Ping couldn't help exclaiming.
With these Evil Demons blocking most of the purple lightning, Xia Ping only had to withstand a portion of it. The lightning entered his body with a crackling roar.
The lightning struck him as if massaging him, tempering his skin, muscles, and bones. It was also like a hammer pounding his body, refining away impurities.
At once, the Sun Furnace absorbed, refined, and devoured the lightning. Vast energy surged into every part of his body, transforming into a large amount of astral energy that flowed into a newly opened acupoint.
Xia Ping felt his strength gradually increasing. His astral energy surged wildly, and every cell seemed to be storing a little lightning, as if he were on the verge of mastering the power of thunder.
But while he enjoyed the way the tribulation lightning strengthened him, the Evil Demons were suffering horribly.
"No, this human is a monster! A monster!"
"If we stay here, we're dead!"
"Run! If we don't run, we're dead!"
One Evil Demon after another trembled with fear. They finally realized that fighting this human meant certain death.
They couldn't land a single attack on him, but if he got close, one bolt of lightning was enough to kill them.
No matter how much they attacked, they couldn't kill him or even hit him. But if he hit them once, they died. How could they fight like this? It wasn't even a battle—it was a one-sided slaughter.
At last, even the Soul-Devouring Beast's mental control was powerless. Their fear of death overwhelmed them, and for a time, they broke free of its control.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The Evil Demons fled in every direction, their faces ashen with terror. The hundred-thousand-strong army had completely collapsed, and Xia Ping drove them like a