However, Ni Huanzhi did not press the matter too hard. After asking a few questions, she believed Lin Chuan and handed over the corpse.
After taking the corpse, Lin Chuan did not extract his soul and return it to his original body. Instead, he sent part of his soul power into the body, extracted the Fruit of the God Tree from its dantian, and placed it into Liang's dantian.
For Lin Chuan, Liang's identity could be used to accomplish quite a few things at this point. He would not easily abandon this body. Even if he no longer needed it in the end, he could bring it back to the Southern Bright Continent and make it one of Zero Burial's Six Paths of Pain. After all, the corpse of a Deity Transformation cultivator was not easy to find.
Yet at that moment, Ni Huanzhi's expression suddenly changed. She instantly unleashed the Violet Jade Sword Art, and a massive streak of purple radiance appeared, slashing straight down at Lin Chuan's head without giving him any time to react.
Faced with the sudden attack, Lin Chuan froze for a moment, but he quickly understood. The next instant, Liang's black eyes abruptly turned blood-red, seven black tomoe emerging within them and spinning rapidly.
After doing all that, Liang made no further move. Instead, he allowed Ni Huanzhi's sword light to fall upon him.
Kamui's intangibility activated, and the sword light passed straight through Liang's body without causing any harm.
Only then did Ni Huanzhi reveal a smile, confirming that the person before her was Azure Dragon, not Liang, who had devoured Azure Dragon's soul.
This was the technique Ni Huanzhi had used when she first met Lin Chuan, and Lin Chuan had used the same intangibility method he had employed back then to