"Skree!"
A shrill, piercing cry rang out, and the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor only felt a flash of black light before his eyes, as if some strange life-form had invaded the black-and-white pillar of flame.
"Whoosh! Pfft!"
A crisp sound of penetration rang out. The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor immediately felt a violent pain surge through his chest. He lowered his head by instinct, only to see an empty, pitch-black hole in his chest leap into view.
"Pfft!"
Shattered organs kept spilling from the corners of the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor's mouth. His face still carried a trace of disbelief as he murmured, "This Emperor's Demon Heart..."
The so-called Demon Heart was the fatal weakness of the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
Once the Demon Heart of an Extraterritorial Evil Clan expert was destroyed, even a Demon Emperor-level expert, or even a Heavenly Demon Emperor-level expert, would die on the spot with resentment.
For one thing, the kings of the Extraterritorial Evil Clan generally protected their Demon Hearts extremely well. For another, once one's strength reached the level of a Heavenly Demon Emperor, their Demon Heart had long since been strengthened to an inconceivable degree.
On the Great Thousand World's side, even powerful experts at the Late Immortal Grade level might not necessarily be able to completely destroy the Demon Heart of a Heavenly Demon Emperor.
"Heh heh, fool. Of course your Demon Heart was eaten by Lord Nihility."
As that eerie laugh fell, black light flashed, and a tall, bizarre-looking mysterious creature immediately appeared before the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor.
This mysterious creature had strange black flames coiling all around it and possessed a humanoid body, but its hollow, scarlet eyes and beast-like, razor-sharp hands immediately made it clear that this black-flame creature was vastly different from humans.
No—more precisely, it,