After soaking in the hot springs, Ye Yuqing, her legs still weak, supported herself against the wall as she left.
Fang Cheng put on the clothes Oni Yunjie had prepared for him. They turned out to be a red-and-white ceremonial robe.
Only the Ghost Lord and members of the royal family were allowed to wear this style in the Iron-Cast Palace.
The meaning behind Oni Yunjie preparing this outfit for him was obvious.
Fang Cheng had no intention of parading around in it, so he used the Earth Escape Technique to return to his quarters.
His assigned quarters in the Iron-Cast Palace were inside Oni Yunjie's bedchamber. If you wanted to be particular about it, they were practically living together.
Fang Cheng went to a quiet, empty courtyard and took out the corpses of more than a dozen Great Demons he had hidden in his shadow. Then he went over them one by one, touching each body.
He had been able to bring himself to give up the Power of Ten Thousand Monsters because he still had the corpses of these legendary Great Demons to touch. He hadn't come away empty-handed.
[Absorbing energy...] [Life +110] [Life +98] [Life +105] ...
After going through them all, he had gained a total of 1,578 lives, averaging about a hundred per Great Demon corpse.
That was much less than he had expected. The Great Demons had been corrupted by the Evil God's power while they were alive, and by the time the corruption was purged after their deaths, much of the essence remaining in their corpses had already been lost.
If he had purged the corruption while they were still alive, dealing with more than a dozen Great Demons who had regained their sanity all at once would have been a