At the Purple Extreme Heavenly Demon Lion's words, Black Tiger and Yu Xianpo's eyes flew wide open, and they hurriedly darted toward Sikong Jing.
"Little Brother Sikong, are you all right?" the Stinging Bee Demon Emperor asked tensely as well.
It discovered that the meridians connecting it to Sikong Jing had automatically severed, and the Beast Slaughter Array markings had been completely cut off.
Something was very wrong with Sikong Jing's condition.
Then...
Everyone, human and beast alike, saw Sikong Jing sit down cross-legged, right on the Stinging Bee Demon Emperor's back. Thick demonic smoke billowed continuously from his body.
Yet as the demonic smoke drifted out, it also kept dissolving away in a strange manner.
At once, Black Tiger hurriedly sent its spirit-shadow power into Sikong Jing's body...
It found that it was exactly as the Purple Extreme Heavenly Demon Lion had said...
The bloodline within Sikong Jing that belonged to magic beasts was gradually dissipating, battered without cease by an energy laced with flames. Within those flames was an indescribable, unfathomable power...
Wherever it passed, Sikong Jing's magic-beast power scattered into demonic smoke and drifted out of his body.
Black Tiger wanted to help Sikong Jing expel that flaming energy from his body, but it had no idea where to begin.
In the end...
It could only shield Sikong Jing beneath itself and roar at the lion's face in the clouds, "Old Lion, you, the dignified Beast Venerable Hall..."
Before it could finish, the Purple Extreme Heavenly Demon Lion spoke coldly...
"Everything is for the demon race..."
"Any Blood Devour Magic Beast—even a human who has fused with a magic-beast bloodline—is a grave threat to the demon race and must be crippled."
"Black Tiger..."
"The Shadow Moon Demon Rat has hidden in the Dark Demon Small World, but