The desiccated figure saw Qiang Wu's corpse behind Ye Lin, and a flicker of delight flashed through his eyes. He had only just awakened; his body was at its frailest, and he needed vast amounts of energy to recover.
He had not expected a corpse of an innately divine-born being to be delivered right to his mouth the moment he awakened.
If he devoured this fellow, he could probably recover one-tenth of his cultivation. One-tenth was enough.
With a beckoning hand from the desiccated figure, Qiang Wu's body, which Ye Lin had just slain, flew toward the coffin.
"Stealing my food?"
Ye Lin's gaze sharpened at the sight. This was his food.
How valuable was the body of an innately divine-born being? There was no need to spell it out.
If he devoured it, his cultivation would increase by quite a bit.
He had originally planned to devour it right away, but before he could, this fellow had come and ruined his fine plan.
So what this fellow was doing now was no different from snatching food from his very mouth. Who could tolerate that?
"Slash."
Ye Lin raised two fingers like a sword and swept them forward. A razor-sharp beam of sword light tore through the sky and slashed toward the coffin.
"Human, I was once human too. You and I are of the same race. I had no wish to attack you, so why must you ruin my plans?"
Seeing the sword light, the desiccated figure waved a hand to block it. The sword light shattered with a bang, while the entire coffin shot backward and smashed viciously into the mountains behind it.
The coffin burst from the earth, its sunken eye sockets fixed unblinkingly on Ye Lin.
He was incomparably weak right now. He could sense the