"Ah...!"
The black-robed man, who had spent no small amount of effort nurturing the succubus Ning Yue to her current state, could only remain at the edge of the forbidden ground, raging in helpless fury!
Though he desperately needed Ning Yue's origin essence to cultivate his natal demonic art!
No matter how much he wished to increase his strength, however, the most important thing came first.
He had to stay alive to improve it!
The Devil-Burial Deadland before him was a place he absolutely dared not set foot in!
After all, this deadly place lived up to its name. Any member of the Devil Race who entered it was guaranteed death, with no chance of survival!
Ever since records began in the Extinction Devil Realm, this deadly place had stood here!
Over the endless years, countless members of the Devil Race had sought to challenge it!
Even those prodigies praised by the Devil Race as breathtakingly gifted would, not long after entering, have news arrive that their life lamps had completely gone out!
And now, the fruit he had "cultivated" for so many years, just about ready to be "harvested"—
Would rather rot away alone in the Devil-Burial Deadland than grant him even a shred of the joy of "harvest"!
How could the black-robed man not be furious? How could he not hate?
At this moment, regret churned endlessly within him!
If, months ago, when he had first noticed some unusual behavior from her, he had moved Ning Yue's succubus clansmen ahead of time and prevented her scheme from succeeding!
Then this peerless succubus—outwardly ravishing and dripping with charm, an unparalleled beauty rarely seen even in the Extinction Devil Realm over tens of millions of years—
Would not have possessed such an unyielding nature: rather shattered jade than intact tile,