Venerable Ranks, too, were divided into different grades.
The Slaughter Sovereign Rank was a high-grade Venerable Rank that stood above countless others.
The Greed Venerable Rank Blackstone Master currently cultivated was merely low-grade; a middle grade still lay between it and the Slaughter Sovereign Rank.
Seeing Jiang Feng cultivate the Slaughter Sovereign Rank, Blackstone Master came to his senses and immediately thought of exploiting his current advantage in cultivation rank to forcibly strip Jiang Feng of his Slaughter Sovereign Rank, then refine it and claim it as his own.
That was right. Blackstone Master's plan had changed from using Jiang Feng's physical body to forge an external incarnation to forcibly stripping Jiang Feng of his Venerable Rank.
Although stripping someone of their Venerable Rank was far more difficult and would bring down heavenly condemnation, Blackstone Master was unafraid. That was the nature of his Greed Venerable Rank. For the sake of cultivation, he could disown even his closest kin, let alone fear heavenly condemnation.
The Slaughter Sovereign Rank was the easiest high-grade Venerable Rank to cultivate, but its cultivation required endless slaughter. Endless slaughter would either draw down the wrath of the gods directly from the heavens, or ultimately lead to destruction beneath a divine tribulation, making it difficult to enter the God Realm.
Thus, aside from those void beasts, almost no cultivators dared cultivate the Slaughter Sovereign Rank.
But stripping another person's Slaughter Sovereign Rank was different.
By stripping another person's Slaughter Sovereign Rank, one did not need to endure the gods' wrath and monstrous divine tribulations brought about by endless slaughter.
In other words, if Blackstone Master stripped Jiang Feng of his Slaughter Sovereign Rank, he would not only obtain a high-grade Slaughter Sovereign Rank, but also avoid the wrath of the gods and the monstrous divine tribulation