Gui Yan seemed to split right down his body's centerline, yet such a tragic and fierce scene lacked any trace of flesh and blood flying about. Instead, layers of black Qi released from the cleft, refusing to disperse as they gathered into a mass within seawater, their edges taking on a wispy form that connected to the torn flesh on both sides. Having absorbed these black vapors, the two mutilated human figures violently swelled and distorted, supplementing what was missing and engendering flesh and blood, until in the blink of an expedition, they actually manifested two Gui Yans right there in the valley. This bizarre and terrifying scene also startled Old Crow over on his side: A clone? No... Externalization of inner demons! Old Crow's seasoned eye immediately discerned the fundamentals; Gui Yan had actually taken advantage of the crisis triggered by the mind demon to pull out his inner demon and transform it for his own use, keeping his cultivation base from suffering heavy damage while gaining an extra layer of transformation. Moreover, he noted that the quality of the separated and manifested inner demon had clearly changed, becoming an extremely pure attribute of the death demon. Triggering Gui Yan's mind demon certainly stemmed from a murderous intent, but it was not meant to take his life immediately. Rather, the thought was to shatter Gui Yan's mental defense and dig out his secrets, and even if he truly intended to kill, he would still preserve a fragment of his soul in order to employ the soul-searching technique. Yet this Gui Yan actually converted the mind demon's attack into a death tribulation on his own, grasped the grand trend of life and death, and found a way to live by placing himself in the realm of death. At that subtle,
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