At the sight of the spirit light igniting around the human Taiyi cultivator, the four demon kings finally paled.
They had never expected this fellow Taiyi Realm cultivator to abandon his entire cultivation for those ants.
If a Taiyi cultivator detonated his Great Dao source, the force would be enough to flatten tens of millions of li of the present-day Primordial World.
They wanted to retreat, but it was already too late.
A terrifying light erupted from the old man's body.
The radiance swallowed the two nearest demon kings. Their protective demon aura shattered like paper, and their flesh and primordial spirits were annihilated in an instant.
The two farther away survived, but lost most of their source essence. It would take them countless years to recover.
By contrast, the Golden Immortal Realm Nine Infants was flung away by the shock wave without suffering much harm.
Nine Infants let out a shrill, terrified screech and staggered out of the blast zone, fleeing deeper into the icefield, where more humans lived!
Once the light faded, everything within ten million li was scorched black.
At the center of the self-detonation, an immense lake was slowly taking shape.
After reaching the depths of the icefield, Nine Infants fell upon the humans like a wolf among sheep, devouring countless people to his heart's content.
With every human he swallowed, his mind, clouded by demon aura, grew a little clearer. A trace of awareness gradually returned to his turbid, vacant eyes.
When the last human vanished into Nine Infants' jaws, the dense aura around him had dispersed. The grayish blood mist over his eyes receded, and his intelligence brightened little by little, like a lamp lit anew.
He remembered.
He remembered who he was, remembered practicing the Demon Core Method prematurely to hasten his