Departure

Wen Bu gripped the Origin Pearl tightly and tried to activate its power, but just as he had guessed, only Chen Fan could wield the Origin Pearl. He could not draw out even a trace of the power within it.

How could the power of the Origin Primordial Demon be activated so casually?!

"I refuse to accept this—" Gritting his teeth, he placed the Origin Pearl directly atop the Lamp Core.

Yet the Origin Pearl still showed no reaction whatsoever.

At the same time, the even more berserk haunting power atop the Lamp Core could no longer be suppressed. It surged and crashed about, erupting without end.

He had been in the critical stage of refining the Lamp Core when he abruptly stopped, causing the Lamp Core's power to begin running wild...

"Useless trash! I gave him so many benefits for nothing!" A deep unwillingness flashed across his face, but he no longer dared continue refining the Lamp Core. He decisively withdrew the hand gripping it.

Then a torrential tide of black qi surged forth from the Lamp Core.

At the same time, vast amounts of haunting power continuously battered Wen Bu's body.

Due to his own strength, he possessed great resistance to haunting power. Yet he was not immune to it—otherwise, he would not have been completely corrupted during the previous outbreak of haunting power.

Now that the Lamp Core's power had erupted, it might not have matched the moment the Demon Emperor first died and the haunting power exploded, but it still left him utterly exhausted.

He decisively stopped, deep unwillingness and helplessness flashing across his face. Still, gritting his teeth, he turned and retreated from the Lamp Core.

The matter could not be salvaged. No matter how unwilling he was, it was useless.

His gaze then swept