Two weeks later, outside Penglai Island, Tongtian, having fully refined the treasure banner, returned to the Central Plains. When he arrived at Mingtiao, the battlefield between Xia and Shang, and saw Lu Gui's drastically altered aura, he finally learned that Yu Chen had been deceived by the Blood Sea Evil God.
The evil god had once said that if Yu Chen destroyed his physical form, then Shang Kingdom's achievement of sacrificing over a dozen people during this period would all have been in vain. That was not false, but its meaning differed from how most people understood it.
As the ruler of the Xia Dynasty, Lu Gui had continually executed Xia nobles not merely to seize their divine blood and divinity, but also to refine demon generals.
Those demon generals were themselves refined from the nobles' fleshly bodies, making them most suited to bear the backlash brought by devouring divine blood and divinity.
Moreover, as these demon generals fought Shang Kingdom and the feudal states, their bodies and souls were destroyed.
Lu Gui likewise severed the corresponding backlash.
Put bluntly, while the masters of these backlash forces were alive, they could not affect Lu Gui in the first place. What could they do after death?
Throughout the ages, resentful energy's backlash and wronged souls demanding lives either received outside guidance that multiplied their power, or accumulated because one had committed too many sins and failed to understand the principles of dispersing them.
For Lu Gui, resentment and backlash below the level of the Heavenly God Dao Realm meant nothing at all. Even if their resentment was unwavering, he could forcibly refine it into energy and use it as nourishment.
His unwillingness to devour it was merely because it was too mixed and difficult to digest.
Thus, turning waste into use