Yao Xuan's gaze was icy as he stared at the lifeless body on the ground.
Yao Lao slowly stepped forward, his expression grave as he quietly reminded him.
"Yao Xuan, Yao Wangu is a veteran Four-Star Dou Saint with profound foundations. You severely wounded his soul with a soul technique and shattered his body, but you have not completely annihilated his soul."
"Though his Soul Origin has suffered catastrophic damage, causing him to fall from the Late Heavenly Soul Realm to the Initial Heavenly Soul Realm, and his combat strength is less than a tenth of what it was, he still possesses the foundations of the Late Heavenly Soul Realm. You must not let down your guard."
Yao Xuan nodded faintly, his face indifferent and his eyes entirely calm as he spoke unhurriedly.
"Rest assured, Uncle Chen. Leave this man to me."
Seeing the youth's steady, frosty demeanor, Yao Lao knew Yao Xuan had his own plans and said no more. He merely stood quietly to one side, watching Yao Wangu's corpse below.
Killing a Dou Saint was only the beginning.
Such a complete Dou Saint body, coupled with a remnant Saint-tier soul, would be far too wasteful if simply destroyed.
In the original story, Xiao Yan had captured the North Dragon King's remnant soul, retained its Battle Saint Origin, stripped away its consciousness while preserving its fighting instincts, and forged it into a top-tier Dou Saint puppet that obeyed his commands, intimidating the entire Central Plains.
Today, Yao Xuan intended to follow the same method, refining Yao Wangu's Saint body and fragment of Saint soul into a killing puppet exclusively his own!
Once he had made up his mind, Yao Xuan moved. He grabbed Yao Wangu's heavy corpse from the ground, flashed through the air, and landed moments later