A hundred miles away.
The demons watching the battle had long since frozen where they stood, each with eyes wide open, too stunned to speak for a long while.
After quite some time.
Voices finally rose.
"Th-this... Even after Volcano Lord revealed his six-headed true form, he still failed to take down that Spirit Severing stage human cultivator. Instead, he had one of his heads severed. This... this is simply unbelievable, isn't it?"
"Have human Spirit Severing stage cultivators truly become this powerful?"
"We've fought human cultivators before. It has nothing to do with his identity as a human—it is entirely because that brat's methods are too bizarre."
"His bizarre methods are one thing, but those final two sword techniques he used... Even if he has not reached the Body Integration stage, he must possess the strength of a half-step Body Integration cultivator."
"Moreover, when facing a Body Integration stage Great Demon—one like Volcano Lord, no less—
he managed to preserve his own life, even severing one of Volcano Lord's heads and leaving Volcano Lord with no leisure to continue pursuing him.
That alone is enough to show that this human cultivator's own strength is indeed formidable."
"Of course, Volcano Lord is immensely powerful and possesses the legendary body of a Six-Headed Fire Flood Dragon. But his six heads have clearly not been cultivated to the highest realm, where all six become one.
During the battle just now, the six heads plainly clashed more than once. That was also one of the crucial reasons why he ultimately lost and even damaged his foundations."
"Exactly! It seems that when Volcano Lord fought Fen Tian, the Python Emperor in the past, he never revealed his six-headed demon body not merely because he wished to conceal his strength.
It was also because each