"Why put on such an act, Demon Venerable? With your temperament, if you truly had sufficient strength, you would have captured me the moment you appeared.
Back then, you were merely at the Body Integration stage.
Even if you preserved a wisp of divine soul and seized the body of a Tribulation Crossing stage demon, you would only be like a child wielding a giant axe, utterly unable to unleash much of its power."
As Tantai Zhi finished speaking, she opened her mouth and spat out a beam of black light, shooting straight at the glabella of the black-clad cultivator before her.
"You..."
Before the black-clad cultivator could finish speaking, he let out a miserable scream.
The aura around him immediately dimmed to the extreme.
"Since you went to such lengths to preserve a wisp of your remnant soul, you should never have appeared before me!"
Tantai Zhi's gaze burned brightly, killing intent surging in her eyes like rolling waves.
She had always been exceedingly wary of the Demon Venerable She Sheng.
Now that she had discovered he was not dead, only one thought remained in her heart: kill him as quickly as possible and eliminate all future trouble.
"Wait! The master has other instructions. If you kill me, you certainly will not survive either!"
At the brink of life and death, the black-clad cultivator spoke in a rush.
This time, none of his former arrogance remained. There was already a trace of panic in his voice.
Just as Tantai Zhi had judged, he was currently at his weakest.
He could deal with the Little Demon, but against an opponent like Tantai Zhi, he had no strength left to fight back at all.
He had gone through great difficulty to preserve a wisp of his remnant soul, a sliver of