Liu Yuanchen put away his various techniques and surveyed the area, looking for any surviving remnants of the demons.
The Demon Race's two Demon Kings, Poxun and Rakshasa, had joined forces, and Mo Luo, their foremost Demon General, had broken through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm.
Clearly, major changes had taken place within the Demon Race.
Then there was the Mid-Grade Innate Black Lotus. It had grown from a seed of the Twelve-Petaled World-Ending Black Lotus and inherited some of its source essence.
By all rights, it should have become an extraordinarily powerful Acquired Spirit Root and treasure.
Yet somehow, it had become an Innate Spirit Treasure.
And a mid-grade one at that, with twenty Innate Dao Resonances hidden within it.
Nurturing it by a method like the Innate Treasure-Nurturing Formula would require a terrifying amount of Innate Undying Radiance.
He had the Chaos Bell and could draw a steady supply of Innate Primordial Qi from Chaos.
Even so, he had no intention of cultivating a Middle-Grade Innate Spirit Root.
If he could capture one of Mo Luo's trusted followers alive, he ought to be able to obtain plenty of intelligence about the Demon Race.
Unfortunately, even after searching for a long time, he found no survivors.
Earlier, he had summoned the Pangu Dao Embryo and used the Mystic Yellow Axe to unleash the first of the Nine Heaven-Cleaving Forms.
Mo Luo had summoned a phantom of Demon Ancestor Luohu and joined forces with several hundred lesser demons.
The power unleashed by both sides had surpassed the limits of the Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm.
In a battle of that magnitude, neither side had room to hold back.
Mo Luo's God-Slaying Spear had snapped in two, and the Mid-Grade Innate Black Lotus had lost all combat capability.
Without the Innate