He knew he was dead.
Chapter 354: Shattered
The commotion at sea was astonishing. If cultivators held nothing back in battle, even ordinary people far away in the city could sense it, much less a demon of the Body Integration Realm.
"I did underestimate those three brats. That Spirit Transformation cultivator was useless too, actually failing to deal with three Golden Core cultivators—oh no, Nascent Soul cultivators now..."
Black Mist gave a cackling laugh. It had never worried that the three little ones would perish. It was not looking down on Pill Fragrance City's cultivators; it was simply that confident. Otherwise, how could they be its own cubs?!
"A mere Spirit Transformation cultivator, and you, a demon, have the nerve to flaunt it! Return my body at once!"
Demons were the best in this world at prying into people's hearts. Though they had fought for less than half a day, it immediately saw through the fact that this power was not purely the body's original owner, or rather—
"Are you truly the master of this body?"
The demon's malice swelled in an instant. Had Black Mist never lost its "self" in No-Shu City, it might already have fallen under the demon's influence, its power spiraling out of control. But unfortunately, it was fundamentally power influenced by a fragment of memory. Because it had inherited Shu Wenzhou's memories, it naturally possessed Shu Wenzhou's emotions as well. Yet that possession was exceedingly rigid. It was bound by none of humanity's moral sentiments. Before learning Bian Chunchou's identity, it could even use the Soul-Searching Technique as if it were only natural.
Compared to the demon, Black Mist's inhumanity was no less profound.
But because Shu Wenzhou was dead, it too had lost its reason to "live." Once so proud, so high-spirited, that man