Using the force of Elemental Magnetism as a tether, Su Che tore the demon's corpse open from within.
What he found, however, was not what he had expected.
The demon had no internal organs at all. It seemed to be made entirely of bones, muscles, and sinews.
And those bones and sinews seemed to have been forged from metal.
Rather than a living creature, this demon was more like a puppet...
It reminded Su Che of the time he had traveled the stars with Li Shouchang while at the Yellow Heaven Sect and encountered a group of Heavenly Demons. The demons before him bore some resemblance to the Demonic Slave Race.
But Heavenly Demons were trapped beyond the Ninefold Heavenly Firmament. The laws of heaven and earth made it impossible for them to appear here.
Could these be the product of some technique left by a mighty Devil Sect cultivator who had once occupied this place?
Su Che had not studied the kinds of Outer Heavenly Demons in much depth, but broadly speaking, Heavenly Demons were peculiar beings without physical form, yet possessed of substance.
They had no Numinous Obscurity of their own and could exist only by relying on that of other living beings.
More precisely, ordinary lower-tier Heavenly Demons had no bodies.
That was why cultivators called the lowest grade of Heavenly Demon "Deathless Thoughts."
Above Deathless Thoughts were two more ranks: Heavenly Outer Calamities and Dharma-Ending Lords.
A Heavenly Outer Calamity was comparable to an Immortal True Person, while a Dharma-Ending Lord could rival an Earth Immortal of the Mystic Gate.
Glazed Radiance Dustless Heaven, whom Su Che had only recently encountered, was a Heavenly Outer Calamity under a Dharma-Ending Lord. Great Force Fearless Demon King, Narayana—whom everyone had joined forces to kill through trickery, and whose