The aftershocks of the explosion had yet to fade.
Ji Yuan had already driven the Star-Treading Wheel back to his original position—the very center of the blast.
Spiritual energy still raged wildly all around, but it no longer affected him.
His Divine Sense swept the area.
A Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator's self-destruction would surely have blasted his corpse into nothingness.
What a pity. What a terrible pity.
At the thought, Ji Yuan couldn't help shaking his head.
If he could have obtained the Blood Luo King's corpse, buried it in the Mass Burial Ground, and waited for it to transform into a Corpse Puppet—a Nascent Soul Late Stage Corpse Puppet at his side would have been incredible!
He could have gone straight to the Abyssal Continent to take revenge on the Bone Demon Old Devil, the Profound Serpent Manor Master, and the others.
Unfortunately, the Blood Luo King's corpse had amounted to nothing more than a brilliant firework.
...But that wasn't what mattered. What truly mattered was that the Blood Luo King's Nascent Soul had escaped.
The instant the Blood Luo King self-destructed, Ji Yuan's Divine Sense had detected his method.
A large part of why the Blood Luo King had dared to self-destruct then was that
he could ensure his Nascent Soul escaped after destroying his physical body.
The method was rather like "building a bridge": he used his exploding body as the bridge, then sent his Nascent Soul across to the far shore.
That was how he fled.
Ji Yuan had seen through it, but there was nothing he could do.
At the moment the Blood Luo King exploded, even Ji Yuan, with his Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm physique, hadn't dared to rush in and withstand it.
To survive the self-destruction of a Nascent Soul Late