The Nine-Tailed Fox would likewise recover to a level far beyond ordinary Saints.
The offer was hard to refuse.
But nothing came for free.
Ji Fa did not agree at once.
"What's the price?"
The Primordial Heavenly Demon opened his palm. Two gray demonic seeds slowly rose from it.
"Swallow these."
"Then I will undo the first layer of your era's seal."
The two gray seeds hovered in the center of the hall, so still they sent a chill through the heart.
Ji Fa did not reach for them.
The Nine-Tailed Fox immediately sent out her Primordial Spirit, trying to see through the seeds' inner structure.
The instant her divine sense drew near, a surge of Annihilation Power rushed back along it.
The Nine-Tailed Fox severed her divine sense at once, but a stab of pain still shot through her Primordial Spirit.
"This isn't a key to undoing the seal."
Her voice was cold.
"It's a shackle to control us."
The Primordial Heavenly Demon did not deny it.
"Cooperation requires trust."
Ji Fa gave a derisive laugh.
"Putting our lives in your hands is what you call trust?"
"Don't you hear how absurd that sounds?"
The Primordial Heavenly Demon raised his eyes to him.
"Do you have a choice?"
The temperature in the hall plunged.
Gray Demonic Energy surged in from every direction, sealing off every path of retreat.
Guangchengzi stood beside the hall doors, savoring the sight.
Back in Xiqi, Ji Fa had beaten him so badly he could not fight back.
Now, before his master, wouldn't this lord of humanity from the Former Era have to bow his head all the same?
The Nine-Tailed Fox glanced outside the hall.
The power of the Heaven-Burier Seal already enveloped all of Kunlun Mountain.
From the moment they entered its gates,