"Ah! I won't let you get away with this!"
Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin hacked away together. After who knew how many strikes, [Black Miasma]'s form finally dissipated.
"Phew... surely he can't come back to life, can he?"
Zhang Yuan wiped the sweat from his forehead, silently pondering the words [Black Miasma] had left behind before dissipating.
Whether they belonged to the Nether Bureau or the Six Heavens Demon King Palace, Ghost Deities were extraordinarily difficult to kill. Merely scattering their bodies could not destroy them completely. As for how to kill them for good, the Human Race's texts in the Crimson Firmament Roselight Realm offered all manner of conflicting accounts, with no definitive conclusion.
The main reason was that no one had ever successfully killed a Ghost Deity.
"Unless he can revive instantly, it doesn't really matter. As long as he takes long enough for us to loot the Demon King Palace and escape, that's fine."
Zhang Yuan shook his head, picked up the black weighing weight that had fallen to the ground after [Black Miasma] dissipated, and examined it in his hand, using his celestial person status to divine its origins and functions.
The black weighing weight was a physical object. Though black vapor coiled around it, it was fundamentally forged from some kind of black iron. Beneath the vapor, intricate Pre-Heaven Dao patterns were engraved on its surface.
The Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure [Sin-Karma Scale] had been born of Pre-Heaven sin qi and emerged from nine serenities black iron. It was the companion Supreme Treasure of a certain Pre-Heaven divine saint, capable of weighing living beings' sins and deciding their lives and deaths-a Supreme Treasure with unusual divine effects.
This was what had been emitting the conceptual image and spiritual fluctuations.
Zhang Yuan divined the origins and divine