[After granting him a few more benefits, you sent Li Ping, trembling with excitement, back to the edge of the [Demon Realm] to reunite with the rest of the "Hero Party" and leave ahead of you.]
[You did not head to the [Human Realm] or the [Divine Realm]. Instead, you continued controlling "Number One Other-Self" as you explored the entire [Demon Realm].]
[You did not rashly enter the [Demon King's Castle].]
[Although, according to the Hero Party's account and the information you had gathered,]
[this [Demon King] was very likely at [Tier Six], a level comparable to a [Nascent Soul True Lord] of the [Supreme True Realm],]
[which should have made him the strongest being in the [Demon Realm]. Even among the powerhouses you had heard of in the [Human Realm], few could stand against him.]
[When you had instantly killed the fifth Right Hand of the Demon King, you had sensed that his rank was actually comparable to a [Nascent Soul True Lord's].]
[But that had hardly affected you. After all, your "Number One Other-Self" possessed an essence three times that of a [Spirit Transformation Dao Master]]
(with [late bloomer] stacked atop [heaven rewards diligence], plus the [essence] bonus from [Qi Refining Ten-Thousand-Layer Limit-Breaking]),
[and you had killed him instantly, so you had thought little of it.]
[But even then, you had known]
[—this was the [Demon King's] ability, just as Li Ping had said earlier.]
["Something like [borrowed attunement rank]?"]
[That was what you thought.]
[Still, it was laughable.]
[Despite possessing the rank of a [Nascent Soul True Lord], this fifth Right Hand of the Demon King had still failed to finish off the Hero Party, whose strongest member was only a [Golden Core Powerhouse].]
[By all rights, the crushing superiority of rank should have been absolute.]
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