"In my opinion, I might as well send you on your way!"
Liu Yu looked down at the three with an expressionless face and indifferent eyes. By the end of his sentence, his voice had turned chillingly cold.
The three Spirit Planters immediately paled at his words, their faces filled with terror.
Their eyes widened involuntarily. They looked up at Liu Yu and opened their mouths, about to say something.
Liu Yu's eyes held nothing but indifference. He had long since put away any misplaced mercy. Opening his mouth, he spat out three wisps of pale azure flame, which shot toward them in an instant.
"Aaargh!"
At such close range, the three had no time to react. The azure flames struck their bodies, then swelled and spread over them. In less than half a breath, they had been reduced to drifting ash.
Sometimes life was just that fragile. In the blink of an eye, life gave way to death.
Liu Yu guided the three wisps of Azure Yang Demonic Flame back through his mouth into his dantian, carefully sensing the changes in them.
Burning three Qi Refining Period cultivators had increased their power by only a tiny sliver, far less than burning a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
However, Liu Yu had already prepared himself for this. After all, advancing from the Qi Refining Period to the Foundation Establishment Realm elevated the very essence of life. There was a fundamental gap between the two, both in the physical body and the primordial spirit.
Or rather, every advancement in a cultivator's realm transformed the essence of their life. From mortal to immortal, from ordinary to extraordinary, they stepped beyond the domain of "human" and into the realm of "immortal."
It was by no means merely a qualitative change in magical power or an