Insights into Nascent Soul Formation! Further Progress on Twin Nascent Soul Cores! Laying Plans to Depart!

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Hiss-"

A cultivator and a strange bird sped into the distance, raising two dazzling escape lights high in the sky. Different in color, they chased one another, leaving long trails over the boundless desert.

Far behind them, a demonic wind carried a pitch-black giant scorpion demon king, its body more than twenty feet long,

Its hooked tail raised high, the Giant Scorpion Demon King continued its relentless pursuit.

The demonic wind was murky and foul. Sand and dust flew wherever it passed, and a nauseating stench of decay filled the air.

In particular, the Three-Legged Monstrous Bird's eyes reflected the golden-purple escape light ahead, the ferocity in its pupils so intense it almost took tangible form.

But now, threads of humanlike calculation mingled with that ferocity.

It realized that the prey ahead was astonishingly fast. Although it had already pushed its speed to the limit, the distance between it and that golden-purple escape light kept widening little by little.

If this dragged on, that prime prey, brimming with vitality and powerful magical energy, might really escape.

That would be a tremendous loss.

If it could devour and refine such a being, it might greatly benefit its advance into the fourth-tier transformation stage! Its demon power could progress further, bringing it to that threshold it had dreamed of reaching.

So, no matter what, it had to slow him down, then summon the Scorpion King to surround and kill him together. Only then would success be assured!

Having decided, the Three-Legged Monstrous Bird suddenly folded its wings!

Those enormous wings, spanning more than a hundred feet, abruptly folded inward. Brilliant golden light blazed from its entire body, so dense it seemed tangible, dyeing every feather a dazzling gold. From afar, it looked like a golden meteor.

The next instant.

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