The scene continued.
Although the Demon Wings vanished with a single beat, that one motion stirred up endless yellow sand.
Kodo held up his scepter to resist it, but his efforts were futile. He could only watch as the sand buried all of Green Canopy City.
Eventually, Kodo returned to the Limestone Cave and found that a crack had opened in the Sealing Altar.
Kodo could clearly sense a powerful force within that crack. Only then did he realize that removing the gemstone had allowed the demon within the seal to release its power.
But Kodo had no idea that the demon had actually left. He believed that the force was the demon itself.
In the end, Kodo sacrificed his own life, merging into the Verdant Scepter to stand guard over the Sealing Altar, hoping to keep the demon inside sealed away.
Throughout this process, however, the power lingering in the crack kept eroding Kodo.
By this point, Su Ye understood.
The demon had left long ago. Just one careless beat of its wings had raised a sky full of yellow sand, bringing about Green Canopy City's destruction.
Even the demon itself had no idea.
"When gods clash, mortals suffer. Except there wasn't even a clash here. One casual beat of a powerful being's wings wiped out an entire city," Su Ye said with a sigh.
And Kodo's final act of suppressing the seal with his own body had been futile as well, because the demon had already left.
All that remained within the seal was a trace of the demon's power.
Moreover, after years of guarding the seal, Kodo's corpse had been corrupted by that lingering power, turning him into the King Soul Monster Su Ye had just fought.
Su Ye even suspected that Kodo had gained power from