At that thought, Agares could not help understanding his eldest brother's actions a little better.
After all, if they left someone in the Temple Alliance who could one day grow strong enough to contend with Heavenly Calamity, then even if the demons ultimately defeated Austin Griffin and erased Heavenly Calamity from this plane, a new crisis would arise.
That crisis would be the human knight named Yue Shen.
What Agares truly wanted to know, however, was whether the Demon God Emperor would kill Yue Shen after capturing him to secure the demons' future rule, or use mental control to force him into lifelong loyalty to their race.
Still, considering the plan their third brother had just described, it would be better to eliminate a human whose future strength could threaten their rule. He simply did not know what his eldest brother intended...
Sensing that all the spirit apertures in his body were finally brimming with power, Yue Shen knew he could begin preparing to break through the bottleneck between the seventh and eighth tiers.
"It's just... it seems to be getting more and more noticeable." After raising his total internal spiritual power to the peak of the seventh tier, Yue Shen could clearly feel the effects of elementalization on his body.
This time, the sensation was much more pronounced than before, and the erosion of his body no longer diminished with time.
In other words, Yue Shen's body elementalization had already become irreversible. Even if he stopped cultivating now, unless he found another solution, he would eventually disperse into the world and merge with this plane, just as the Goddess of Nature and the Goddess of Light once had.
At the same time, while the three high-purity elemental energies in Yue Shen's body were pushing him onto the now-severed