The laboratory's white lights cast a cold, clear glow.
On the operating table.
As the Divine Core was drawn out of her body, Aurora's face grew visibly pale.
Her aura plummeted as though falling from the clouds, soon dropping from the Emperor-Rank Third Step to the Emperor-Rank Second Step, barely holding at the level of someone who had just entered the Second Step.
Beside the table.
For the moment, Jiang Yang paid no heed to the changes in Aurora. He reached out and took hold of the ink-black Divine Core.
Golden divine power enveloped the Divine Core, which had already become an entirely negative product.
The sizzling of clashing powers rang through the laboratory. This was the Power of Corruption resisting.
Yet it had no effect. Holding it with divine power, Jiang Yang traced out a Sealing Magic Formation and sealed it away.
Then his gaze returned to Aurora. Though she was deeply asleep, her brows were unconsciously knitted tight, and her body was curled up. She looked extremely uncomfortable.
Jiang Yang silently closed his eyes, sinking his awareness inward to look at the Divine Core in his sea of consciousness that belonged to him alone.
It was a black Divine Core with a trace of gold, and boundless negative energy and Power of Corruption surged within it as well.
However, his will suppressed these dark, evil forces, preventing even the slightest trace from affecting him.
His Divine Core could be counted among the very finest of all the gods. After all, as the strongest God King, he received far more faith than the other gods.
However, he made little use of or relied much on the Power of Faith. This was also why his will could so directly sever the negative emotions of corruption.
With a muffled grunt, a