Before the stone gate, gray Void True Flame flowed like liquid as it burned a human figure.
Miserable screams rose amid terrifying spiritual energy, trying to extinguish the flames, but the facts proved that everything was futile.
When the sound completely vanished, an Earthly Sovereign who had lost the power he should have possessed died humiliatingly beneath an array disc.
Far outside the Ancient Heavenly Palace, Liu Bai suddenly heard a system notification.
"Ding! Congratulations on killing a peak Lower Earthly Sovereign. Triple experience reward granted. Obtained 9,000,000 Experience Points. Obtained 2,000 Spirit Vein Awakening Points."
Liu Bai was stunned for a moment, but he quickly reacted.
"Looks like Jiu You and the others used the array disc I gave them to kill another expert... A peak Lower Earthly Sovereign. That should be the Left Elder from the original story, the one the Holy Demon Emperor sent specifically to stop them from obtaining Mandala's true body."
The original story did not seem to mention this man's exact cultivation, only that he was the Holy Demon Palace's Punishment Elder. Liu Bai had not expected his cultivation to be so high.
Unfortunately, in order to enter the Ancient Heavenly Palace, he had even sacrificed most of his cultivation.
Yet the system still judged him based on his strongest realm.
"This is different from when I killed the corrupted Lord of Wind Prefecture. The Lord of Wind Prefecture himself was already dead, and the one controlling his corrupted body was only a wisp of Demonic Soul. Killing him was therefore calculated as killing a wisp of Demonic Soul, so I only received Experience Points at the time and no Spirit Vein Awakening Points..."
Still, Liu Bai was very pleased. With these 2,000 Spirit Vein Awakening Points, his Spirit Veins could finally advance from