As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Qiao gave this Southwest prodigy no further chance to speak. With an earth-based technique, she condensed a massive human face beneath his feet, then opened its mouth and swallowed.
Bzz—!
Faced with such a life-or-death crisis, the life-saving treasure on the Southwest prodigy's body finally sprang into effect, desperately resisting the erosion of the quicksand all around him.
"Stop forcing yourself. Those reinforcements you were counting on are all struggling to save themselves now. None of them will come rescue you."
As Lin Qiao spoke, she summoned a small vial from within her cave abode.
She then controlled it with true essence, tilting it slightly toward the Southwest prodigy. Two silver-gray droplets carrying a hint of ominous aura fell from it.
The moment the Southwest prodigy saw those droplets, his heart jolted in alarm, and his expression changed at once.
"How do you have that thing? You..."
Crack!
Under the corrosion of the Dead Water power, the protective spiritual light around his body shattered in an instant. Before he could say another word, his body was completely buried beneath the quicksand in the human face's mouth.
When Lin Qiao's figure recondensed from the earth, this Southwest prodigy's life force had already been utterly crushed out by the power of the thick earth.
Not long afterward, the ground of this cave abode surged like a tide once more, spitting back out the corpse whose flesh and bones had already been pulverized.
Lin Qiao lowered her eyes and glanced at it. As though recalling something, she formed earthen spikes in her palm and gave several more stabs to the man's vital points.
Only after doing this did she take out the Turtle Shell Secret Treasure and store both his corpse and the demonic cultivator's corpse