Chaotic Sword God

During this time, Immortal Exalt Tan Yu recognised the Warring Old Freak. After all, he stood out far too much with his colossal figure. However, Immortal Exalt Tan Yu could not approach him because the Warring Old Freak was busy suppressing the upper half of the Starflame Demon Lion’s body.

“I never thought senior Warring would actually be here as well. Looks like they’ve come specially to kill the Starflame Demon Lion.”

“Even with senior Warring’s supreme strength at the Sixth Heavenly Layer, he can only barely suppress the upper half of the Starflame Demon Lion’s body, so who cut the Starflame Demon Lion in half?” Immortal Exalt Tan Yu subconsciously looked back at the Illusionary Ancestor. His heart began to thump uncontrollably, filled with a deep sense of reverence.

He was unable to sense the Illusionary Ancestor’s strength, but he knew that even Seventh Heavenly Layer Immortal Exalts would need to expend tremendous effort to slay the Starflame Demon Lion before him. Meanwhile, he could clearly tell that the clean face of the cut had been the result of a single stroke.

“Don’t tell me it’s this female senior?” Immortal Exalt Tan Yu felt both shock and dread. Just how terrifying was her strength to be able to cut the Starflame Demon Lion in a single strike?

Very soon, Immortal Exalt Tan Yu arrived before the high quality god artifact that blended in as an asteroid. He found the open entrance. After slightly hesitating, he stepped inside decisively.

“Fellow Yang Yutian, why is it you?” As soon as he entered the god artifact, Immortal Exalt Tan Yu was taken aback. He subconsciously recalled what the Illusionary Ancestor had said and became filled with mixed emotions.

In the air, the two severed halves of the Starflame Demon Lion rapidly approached one another, wanting to join back together. With its powerful body and startling recovery, the Illusionary Ancestor’s strike was not fatal. As long as its consciousness and body remained, it could revive even if it was sliced to a thousand bits.

However, the Illusionary Ancestor clearly did not plan on letting the Starflame Demon Lion reassemble its body. She surged with pressure, and a powerful storm of energy raged like tidal waves. The laws manifested around her, condensing into another blinding blade that slashed towards the Starflame Demon Lion.

After several attacks from the Illusionary Ancestor, the bottom half of the Starflame Demon Lion had been sliced into over a dozen pieces. Each piece was relatively far away from one another, preventing them from joining back together.

At this moment, a powerful pulse of energy suddenly appeared from one of the pieces. Shortly afterwards, surging essence dispersed from the pieces scattered through outer space, all pouring into that specific piece like rivers flowing into an ocean.

As the essence vanished, those pieces of the Starflame Demon Lion’s extremely tough body immediately lost all signs of life and vitality. They withered away.

At this moment, all of the vitality and life force in the bottom half of the Starflame Demon Lion’s body began to condense together, forming a fist-sized inner core inside the piece of flesh.

In the next moment, the inner core broke out of the flesh, turning into a streak of red light that shot towards the Starflame Demon Lion.

The Starflame Demon Lion opened its mouth and faced the inner core, planning on swallowing it.

It was trying to recover the energy in the bottom half of its body through this method.

However, right when the inner core was about to reach its mouth, a gentle hand extended out from the space there, catching the inner core lightly.

Immediately, the inner core came to a halt, having been forcefully trapped in the hand by a startling power. It was unable to break free.

The Illusionary Ancestor slowly appeared. She gripped the fist-sized inner core in her hand. She was surprised.

“An inner core condensed by a space beast’s energy, life force, and vitality. This is rare,” the Illusionary Ancestor murmured softly. Afterwards, she struck out with her hand, landing a blow on the Starflame Demon Lion’s head with terrifying force. 𝙍

With that, the Starflame Demon Lion directly began seeing stars before giving up on all resistance and falling unconscious.

The Master of Profound Secrets’ process of absorbing the soul essence immediately became extremely smooth. The speed skyrocketed. Pure soul essence turned into an illusionary white beam, sucked into the cauldron like it was a bottomless pit.

In under a minute, the Starflame Demon Lion had been drained of soul essence, without a single drop remaining.

That did not mean the Starflame Demon Lion was dead. Soul essence was a kind of energy condensed from the power of the soul. Without soul essence, the Starflame Demon Lion could still survive, but the power of its soul would become much weaker.

“It’s enough. We’ve already gathered enough essence of the five organs and soul essence to refine the ancient pill.” The Master of Profound Secrets stowed the pill cauldron away in relief.

The four Fifth Heavenly Layer Immortal Exalts that assisted him in gathering the essence of the five organs all let out sighs of relief as well.

“Since you’ve already gathered everything that the Illusionary Ancestor requires, we should completely kill this Starflame Demon Lion here. It will only serve as a source of trouble if left alive, threatening the weaker Immortal Exalts of our Immortals’ World,” said the Warring Old Freak. He immediately stopped holding back. The high quality god artifact gloves on his hands erupted with blinding light as he smashed the Starflame Demon Lion’s head with full force.

Bang! The Warring Old Freak’s punch destroyed a tenth of its head. Much of its flesh vanished.

Both the Starflame Demon Lion’s toughness and recovery was no longer as great as before.

“With your speed, killing it would still take some time. Let me do it instead,” the Illusionary Ancestor said. She opened her hand, and a fist-sized bronze cauldron appeared out of nowhere.

In the next moment, the cauldron rapidly swelled, growing to the size of a planet. It radiated with the might of a powerful high quality god artifact.

When the Master of Profound Secrets saw the cauldron, his eyes were filled with undisguised envy. The quality of the pill cauldron was extremely high, having reached the peak of high quality god artifacts. It only needed one more step to evolve into a sovereign god artifact.

“The Illusionary Ancestor is not skilled in the Way of Alchemy, yet she possesses such a high quality cauldron. How envious.” The Master of Profound Secrets gulped. Even with his strength as a Fourth Heavenly Layer Immortal Exalt, his desires burned when he saw the Illusionary Ancestor’s cauldron.

At this moment, the cauldron’s lid opened, and an extremely vicious flame of alchemy poured out. It created a sea of fire that could incinerate space, covering the Starflame Demon Lion’s body.

Under the roaring flames, the Starflame Demon Lion’s body dissolved at a visible rate. The energy, vitality, and so on in its body dissipated into the surroundings. Eventually, it turned into something like nutrients, nourishing the surging flames that emerged from the cauldron.

The flames of the cauldron burned even brighter. It seemed like it was rapidly growing stronger.

The Starflame Demon Lion awakened from its slumber. It began to struggle and roar instinctively, but it was unable to rush out of the vicinity of the flames even with its full strength.

The Illusionary Ancestor was far too powerful. Earlier, she mostly focused on restraining and suppressing the Starflame Demon Lion to gather its essence of the five organs and soul essence. She did not think about harming it.

Now that she had already gathered everything that she needed, the Illusionary Ancestor’s killing intent stirred. The Starflame Demon Lion immediately became like a lamb to a slaughterhouse. It was completely feeble.

Very soon, under the extremely vicious flames, the Starflame Demon Lion was completely reduced to ashes. All of its body had vanished. It could not be any more dead.

Its strength, vitality, and the inner core condensed from the lower half of its body all ended up in the Illusionary Ancestor’s hands.

The upper half had been entirely absorbed by the alchemy flames.

Even if the Starflame Demon Lion possessed an undying body, there were no chances of being reborn after suffering a fate like this.

The alchemy flames seemed alive. They suddenly swept back into the cauldron. The lid was closed, and the cauldron shrank back to the size of a fist, returning to the Illusionary Ancestor’s hand.