Chapter 5454

Wielding such a technique would ravage any ordinary cultivator-bones, vessels, even sanity-but its destructive potential was legend, turning the weakest spark of malice into a storm strong enough to topple palaces in the blink of a heartbeat.

Soul Devourer, cornered and desperate, finally chose the unthinkable. He cracked open a forbidden ritual, feeding his own blood and hatred to the spell so that its power would answer him at any cost.

Soul Devourer threw his head back and roared, “Hahaha. To kill you, any price is a bargain!”

Shrouded in blood-red mist, his once-tattered frame hardened into brutal solidity. The aura pouring from him thickened until it felt like a storm of knives grinding across the air. “Today you die—inevitably, absolutely, irreversibly!”

In the blink of an eye, he vanished and reappeared before Jared, fingers hooked like talons ready to rip through steel.

Black demonic aura twined with crimson vapor along his hands, merging into a power so twisted and dense that even space itself seemed to ripple.

Jared tried to retreat, but the speed of that predatory blur outstripped thought itself.