Chapter 5733

Soul Devourer re-knitted his vaporous form, a midnight silhouette floating over the shattered earth. His gaze settled on Jared, who was still struggling in the distance, and his voice coiled out like a razor. “That was your ultimate strike?

Pathetic. It did not even tickle me.”

Jared dropped to one knee. The sword in his fist became a crutch, its tip gouging a trembling groove while he hauled air into bruised lungs. Sweat and blood blurred together on his face, disbelief widening his eyes.

How can this be? I have thrown every hidden card, even tapped the very cadence of ultimate energy, and still cannot touch his core. A moment ago, I felt unstoppable-certain I could crush that ancient cur with one squeeze. Reality lands like ice water, dousing every shred of swagger. Did I level the entire Ninefold Heaven only because the adversaries were weak? Up against a monster that survived from ancient times, my so-called power is laughable—and he has not even finished rebuilding his physical body.

Soul Devourer watched Jared’s spiraling despair and drank it in. “Now you see the gulf between us,” he purred. “Kneel, beg, gift me your soul and that Demon Seal Tower. Perhaps I shall grant you a swift death.”

Jared lifted his head and swiped the blood from his mouth. Shock still lingered, but something feral now burned behind it a cornered wolf’s glare that knew solo heroics were done.

“Beg? In your dreams,” he snarled, forcing his body upright in one convulsive surge.