【White Jade Capital Calamity Kirin slain — total lifespan 420,000 years, 240,000 years remaining — fully absorbed】

【Remaining Demon Lifespan: 2,490,000 years】

White mist drifted all around.

Shen Yi sat cross-legged on the top floor of the Technique-Storing Pavilion and took the Yue brothers' corpses out of his thumb ring.

Yue Tiance had looked helpless in the Spirit-Peak Sect Master's hands, but in cultivation alone he had been no weaker than his elder brother.

Below Dao-merging, it would be hard to find demons stronger than these two brothers.

Shen Yi gathered a square Anchor-Stone and turned the two corpses into a river of blood that poured into it. He watched quietly as the Anchor-Stone became a fierce kirin-shaped beast, covered in fine scales and feathers patterned like clouds.

In bright colors, it might even have looked auspicious. But Yue Tiance had turned into a black cloud, and the Anchor-Stone's face was savage. Together they gave the beast a strangely evil air, like an omen of coming disaster.

Shen Yi took his eyes off it and began condensing Demon Origins to rebuild Yue Tianji's demon soul.

Birth, age, sickness, death, suffering. The kalpa of suffering came even after the kalpa of death.

On the way back, he had asked Senior Xuanqing about Yue Tianji… To be honest, Shen Yi did not think this eldest direct-line son of the Yue family had suffered much.

As for the man himself, he had a powerful bloodline and astonishing insight. He had never met a setback since childhood, and everything had gone his way.

As for the Yue family, it had deep foundations and a lofty standing, and to this day it was still a first-rank great clan of Beihong.

It sounded a little like Senior Brother Zhu Jue back in Great Qian.

But one thing was different. Senior Brother Zhu had truly been unable to break through, and that was why he fell apart. Yue Tianji had faced no hardship at all, so he made some for himself. He could have broken through to the Dao-merging level with no bottleneck whatsoever. Instead, because he…