As the Demon Clan leaders found themselves caught between hope and fear, Pei Yan's accelerated devouring of the Divine Artifact's soul in the air cast a shadow over the artifacts they held, which gradually lost their luster. Eventually, one by one, the artifacts broke free from their control and flew towards Pei Yan, merging into his body, until the last artifact was absorbed, bringing this breathtaking artifact devouring ceremony to an end.
"Phew!" Enveloped by the source energy steaming from his body, Pei Yan slowly descended from mid-air. With each breath, the uncontrollable surge of source energy swirled around him like a sea of clouds. Other than the Demon God, the Demon Clan leaders looked at this monster, who seemed like a gold-eating beast, with a misty gaze, while a chill and inexplicable fear rose within everyone, including Old Samikina.
"Pei Yan, are you, are you okay?" A Demon Clan leader, the closest to Pei Yan, warily approached him and asked, trying to break the silence as no one else spoke.
"Phew!" Once he landed, Pei Yan straightened up suddenly after hunching over, took a deep breath, and the surrounding source energy was inhaled into his body. Pei Yan, revealing his true appearance, let out a satisfied burp and smiled at the Demon Clan leader, saying, "I'm fine!"
"It's good you're alive. Do you know..." Seeing Pei Yan's complexion rosy and his breathing steady, the Demon Clan leader breathed a sigh of relief and was about to tease his colleagues. However, a light breeze swept through his heart, triggering a sense of danger. He tried to dodge to the side in a hurry, but it was too late. A dagger, only a few inches long, followed Pei Yan's raised arm and, like lightning, pierced his throat, was swiftly withdrawn, and then stabbed three more times.
The change happened in the blink of an eye. Besides the still-calm Demon God, everyone else was stunned by the scene before them. They couldn't understand why Pei Yan would murder the benefactor who helped him devour the Divine Artifact in return for kindness.
"You, you, why..." The Demon Clan leader clutched the wound on his neck with one hand, pointing at Pei Yan with the other, his face full of horror and puzzlement. The massive blood loss made him weak and pale. Normally, not even thirty or three hundred stabs would have endangered his life, but Pei Yan's three stabs weren't as simple as they seemed. After the three strikes, an eerie force spread through his body from his wounds. His source energy and body tried to heal the wounds, but under the invasion of this force, he felt that each cell and every thread of source energy was being cut and devoured by numerous small spatial fissures, making it impossible to complete the self-healing process.
The Divine Artifact Execution! The Power of Space, how ironic to have lifted a stone only to drop it on one's own foot. Who would have thought that a dignified clan leader would die by street brawl methods? And who would have imagined that the first person this treacherous wolf would kill after absorbing the Divine Artifact would be him? But what was it all for!
Harboring such regrets, the clan leader didn't even leave a final word, and his entire body turned to ashes, disappearing in the hall.
Seeing the pool of blood still wet at the clan leader's feet, Old Samikina, finally coming to his senses, was consumed by rage. He glared at Pei Yan and angrily demanded, "Pei Yan, what are you doing! Why did you kill him!"
"No, perhaps he is not himself anymore. During the blood sacrifice invasion just now, his soul was swapped!" Standing beside Old Samikina, an elder pondered for a moment before responding. Listening, Old Samikina skeptically looked at Pei Yan. Indeed, apart from this possibility, he couldn't think of a better explanation for the scene before him.
"I'm still me, Mr. Samikina, I advise you not to interfere, just stay put, I won't kill you!" Pei Yan glanced at Old Samikina, smiled, and responded before slowly making his way towards the other two Demon Clan leaders in a corner.
"Lord Demon God, I think he's gone mad! Are we to just let him go unchecked?" One of the two, Finos, who had earlier proposed killing Pei Yan, quickly assumed a combat stance, inching towards the Demon God in the center of the ground.
However, the Demon God seemed indifferent to his subordinate's plea for help, standing still without a word. His tacit approval sent a chill down the spines of the four remaining Demon Clan leaders, unable to comprehend why such an upheaval would occur.
In the blink of an eye, Pei Yan's silhouette disappeared once more. Witnessing this, the targeted individuals naturally refused to passively accept death. One of the Demons immediately activated his crystalline defense to protect himself and, feeling that this defense might still be insecure, wrapped himself in a layer of death aura. Just as he was about to implement further measures, he found his source energy had ceased to flow. The cause was merely a look from Pei Yan, who had teleported in front of him.
Under Pei Yan's ghostly right eye's energy gaze, although his internal source energy was locked for just a moment, that moment was enough to end his life. His crystalline armor, which he took pride in among the Demon Race, was effortlessly pierced by Pei Yan's palm. The layer of death aura covering the armor, instead of harming Pei Yan, became his nourishment, continuously sucked into his body.
Watching helplessly as another clan member was slain effortlessly, like a chick before his very eyes, Finos, driven by terror, descended into madness. Desperate to survive, he disregarded the setting and deployed his ultimate survival skill, channeling his source energy towards the Demon God with his most earnest prayer, yearning to acquire power beyond his own limits.
Yet, he still fell under Pei Yan's hand, his chest pierced with Pei Yan's palm, and his soul-body shattered to pieces by the rampant soul power, pouring with abandon.
"Ugh, why! Why!" In his final moments, Finos questioned not Pei Yan but the Demon God, revered as a deity by the Demon Race. Just moments ago, when he prayed to the Demon God for power, not only was there no response, but his own power was suppressed, leading to Pei Yan's lethal strike.
Pei Yan wasn't under control; this slaughter was tacitly permitted by the Demon God, an unspoken understanding between them!
"Why! Yes, why?" From the moment Pei Yan started slaughtering after devouring the Divine Artifact, the Demon God, observing quietly, sighed at the remaining two clan leaders' desperate gazes, turned to Pei Yan and said helplessly, "Give them an explanation, please!"
