"HAHAHA--!!"
Above the Life Altar, the humanoid demon opened its blood-red maw and let out a wicked laugh.
A black and red hexagram formation lit up, making Yuyan outside the Mountain Temple widen her cold eyes. She summoned her sword, forming an ice-blue barrier. At the same time, the demon raised its right arm, its pale bone-armored claw slowly grasping the Abyss Core floating in the hexagram--
BOOM BOOM BOOM--!!!
The core erupted with heat waves in the demon's grip, but it felt no pain, only mad joy.
"Success!!! I did it! The Mother Goddess still favors me!"
The terrifying abyssal energy melted the pale exoskeleton and turned half the demon's arm into a bloody mess. But even with just a skeletal right arm, it kept laughing, enduring the pain to clutch the core.
It swallowed the core whole, its gaze darting to the white-robed lady--
