The heart spirit was instantly flustered, and in a moment of carelessness, it was caught off guard by the Heaven-Devouring Rat’s opportunity. It was struck by an Earth Spike it unleashed, piercing directly through its abdomen, with blood raining down like a shower.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
The Meng-named Demon Cultivator was shocked and furious, cursing loudly, "Vile rodent! How dare you ambush me!"
"Hmph! Such childish words. I am originally a Mouse Demon, yet you dare speak disrespectfully when death is imminent. Brother Qiu is already a cold corpse, and I shall send you to reunite with him!"
The Heaven-Devouring Rat’s eyes turned cold, and the five command flags in its hands flew out, landing in five positions in the void.
It then activated its demonic power, chanting under its breath.
"Four Symbols Tribulation Killing Array!"
Boom!
From the five command flags, five brilliantly colored beams shot up into the sky!
A world-destroying aura locked onto the emaciated Demonic Cultivator struggling within the array.
The Meng-named Demon Cultivator’s face turned pale with fear, "This... this is..."
Suddenly, within the grand array, a terrifying black fierce wind surged, as if it could extinguish a cultivator’s divine soul.
Celestial Thunder connected with Earth Fire, within the black fierce wind, horrifying black flames mixed with flickering thunder.
The emaciated Demonic Cultivator, like a lone leaf in an endless ocean, wavered amidst the tidal waves formed by the fierce wind, at constant risk of capsizing.
In just a few moments, even after using all his methods, he couldn’t withstand the terrifying black wind and was quickly swallowed by it.
Not even a final scream was heard.
The Heaven-Devouring Rat immediately ceased its casting, raising its hand to summon back the Five Elements Command Banners.
The fierce wind dissipated.
A charred corpse fell lifelessly from the air, the Meng-named Demon Cultivator’s eyes empty and soulless, clearly annihilated by the black wind just moments ago...
"Seems like I was a bit too heavy-handed... The master wanted to soul search, but now even the soul is gone..."
The Heaven-Devouring Rat realized it had gone a bit overboard and was secretly pondering how to explain to Qin Ming.
Qin Ming’s figure had already appeared beside it.
"Master, this demon has been annihilated by me, hehe!"
"It’s just the soul seems to have... dissipated."
The Heaven-Devouring Rat puffed its chest, seeking credit from Qin Ming.
After Qin Ming collected the storage pouch from the man’s body, he used the Thorn Technique to drain the corpse, turning it into a Blood Pearl.
He tossed the emaciated man’s body into the Little Spirit Realm as fertilizer.
Afterward, he fed the two Late-stage Golden Core Demonic Cultivator Blood Pearls to the Lifebound Spirit Plant Yin Yang Profound Vine.
The Profound Vine absorbed the essence from the Blood Pearls and began to grow wildly at an astonishing speed.
Silver intricate rune patterns danced and swirled around the Spirit Plant.
Until dozens of black-and-white buds bloomed again between the black vines.
Having finished, Qin Ming turned to the Heaven-Devouring Rat and said.
"No matter, the divine souls of these two Descent Cultivators had some kind of sect restriction on them, making soul search and interrogation impossible."
He did not blame the Heaven-Devouring Rat for it.
On the contrary, he was quite impressed with the means it employed at the end.
"This place isn’t safe to linger; the commotion just now might attract nearby Great Demons to investigate. We’d better leave here."
Qin Ming promptly cleared all traces from the scene, ensuring nothing was left behind before disappearing with the Heaven-Devouring Rat in a flash of azure light.
At the same time he annihilated the two demons.
Within the three great Cultivation Realms, the more than ten Demonic Cultivators who descended from the Blood Realm all had a sudden change in expression.
Each hastily pulled out a Demon Pattern Blood Token from their bosom, only to see that two fellow divine soul marks on it had disappeared.