Black and azure radiance clashed against each other. The spear proved on the losing end of the collision, flying backward and putting a hole through the crimson monster, then vanishing into who-knew-where like a shooting star.

Disbelief overtook the crimson monster’s dark gaze. A human had countered their combat art and knocked its dao treasure out of its hand! Without the treasure, the long-haired monster was similar to a defanged tiger. As vicious as ever, but lacking ninety percent of its power.

“If I can’t capture Yu Hengluo, then you’ll do as well!” With a push, the six strands of nascent spirit over Lu Yun’s head evolved into a giant hand of six interweaving colors that grabbed at the hairy monster.

He wasn’t going to kill it since it couldn’t become his Infernum. The black long-haired monsters he’d killed before had entered hell, but they’d disintegrated not long after.

Their kind didn’t have souls.

He had to find out what’d happened to Yu Hengluo,...