"I suspect the Evil God Sword definitely holds some kind of secret unknown to others."
Chu Feng speculated inwardly. He felt that the Evil God Sword wasn't unwilling to seize his body — it simply couldn't do so.
And the most likely explanation was the same one he had guessed before: the Evil God Sword had been sealed within a weapon. Though its power was formidable, it couldn't unleash it freely and required a medium. Chu Feng… was that medium.
Time ticked by bit by bit, and the voice of the Evil Ginseng King grew fainter and fainter, until it finally vanished completely.
Its colossal body — towering above the clouds — also shrank steadily, until it too disappeared without a trace.
All of it had been devoured and refined by Chu Feng.
Had anyone not witnessed it with their own eyes, they would never have believed that a human-sized body could consume a colossal being ten thousand meters tall that had blotted out the sky.
At this moment, though the people no longer cried out in panic as they had before, an eerie silence hung over the sky.
Yet the gazes they directed at Chu Feng were filled with the same fear they had felt earlier upon seeing the Evil Ginseng King.
If anything, that fear had only intensified.
"Kid, having devoured that thing, you not only get to extend your lifespan — you'll also remain forever youthful. You'll keep that fresh young face for the rest of your life and never turn into a wrinkled old man," the Evil God Sword's voice finally spoke again.
Only this voice belonged to the Evil God Sword, because… it was a voice that only Chu Feng could hear.
"Oh, I almost forgot — I shouldn't say 'you,' but rather 'me,' because this body no longer belongs to you. It belongs to this Evil God."
The Evil God Sword's voice rang out once more, but after hearing those words, Chu Feng's heart trembled.
Because that sentence revealed the Evil God Sword's ambition — it had indeed… no intention of returning Chu Feng's body to him.
But at this point, Chu Feng had no recourse. He had already lost the power to contest for this body. At the very least, for now… he couldn't take it back.
He could only think of a way later.
"I hope you'll honor your promise and not harm my friends," Chu Feng said.
"Rest assured, this Evil God always keeps his word. Since I promised you, I will absolutely not harm them," the Evil God Sword replied.
"There's one more request — could you go and ask that elder of the Chu Heavenly Clan where he obtained that scroll?" Chu Feng said.
He wanted to know how the Chu Heavenly Clan elder had learned that the Evil Ginseng King was sealed here.
By all rights, this was something he should have had no way of knowing.
After all, not even the people from the Buddha Light Heavenly Temple knew what exactly the old cat had sealed, let alone where it had been sealed.
This was supposed to be a secret. How could it have reached the ears of this Chu Heavenly Clan elder? He even knew what had been sealed and how to break the sealing formation.
Chu Feng felt that there was definitely more to this story.
"This request, this Evil God can grant you," the Evil God Sword said.
Whoosh— Having said that, it moved and descended to the ground below.
There, lying upon the pockmarked surface of the earth, was a person — the elder of the Chu Heavenly Clan.
However, this elder was in an exceedingly weak state. He didn't even have the strength to fly through the air.
That was why, once the Evil Ginseng King had been refined, he had plummeted from the sky and landed here.
This figure who had once stood above all others, gazing down upon the masses like a god, could now only lie here like a dog.
"How… how could this happen?"