After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

However, at that moment, the previously crazed Beast Taming Valley giant, stimulated by the combined effects of the Mind Cleansing Technique and the imminent life-or-death crisis, momentarily regained his senses and roared:

"I would rather give up this Qi Refining stage clone than let you demons succeed!"

After he finished speaking, a small, phantom image of a person appeared above his head. The madness on the big man's face gradually disappeared, and his eyes regained their clarity.

At the same time, his cultivation level also increased rapidly. He quickly broke through the early stage of Foundation Establishment, the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, and continued to improve until the late stage of Foundation Establishment. It seemed that he was about to form his core here!

Huang Xiao was overjoyed at the sight and considerately removed the power of the rules of heaven and earth from them, waiting for the two to form their cores.

Huo Yu had already withdrawn the spell he had formed when the two appeared and sped off in the opposite direction.

The divine soul of the Emperor Xiao was too powerful; one attack was already his limit, and the chance of success was less than one in ten.

This is not the best time to make a move; he must conserve his strength.

Huang Xiao merely glanced coldly in the direction Huo Yu had fled, making no intention of chasing after him.

His cultivation level has recovered too little, and he is still wary of Huo Yu's Dao intent.

But once he swallows two more golden pills and breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage, Huo Yu's Dao intent, which only has the meaning of the concept, will no longer pose a threat to him.

He didn't mind letting Huo Yu live a little longer—the formation here had completely stopped turning, the gate of life was closed, and no one could leave this place.

In less than half an incense stick's time, the Divine Sword Sect Daoist, whose cultivation had already reached the half-step Golden Core stage, completed his breakthrough.

But before its cultivation could be consolidated, the newly formed golden core suddenly shone brightly, and its spiritual power surged continuously.

In utter despair, this person decided to self-destruct his golden core and perish together with this demon!

However, at the very moment of his breakthrough, a sharp claw covered in black scales pierced through his dantian and took away the newly formed golden core.

The aura of the Divine Sword Sect cultivator vanished instantly, his eyes wide with disbelief, dying with his eyes wide open.

Huang Xiao put the golden pill into his mouth, and just as he swallowed it, he heard a whooshing sound behind him.

The burly man from Beast Taming Valley, with the illusory image of a Nascent Soul above his head, had already fled dozens of feet away without looking back. His cultivation level remained at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, showing no intention of breaking through to the Core Formation stage.

Everything that had just happened was merely a tactic to buy time, all in preparation for the moment when the middle-aged Taoist of the Divine Sword Sect would achieve the Golden Core and draw away the demon's full attention.

With the blessing of the Nascent Soul's shadow descending from its true form, the burly man's speed was already approaching that of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Huang Xiao gave a cold snort, took a step forward, and appeared directly in front of the big man.

Amidst the astonishment of the Great Han and the illusory Nascent Soul above his head, Huang Xiao's right claw directly grasped the illusory Nascent Soul.

The latter immediately formed a hand seal, attempting to dissipate from this external avatar.

However, Huangxiao was faster, having already swallowed him whole, and then with another claw, it tore off the giant man's Dao Foundation and swallowed it as well.

The burly man from Beast Taming Valley fell straight to the ground from mid-air, lifeless.

"I was originally planning to consume another Golden Core, but this Nascent Soul phantom will do."

After swallowing the golden core of the Divine Sword Sect Daoist along with the illusory Nascent Soul, Huang Xiao licked his lips with satisfaction. His cultivation had advanced from the late Nascent Soul stage to the Great Perfection of the late Nascent Soul stage.

Although it was a pity that he had not broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, half a step into the Nascent Soul stage was enough to contend with the Dao intent that he loathed so much.

With murderous intent on his face, Huang Xiao turned around and chased after the direction where Huo Yu had disappeared.

Even without the allure of a Mahayana-stage divine soul, he would never allow that human cultivator whose Dao intent was precisely what countered his to leave this place alive.

Meanwhile, a hundred miles away from the valley where the entrance to the Nine Star Secret Realm is located, on the shore of a large lake, an old man with white hair who was sitting cross-legged in the air above the center of the lake suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and the nascent soul in his dantian also weakened a bit.

This person was none other than the true form of the giant from Beast Taming Valley, the Five-Colored Taoist.

The old man opened his eyes, still shaken, and thought to himself:

"Just who is this demon? Why is it sealed within the Nine Star Secret Realm? And why has this person never been heard of in the cultivation world?"

Most importantly, who exactly led him into that Nine Star Secret Realm?

The old man's eyes sharpened, and an ancient jade slip appeared in his hand, which contained the records of the Demon God Palace that sealed the Emperor Xiao.

The jade slip not only detailed the intricate rules governing the changes within the Demon God Palace, but also meticulously recorded the seven magical treasures hidden within it.

Based on the descriptions of the power of these seven magical treasures in the jade slip, they are clearly far beyond the reach of ordinary Nascent Soul stage magical treasures.

Their power was so great that even with the old man's profound experience and knowledge, he couldn't help but guess that these magical treasures had most likely entered the Nascent Soul stage. Their preciousness and power need no further explanation.

Therefore, the old man sent out his Qi Refining stage avatar, who painstakingly and painstakingly lay low in the Beast Taming Valley for more than ten years, waiting for the opening of the Nine Star Secret Realm. He even fought his way through many trials and tribulations to get his avatar the opportunity to enter the secret realm.

Unexpectedly, although he obtained the magic weapon, he released a killing god, which caused his avatar and the winged tiger in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage to perish in the Demon God Palace.

What pained the old man the most was that even his nascent soul couldn't escape, causing great damage to his physical body.

Now the old man could clearly see that the Demon God Palace was actually a massive array sealing the demon. Those magical artifacts were the core of the array, suppressing the demon, yet the jade slip made no mention of it!

All signs indicate that this jade slip is actually a trap. It's a trap designed to lure cultivators into the formation, steal the core, and release the sealed evil entity!

The old man had obtained this jade slip from a cultivator of the Divine Sword Sect decades ago. However, how that cultivator obtained it from remained a mystery.

"Divine Sword Sect!"

The old man gritted his teeth and said.

Although it was the demon who called himself Huangxiao who killed his avatar and injured his nascent soul, under the threat of such a vastly different strength, the old man decisively decided to direct his revenge towards the Divine Sword Sect.