The Great Success Cultivator could no longer maintain his demeanor, and shouted hoarsely, "Don't do that... I will find a way to plead for you to the Taoyuan Village Master, opening a passage to the 'Paradise,' allowing you to integrate into the dream network while keeping your souls intact... I beg you, don't kill me!"

He seemed to genuinely believe in the "Paradise," even at this point, he was still using this to plead for his life.

"I actually have no opinion about your 'Paradise.' A lie carried to the end becomes truth, a dream that never awakens is another form of reality... I think your theory is feasible. As long as you won't regret it, you can pursue whatever you desire," I said, "But I'm not interested in that sort of thing. So, farewell."

After speaking, I suddenly exerted force with my palm.

Whether mortal or at the Great Success Rank, brain tissue is fragile. The brain of the Great Success Cultivator was instantly ignited and crushed by me, losing all vitality.

Even at the Great Success Rank, it's difficult to escape the impact of physical container damage. Although the damage to the physical body and the soul is often separately calculated, they're not that distinct. Because the physical container influences the soul's condition.

Changes in physical hormones affect one's mental emotions; when the body is sick with a fever, the soul also becomes sluggish. In the post-mortem world, some soul-loss patient children grow due to the growth of their physical bodies in the real world. Once the physical container is destroyed, its impact transmits to the soul, transforming it from a soul with infinite growth potential to a dead state.

According to some ancient supernatural legends, some intangible evil spirits become entities susceptible to blades after gaining flesh and remain in a shapeless form even after the body's death. The principle is universal.

In the past, it was always me using overwhelming power to forcibly crack the enemy's power mechanisms. Now, it was my turn to use the Great Impermanence "mechanism" to defeat an enemy far stronger than myself, truly a fresh experience.

However, it might be that this enemy as a Great Success Rank was somewhat lacking. Just like the Great Impermanence, each Great Success Rank is an irreplicable miracle, yet this Great Success Cultivator relying on the seed of the heart was a replicable case. Although relying on the power of the Great Impermanence Domain, he still did not gain the true uniqueness of a Great Success Rank.

This uniqueness isn't clear-cut power. Regarding hard values, this Great Success Cultivator met the standards of a Great Success Rank in all aspects. However, the true Great Success Ranks are characters who make the impossible possible, so even perfectly logical means to defeat them might not work smoothly in practice.

In the past, when I defeated Chen Long, it was a similar situation, because I used a tactic that seamlessly broke the "Teleportation Gate Armor," resulting in a straightforward victory. Yet against a true Great Success Rank, unless using overwhelming power, any taken-for-granted tactics might run into obstacles.

From afar, the Great Success Cultivator fell to the ground like a puppet with broken strings, then the still-warm corpse began to twitch and convulse on the ground.

"He isn't dead yet?" Dong Che said with a shiver.

No matter what, the opponent had the features of a Great Success Rank, with extraordinary soul intensity. In the past, Chen Long, using the superpower "All-round Enhancement," could resist death and regenerate even when all biological tissues including brain tissue were charred, and although the Great Success Cultivator couldn't match Chen Long in this aspect, his soul could barely withstand the death impact of the physical container.

Most undying bodies have difficulty remaining undying when both heart and brain are simultaneously destroyed. However, as a freak with excellent regenerative and enduring abilities, after reaching the Great Success Rank, he could achieve resurrection miracles just based on basic physical abilities.

The headless corpse still showed cellular activity. In the medical field, brain death is deemed the body's complete death, yet such common knowledge doesn't apply to the Great Success Rank. With just a bit of residual warmth, he could come back to life, regenerating his brain in a short time and reigniting the flame of life. This wasn't just healing but defying the realm of death.

Perhaps even he wasn't sure if he could revive from a state of brain death, given the rarity of Great Success Rank freaks, who would unnecessarily test such things? At this point, it doesn't matter, for all we need to do is to crush his brain multiple times, dozens of times, or even hundreds of times. Eventually, his soul would wear out.

To save trouble, I decided to use True Spirit Power.

True Spirit Power could crack the Life Muddiness Netherworld Undying Body's principle. As long as the soul is completely destroyed, it can achieve a permanent soul deletion from the True Spirit Layer perspective. However, undying bodies that can still be activated after the soul dissipates belong to the highest and most mysterious category, most undying bodies are undying at the physical level and can't reach that high level. If it required incinerating the soul to nullify an undying body, then True Spirit Power wouldn't have the reputation of being the ultimate bane of all undying bodies.

Again, I reached into the skull of the Great Success Cultivator from afar, grabbing the brain. In an extremely short time, the brain had regenerated to a considerable extent. Still, I didn't give him a chance to fully recover, wrapping my right hand with True Spirit Power and crushing it again.

Through the destroyed brain, the impact of True Death was probably transmitted to the Great Success Cultivator's soul. This time, the death couldn't be so easily defied. I perceived that the intangible resistance surrounding his body vanished in an instant.

The distant corpse ceased convulsing, becoming a quiet body in line with common sense.

Almost simultaneously, under the command of the Great Success Cultivator, the previously obedient beasts broke free like shedding invisible reins, roaring wildly and launching a fearless charge towards the barrier gap.

Unlike the Great Success Cultivator, these beasts didn't carry such a high concentration of intangible resistance, and within an instant, hundreds of beasts within my view lost their lives—I summoned destructive flames within their brain cavities, killing them instantly.

There were also large numbers of beasts charging from afar and in other directions, and I replicated this method, causing their numbers to rapidly dwindle.

A normal Bad Level demon hunter couldn't possibly withstand such high mana consumption. However, I, with my Fire Element Form, didn't have the concept of exhaustion. When feeling tired, just burn some air or something else, absorb the additional flames into my soul as a way to recover stamina. Even other Great Impermanences can't maintain prolonged high-intensity battles. Here, the more I fought, the more invigorated I became.

After some time, tens of thousands of beasts surrounding this pavilion mostly became lifeless corpses. Towards the end of the slaughter, some demon hunters outside the pavilion began actively striking, killing those thinning numbers of beasts. Compared to the previously cacophonous environment of beast roars, the surroundings of the pavilion now seemed particularly quiet.

It was unclear if any beast survived; maybe even those fearless of death chose to retreat. At least from my perception, the battle had ended.

The White Light Barrier began to fade away but didn't truly disappear, merely entering standby mode.

Dong Che looked at the heaps of monster corpses piled up on surrounding streets and sighed in relief, "It's over..."

"Now that things here are settled, let's talk about you, Dong Che," I shifted my focus to him, "Why are you in this city, and what are you doing here?"

Upon hearing this, a helpless expression appeared on Dong Che's face. He didn't seem to willingly enter this city and seemed to have some passive reluctance.

Seeing he might have grievances to spill, I glanced around and said, "Let's talk inside first."

With that, I reached out and grabbed Jiaoshu from the rooftop of a distant building from a couple of hundred meters away.

She hadn't tried to escape while I dealt with matters here. Maybe after being caught "red-handed" last time, she understood she couldn't escape from my grasp.

I pulled her directly to me, and when Dong Che saw the scorched mark of mana on her, his face showed a more amazed expression.

At first, Dong Che was shocked when he saw that I had grabbed her, then he looked closely at Jiaoshu, and his expression turned to one of even greater surprise.

"Isn't that residual mana trace... Xuanming believer?" he asked seriously.

"Zhuang Cheng, senior, how are you and she related?" Dong Che looked at me.

"She's my captive," I answered.

"I have someone here I'd like to introduce to you, Zhuang Cheng," Dong Che said excitedly.