Not even powerful Lifeseizers could directly consume demon cores.

After all, demonlings were filled with demon energy. When heterogeneous true energy such as that came into contact with one’s own true energy, it would be like fire and water. The violent reaction could crush one's bones and transform one's flesh into ash.

Some Lifeseizers dissolve demon cores with true energy and then use them to bolster whatever weapons or items they used in their cultivation. Others would use pill furnaces to refine them into spirit medicines.

To directly consume them like Yang Qi was simply unheard-of.

However, Yang Qi had the outrageous power of the Hellfire Crucible, which could easily convert heterogeneous true energy into something he could use.

It was something that would make him almost invincible to opponents of his own level.

In fact, that was one reason why he had been so confident in challenging Chu Tiange to a fight to the death.

He fed one demon core after another into the Hellfire Crucible,...