This wait lasted for three hours.
When the Heavenly Demon Vine had consumed all the scattered flesh, even the soil tainted by Demonic Qi, the initially menacing vine began to slowly retract, turning dim, until it transformed into a beam of black light and re-entered Gu Sheng's left arm, falling into a deep slumber.
Gu Sheng could clearly sense that the Heavenly Demon Vine had gained a new ability from devouring Huang Batian's body, which was close to Heavenly King Realm's combat power as a Body Cultivator—it could forcibly seal those undigestible and too vast energies within the vine's core and slowly refine and absorb them through prolonged dormancy.
He speculated that once the Heavenly Demon Vine woke up from this digestion, its combat power could at least start at the Earth King Realm or even higher!
