"The pill formula is fine; the problem lies with the person who delivered it to you."
"Junior sister suspects that the pill formula was specially sent by the demon race."
"It's not doubt, it's certainty. From the precise delivery of the pill formula for repairing your spiritual mansion to the appearance of a mark resembling the work of the demon race within it after your repair, how can anyone believe that this wasn't premeditated and intentional?"
"Junior Sister, do you mean that the Demon Clan tampered with the ingredients in the pill formula, so that once I gathered the ingredients to repair my spiritual palace, they could transfer the mark onto me? Which ingredient specifically caused the problem? Do you have any guesses?"
“It’s phoenix blood, right?” Chu Hongluan concluded. “Because the mark appeared after you consumed the phoenix blood and the amorous herb. But I also accidentally ate some of the amorous herb, and nothing unusual happened to me.”
A fleeting look of confusion crossed Liu Jinghong's eyes.
He accidentally ate the Love Grass? Didn't he eat the Love Grass?
Hiss—could it be Junior Sister...?
Two blushes rose inappropriately on Liu Jinghong's handsome face.
"If I hadn't had that brief conversation with Xuanfeng and his wife, I might have suspected that the Phoenix Clan was also involved in the Demon Clan's scheme, but thinking about it again, it's probably..."
Halfway through her speech, Chu Hongluan noticed that Liu Jinghong's cheeks were flushed and her eyes were darting around.
Um?
Chu Hongluan also realized what was happening, and playfully smacked his head, laughing and scolding, "Are you love-struck?! What are you thinking about at a time like this!"
Liu Jinghong pursed her lips, her face turning even redder, the redness spreading all the way to behind her ears and down to the roots of her neck.
This time I felt embarrassed, a little awkward, and somewhat ashamed.
"Sorry. I couldn't control myself."
Where was I?
"Speaking of which, my junior sister believes that the Phoenix Clan did not participate in the Demon Clan's scheme."
"Yes, that's right. Tens of thousands of years ago, during the great war between gods and demons, the Phoenix Clan, as a subordinate of the gods, personally fought against the demons. The Phoenix Clan deserves much credit for successfully sealing them into the Ten Thousand Demon Cave."
"What does Junior Sister think?"
"Perhaps during the war between gods and demons, Xuanfeng was injured and the demons left this mark in his blood, which even Xuanfeng himself did not notice."
Chu Hongluan pondered for a moment: "I want to know who left this mark, what it is, and what role it plays against the demon race..."
"It's simply a matter of reverse reasoning. What do the demons want from you? During the last tribulation in the Reincarnation Realm, I heard from those demonic cultivators that the Demon Lord had ordered that all other cultivators could be killed, but that you and I be spared. Why?"
"Was it the Demon Lord who left the mark? The Demon Lord wants you to live, wants you to continue searching for medicinal herbs, wants you to successfully obtain the Phoenix Blood, and wants you to repair your spiritual palace! Then this mark will naturally be transferred to you."
"As for me, since I am your strongest support, I will help you gather all the medicinal herbs and then repair your spiritual palace."
Why does he insist that you repair the spiritual palace?
"Unless—he wants your body."
This body possesses an innate Daoist heart.
As soon as Chu Hongluan said this, Liu Jinghong felt the mark in his spiritual palace suddenly become scorching hot.
Clearly, the owner of this brand has had their identity and intentions exposed, and their true intentions have been revealed.
"I think you're right."
Liu Jinghong spoke with a complicated expression, "The brand has reacted."
"So, he can hear us talking. That's why I initially chose to avoid the topic instead of explaining it to you right away."
Chu Hongluan sighed, her tone grave.
“What I’m worried about is that he’s not listening to our conversations through the branding, but rather—empathizing with you.”
"Or rather, through this mark, he has already begun to control your body. For example, your brief moment of distraction at the edge of the cliff."
Liu Jinghong's face immediately turned ugly.
However, being a typical love-struck individual, what he was thinking at that moment was:
If that ghostly thing could empathize with him, wouldn't it mean that when he held his junior sister's hand, it was the same as the ghostly thing holding her hand; when he put his arm around her waist, it was the same as the ghostly thing putting its arm around her waist; when he kissed her...
"How about you slap me, junior sister?"
"ha?"
My junior sister slapped me, which is the same as her slapping that bastard.
This was Liu Jinghong's thought process, but Chu Hongluan didn't understand it and even thought he was crazy.
"The demon race cultivates quickly and does not need to undergo tribulations, so they are not accepted by the Heavenly Dao. No matter how great their abilities are, they can only be stuck at the Mahayana stage at best, and will never be able to ascend."
In this world, the demon race is not a race that can be ranked on the same level as the gods.
The Demon Race, along with the Monster Race, Human Race, and various spirits and monsters, belongs to the lower realm races.
The gods are a new race that ascended to the upper realm after the lower realm races broke through their current state.
However, demons are inherently violent and evil, and are born with more powerful racial talents than other races. They cultivate quickly, do not need to undergo tribulations, are good at bewitching people's hearts, are good at using demonic energy to suppress spiritual energy, and have no physical form, so they can only be sealed and are difficult to kill.
Such a race violated the rules of Heaven, and therefore was targeted by Heaven.
When the demon race wreaked havoc on the world, the gods descended to suppress them.
The result was this tragic outcome.
Now that the seal on the Ten Thousand Demon Cave has loosened, the demons below have awakened prematurely. However, the Ten Thousand Demon Cave is a large prison designed specifically for demons, so even if they awaken, they cannot get out.
It is likely that the Great Protector Lanxiao also escaped from the Ten Thousand Demon Cave by possessing another's body.
Unfortunately, by borrowing a human body, they had given up the immortality of the demon race.
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