Chapter 103: Alone 2

"He hoped after he died, there would be someone to lead the demon master tribe into freedom. He desperately trained me because he was running out of time."

Lin Haoqing turned over Ji Yunhe's wrist and pointed to her pulse. Even though she possessed both demonic power and spiritual power, she no longer had a hidden pulse because she was now in the body of a demon.

"The frost only targets those with spiritual power. Once you refine a demon master into a demon, the two powers will fuse together and the demonic side will dissolve the poison of the frost, rendering it useless. His research did not go well at first, and many people died. But he finally found one who was a success."

Lin Haoqing nodded at Ji Yunhe, "You survived among his many attempts, but in fact the drug was not considered complete. It still needed the power of a demon master and a compatible demon as sacrifice. Lin Canglan had come too far to give up, so he used his own spiritual power and his demon slave, Qing Shu. They did it gradually over the course of ten years."

Ji Yunhe mobilized some power and black gas surfaced over her palm. Lin Canglan's demon slave, Qing Shu, was a black fox demon. No wonder... No wonder they were so weak the night Ji Yunhe and Lin Haoqing killed them...

"The night we killed Lin Canglan and Qing Shu, was when they were going to give you the last pill." That was why they could not find any more antidotes. It was the very last one.

"After that, the tendons in your body needed to be broken apart so the refining process could be completed by reshaping your bones."

Ji Yunhe remembered after she pushed Changyi off the cliff, the soldiers shot her full of arrows... And that was the first time she used the power of the nine-tailed fox demon.

Everything fell into place. All of her questions were now answered, and Ji Yunhe suddenly felt like such a small chess piece among the grand scheme of things.

"Heheheh..." she laughed bitterly. "Look at this. For years, we didn't even know what we were in the big picture." She looked at Lin Haoqing.

"Turns out you and I are just a drop in the bucket. This world is still just a game played by the big guys."

"But you and I, we killed a hand that moved the pieces." Ji Yunhe was silent for a moment. Lin Canglan had worked and planned for years, but in the end, he was killed by the two people he raised himself. So ironic...

She wondered how Lin Canglan must have felt the moment his own son ended his life. Was he sorry, or did he get what he wanted...

"Fate plays us all..." Ji Yunhe said after a while.

"But I still can't sympathize with Lin Canglan."

"I do not sympathize with him either. He also does not need our sympathy. But I acknowledge his efforts. He spent his life wanting to make up for his mistake, free his people, get rid of the Grand Master and restore balance to the world. I want to continue down this path of his."

"So, you came to the capital..."

"In order to get the production process of a few ingredients from Shunde," Lin Haoqing said.

"I made some changes to the pill that refines humans into demons..."

Ji Yunhe frowned, "And you gave it to Shunde? That's why she suddenly became so powerful!" She recalled Qu Xiaoxing's words and slapped the table, shouting in anger, "What did you guys do to Qing Ji?!"

"I did not intend on using her as a sacrifice for Shunde. I would never want to bring this kind of trouble upon myself. But things went outside of my expectations." Lin Haoqing also looked a bit distressed.