Having successfully tamed a dragon, Shien happily returned to the camp and, in high spirits, settled down to rest.
Aiyi, meanwhile, kept Yulin behind, claiming that she would take care of it herself.
Of course, Aiyi was not trying to recruit Yulin further. She simply wanted to offer it some help.
"The Demon Refining Ritual is still underway. Any monster or demon within the ritual will gradually fall into a berserk state. This child has only temporarily broken free of that condition. If it does not stay by my side, it will go mad again sooner or later."
That was why Aiyi kept Yulin with her.
Unlike the human race, which had encountered the Demon Refining Ritual for the first time, the demons had experienced it many times over the past millennium and knew very well how to deal with it.
For one thing, the reason Jacinta, Jess, and Lis, all demons, could move freely within the ritual without being affected was because the demons had developed methods to resist the ritual's interference.
As a demonoid, Aiyi was unaffected by the ritual, but she also knew those methods. Even if she did not use them, she could suppress Yulin's madness with her own magic power, so there was no one better suited to look after Yulin.
Thus, when Shien returned to camp, Yulin was staying at Aiyi's side.
Yulin watched Shien leave, then turned to look in a certain direction. A cold emotion began to surface in its eyes.
"Hm?" Aiyi noticed this and looked at Yulin in confusion. "What is it?"
"Roar!" Yulin let out a cry at Aiyi, its voice brimming with fury and hatred.
As the Lord of Dragons, Aiyi naturally understood Yulin's words.
"You're saying that you fell into a trap set by a group of