"Were you asking her to accept your ideals, or to accept your manipulation?"
Meng Chao could not help sneering. After a pause, he added, "You could never persuade Lü Siya. To obtain unparalleled power, she might be willing to stake her life, but she would never agree to become anyone's puppet—not even her own grandfather's."
"Indeed, which is why I never told Si Ya the truth."
Lü Zhongqi smiled. "Ever since she joined forces with you, Si Ya's cultivation had surged forward at an unbelievable pace.
"In just two or three years, she crossed the entire Heaven Realm and touched the threshold of the God Realm. Naturally, she had many doubts that only I could resolve.
"While helping her regulate her life magnetic field and resolve her injuries and doubts, I secretly mixed monster essence—repeatedly refined and extracted from the bodies of dozens of Doomsday Beasts and the Monster Mastermind—into the gene serum she consumed every day. It was that simple."
Only then did Meng Chao understand why, in the mere few months after victory in the Monster War, Lü Siya's advancement had been even more outrageous than his own.
He frowned. "You mean Lü Siya didn't know any of this?"
"At least in the beginning, she truly didn't."
Lü Zhongqi looked utterly candid. "There was no need to put her in a difficult position, much less make her actively choose the Blood Alliance. I would bear every crime myself. So long as Si Ya knew nothing and accepted it passively, even if the truth came to light, she would only be an innocent victim, not the accomplice of me, the Blood Alliance's leader."
"Was that your only kindness toward your biological granddaughter?"
Meng Chao snorted. "In that case, I don't understand. Lü Siya had already accepted the 'monster essence,'