Xu Kun stepped over Ming Mie's severed arm and walked forward as if no one stood in his way amid his screams. No one dared stop him.
He did not stop until he stood before the delicate-looking woman with vacant eyes.
She resembled the incomplete Evil Fruit user Dao Thunder Celestial Venerable had described to him.
She bore the aura of a Devil Fruit, but her mind had been stripped away, leaving her a genuine puppet offshoot.
Xu Kun turned to Ming Yuan. Ming Yuan swallowed and transmitted, "After Azure Bird lost the Ice-Ice Fruit back then and faced the clan's condemnation, this was the ending she chose for herself."
Kind-hearted Azure Bird had given the Devil Fruit allocated to her to Kuzan back then. What happened afterward, Kuzan did not know.
But the value of an SS-tier Devil Fruit was self-evident.
There was no such thing as simply losing it and letting the matter rest!
Though Azure Bird appeared to hold no low status within the Asura Race, the Evil Project required all kinds of test subjects.
That included members of the Asura Race itself, even exceptional geniuses.
In other words, lab rats!
"So you have to turn even more people into neither human nor ghost in the future before you'll be satisfied?"
"Or will you only realize it is too late after the truth comes out, you become a target of public condemnation, and follow in the Demon Race's footsteps?"
Xu Kun's words left Ming Yuan silent.
"I'm taking her with me. Yes or no?"
Xu Kun did not ask Azure Bird's father for his opinion. A dignified Half-Saint who could not withstand even one of his moves and could only howl on the ground like a dead dog had no right to speak.
"Y-Yes."
Blood Luo stepped