"Little Red Carp hadn't dared bring her benefactor to the Demon Race at first, but she'd never expected her benefactor to be a member of the Demon Race too."
As soon as A Li said this, Xu Yi was struck dumb.
"What do you mean? A Li, you're an old friend of mine, so I won't hide it from you. I'm human. I've been human from the moment we first met. Maybe I took some strange substance, and that's why you got the wrong idea."
Xu Yi lowered his voice.
A Li said, "That can't be. No one can fake the Demon Race's mark, and no one can change it. Benefactor, you can circulate your blood and qi and look at your chest."
Xu Yi did as she said, only to discover in horror that a black star-shaped mark was reflected on his chest.
Now even Xu Yi was bewildered.
A Li said, "Actually, there's nothing wrong with being of the Demon Race. Benefactor must be a peerless Mysterious Monster to have such a humanlike appearance. It's incredible that you lived among humans all these years without being discovered."
Xu Yi still couldn't come to his senses.
He truly couldn't make sense of what was happening. If the Demon Testing Stone had reacted to him, that would have been one thing.
But how had a mark appeared on his chest too? This was a restriction jointly established by the four kings of the Sea of Forgetfulness. Unless someone was of the Demon Race, a demon mark would never appear on their chest.
But Xu Yi couldn't convince himself that he was of the Demon Race.
It wasn't that he couldn't accept being a demon. He simply knew his own body.
He had no demon essence, nor a demon core. How