Reforging the Four Souls Jewel; Suiko Understands Her Heart

Night deepens, and the camp sank into silence.

Chiyo sat cross-legged atop a giant rock deep within the valley.

Moonlight turned his white hair silver, while his crimson eyes stared at the Four Souls Jewel in his palm.

The jewel gave off a gentle, pure glow. After Suiko had purified it, it truly no longer carried that nauseating evil aura.

But Chiyo could sense it...

It was changing.

The change was subtle—so subtle that no one but someone like him could have noticed it.

Chiyo closed his eyes and sank his senses into the jewel.

Chiyo opened his eyes, his brow faintly furrowed.

"So that's how it is."

He murmured softly.

The Four Souls Jewel could not create something from nothing, but it could record, amplify, and imitate.

Suiko had purified it, yet in the process, she had also imprinted her own emotions upon it.

And now, the Four Souls Jewel had already been tainted by emotions.

It was trying to use those fragments of emotion to influence its next holder.

And he was that next holder.

Chiyo could feel that power probing his heart, like a snake carefully brushing against the edge of his consciousness.

It was searching.

Searching for his desires, his obsessions, any crack it could amplify before slipping inside.

Chiyo waited for a while.

Then, he was disappointed.

"That's all?"

His voice was calm.

"You think you can influence me?"

He lowered his gaze to the Four Souls Jewel in his palm, a cold gleam flashing through his crimson eyes.

"You're not worthy."

He clenched the Four Souls Jewel.

The power of the Yin-Yang Jade surged through his body.

Bit by bit, it stripped away, broke down, and absorbed the power within the Four Souls Jewel.

Demonic Power flowed through his body like a hundred rivers