As for why Mu Yao had agreed to let Cui Cui travel with them, it was not only because Ling Miaomiao wanted her along. There was another, more important reason.
After Mu Yao's soul recovered, she remembered that before she had passed out, she had sensed something trying to fight her for control of her body. If the Ice Heart Formula hadn't been so overbearing, she might have been successfully possessed.
She was grateful to have survived, but at the same time, she had a vague sense that she had uncovered a truth she couldn't accept.
A great demon had been hidden inside her all along—and she hadn't even known!
Could that demon take control of her body whenever she let her guard down?
The more she thought about it, the more possible it seemed!
If that really was the case, then the people who had killed her family back then might have been her—or, rather, the great demon attached to her.
Mu Yao also remembered asking Mu Sheng, when she woke up, who had killed their family and why. He had said it was the Vengeful Spirit.
And Mu Sheng had later tried more than once to get his hands on the Hundred Monster Mountain Sea Map. That was probably why!
All the signs pointed to the Vengeful Spirit having taken control of her and used her hands to slaughter her family.
This discovery made Mu Yao hate demons even more, but she hated herself even more than them.
Ling Miaomiao was the first to notice that a touch of sorrow had crept into Mu Yao's usual gentle, generous expression. Remembering what had happened to her, she understood what Mu Yao was worried about.
Of course, Ling Miaomiao couldn't say it outright. So, while the two of them were