A Twist of Fate

Xiao Xiao glanced at Yinzi, who was enjoying the brushing, and couldn't help finding it a little amusing. It really was a karma cycle.

This had all started because of him and Yinzi, and in the end, it was up to the two of them to resolve it.

Su Youjin keenly noticed Xiao Xiao looking at Yinzi. She turned her head to look over, her eyes asking, "What is it?"

"Yinzi really did get revenge."

Xiao Xiao looked at Yinzi with a hint of amusement. Hearing his name, Yinzi had lifted his head to look over.

His scarlet, slit pupils flickered in the shifting light and shadow, lending him an uncanny, illusory air.

Since it concerned Yinzi, Xiao Xiao had no intention of keeping anything from them. He recounted the whole story to the girl and the demon, starting with what he'd heard from A Yu and filling in the gaps with his own guesses.

The demon in the demon-catching cage was Qing Geng.

Qing Geng could prevent illness because they were able to absorb miasma.

But there was a limit to how much miasma they could absorb.

So whenever Qing Geng sensed that the miasma inside them was nearing its limit, they would fly away from places filled with miasma and digest it beneath the moonlight.

The latest time Qing Geng had gone looking for a place to digest the miasma, they had been trapped in the demon-catching cage.

Their demonic power was suppressed.

They couldn't digest the miasma inside them.

And the miasma kept building up.

The miasma, filling them almost to bursting, tormented them, making them feel worse with each passing day.

Their feathers, once a vibrant green, had also been tainted by the miasma and turned black.

As mentioned earlier,