The Devouring Demon had disappeared for a while, but at last it reappeared, its voice once more surfacing beside Mu Qing's ear.
It brought news that greatly surprised Mu Qing.
Jin Jiuyin had actually been parasitized?
By a Parasitic Demon!
"You can take action of your own accord?" Mu Qing was astonished. He had always thought that the Demonic Beasts within the gray mist would not act.
"Of course we can act on our own! It's just that we won't harm demonic cultivators like you. This is an order from Lord Devil Ancestor, deeply branded into our bodies!"
The Devouring Demon immediately replied.
Its emotions also seemed somewhat off. Its tone carried confusion and incomprehension, along with a trace of shock.
"But isn't Jin Jiuyin a demonic cultivator?" Mu Qing frowned slightly.
He remembered that, according to what the Devouring Demon had said before, both he and Jin Jiuyin were demonic cultivators, both qualified to inherit the Gray Mist Core.
And the Devouring Demon had said that Devil Ancestor had issued an order forbidding harm to demonic cultivators. So what was happening now?
Jin Jiuyin, a demonic cultivator, had been parasitized by a Parasitic Demon!
"That's what I can't figure out either. The Parasitic Demon's ability to parasitize is countless times stronger than those parasitic creatures you saw. Since it attacked Jin Jiuyin, that means the original Jin Jiuyin is already dead!"
"Unbelievable... Why would it act? This violates Lord Devil Ancestor's order. And it even wanted to use others to kill you—does it want to inherit the Gray Mist Core completely?" The Devouring Demon seemed to be talking to itself.
"The Parasitic Demon has gone mad. By doing this, it has betrayed Lord Devil Ancestor. It replaced Jin Jiuyin, that demonic cultivator, because it wants to seize control of