What was going on? Yan Chihuo had been wholly focused on merging with the Fire Qilin's soul just now. If some demon had taken the opportunity to steal the corpse, it was hardly surprising that he had noticed nothing. But that demon had not attacked him—this was truly baffling.
Perhaps it had seen him kill the Fire Qilin and dared not provoke him? Were there actually such timid demons in Qilin Cave? Yan Chihuo could not make sense of it. Still, the important thing now was to find the demon that had stolen the Qilin's corpse.
Yan Chihuo pondered in secret. To the demons within the cave, the Qilin's corpse was a tremendous tonic. Most likely, after stealing it, that demon was feasting to its heart's content.
Yan Chihuo unleashed his Spiritual Eye and Spiritual Ear to their fullest, yet discovered nothing. His thoughts turned as he mused, Perhaps that demon usually stays somewhere nearby. Hmm, I can search carefully through that Fire Qilin's memories.
When he had reviewed the Fire Qilin's memories earlier, he had only selected the important matters. He had paid no attention to the trivial details. Yet after searching again, he still found no powerful demon that had long been active in this area. However, the Fire Qilin had been trapped inside the cave by the Fire Suanni and had not come here for many years. If something had changed, it was hardly strange that it did not know.
Yan Chihuo had originally intended to leave and seek out the Fire Suanni so that he could take away a Fire Qilin. But as though guided by unseen forces, he reviewed the Fire Qilin's memories of this place once more and finally found an inconspicuous memory.
In the Fire Qilin's memory, the wood spiritual energy here had