Although it was interesting, Solam ultimately did not tell Xianna the truth.
Because Solam did not want to court death.
Perhaps Xianna really would rebel if she learned the truth, but what did that have to do with Solam? Whether Xianna rebelled against Malcanthet or not brought Solam no benefit whatsoever. And if Malcanthet discovered that Solam had been behind it, wouldn't he just be asking for trouble?
So in the end, Solam still gave Xianna the cold shoulder.
Xianna seemed to have realized something as well, and her attitude toward Solam gradually grew distant. At the very least, she would not appear before him unless necessary. Perhaps she had guessed that her past was not a pleasant one?
But who cared? Solam had no intention of worrying about someone else. He had plenty of things to deal with!
Returning to the Sixth Pyre after more than three months, Solam did not feel any homesick apprehension, but the changes to the Sixth Pyre were indeed rather significant.
The biggest change was that it had become far more vibrant.
Of course, its vitality differed somewhat from the usual meaning of the word. The Sixth Pyre was still a desolate land, with eighty percent of the entire plane consisting of deserts and volcanic regions. Only a few areas had sparse vegetation.
And those plants were hardly anything wholesome. Most were either poisonous or carnivorous.
The vitality here referred to demons.
It had been nearly half a year since the Sixth Pyre's transformation, and the effects brought by the River Styx tributary had fully manifested. Demon larvae in the blood pools had begun transforming into dretches on a massive scale, leaving these greedy, cruel, cowardly little demons scurrying all over the plane like an infestation of rats.
Dretches were among the weakest kinds