Gu Mo rode his flying sword through the clouds, swiftly covering nearly a hundred li. Looking down, he spotted a small boat sailing across the sea and immediately dove toward it.
Two people were sitting cross-legged aboard the boat: the Great Island Master and Second Island Master, now renamed Red Clothes and Musician.
Gu Mo landed on the boat, and the Grand Void Sword flew back into its scabbard.
Red Clothes and Musician hurriedly rose and saluted him.
Gu Mo gave a slight wave of his hand. Looking out at the rolling waves, he suddenly recalled the sea beast he had seen when he first arrived at Penglai Island three months ago. Yet there had been no sign of it today. He asked, "Do you know what that sea beast was? Where has it gone now?"
Although Red Clothes and Musician had become his puppet demon slaves, they retained their own consciousness and memories. The Dao Heart Seed Demon Great Technique differed from ordinary Puppet Technique. It planted a mark that unknowingly turned its target into the controller's puppet. Those subjected to it retained independent thought, but inwardly accepted loyalty to the controller by default, their thoughts gradually assimilating.
It was like an intelligent robot: nothing changed inside or out except the control system.
Red Clothes clasped his hands and said, "Reporting to Master, it was a Sea Python. White Jade Capital modified it and fused a human consciousness into it. It was part of White Jade Capital's Demonic Beast Plan, the only successful result so far. Xiaobai called it away and fled with it half a day ago."
"A Demonic Beast Plan? What is that?" Gu Mo asked.
Red Clothes explained, "White Jade Capital needed to grow stronger. Yet over several thousand years, although it controlled the Nascent Souls