Hearing those inexplicable words, Kuang Yanqi understood clearly that although the phantom before him bore Tu Du's Yin Spirit appearance and even spoke in exactly Tu Du's tone, it was no longer Tu Du. It called itself a "Shadow Puppet," a divided soul of some "great figure," parasitizing Tu Du's Yin Spirit.
The day Xie Yan tested Yu Ci with his sword, Kuang Yanqi had encountered this thing on his way back to his residence as a bystander.
He could not understand what kind of creature this monster driven by shadows even was, nor did he know when or how a master like Tu Du had fallen for its trick! He only knew that, that night, he had been forced to "swallow" a shadow. What had this monster said?
"You promised me..."
Even to his own ears, his tone sounded weak to the extreme. Therefore, it was only natural for "Tu Du" to sneer coldly:
"Of course I remember. I promised that as long as you accepted this 'Heavenly Demon Seed,' once matters here were settled, you would follow me north. I would teach you how to enter the finest sect under heaven and cultivate a demonic art that could endure through eternal calamities. Perhaps one day, you might even become a Heavenly Demon... Heh, you ungrateful brat! In the north, if I wanted someone to accept this 'Heavenly Demon Seed,' thousands upon tens of thousands would fight over the chance. Yet you keep looking ahead and behind, hemming and hawing, acting like a complete woman!"
Kuang Yanqi flushed crimson and wanted to retort, yet lacked the courage. It was only that night that he had truly understood that there existed an absolute power in this world that could strip a person of courage and will. Before this "Tu Du,"