Demon Form Transformation

Her eyes barely opened to a slit, and familiar white floor tiles came into view.

What happened to me? Why does my head hurt so much?!

Qiao Qiao gradually regained consciousness and tried to raise a hand to touch her head, only to suddenly realize that both her hands were bound by something, completely unable to move.

Qiao Qiao looked down and found black Cursed Energy knots wrapped around her body.

The black knots seemed to have no physical form, yet unknown, mysterious runes surged across them.

What was this?

Qiao Qiao tried to struggle, but though the black knots were intangible, they were incredibly sturdy.

No matter how hard she tried, she could not break free from them. Even the Cursed Energy in her body seemed to have been bound.

Damn it!

Qiao Qiao cursed inwardly. She stopped struggling and instead tried to soften her body, attempting to "slip" out through the gaps in the knots.

It was as if Qiao Qiao's bones had vanished and her body had turned to liquid, flowing as she tried to slide out from the knots.

But the black knots binding her were clearly not so simple. They actually tightened along with the changes in her body.

Qiao Qiao experimented for quite a while, but the black knots remained firmly tied around her, leaving her unable to escape.

Just as she could not help feeling discouraged, Xia Jie's figure suddenly emerged in the room.

Xia Jie looked at her bonelessly soft body and asked with interest, "Are you... a Snake Monster?"

"You're the Snake Monster! Your whole family is Snake Monsters!"

Qiao Qiao snapped, the fluffy ears atop her head twitching.

Xia Jie's gaze fell on Qiao Qiao's ears, and he realized he had asked a stupid question.

But this Monster girl in front of him was far too unaware of her situation. She actually dared to talk back, so Xia Jie decided to teach her a lesson.

He reached out and rested his hand on her ears, naturally rubbing them back and forth.

Honestly, they felt pretty good.

"Know your place, little Monster! You're in my hands now!" Xia Jie said, putting on a vicious expression.

"Bastard! What are you doing?!" Qiao Qiao's body trembled uncontrollably, as though she had been electrocuted.

Xia Jie pinched Qiao Qiao's ear between his fingers, and she immediately let out a strange whimper.

"Do you understand now?" Xia Jie released her and walked in front of Qiao Qiao. Looking at her flushed face, he drawled, "You've fallen into my hands now!"

Qiao Qiao said nothing. She merely raised her head and glared fiercely at the handsome young man before her.

But the instant she met Xia Jie's gaze, she could not help lowering her head again, afraid he would rub her ears once more.

That damned human! He actually dared to rub her ears!

Once she got free, she would definitely kill him!

Qiao Qiao swore it in her heart, but she did not dare say it aloud.

The youth before her clearly had no idea how to treat a girl gently. Qiao Qiao did not want her ears grabbed again; for a Cat Monster like her, it was simply too humiliating!

Especially having her ears rubbed—Qiao Qiao felt something she could not quite describe.

She hated it in her heart, yet it also brought a strange sense of comfort that made her want Xia Jie to keep rubbing them.

This was probably an inherited feline flaw. Even though she was a so-called Monster, she had not escaped the instincts of her species.

"Back to the previous question: what kind of Monster are you?" Xia Jie asked as he looked at Qiao Qiao.

Qiao Qiao fell silent for a moment, then pursed her lips and answered, "A Cat Monster. Isn't that obvious to anyone with eyes?"

Xia Jie sized Qiao Qiao up for a while, and an enlightened expression appeared on his face.

Her body had been so soft just now that he had thought she was transformed from a snake... So she was a Cat Monster.

Was that rumor about cats being liquid creatures actually true? He had thought cat owners had deliberately created that "cat persona" for their masters.

Resting his chin on his hand, Xia Jie tentatively asked, "Then... can you turn into a cat?"

Qiao Qiao raised her head, thinking Xia Jie was deliberately teasing her, but his expression did not seem like it.

Speechless, she said, "You don't actually think I was transformed from a cat, do you?"

Xia Jie hesitated before nodding. A Cat Monster wasn't transformed from a cat? Was it supposed to be transformed from a snake?

Seeing Xia Jie's matter-of-fact expression, Qiao Qiao said gloomily, "So you don't understand anything. I actually got caught by you—what rotten luck!"

Qiao Qiao had initially assumed Xia Jie was a Demon Clan member or Jujutsu Sorcerer who had come to hunt her down, which was why she had waited for a chance to ambush him when he entered.

But she had failed to steal the chicken and lost the rice instead, knocked out by Xia Jie with one punch.

By now, she could tell that she had probably made a mistake. Xia Jie was likely not one of the people hunting her down.

But... why had he found this place?

"Cut the nonsense!" Xia Jie raised his hand, making as if to pinch her ear.

"Don't! I'll talk!" Qiao Qiao hurriedly said.

She suppressed the doubts in her heart, afraid of angering Xia Jie and suffering that "torture" again.

"Anyway, it's not exactly a secret. There's no harm in telling you."

Qiao Qiao comforted herself before saying, "The ability for Monsters to transform into their original forms was something from a very long time ago!"

"Modern Monsters may still be called Cat Monsters, Dog Monsters, Snake Monsters, Fox Monsters, and so on, but in truth, we merely inherited the bloodlines of the ancient Demon Clan. We cannot truly transform into animal forms."

"Even if an animal really became a Monster through some chance encounter and gained intelligence... at the instant it became a Monster, the essence of its life would have changed. It would have broken away from its original bloodline and no longer be that ignorant animal it once was!"

"So according to you, Monsters cannot transform into animal forms?" Xia Jie asked without showing any reaction.

"It's not that none of them can. There are two circumstances where it's possible," Qiao Qiao said after a moment of hesitation.

"One is if their own Cursed Energy is powerful enough to forcibly awaken changes in their bloodline."

"The other... if one's Cursed Energy reaches the level of Three Transformations, they can transform into a Demon Form. In a sense, that can also be considered changing into the 'original form' you mentioned!"

"What is Three Transformations...?" Xia Jie asked.

"Three Transformations is our Demon Clan's internal term," Qiao Qiao explained. "You human Jujutsu Sorcerers are more used to calling it Black Flash."

"Black Flash?" Xia Jie said in surprise.

Naturally, he knew what Black Flash was.

Black Flash was essentially an advanced application of a Cursed Energy burst combined with physical power.

Whether it was a Cursed Spirit or a Jujutsu Sorcerer, there was always a tiny gap between the burst of physical strength and the burst of Cursed Energy. If that gap could be shrunk until it was negligible, one could strike with black sparks far more destructive than an ordinary attack, powerful enough to even warp space.

That was Black Flash.

Landing a Black Flash was no easy feat. Even sorcerers who had experienced Black Flash before could not do it at will.

And the difference in closeness to the core of Cursed Energy between sorcerers who had experienced Black Flash and those who had not was like heaven and earth.

Xia Jie had deeply felt this when he sought guidance from Okkotsu. Landing a Black Flash was also Xia Jie's next goal.

Still, Xia Jie had never expected Black Flash to be connected to the path of Monster transformation.

"Even if you don't know anything about Monsters, you should at least know about Black Flash, right?" Qiao Qiao said with a snort.

"Black Flash... of course I know it. What does it have to do with the Three Transformations you mentioned?" Xia Jie replied.

"Since you know Black Flash, you should understand that anyone who has landed one will have the strength of both their body and Cursed Energy transformed to a new level," Qiao Qiao continued. "The more Black Flashes they land, the more obvious this transformation becomes, and the deeper their understanding of Cursed Energy grows."

"Therefore, our Demon Clan calls successfully landing a Black Flash a 'transformation.' The number of Black Flashes one has completed is the number of transformations they have completed."

"What I mean by a Monster needing to complete Three Transformations before they can take on a more powerful Demon Form is that they must have landed Black Flash three times!"

Xia Jie blinked and said, "Three Black Flashes... is that difficult?"

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