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His heart burned with anxiety, yet he feared that his years of scheming would come to nothing, so he had remained on tenterhooks.

Until the beginning of this year, He Gan finally waited for the Half-Demon's "Transitional Period."

Called the "Transitional Period," it was also known in the Demon Realm as the Differentiation Period. Half-Demons were not tolerated by the world, so upon reaching adulthood, they had to choose between becoming human or becoming demon. If they became demons, they had to return to their mother's clan, because Demon Cultivators had their own unique inherited methods. But if they chose to become human, the demon blood within them would ultimately condense into a Spiritual Root—and it would condense into one without fail.

In other words, though Half-Demons seemed unloved by Heaven, in a sense, they were also Heaven's favored children.

The benefactor who taught him "immortal arts" had told him that when a Half-Demon regressed into an "oviparous state" during the Differentiation Period, if a direct blood relative consumed and digested them, that relative could obtain the Spiritual Root the Half-Demon would have grown by choosing to become human.

This method was naturally wicked beyond measure, and unheard of besides, but He Gan felt it was worth trying. Or rather, he had no other choice. It was only a daughter, after all—he could afford the loss.

And now, his Half-Demon daughter's differentiation had finally begun.

He Gan was beside himself with joy. He thought the immortal path he had waited so long for had finally opened before him. Yet... what he had not expected was that the Half-Demon's differentiation would be far more drawn-out than he had imagined.

It was also much more difficult than he had imagined. At first, it only required vast amounts of medicinal ingredients to replenish