Lin Xiaosu turned and descended the embankment to the lakeshore. With a light tap of his finger, a drop of lake water floated up and landed on his fingertip.
Sensing alone truly revealed nothing.
But he had another powerful tool.
The Heart Mirror!
The Heart Mirror excelled at analyzing all things under heaven.
The drop entered his Heart Mirror, which began analyzing it at high speed...
Soon, the results emerged.
The drop was ninety percent water. The remaining ten percent seemed to consist entirely of spirit essence, but under the Heart Mirror's powerful analysis, Lin Xiaosu discovered an almost imperceptible trace of demonic engine. Though only a trace, it was extraordinarily tenacious, and seemed to be growing stronger by devouring spirit essence...
Spirit essence could become the source of life, while demonic engine devoured and assimilated...
His heart went cold.
This was the struggle between spirit essence and demonic engine.
From a single drop of water, he could discern the course of events.
If demonic engine and spirit essence coexisted within a human body, over time, the demonic engine would gradually devour the spirit essence. The person's demonic nature would keep growing, while their spiritual nature slowly vanished.
What a grand strategy-using demons to extinguish spirits!
What an earthshaking, openly laid scheme to steal the heavens and replace the sun!
How could he break this trap?
Lin Xiaosu's mind raced...
A voice suddenly reached his ear. "Boy, you're human?"
Lin Xiaosu opened his eyes and saw four people beside him: three young, pure-blooded members of the Spirit Race, and one mixed-blood. The mixed-blood stood atop a lakeside rock with his arms folded, looking down on everyone as though none were worth his notice.
One of the young Spirit Race men had addressed him.
"Yes," Lin Xiaosu replied calmly.
"You want