In late December, thin flakes of snow drifted down from a pale gray sky.
Several letters lay before Ding Songyan, replies that had trickled in from his disreputable friends.
Su Qingli's had arrived first, in late September. She said her family took the matter of the "Demon Seed" very seriously, thanked him for the two birthday gifts, and finally asked Ding Songyan to write to her again come spring, as she was heading out to travel and spend the winter elsewhere.
She had also asked when Ding Songyan's birthday was. He actually had no idea how to answer-should he give his birthday from his previous life, or the day he had borrowed a corpse to return to life?
The second reply came from Ren Youyang. The fellow had asked several questions in all seriousness: could a Ghost God be implanted with a "Demon Seed" and grow a second face? If someone already had two heads joined at the back, could a second face still grow...
Questions like these made Ding Songyan want to send back just one word: "Scram."
Xie Fengchao and Xing Chang had also replied. Both lamented that when they killed He Luo, they had never imagined the "Demon Seed" would be so terrifying. Xing Chang specifically mentioned that practitioners of methods such as the "Heaven-Breaking Treasure Record," which counted willpower among their main focuses, should be able to suppress the influence of the "Demon Seed" after reaching a certain realm and avoid growing a second face. He judged that threshold to be the perfected Dayan Realm, based on the Xingtian Clan's various encounters with orthodox members of the Two-Faced Clan over the past several thousand years.
Xie Fengchao, meanwhile, sighed that with the "Demon Seed" so well concealed, it could surely corrupt many key figures without anyone