Ning Ke froze for a moment.
Then Feng Yu continued, "The skin around your eyes is gray, suggesting some eye disorder. Half your heart blood is gone, you're missing a tail, and your demon core is incomplete. You also suffered such severe injuries and had so much flesh gouged out. If I hadn't had pills to regrow flesh and stop the bleeding, you might have slept for half a month and been left covered in scars."
"And..." Feng Yu's brow furrowed deeply as he continued, "I can't neutralize the black substance forced into your body. It seems to be some kind of toxin. If your foxfire hadn't protected your heart meridians and internal organs, your sea of consciousness might already have been corroded."
Ning Ke checked the condition of his body.
He remembered the demon gu Bai Wanru had mentioned when the Flowing Cloud Sect was wiped out.
The members of the Flowing Cloud Sect had turned demonic because demon gu had been planted inside them.
If he hadn't destroyed the demon gu inside Lou Yunxiao back then, Lou Yunxiao wouldn't have escaped that fate either.
But the demon gu now inside him had been planted personally by the Sun God, making it far more powerful. His foxfire couldn't burn it away at all.
"If you'd only been fighting a god, you shouldn't have so many old injuries, should you? That's why I'm rather curious. What have you been through all these years?"
Feng Yu's question brought Ning Ke back to himself.
Only then did he realize how much suffering he had unwittingly put this body through.
His fingers brushed the teacup as he looked at the face reflected in the tea.
Pale, detached, and etched with misery.
He forced out a small smile, trying to bring some life to