Chu Luohen had more or less understood. That beguiling voice was probably none other than the black energy roaming through his body.
Or rather, the Gray-Clothed Man...
He did not know how the Gray-Clothed Man was using this demonic qi to interfere with his mind, but it thoroughly disgusted him.
"I know you want to be with Su Jiu forever. I also know your Heartless Dao was broken long ago. The moment you chose to reclaim your seven emotions and six desires, you shattered it with your own hands..."
A ripple finally stirred in Chu Luohen's previously tranquil heart.
"You can read my memories?" Though conveyed through divine sense, his voice carried the biting chill of ice that would never melt.
"What's so remarkable about reading memories? I have plenty of other abilities. I can even... help you fulfill what you truly yearn for in the depths of your heart."
"What I truly yearn for in the depths of my heart?"
"Yes, what you truly yearn for in the depths of your heart..." The voice was as deeply seductive as a siren's song, as though a single lapse would turn him into a delicious morsel in the siren's mouth.
Chu Luohen said coldly, "You needn't trouble yourself."
"How could something like this be any trouble...? I merely want to make a deal with you. For instance, I help fulfill your wish, and you do me a small favor..."
"Is that how you signed your agreement with Xia Jue back then?"
The voice paused. "What does Xia Jue have to do with this? This is between you and me."
His voice remained calm, and his refusal was anything but tactful. "No need. I don't want it."
The voice seemed never to have encountered someone so impervious to persuasion, and irritation crept