"Long Kuo! We all work for Li, so why are you doing this to us? Aren't you afraid she'll tear you to pieces when she finds out?"
Faced with their threats, Long Kuo showed not the slightest panic. The curve of his lips even deepened, and his gaze held a measure of mockery and pity as he looked at the speaker.
"Tell me, aren't you thinking a little too highly of yourselves? To Li, you've never been anything but pawns. Of course, Bei Kui and I are no exception. The difference is that you're pawns she can sacrifice at any time, while she gave me the key to control you. Now it's time for you to serve your final purpose!"
Dao Lord Long Kuo's words sent them into utter panic. They had always known they were pawns, but never that Li had long since marked their lives with an appointed time of death.
The process of being completely demonized by a demon seed was brief. In the span of just two sentences, their consciousness had already begun to blur.
Meanwhile, Su Jiu and Chu Luohen had not remained idle during that brief interval. Knowing they could no longer interrupt these people's demonization, they chose to do something else: attunement.
This was the first time Su Jiu had seen Chu Luohen after attunement. Like hers, his hair had been gathered into a high ponytail, except hers was silvery white and his was inky blue. The Purple-Gold Hair Crown sat at the end of his high ponytail, looking no different from usual. Only the golden light radiating from the Scarless Sword had grown even more brilliant.
Su Jiu was momentarily dazed. She did not seem to have ever seen her companion spirit grass's original appearance after transformation, yet, inexplicably, she felt that