Of course, whatever happened in the end, Su Jiu would still not release Xiaotao.
Xiaotao already bore the Nightmare Demon's mark. Once the Nightmare Demon was released, she would be the first person it chose to possess.
And what had that little girl, who looked only two or three years old, done wrong?
What crime had an innocent child committed?
The Nightmare Demon's actions had all but crossed Su Jiu's bottom line!
Strife among humans, yaos, and demons had existed since ancient times, but there was one rule they all acknowledged: mortals were never to be dragged into it. Now, this Nightmare Demon had not only involved mortals, but refused to spare even children.
Su Jiu believed that anyone who still held a sense of righteousness in their heart could not tolerate what the Nightmare Demon had done.
At Cloudmist Peak in the Azure Tide Sect, mist lingered year-round, never dispersing.
When Xia Jue first came here, he had thought it was the work of an artificial formation. Only later, through Ning Hai, did he learn that the place had always been this way.
Cloudmist Peak was an extraordinary place. A small dragon vein lay beneath it, making its spiritual qi the richest of all the peaks.
The mist was formed by spiritual qi condensing into liquid, a testament to just how special this peak was.
Even standing at the entrance, Xia Jue could feel the dense spiritual qi washing over him.
Before long, Ning Hai appeared before Xia Jue with two exceedingly young-looking people.
They were a man and a woman. He knew the woman, because on the second day after he reached Nascent Soul, his master had brought him to meet her. She was his grandmaster, Ning Hai's master, True Lord Yuxiu.
True Lord Yuxiu had now