At that moment, Xiaotao suddenly remembered what Su Jiu had once said to her.
She remembered Su Jiu asking back then, "Do you no longer want to be human?"
At the time, she had thought it was merely a question. She had never considered that it might carry another meaning.
Doubt and alarm churned in Xiaotao's heart. Clutching her severed arm, she was both shocked and terrified.
She said, without meaning a word of it, "That wasn't me just now. It wasn't me! Little Nightmare took control of my body."
Su Jiu shook her head. "The Nightmare Demon's clone lacks the power. Even if he intended to do that, how would he dare use your body to harm others without your tacit consent?
"In the end, a demon has entered your heart."
With that, Su Jiu enclosed her in a Trapping Array, then turned her back and walked toward where she had come from. As she walked, she said, "I refrain from killing mortals because of the laws of heaven and earth, but that doesn't mean I won't kill them.
"Don't try any more tricks right under my nose."
Xiaotao's face twisted for an instant. Looking at the little girl, who was only two or three years old, she felt a surge of disgust.
"Little Nightmare, why did you suddenly want that wretched brat dead again?" Xiaotao asked the voice in her head.
By "that wretched brat," she naturally meant the three-year-old toddler.
The Nightmare Demon pondered for a long while before saying, "Because your sister's blood can break the array."
When the little girl had pulled her hand away from the array earlier, that power had been withdrawn along with it.
He had then understood what might lie behind it.
Unfortunately, the person he had formed a contract with