The voice of the system woke Yaohua up. She took two hasty steps backward and only then noticed that the Heavenly Demon Seed in her body had cracked open another gap. She secretly thought how close she had come.
Just now, the two Heavenly Demon Seeds had influenced each other and actually tempted her to cut out Xilan's Demon Seed.
However, if a Demon Seed touched the body of a living being, it would immediately take up residence in that person's body. At that time, when the two Demon Seeds collided, they would instantly take root and sprout.
She asked, "The other day when I was infiltrating the Scarlet Ibis Clan, I fed you a tiny bit of the collected demonic qi. Are you recovered now?"
The system replied irritably, "My dear young lady, that tiny bit of demonic qi is nowhere near enough! If you want me to recover, you'd at least need to have a Heavenly Demon Pool like before."
"Although there's no Heavenly Demon Pool now, I can get you some more demonic qi." Yaohua carefully extracted the demonic qi from Xilan's body.
The system complained, "This dissipated demonic qi is of inferior quality. Only the demonic qi mixed with the soul of a truly slain Heavenly Demon is useful to me."
"Then would it be useful to you if I killed the Scarlet Ibis clan members polluted by demonic qi?" Yaohua thought of a way.
The system whined pitifully, "It's useless. They're also of inferior quality! You need to kill Heavenly Demons, my dear young lady!"
"But now that there's a Demon Seed in my body, I have to be more careful when extracting demonic qi. Otherwise, the demonic qi will catalyze the Demon Seed." Yaohua sighed and showed a remorseful expression. "I'm sorry. I'm useless. If there weren't the Demon Seed, I could go to the Demon Clan's base camp like before and kill Heavenly Demons for you."
Seeing her pitiful look, the system also sighed, "Alright, alright. I'll go to sleep first."
At this moment, a figure quietly appeared outside the tomb.
Frowning, he took out a booklet and wrote on it, "Yaohua was captured while trying to save her brother and was locked in Xilan's tomb."
Soon, a line of reply appeared on the book, "Continue the investigation."
Inside the tomb, Yaohua closed the coffin and was about to go out to collect demonic qi when she heard a rustling sound from outside. She couldn't help but raise her eyebrows slightly.
She quietly released her detection technique and sure enough felt a strange aura.
In the Immortal Realm, she had often felt a strange aura behind her, as if there was a spy.
Now, this spy had actually followed her to the Scarlet Ibis Clan! It seemed that this person was either extremely powerful or extremely skilled in the art of concealment and tracking.
She looked around and a sly smile curled up on her lips.
Naturally, the Scarlet Ibis Clan Chief wouldn't allow her to act recklessly in this tomb. Otherwise, what if she got angry and damaged Xilan's body?
Therefore, before he left, he had left a formation on her body.
The function of this formation was to prevent her from committing suicide and to control her body so that she would kowtow and repent to Xilan's body day and night.
However, she had long noticed this formation, so she had blocked it when her spiritual power recovered.
Now, this formation could just come in handy.
She immediately withdrew her spiritual power, and the formation instantly took control of her body, making her lie in front of the coffin and kowtow.
On the other hand, the Scarlet Ibis Clan Chief returned to his cave abode, still seething with anger.
Madam Le swayed over with a coquettish voice, "Clan Chief, don't be angry anymore~"
"How can I not be angry!" The Scarlet Ibis Clan Chief said angrily. "Lan'er is insisting on divorcing me because of this, and the Sparrow Clan has also claimed that they'll never have anything to do with us again."
"Didn't you capture Yaohua?" Madam Le said with a sweet smile. "My dear husband, you're so charming. If Madam Xilan knows that you've captured Yaohua, she'll surely be overjoyed and forgive you."
Just as the Scarlet Ibis Clan Chief was about to say something, his expression suddenly changed slightly. "That bitch is trying to break free from the formation's control."
He slapped his forehead and said regretfully, "I actually forgot that there are many treasures in the tomb. That bitch must be using them to recover her spiritual power. No, I must go and subdue her!"
Before Madam Le could react, she saw his figure disappear. She couldn't help but stamp her foot. "Isn't it just a daughter? I've given birth to several sons for you!"
The Scarlet Ibis Clan Chief didn't know the other side of his concubine's true nature. However, to his surprise, there was actually someone sneaking around in front of the tomb, trying to figure out how to open the mechanism.
He instinctively thought that this person was Yaohua's accomplice and immediately roared angrily, "You scoundrel, get out of here quickly!"
The figure in front of the tomb was greatly startled and immediately transformed into a little mouse and scurried away in a sorry state.
At the same time, Yaohua blocked the formation again, pressed her ear against the door, and listened to the movement outside.
Everything was going smoothly according to her plan.
This spy was extremely skilled in the art of concealment and escape. She might not be able to catch him alone. The Scarlet Ibis Clan happened to be good at this too, so she might as well use them to get rid of him.
Sure enough, not long after, the sound of footsteps sounded again, and an interrogating voice came from the door. "Tell me, who are you? I didn't know that the White Mouse Clan was in collusion with the Phoenix Clan."
Immediately afterwards, the tomb slowly opened.
Yaohua quickly lay on the ground and kowtowed one by one.
This was the scene that the people outside saw.
The majestic Phoenix Clan Chief was kowtowing with blood all over his body, looking extremely miserable.
The Scarlet Ibis Clan Chief enjoyed this scene and happily picked Yaohua up. "No wonder you dared to come and be a substitute. It turns out you have a subordinate from the Mouse Clan. But unfortunately, he can't save you."
However, Yaohua said indignantly, "It's fine that you imprisoned me, but you actually slandered me! I don't even know this white-haired mouse."
"It's useless for you not to confess." The Scarlet Ibis Clan Chief's eyes showed a vicious look. A thick demonic qi suddenly emanated from behind him. He pinched a spell, and a black light stabbed into the white-haired mouse's body.
The white-haired mouse rolled on the ground in pain and cried out, "Yaohua, how can you turn your back on me?"
At this moment, a tiny booklet suddenly fell from its body.
The Scarlet Ibis Clan Chief quickly picked it up.
The booklet grew larger in his hand. He flipped through a few pages, and his expression suddenly became strange. "You're here to monitor Yaohua?"
The white-haired mouse was extremely flustered. "No, I'm not. Ah—"
After a shrill scream, it said weakly, "Yes, I was sent by God Chongming."
"Chongming and Yaohua are master and disciple. What's the difference between monitoring and protecting?" The Scarlet Ibis Clan Chief said with a dark face. "Come, beat this mouse to death with a stick."
The mouse said in a panic, "Clan Chief, please be discerning. God Chongming thought that Yaohua had made mistakes repeatedly, so he asked me to find an opportunity to poison her!"
Yaohua watched coldly and didn't believe a single word it said.
It seemed that the person behind this was trying to sow discord between her and Chongming.
Then why not... play along?
Before the Scarlet Ibis Clan Chief could say anything, she screamed, "You're talking nonsense. My master has always doted on me the most. How could he want to kill me?"
The mouse said angrily, "You've implicated the god again and again. He's already tired of you. He just can't not protect you because of his reputation. But you don't know how to repent, so he had no choice but to secretly poison you. This is all your own doing!"