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"This is~"

Yue Qiluo’s right hand trembled slightly. She could feel her body growing weak.

"Damn Wu Xin! He caused the pill I swallowed to be absorbed ahead of time, but it isn’t time yet!"

Yue Qiluo felt an itch in her palm. Gu Sheng had fed her until she was full that evening, yet waves of hunger kept surging through her.

The century-long seal had transformed Yue Qiluo into a Dharma-Forged Body. This beautiful shell did not function naturally; it was maintained through magic. Thus, she often had to absorb other people’s Essence Yuan to keep her physical body from collapsing.

Once she was injured, recovering became even more troublesome, requiring more Essence Yuan than usual. The crimson pearl Gu Sheng had given her would last ten days or half a month if used only to maintain her body, but if she used it to heal an injury, even a moderately serious one would rapidly deplete it.

That was exactly what had happened. She had instinctively circulated her cultivation technique, forgetting that she did not have a plentiful reserve of Essence Yuan. The crimson pearl had been completely drained, yet there was still some time before the ten-day period she had agreed upon with Gu Sheng.

If she could not replenish her Essence Yuan during this period, her Primordial Spirit might succumb to instinct from weakness, causing her to lose her reason and go on a killing spree. The people most likely to become her targets were the residents of Zhang Residence.

"Creak~"

Just as Yue Qiluo was suppressing her hunger and trying to think of a way to get through this period, the door opened and Liu Daimei walked in.

"What are you coming in for~"

Yue Qiluo seemed somewhat abnormal. Normally, she would never dare speak to Liu Daimei like that.

"Oh my~ What’s wrong? You’re about to rise in status, so you’re dropping the act? Getting ready to tear off all pretense and fight me for his favor?"

Swaying her hips, Liu Daimei walked up to Yue Qiluo and reached out to caress her exquisite face. "You really are a beauty anyone would pity. You’ll definitely bewitch countless men in the future. Your elder sister has treated you quite well during this time, hasn’t she? How will you treat me in the future, little sister?"

"Leave~"

Yue Qiluo turned her face aside to avoid Liu Daimei’s palm and pointed at the door, telling her to leave. Her body trembled slightly as she continually suppressed the instinct rising from her Primordial Spirit. She was craving Essence Yuan, and there was a living person right beside her.

But Liu Daimei refused to listen. She tilted her delicate body and sat down beside Yue Qiluo. "I’m not leaving. What can you do about it?"

"Fine!"

Yue Qiluo’s expression suddenly turned strange, and red light flickered in her eyes. "If you’re not leaving, then you’ll never leave again!" As she spoke, she seemed to turn completely dark. Her exquisite face sent chills through the heart, and she raised her right hand into a claw, swiping directly at Liu Daimei on the bed.

"Bang~"

Unexpectedly, Yue Qiluo’s claw missed, leaving only five holes in the bedboard. She abruptly looked up at Liu Daimei. "What are you?"

"What am I? I’m the old master’s Seventh Concubine, your good elder sister!"

Liu Daimei smiled at Yue Qiluo, revealing sharp fangs that made her look terrifying.

"You’re not an ordinary person. Are you a demon?"

Yue Qiluo rose solemnly and frowned at Liu Daimei across from her. She had grown up at Qingyun Temple in her first lifetime and had come into contact with many cultivation texts. Over the course of a century, she had encountered mountain spirits, tree monsters, demons, evil spirits, and ghosts before.

But Liu Daimei gave her a very different feeling. She did not look human, and creatures like vampires could not be explained using the knowledge of the Wu Xin: The Monster Killer World.

Liu Daimei smiled at Yue Qiluo. "Why are you asking, little sister? Do I look human to you?"

"Whether you’re human has nothing to do with me. But you shouldn’t have provoked me. He forbade me from killing people, but he never said I couldn’t kill demons. As it happens, demons have far more Essence Yuan than humans."

As Yue Qiluo spoke, she brought her hands together before her chest and formed a spell seal. Red light flashed from her body. Then something strange happened: countless Paper Dolls flew from behind her, chattering as they swarmed toward Liu Daimei.

"Not good~"

Liu Daimei twisted aside to dodge one Paper Doll, only to be entangled by many more. Seeing that she was about to be surrounded and captured, she hurriedly pulled something from her bosom. "Stop! I’m here to deliver something."

Yue Qiluo was startled when she saw what Liu Daimei held. The spell in her hands dispersed, and the Paper Dolls stopped moving around Liu Daimei. With a tug of her right hand, a streak of red light sent the crimson pearl from Liu Daimei’s hand straight into her palm.

"How did you get this? You know him!"

A trace of doubt flashed through Yue Qiluo’s eyes. With a wave of her hand, she released Liu Daimei. "Tell me. What’s your relationship with him?"

Liu Daimei approached Yue Qiluo. "You don’t need to know what my relationship with him is. You only need to understand that from now on, you’ll obediently listen to me."

"You’re provoking me!"

Yue Qiluo moved her delicate hand and clamped it around Liu Daimei’s neck.

"If you lay a hand on me, you won’t get another one of these in the future."

Liu Daimei met Yue Qiluo’s gaze without the slightest fear. "He told me to pass this message on to you: while you remain at Zhang Residence, work with me to help him. There’ll be plenty of benefits if we succeed."

How could Yue Qiluo lower her head to Liu Daimei? "That wasn’t part of my agreement with him."

"It is now~"

Liu Daimei wrapped an arm around Yue Qiluo. Seeing the displeasure covering the girl’s face, she smiled and said, "Don’t worry. I’m not assigning you any particular task. I only need you to cooperate with me and win Zhang Xianzong’s heart."

Yue Qiluo’s eyes narrowed. "He’s your target? You’re planning to harm him!"

"You don’t need to know that!"

Liu Daimei did not answer her directly. "You only need to help me make him the most powerful man there is. Once that happens, certain things will become much easier."

Yue Qiluo’s expression shifted repeatedly. "Fine~ But you have to promise me not to hurt Zhang Xianzong. I owe him a debt, so I have to keep him safe."

"You haven’t fallen in love with him, have you?"

Just as Liu Daimei reached the door, she suddenly threw out that question. Before Yue Qiluo could react, she had already pushed the door open and left.

"Love? Is that love?"

Yue Qiluo fell silent for a moment. She brought her right hand to her lips, parted them slightly, and swallowed the crimson pearl. After a wave of heat passed through her, she felt completely refreshed, and the hunger of her Primordial Spirit vanished without a trace.

After leaving the room, Liu Daimei cast a deeply wary glance at it and hurried away, darting behind the artificial hill, where Gu Sheng was waiting for her.

"How is her condition~"

After looking at her, Gu Sheng asked Liu Daimei about Yue Qiluo’s condition.

"Sure enough, the new generation replaces the old!"

Liu Daimei pouted, her voice filled with grievance. "I just went through a life-and-death crisis, yet someone doesn’t care about me and is instead worried about the ‘culprit’ who nearly got me killed. Isn’t that favoritism a little too much?"

"Mm~"