“Since it succeeded, why not also clear the Evil Intent inside Anxing’s body?”…
Zheng cast a confused gaze at Luo Shuangyue while binding the restless Xiaozi with Magic Power threads.
She couldn’t quite understand Luo Shuangyue’s current thoughts.
Luo Shuangyue was currently curled up with her knees pulled in, sitting on a relatively flat rock.
The dark-purple Butterfly Wings wrapped from her back to her front, shielding her body like a curtain.
What Zheng found even stranger was that Luo Shuangyue didn’t answer her question, remaining completely still.
“Don’t ask me. I don’t know.”
It wasn’t until a voice with a faint chill floated from Luo Shuangyue’s direction that Zheng realized the one curled up on the rock might not be the Luo Shuangyue she knew.
Indeed, Luo Shuangyue had slipped away again, heading to the Spiritual World to brainstorm with Phantom Thorn.
Since the body in reality needed someone to control it, Little Butterfly was once again invited out by Luo Shuangyue.
Even though this was the moment of controlling the body she had always dreamed of, Little Butterfly didn’t feel happy at all.
These days, it seemed she was coming out more often, but she was eating less and less.
She had only truly eaten her fill once a few days ago, but not long after, Luo Shuangyue had thrown out everything she had consumed.
All that remained were the transformed body and strength.
Sigh, she felt like she was getting the short end of the stick—a very short end indeed.
“You’re not happy?” Zheng pressed down on Xiaozi’s head, feeling that the child across from her was somewhat like the one in her arms.
“Not happy.”
“Then when will you be happy?”
“When I’m eating.” Little Butterfly’s gaze swept over Zheng and Xiaozi, then she curled her lip. “But you can’t be eaten. If I eat you, that person will scold me.”
Though being scolded wasn’t a major issue for Little Butterfly, it still made her feel a bit uncomfortable.
“Actually, I was wondering, since she can pull the bad thoughts out of others’ hearts, why can’t she pull the bad thoughts out of mine too?” Little Butterfly stared down at her white, jade-like toes and muttered under her breath.
Currently, Luo Shuangyue was a Demon and naturally encountered the problem all Demons inevitably faced: the innate Evil Intent.
These Evil Intentions should have integrated into Luo Shuangyue’s body.
However, because of that unsuccessful advancement, Little Butterfly—who was thoroughly corroded by the Evil Intent—did not merge with Luo Shuangyue, allowing her to remain free from its interference for now.
But the Evil Intent never disappeared.
It existed constantly within Little Butterfly’s Soul, incessantly tempting her to do bad things.
For instance, committing arson, or eating everything in sight. Little Butterfly was constantly working hard to suppress them.
She was actually a very good child.
‘Because I can’t do it,’ Luo Shuangyue’s voice echoed in Little Butterfly’s heart.
She had been paying attention to the outside world and naturally heard Little Butterfly’s muttering.
But this was indeed a problem she couldn’t solve.
Her Soul and Little Butterfly’s were two sides of the same coin, and when she acted, she needed to directly manipulate the Original Magic Power.
If the Original Magic Power were touched so deeply, Luo Shuangyue’s consciousness would collapse into chaos, making stripping the Evil Intent an impossible task.
Thus, the doctor could not treat themselves.
Little Butterfly gave a dissatisfied huff.
Even she felt this was too unfair.
Why did Luo Shuangyue get to be the good person while she had to be the big villain? She didn’t want to be a big villain; she also wanted to become someone liked by others, just like Luo Shuangyue.
‘There will be a way. Mother and the others are so powerful. Believe in them!’
Little Butterfly was still unhappy. They were so powerful, yet they still needed her help now? But before she could say those words, several Meteora suddenly flew across the sky, landing beside them shortly after.
“Shuangyue, I brought everyone back!” Xia Mo jumped off the crow’s back happily and called out to Little Butterfly.
Perhaps because she hadn’t spoken yet, Xia Mo didn’t immediately realize that the girl before her wasn’t her familiar Lian Ren, but the bad girl who had once bitten her.
Meanwhile, the Six-eyed Crow and the other Sanctuary members looked in astonishment at Little Butterfly, who was curled up with her knees pulled in.
If their eyes weren’t playing tricks on them, this girl seemed to resemble the Holy Sovereign?
Suspecting its vision was failing, the Six-eyed Crow looked at its companions, only to see the same expression on their faces.
Could six people have the same hallucination? The probability was too low.
Then only one possibility remained: this girl indeed looked like the Holy Sovereign, very much so, as if carved from the same mold.
The Six-eyed Crow transformed into a half-human, half-bird form, and with a strange emotion in its heart, it took a few steps toward Little Butterfly.
“Um… excuse me, Miss, may I ask your honorable name?”
Xia Mo looked at the Six-eyed Crow in surprise. Wasn’t this attitude a bit excessively humble? Following that, Luo Shuangyue’s answer surprised Xia Mo even more.
“Dark Moth… that’s her name.” Little Butterfly pointed at herself.
This sounded very strange. Xia Mo was dazed for a moment before remembering that there wasn’t just Luo Shuangyue inside Luo Shuangyue’s head.
“Are you Little Butterfly?” Since Little Butterfly had no name, Xia Mo could only refer to her that way.
Little Butterfly nodded. “She’s busy. I’m helping her watch the body.”
Is that so? Xia Mo glanced at Xiaozi in Zheng’s arms and already guessed a bit of what was happening.
The Six-eyed Crow didn’t care about any of that.
It had already sidled up to Little Butterfly’s side, scrutinizing her with its six big, red eyes.
It muttered while observing, “So similar, way too similar, even the wings are so alike…”
The more it looked, the more it felt there was an unspeakable connection between Little Butterfly and the Holy Sovereign.
The features were very similar, the eye color contained that touch of silver-white belonging to the Holy Sovereign, and those wings—they were definitely derived from the Holy Sovereign’s Butterfly Wings.
Being scrutinized like that, Little Butterfly shrank back in dissatisfaction, completely shielding herself with her Butterfly Wings.
“She looks very much like the Holy Sovereign,” the Six-eyed Crow noted Little Butterfly’s unhappiness and quickly took two steps back, speaking to Xia Mo.
It was now very glad it had followed Xia Mo. If it hadn’t come, how could it have met this girl who clearly had intricate ties to the Holy Sovereign?
“It’s normal for her to look similar. After all, she is your Holy Sovereign’s biological… daughter.” Xia Mo didn’t hide Luo Shuangyue’s Identity.
She felt awkward saying this because there was no word for “daughter” in the language of this world.
During the month she had spent traveling with Taya, Xia Mo had roughly mastered the language of this world, so she could now communicate with the lifeforms here without using Magic.
However, communication aside, she wasn’t a linguist and really didn’t know how to explain the relationship between Luo Shuangyue and the Holy Sovereign.
The lifeforms in this world—at least the sentient ones—were Spirits of Heaven and Earth.
They didn’t have parents and didn’t produce offspring.
So Xia Mo searched through the words she knew and was stumped, unable to find a suitable term for “daughter.”
“Daughter?” Repeating the word for “daughter” that Xia Mo had spoken in the Human language with some difficulty, the Six-eyed Crow’s six eyes were full of confusion.
“Yes, you can understand it as someone who inherited a portion of the Holy Sovereign’s power and appearance, and who shares a very intimate relationship with the Holy Sovereign.” Xia Mo finally found a description that was somewhat straightforward.
The Six-eyed Crow and the others began to exchange glances frantically, discussing the credibility of Xia Mo’s words. Soon, they reached a consensus.
They couldn’t help it; the connection between Luo Shuangyue and the Holy Sovereign was clear to anyone with eyes. They had no choice but to believe.
At this time, Luo Shuangyue finished her discussion with Phantom Thorn and retook control of her body.
She raised her head and cast a grateful look at Xia Mo, then jumped down from the rock and introduced herself to the crowd of strange creatures: “I am called Dark Moth. Your Holy Sovereign is one of my two mothers.”
Even though the Holy Sovereign of this side had no idea she had such a daughter, it didn’t stop Luo Shuangyue from treating her like the old man in her memories.
“I want to rescue her, so I need your help.”
The Six-eyed Crow blinked twice. It actually wanted to agree immediately, but it felt that agreeing directly would be a bit rash.
After thinking for a few seconds, it felt it needed more persuasive evidence to prove that Luo Shuangyue had the ability to help the Holy Sovereign.
Even if you look so much like the Holy Sovereign, we must conduct an impartial audit of you!
“Evidence? Perfect. You can watch how I strip the Evil Intent from Anxing’s body.” Luo Shuangyue nodded immediately. If they wanted evidence, that was perfect.
What she feared least right now was someone asking for evidence, because she had a perfect piece of evidence right at hand.
But before that, she had one more request.
“You need to help her recover her strength first. When stripping Anxing’s Evil Intent, I need her to assist from the side.”
Luo Shuangyue pointed her finger at Xia Mo.
This was the conclusion she had reached after her discussion with Phantom Thorn.
Anxing’s situation was different from Xiaozi’s. The Evil Intent in her body was more abundant and more deeply rooted.