Guo Chunfeng nodded. "I thought so, too, but even though I knew that it was a certain technique, I was not able to resist it. It was like a barrier that had been etched deep into my soul and a natural-born instinct. I couldn't get rid of it at all.
"In the few days that followed, I remained in a trance. As soon as I fell asleep, or so much as I closed my eyes for a while, the dream and Elder Nether Spring's voice would visit me again!
"I felt that I was cut in half by the truth, one piece being a human being and the other being a demon, and then stitched together.
"But I didn't want my wife and my daughter to be hurt whether I was a human being or a demon, nor did I want to see the homeland that I've lived in for decades to be ruined. However, how would I be able to deal with everything all by myself?