A promise to return

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Awakening from his slumber, Chi Cheng smiled lazily when the first thing he saw was Han Xuelian's apprehensive expression. The Grandmaster's gaze narrowed with concern, gazing upon Chi Cheng as if he were a precious and fragile jewel that had been damaged.

"My dear broken jewel…" Han Xuelian mumbled, kissing Chi Cheng's wrist in relief. The Grandmaster had elicited all the details of Chi Cheng's reckless ventures into the Frost Forest from Huo Renyi and it worried him relentlessly when he heard the younger male had suffered under the dark spirit's influence.

A demon, no matter what its rank, was no being to be trifled with.

It spread darkness and malice wherever its unholy touch surfaced, leaving only crippling despair in its wake.