There was a reason cultivators took heart demons seriously. It was not simply about losing control or suffering Qi deviation. The final stage of the heart demon was possession.
He had almost succumbed to it himself. Lind knew the true danger of falling into that abyss. He had thought Delenn was far past such danger yet something seemed to have happened in their time apart.
A couple decades was nothing to an Immortal yet in that time she had fallen.
His master was effectively dead.
Eventually, her dantain would suffer fatal deviation as the heart demon finished consuming her soul. Anger surged in him as he saw the thing that was once his Master calmly walking the burning streets of the Rubyfire Kingdom capital.
She seemed able to find the Soulmancers all on her own but he did not know how. They were terrified of her but her target had slipped away. Nest was missing.
