The demonic beasts looked at Kai Syaoran and that was all that was needed for them to express their gratitude.
They had already sensed his true nature and understood what he wanted for them, true freedom.
The demonic beasts entered the nearby mountains and Kai Syaoran watched them with a sense of accomplishment. Although he did not much care for demonic beasts other than his pack, he was still a demonic beast and they were his brethren.
Seeing them denied something as basic as freedom rubbed him the wrong way and it also gave other creatures such as the humans the feeling that demonic beasts were their inferior. Kai Syaoran had long ago begun making plans to change this perception of his kind.
From the souls he had absorbed, he understood that the young woman lying dead in the carriage was the daughter of one of the ruling families of the Grand Ocean Kingdom. She was from the powerful Shen family and her name was Shen Jiayi.
