Chapter 149: The Unlucky Butterfly
Yun Jiao asked Chief Jiao to set up a spirit-gathering formation around the butterfly demon to help her condense enough demonic energy to temporarily return to human form. Only then did she begin a careful examination of the creature’s injuries.
The butterfly demon was surprisingly easy to deal with—before anyone even asked, she obediently confessed everything in painstaking detail.
And what a pitiful story it was.
She had only recently achieved human form, and she hadn’t even planned on leaving the demon realm. But somehow, she’d wandered out by mistake. Lost and confused, she ended up in Tianfang City—right when a swarm of malevolent spirits was ravaging the place. Those ghosts were feeding on the life force of the townsfolk and had already killed many.
Caidie, reckless and naïve, had jumped in to fight them. Despite her weak cultivation, she somehow managed to win, but in doing so she revealed her true form. The very people she saved awoke to see a massive butterfly monster hovering over them—and in their terror, they screamed that she was the man-eating demon responsible.
To make matters worse, a group of exorcists from the Celestial Sect arrived just in time to “save” the terrified villagers. They never questioned what had happened—they simply attacked the “culprit.”
Caidie tried to explain but was beaten within an inch of her life. Barely alive, she fled—ironically back to Tianfang City, the very place where it all began. She hid in the shadows, recovering bit by bit until she could take human form again. And then… she met Qu Qiuming.
He had introduced himself as a divine physician. Caidie, still suffering from her grave wounds and the lingering cold of ghostly qi, was desperate for help. Trusting and innocent, she let him treat her. To her amazement, the yin energy in her body really did lessen after the first session. Though she could no longer use her demonic power, she no longer felt like she was dying.
From then on, she believed completely.