Chapter: 773

Someone had placed their hand on his back, providing him with support. Ran-yeong.

‘Uhm’

The expression on her face, as she closed her eyes, was odd.

Those who normally took in the Qilin’s Blood were likely to have strong flame qi run rampant in their bodies.

Even women with strong yin energy, would end up losing their sense of pain as a side effect of the flame, and in some cases, the host would even die.

If that was the case for women, then a man who was filled with yang energy shouldn’t be able to handle it.

For nearly two hundred years, numerous men from the imperial palace had drunk the blood. The result had been nothing but death for them.

‘Is it because cold qi was mixed in with blood?’

Fortunately, the Qilin’s blood, whose flame had been neutralized by the cold energy, hadn’t caused any problems.

Maybe that was why the flame qi in Hu Bong’s body hadn’t gone berserk.

That was her guess.

‘Ah... this is weird. Why is it like this?’

No matter how well the Qilin’s Blood had been neutralized, there had to be certain changes.

Nobody could hold onto their human form after drinking it.

The proof was the red scales that were present on her body.

‘The body creates the scales to generate the flames, so why hasn’t his body undergone any changes?’

It was definitely odd. She checked his pressure points in hopes of finding an answer and finally subduing her curiosity.

She wanted to make sure that the flame qi had been absorbed by Hu Bong’s body.

However,

‘Ha? This is....?’

She found a foreign energy inside his core.

It wasn’t the normal internal energy, but a very violent energy that resembled Chun Yeowun’s.

‘What is this black energy? Ah!’

It was an energy outside her field of understanding.

The energy wasn’t that strong or overpowered, but shockingly, it had totally absorbed the flame qi of the Qilin’s Blood.

The black energy seemed to have suppressed the flame qi which came from the diluted Qilin’s Blood, like a hungry and superior predator.

‘Have they consumed the blood of another Spirit Beast?’

As she’d guessed, Hu Bong had once drunk a black liquid.

That black liquid had existed since the founding of the Demonic Cult.

It was the blood of the black Imoogi (Korean dragon).