Although Xia Hong had been in the Ice Abyss for more than fifteen years, and had come into contact with all sorts of Deceitful Monsters, when he carefully counted, apart from Divine Deceit, he had already seen all four types: Craftsman, Nightmare, Fierce, and Demon.
Yet his overall understanding of Deceitful Monsters was still limited.
Where exactly these beings came from, why killing people could make them stronger, what their ultimate purpose was… such questions remained.
First, it could be confirmed that Deceitful Monsters were able to separate from humans and move freely as independent entities—there were plenty of examples to prove this.
But at the same time, they could parasitize the human body in a living form. Earlier, He Yuanhun and the Mirror Immortal were such cases. Only such fusion carried extremely high risk and could be reversed at any moment, with the Deceitful Monster turning on its host.
