Ye Mo turned serious. "Let me explain. Three months ago, there was a coup in one of the subordinate clans of the night spirits race, the night mystics. Apparently, the reason behind it was that one of the children who was to be ritually sacrificed turned out to be of mixed human and night-spirit blood!"

"What? Mixed blood?" Zhang Lie glanced at Ye Mo, whose sharp spikes protruded from her body, and winced just thinking about it.

Ye Mo rolled her eyes at him. "Stop looking at me like that! Hear me out!"

"Ah, no, I was just wondering how they were even able to have children, or how that led to a coup..." Zhang Lie's idle curiosity left Ye Mo speechless for a moment.

"That's not the point, and I'm not aware of the specifics. What's important is that this child of mixed blood seems to have escaped to Earth, and the night mystics have requested...