Desperate Love: Rebirth of the Demon King

"Master Aze lived up to everyone's expectations and found them. He found His Majesty." After Zhou Ze said this, he quickly stepped aside.

Jin Xuan, Helan Ruofeng, Yu Xiaobai, and other disciples, a total of thirty-six people, all stood in the hall, no more and no less.

As for Ling Yuwei, she was standing timidly in the corner, secretly watching the three people who came out alive. She had been sent back in advance, and had no idea what happened in the secret realm later. Not only did she lose the Qiankun bag, but she also didn't catch any monsters, which meant that she had completely failed to break through.

Upon hearing that all the disciples who had gone out to challenge the barriers had returned, Sa Yulong, feeling guilty, secretly ran to the front hall.

"Your Majesty, where did you three go?" Sa Hurricane asked with a worried look on his face.

Although the little emperor was young, he had to kowtow to him respectfully when he entered the court, because the founder of Yunji Villa was a member of the royal family of the Xingyue Dynasty.

"Orphan...Brother Helan, Miss Zi Yan and I accidentally entered an isolated island. On the island, there was an ugly crocodile dragon monster and a ferocious red snake monster." Jin Xuan originally blurted out the word "orphan", but then changed his words and used "I" to describe it.

"Red Snake Demon..."

"Red Snake Demon..."

"How big is it?"

Several respected elders present, as well as Sa Hurricane and Lan Moqiu, all widened their eyes in fear.

"It's probably as thick as a water tank, and long enough to circle the hall several times." Jin Xuan recalled the red snake monster in the cave thoughtfully.

"Such a giant monster? How could it retreat quietly into the secret realm and not come out to wreak havoc on the world?" Sa Hurricane asked in surprise.

"Is it the one in the back mountain..." the elder asked doubtfully. He didn't dare to say the rest of the words. After all, the ancient snake demon was sealed by the five major sect leaders and then guarded by Yunji Mountain Manor. If it had escaped, it would mean that they were not doing a good job of guarding it, and they would be ridiculed by other sects.

"Ze'er, go to the Demon Locking Tower in the back mountain and take a look." Sa Hurricane immediately asked Zhou Ze to go and ask for the tower to check.

"Dad..." Sa Yulong called out pretending to be calm. She began to realize that she had made a big mistake, but she didn't dare to admit it.

"What's wrong? Why are you still here if you have a headache? Go back and have a good rest." Sa Hurricane asked with a worried look on his face when he saw his daughter coming.

"It's okay. I'm just worried about all the new brothers and sisters." Sa Yulong immediately changed her mind. She had to pretend that she knew nothing about the Red Snake Demon and clear herself from it.

"It's rare that you're so thoughtful." Sa Hun looked at his beloved daughter with pity.

"Your Majesty, what else did you encounter later?" Lan Moqiu's cold voice suddenly sounded, and he looked at Jin Xuan, Helan Ruofeng and Yu Xiaobai with indifference. Holding the half-dead Xue'er who was holding half of Zi Yan's soul in his hands, his eyes seemed to want to stare a hole in the three of them.

"High Priest..." Jin Xuan's originally calm eyes showed a slight hint of fear and retreat after seeing Lan Moqiu.

"We caught a lot of demons in Red Rock Mountain, but then we mistakenly entered a misty forest and were attacked by spider spirits. It was our eldest brother who arrived in time to save us. He and several other brothers saw what happened afterwards."

Yu Xiaobai couldn't stand Lan Moqiu's cold expression. He was obviously a person who looked cold on the outside but was warm on the inside. He obviously cared about the little emperor very much, but he deliberately acted so coldly to scare him.

"Did this priest ask you?" Lan Moqiu looked at Yu Xiaobai with a cold sidelong glance, thinking that this maid was really brave. Anyone who saw him outside would either lower their head and look terrified or respectful, but this maid dared to stare at him so straight.

How could he know that half of Zi Yan's soul was Yu Xiaobai's at this moment, and when Yu Xiaobai was Xue'er, she shamelessly stayed by his side for more than half a year, so she had definitely figured out his temper and character.

His cold appearance is only to scare people who are not familiar with him. He is extremely gentle to people around him.

"Xue'er, you are so brave. How dare you talk to the high priest like that?" Zi Yan quietly appeared again to eat melon.

"High Priest, please don't scare Zi Yan. Let her continue talking!" Sa Hun advised.

"Actually, there's nothing much to say. The three of us killed all the crocodiles in the cave, um... those are the alligators you mentioned. The three of us I'm talking about are Brother Jin Xuan and Brother Ruofeng..." Yu Xiaobai said this with a proud look on his face, and glanced at everyone present in a pretentiously elegant manner.

She thought she would see looks of surprise, admiration, and envy, but instead everyone looked at her like she was an idiot.

"Why don't you believe me? It was really the three of us who worked together to kill all the alligators. We also made barbecue. It was delicious." After Yu Xiaobai said this, he took out a piece of roasted meat from the small purse he carried with him.

"Master, Great Elder, this alligator meat tastes extremely delicious..." Bu Bu suddenly said this at this time, and just after he finished speaking, he realized that everyone was looking at him as if he were a monster.

"Master, it's true. Junior Brother Ziyu and Junior Brother Zhongting also ate it. And he, he, he, they all ate it together. It's not like I'm the only one who ate it." Bu Bu pointed out several disciples who entered the cave together and complained aggrievedly. Everyone had eaten the meat, so why did they look at him like that?

"Master, I know I was wrong." Several disciples who were pointed out by name immediately stood up and admitted their mistakes with a very sincere attitude. After all, they were vegetarians every day, so how could they refuse the steaming and delicious meat?

"Ridiculous..." Sa Hurricane was angry but had no place to vent. The spiritual energy in the place where those crocodiles lived was pure. The crocodiles were raised by their ancestors for thousands of years to cultivate the best descendants. Now they were all killed by three young boys and made into meat. Who could he tell about his resentment?

"What's going on with the red-banded snake demon?" Lan Moqiu ignored Sa Ju's dying look and asked coldly.

"The red snake demon! That thing..."

"The three of us joined forces to siege him, and in the end he seriously injured us three and then escaped." Helan Ruofeng suddenly interrupted Yu Xiaobai and answered.

Yu Xiaobai looked at him with some doubt, but immediately shut up, thinking that Ruofeng must have his reasons for interrupting her in time.

What Helan Ruofeng thought was exactly as Yu Xiaobai expected. The snake demon had its inner elixir sucked by Yu Xiaobai, and then sucked its blood. If these people in the immortal sect knew that Yu Xiaobai had a demon elixir in her body, they would definitely kill her at this moment to prevent her from becoming a demon in the future.

Even if she wasn't killed, she would be imprisoned. Helan Ruofeng didn't want to see a 28-year-old girl being locked up in the Demon Tower for eternity. This was the first thought that flashed through his mind.

So he immediately interrupted Yu Xiaobai and made up a lie to cover up the truth. In this way, he could protect Yu Xiaobai without causing suspicion and vigilance from others.

Although Yu Xiaobai didn't know why Helan Ruofeng said that, she believed he must have his own reasons. So, she chose to remain silent and didn't continue.

At the same time, she was secretly glad that she didn't tell the truth just now, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

"You three were injured by the red-banded snake demon? But you still managed to escape?" Lan Moqiu asked Helan Ruofeng with a questioning look on his face.

"That's right!" Helan Ruofeng answered neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Is it really like that?" Lan Moqiu asked with a sneer.

"If what your majesty said is true, the red snake demon must be a great demon that has been practicing for at least ten thousand years. You can imagine how powerful it is. How could you three young people escape from its mouth?"

"High Priest, the facts are just as Brother Helan said. Miss Zi Yan and I were both knocked unconscious at the time. It was Brother Helan's desperate resistance that broke the snake demon's barrier, and the three of us were able to survive." Seeing that the high priest was deliberately making things difficult for Helan Ruofeng, Jin Xuan quickly stood up to defend him.

"Oh? Really?" Lan Moqiu glanced at Jin Xuan doubtfully, then turned to look at Helan Ruofeng, his eyes full of suspicion.

"He is a newcomer who came to join the immortal sect. You said he broke the barrier of the ten thousand year old snake demon? Is he really just a newcomer?" Lan Moqiu deliberately approached Jin Xuan and asked. His Majesty the little emperor was still too naive.

"High Priest, this is absolutely true. The situation was urgent at the time. Brother He Kanlan risked his life to save us, and finally succeeded in breaking the barrier, giving us a chance to escape." Jin Xuan was timid in his heart, but said calmly on his face.

"Hmm..." Lan Moqiu frowned and snorted without saying anything.

"In that case, this priest will believe you this time." He seemed to have chosen to believe that they were not lying.

"Thank you, High Priest!" Jin Xuan said with gratitude.

"Master..." At this moment, Zhou Ze, who was sent to check the Demon Locking Tower in the back mountain, came back with a serious face.

Looking at his expression, everyone present guessed the outcome.

"What's going on? Is the ancient snake demon still in the Demon Locking Tower?" Sa Hurricane asked anxiously upon seeing this.

"Master, the Red Snake Demon is no longer in the Demon Locking Tower." Zhou Ze said without hesitation.

"What……"

This cry was made by Sa Hurricane and several great elders at the same time. They were really going to be laughed at by the immortal sect. The red snake demon ran away, and they didn't even know when it ran away.

"Master, Aze has something else to report." Zhou Ze hesitated to speak. He wanted to say that the snake demon in the Qiankun bag that his junior brother brought back before might be the ancient giant snake.

"Just tell me what's going on. There's nothing to hide." Sa Hurricane said anxiously.

"After my disciple and fellow apprentices entered the secret realm, we saw a red-bellied snake demon on an isolated island sucking Miss Ling's soul. In a hurry, I captured it. Could it be the red-bellied snake demon that Master mentioned?" He was a little skeptical when he said this. After all, the one he saw was very different from the one His Majesty described.

"This?" Sa Hun and the elders were startled at first, then looked at each other, and turned to look at Helan Ruofeng in confusion.

"Mr. Helan, you have fought with the snake demon, do you still remember what it looks like?" the elder asked seriously.

"It is black with a red silver ring, and it seems to be very afraid of the crystal stones in the cave. Brother Jin Xuan and Miss Zi Yan used crystal stones to hit it many times when I was fighting it. Although the three of us were seriously injured, it was also seriously injured by us."

Helan Ruofeng said seven lies and three truths. The snake demon did fight him fiercely, and Jin Xuan and Zi Yan did hurt it with stones. But he would never say that the main person who hurt the snake demon was Miss Zi Yan.

"Crystal stone?" Sa Hun looked back at the Great Elder with some doubt.

"There is indeed a place with extremely abundant spiritual energy in the secret realm chosen by our ancestors. An immortal who is good at divination once said that ten thousand years later, this secret realm will be full of spiritual energy and will grow giant spiritual stones. Could it be that the spiritual stone that the immortal mentioned is the crystal stone?" The great elder said thoughtfully.

"Great Elder, what the ancestor said is true. There are many giant pink crystal stones growing in that cave. There are so many of them that we brought them out." Without saying much, he took out the Qiankun bag and started to take them out in front of everyone.

I saw pink crystals of all sizes being poured out of the small Qiankun bag and piled up all over the ground.

"Zi Yu, Zhong Ting, and that so-and-so, hurry up, it's useless for us to keep them, give them all to the Great Elder!" After emptying the contents of his own bag, he went to grab the bags of a few of his fellow apprentice brothers.

Looking at the huge pile of crystal stones on the ground, the Great Elder, Sa Hurricane and others reluctantly believed what Helan Ruofeng said. They were also wondering whether the snake demon Zhou Ze mentioned, which he had put into his Qiankun bag, was the ancient snake demon.

This crystal is formed by the condensation of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. It possesses powerful spiritual power and energy. When used to forge spiritual weapons, it can greatly enhance the power and lethality of the spiritual weapons, enabling them to easily kill evil spirits.

Therefore, when everyone saw the crystal stone, they reluctantly believed what Helan Ruofeng said.

"If you want to verify whether what Master Helan said is true, just go to the Demon Locking Tower and release the snake demon in the Qiankun bag. Then it will be clear whether it is true or not." Lan Moqiu suddenly said.

"That's right. Let's go to the back mountain right now. As long as we release the snake demon in this bag, we can know the truth of the matter. Ze'er, you can go with us." Sa Hurricane took out the Qiankun bag from his pocket and looked at it with puzzled eyes.

So, a group of people stood up and headed towards the Demon Locking Tower on the back mountain of Yunji Villa with great momentum.

Along the way, Yu Xiaobai looked at Helan Ruofeng with worry. Although she was not smart, she could feel that these people's attitudes were somewhat unfriendly, especially after learning that the three of them had fought a fierce battle with the snake demon, this feeling became even stronger.

"Miss Zi Yan, don't worry about me. Even if they knew that I have learned magic, the most they would do is not let me join Yunji Villa. They won't make it too difficult for me." Seeing her worried look, Helan Ruofeng whispered to comfort her.

"Don't you want to enter Yunji Villa? If both of us can successfully enter, we can become senior and junior brothers and sisters. Then we can stay together every day. How wonderful!"

Yu Xiaobai spoke out her inner thoughts in a naive and childish manner, completely unaware that her words sounded like a young girl confessing her love to the boy she liked.

"Stupid dog, do you know what you are saying? You are talking like a girl who has just fallen in love and is openly confessing her love!"

When Zi Yan heard what Yu Xiaobai said, she couldn't help but jump out again to teach her a lesson.

"You're talking nonsense. I'm just making an appointment with some friends. In this villa, I only know Ruofeng and Brother Jinxuan. Do you think I should make friends with that evil woman Sa Yulong?" Yu Xiaobai rolled his eyes secretly and explained seriously to Zi Yan.

"Besides, we have lived and died together, and we have long regarded each other as close friends. How could we think of such messy things?"

After hearing her explanation, Zi Yan couldn't help but feel even angrier.