Desperate Love: Rebirth of the Demon King

"It's okay, my dear disciple. I will find an inn by myself, you go and have fun! Immortal Lord Xiaobai, Congli, let's go!" Taibu Star Lord had a sly smile on his face and dragged Bai Qiyang and his disciple away.

"In that case, we won't wait for you." Zi Yan looked at the two of them meaningfully, then left with A Ying and A Quan.

Zhou Ze saw this scene from afar and couldn't help but follow Taibu Xingjun and others out of curiosity.

Taibu Xingjun took Bai Qiyang and Congli to an inn called Kelaiju, asked for two upper rooms and some food before going upstairs.

"Young man, you have been with us all the way. Would you like to come in and sit for a while?" Taibu Xingjun turned around and looked at Zhou Ze kindly.

"Old Master, I'm sorry for the offense." Zhou Ze clasped his fists and bowed, then followed the three people into the room.

"Why are you following us?" Taibu Xingjun asked with a puzzled look.

"I am Zhou Ze from Yunji Villa. May I ask if the old Taoist priest is the Lingque Elder of the Yuling Sect?" Zhou Ze asked.

He just boldly guessed that the person in front of him might be Elder Lingque of the Yuling Sect. He had white hair and a youthful face, and a gentle and simple attitude. Otherwise, how could he have taught such an outstanding disciple like Helan Ruofeng?

"Yuling Sect? Elder Lingque?" Taibu Xingjun looked confused by Zhou Ze's question.

"He is not the Elder Lingque you mentioned. His real identity is Taibu God, who is in charge of divination in the three realms of the upper realm and can predict the past and the future." Bai Qiyang introduced Taibu God as if he were a god descending to the earth.

"Upper realm? Taibu Star Lord?" Zhou Ze seemed to not believe what he heard. Taibu Star Lord had always lived only in legends, but today he actually saw the real person.

"That's right, why don't you ask who I am?" Bai Qiyang asked unwillingly when he saw Zhou Ze's expression.

"Since you call yourself this Lord, are you also a true god from the upper realm?" Zhou Ze asked doubtfully.

"You guessed right. I am the younger brother of the famous guardian general of heaven... the god of war Bai Ji." After Bai Qiyang introduced himself proudly, he saw Cong Li was holding back his laughter.

“Don’t look down on me. Although I’m not as powerful as your brother, I’m still a well-known figure in the God Realm.” Bai Qiyang felt a little embarrassed and quickly tried to make amends for himself.

"Disciple pays homage to the two gods." Zhou Ze had no time to laugh at anyone, but instead bowed respectfully to the two of them.

"I think you have great talent. Are you willing to be defeated by me?" Bai Qiyang didn't care about that. Seeing that Zhou Ze had good aptitude, he immediately said that he would accept him as his disciple.

"Your Majesty, your love is wrong. Please forgive me for not being able to accept it. I have already become a disciple of Yunji Villa, and I will never switch to anyone else. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me." Zhou Ze said this with righteous words and loud voice.

"He not only has good talent, but also good character. Immortal Lord Xiaobai, please don't make things difficult for him." Taibu Xingjun advised from the side.

"This one?" Zhou Ze took a look at Cong Li. This person was obviously a demon, but there was no demonic aura on his body, and his body was full of spiritual energy.

"This is my good disciple Cong Li, and his name is Quan Xian." Bai Qiyang spoke openly about Cong Li's identity as a mermaid.

"Is he a demon?" Zhou Ze asked doubtfully.

"He is a mermaid, a water tribe that survived from ancient times. They are good at weaving, never get involved in the human world, and have pure and kind personalities. How could they be confused with the cunning demon tribe?" Bai Qiyang hurriedly defended his apprentice.

Cong Li looked at Bai Qiyang with gratitude. For the first time, he felt how good it was to have such a master. A warm feeling surged in his heart.

"..." Zhou Ze didn't quite understand what Bai Qiyang said. His mission was to exorcise demons. If the mermaids were not demons, could he just ignore them?

"Little Zhouze, why did you come here?" Taibu Xingjun asked again.

"Your Majesty, Master is afraid that my junior brothers and sisters will get into trouble when they go out for training, so he sent me to supervise them. We live in the Immortal Guest House not far ahead." Zhou Ze said respectfully.

"Oh, no wonder I met Xiaoyu here." Taibu Xingjun said deliberately as if it was a coincidence.

"My Lords, if there is nothing else, I will take my leave," Zhou Ze said respectfully.

"Go, go and have fun!" Taibu Xingjun waved at him.

Zhou Ze still felt a little unbelievable when he came out. The legendary Taibu Xingjun, the brother of the God of War Bai Ji? This God of War also has a brother? This brother also accepted a merman as his apprentice? There really are all kinds of weird things.

At the night market, Yu Xiaobai looked around but didn't look at Helan Ruofeng.

"Are the candied haws sweet?" Helan Ruofeng asked, looking at the candied haws in his hand.

"You'll know if you take a bite." Yu Xiaobai handed the candied haws in his hand to his mouth.

Helan Ruofeng was slightly stunned and lowered his head to take a bite.

"If you want to eat, just go buy it yourself. It's not like you have no money." Yu Xiaobai suddenly moved away again.

"Heh..." Helan Ruofeng was at a loss as to what to do after her action.

"Why are you here again?" Yu Xiaobai just remembered to ask him now.

"Like you, my master also accompanies me in training!" Helan Ruofeng lied. He didn't know why he followed. Maybe it was to respect his master's wishes, or maybe it was to break his own heart.

"Where are you planning to go next?" Yu Xiaobai asked again.

"Master said to go to the Far North." Helan Ruofeng thought, this should be true, right? If everyone has the same goal, they can go together.

"What a coincidence! We are also going to the Far North, but we have to stay here for a few days to take care of some things." Yu Xiaobai said.

"Last time I said that I would, uh... be responsible for you, and I was serious about that." Helan Ruofeng suddenly said with a stutter, his face turning red in an instant.

"How are you going to take responsibility?" Yu Xiaobai was amused by him and couldn't help but want to tease him.

"I, I..." Helan Ruofeng was speechless for a moment.

"Helan Ruofeng, you keep saying that you will be responsible for me, but when I ask you how you will be responsible, you won't tell me." Yu Xiaobai looked at him helplessly. This guy is such a silly kid.

"That day, you and I were honest with each other, and I must be responsible for you." Helan Ruofeng finally bravely expressed his thoughts.

"What?" All the people who were swaying around stopped and watched because of his words. Everyone stared at the two of them as if through a magnifying glass, wanting to stare a hole in them.

"What did you say?" Yu Xiaobai roared angrily.

"He said that you two treated each other with sincerity." The crowd immediately stepped forward to answer for Helan Ruofeng.

"What does it have to do with you?" Yu Xiaobai yelled in annoyance.

"He said he would definitely take responsibility for you." the crowd said again.

"Go away. What does this have to do with you? And you are so outspoken." Yu Xiaobai didn't like being watched by so many people. He angrily hit Helan Ruofeng and turned away.

"Xiao Yu, wait for me, Xiao Yu..." Helan Ruofeng hurried to catch up.

At this moment, a figure suddenly appeared and stared coldly at the two people who were leaving.

This man had a vicious look in his eyes. Even in the hot Zen City, he was still wrapped tightly in a black cloak. His entire face was covered by the wide cloak, and his original appearance could not be seen.

"Is this Brother Lan's new disciple? Why is he with Helan Ruofeng? No matter who you are, if you dare to snatch Brother Lan from me, you will have no good life."

Listen to what Feng Pi said, who else could it be but Sa Yulong? Ever since she was accidentally injured by Yu Xiaobai in Fanli Mountain last time, she hated Yu Xiaobai. She followed him all the way here, and if her injury had not healed in Biluo Village, she would have attacked Yu Xiaobai.

"Yulong?" Zhou Ze recognized Sa Yulong in the crowd at a glance.

When Sa Yulong heard Zhou Ze calling her, she was stunned for a moment and immediately hid in the crowd. She didn't want Zhou Ze to find out that she was following the disciple who was training all the way.

"Yulong? Is that you?" Zhou Ze confirmed that it was Sa Yulong and hurriedly followed.

The night market was crowded and Sa Yulong quickly left Zhou Ze behind.

Zhou Ze couldn't figure out why Sa Yulong came here, but there were only two reasons. One, she held a grudge and wanted to take the opportunity to find trouble with Zi Yan. The other was that she had nothing to do and was traveling around, so maybe she just happened to come here.

He originally wanted to return to the inn along the same route, but he heard Tong Yi's cry for help from afar, so he had to immediately follow the sound.

At the same time, Helan Ruofeng and Yu Xiaobai also heard Tong Yi's cry for help.

When they arrived one after another, they saw that Tong Yi's three troublemakers, Liu Junsheng and Shang Zhongyan were all tied up.

The crowd was yelling and clamoring to kill the three of them, but it was the disciples of the Yuling Sect who caught them.

There were broken things on the side and a dried corpse lying on the ground.

"Excuse me, what happened here?" Zhou Ze stepped forward and stopped a disciple of the Yuling Sect and asked.

"I'm Huo Ning from the Yuling Sect. My fellow apprentices and I have been tracking a bird demon for several days. As soon as we got here, these three people insisted on causing trouble for us. As a result, the evil creature killed another life here and escaped without a trace." Huo Ning, the leader, loudly explained the reason for arresting people.

"Go catch the monster if it runs away, why are you capturing three of us?" Liu Junsheng tried to resist, but was held down by the disciples of the Yuling Sect and could not move. He could only shout loudly.

"That's right, what does the monster killing people have to do with me?" Shang Zhongyan said viciously.

"Shut up, both of you. Don't you think you've caused enough trouble?" Zhou Ze yelled at the two of them.

"Excuse me...who are you?" Huo Ning looked at Zhou Ze suspiciously and asked.

"Zhou Ze from Yunji Villa, these three are my junior brothers, Brother Huo, could you please tell me what happened?" Since his own people were causing trouble, Zhou Ze could only ask in a nice tone.

"In the past six months, a monster that specializes in sucking human essence has appeared in Chan City. Those who escaped said it was a bird monster. My junior brother and I have been waiting for more than half a year, and only discovered the monster in recent days. It took us several days to chase it here." Huo Ning said angrily, staring at Tong Yi and the other two viciously.

"Hmph, just because Junior Brother Yunzhi ran into him during the chase, the other two of them came up and harassed us and wouldn't let us leave. In order to demonstrate to us, that monster brutally killed a person in the street." After saying this, Huo Ning pointed at Tong Yi, wishing he could kill him immediately to vent his anger.

"I didn't know they were chasing monsters." Tong Yi hadn't realized his mistake yet and argued arrogantly.

"Pa..." He was slapped hard by Zhou Ze.

"Big Brother?" Yu Xiaobai and Helan Ruofeng had just caught up and saw this scene.

"Normally you bully the weak, so I just say something and don't punish you. But now you have killed a life, and you still don't repent?" Zhou Ze was so angry that his face turned black.

"Brother, I really didn't know the monsters were going to kill people. If I had known, I would never have stopped them. Brother, please forgive me this time and save me. Don't let them take me away, okay? Brother."

Tong Yi was stunned. It was also the first time for him to see a monster killing someone, and he didn't know what the consequences would be if he was captured by the Yuling Sect.

Zhou Ze let out a heavy breath, feeling extremely depressed. How did someone like Tong Yi get recruited into Yunji Villa in the first place? No matter how confused he was, he had to clean up this mess for them.

"Brother Huo, how about this? I am willing to work with you to capture the monster. As for my fellow apprentices, can you let them go first?" Zhou Ze asked with a frown.

"This?" Huo Ning was a little hesitant. After all, if he caught the person, he didn't know what to do with him.

"Senior Brother Huo, we can't agree to them. Before we catch the bird demon, these people must be guarded by the Yuling Sect." A charming voice came, refuting Zhou Ze's proposal.

Everyone turned around to look at the voice and found it was an old acquaintance they hadn't seen for a long time - Ling Yuwei.

"Why are you here?" Yu Xiaobai and Helan Ruofeng asked at the same time.

"You know her too?" Helan Ruofeng looked at Yu Xiaobai in surprise.

Yu Xiaobai didn’t know how to answer for a moment and could only nod. After all, she had only seen him twice in Yunji Villa.

"Miss Ling? Why are you here? And..." When Zhou Ze noticed that Ling Yuwei was wearing the clothes of the Yuling Sect, he stopped asking.

"Junior Sister Ling? Why are you here?" Huo Ning asked.

"I heard that Senior Brother Huo was catching a bird demon, so I thought of coming over to take a look. Senior Brother Huo, these three people must not be let go. In my opinion, we should lock them up first, and it won't be too late for the elders to judge them after we catch the bird demon." Ling Yuwei didn't even look at Zhou Ze the whole time, but just kept instigating Huo Ning to arrest Tong Yi and the other two.

"This woman is so bad. I heard that it was Senior Brother Zhou Ze who saved her during the selection for Yunji Villa. Now she is so arrogant. I really want to go up and dig out her eyes." Yu Xiaobai gently pulled Helan Ruofeng's hand and said in a low voice.

"She is indeed unlikable, but this is all we can do now." Helan Ruofeng replied in a low voice.

"Brother Huo, my fellow apprentices can be temporarily kept in the custody of your sect, but you have to guarantee me their safety. Your sect is not allowed to torture or abuse them privately." Zhou Ze looked at Tong Yi and the other two with disappointment and pleaded with Huo Ning.

"Of course. I, Huo Ning, guarantee on the reputation of the Yuling Sect that no one in the Yuling Sect will make things difficult for these three people before the bird demon is caught." Huo Ning promised solemnly.

"Big Brother, don't do this!"

"Big Brother, save us."

"Big Brother, this Ling Yuwei will definitely take revenge on us."

Tong Yi and the other two began to beg Zhou Ze, and Liu Junsheng even dragged Ling Yuwei into it.

Ling Yuwei didn't care about that and took the three people away with a few male disciples.

Thinking back, she could have gone to Yunji Mountain Villa to practice. But because of that vicious woman Sa Yulong, she almost died in the secret realm of Danxia Peak. In the end, she was eliminated and had to travel thousands of miles to come to the hot Yuling Sect to become a disciple.

"Ling Yuwei? Do I have a grudge against you? It wasn't me who stopped you from joining us, so why did you want to harm us?" Tong Yi asked angrily as he walked.

"I have no grudge against you. You just made a mistake. I just made a suggestion. I didn't harm you." Ling Yuwei said with a righteous look on her face.

She has learned her lesson now, she can't trust anyone and can't reveal her true thoughts. These were all taught to her by the hypocritical Sa Yulong, and it was fortunate that the vicious woman deceived her at that time.