Desperate Love: Rebirth of the Demon King

There was a loud bang, the Heaven Punishment Formation was broken, and Sang Zi turned into a black mist and quickly disappeared. In the formation, Zhu Ji's body was lying there in tatters, with a resolute smile on her lips.

Outside the formation, more than fifty disciples of the Yuling Sect were wailing one after another. More than a dozen of them were lying quietly and unable to move. The situation was extremely miserable.

No one had time to react. They had calculated everything, but had underestimated Zhu Ji's strength.

Huo Ning thought that Zhu Ji was at most a bird demon with a thousand years of cultivation, and Sang Zi was even less worth mentioning. It was precisely this difference between a thousand years and ten thousand years that caused him to suffer such a great humiliation and heavy casualties.

Every body lying on the ground was a living being before, but they were gone in an instant.

The disciples of Yunji Villa were terrified, but secretly thankful that they had withdrawn from the magic circle and thus were not implicated in the bird demon's self-explosion.

Huo Ning knelt on the ground with lifeless eyes, looking at the mess on the ground and the corpses of his fellow brothers and sisters, and for a moment he was at a loss.

"Brother Huo, the bird demon has been killed and your sect has suffered heavy losses. Now that things have come to this, you should send their bodies back to the mountain first!" Zhou Ze couldn't help but sigh and stepped forward to persuade him.

"It was my miscalculation that killed them." Huo Ning murmured in self-blame.

At this moment, Zhu Ji's body began to change. The red body began to slowly dismember, turned into powder, and soon disappeared into the air.

"What's going on?" Yu Xiaobai asked puzzledly.

"The demon clan has to practice hard for a thousand years before they can condense a demon pill. If they lose the demon pill, many small demons under a thousand years old will be reduced to their original form. It will take a long time for a big demon that is ten thousand years old to condense a new demon pill. If they encounter danger and cannot escape, the demon clan will inject their demon power and soul into the demon pill to make it self-destruct. This will achieve the effect of hurting others and themselves, and destroying both themselves and others." Cong Li explained seriously.

"Then can she be reincarnated?" Yu Xiaobai couldn't help but ask.

"Of course not. If you just self-destruct the demon pill, your soul is still there and you can be reborn. But if your soul is injected into the demon pill and self-destructs together, then you won't even have the chance to be reborn." Cong Li said.

"Is that so?" Yu Xiaobai felt a chill in her heart when she heard this. She protected her neck tightly with her hands. It seemed that she really had to protect this precious bead. Self-detonation was too terrifying.

"Brother Zhou Ze, since everything is fine here, let's go back to the inn first." Helan Ruofeng said as he reached out to hold Yu Xiaobai's hand.

Zhou Ze looked at Yu Xiaobai weakly and nodded in agreement.

Seeing that Zhou Ze had no objection, Yu Xiaobai followed Helan Ruofeng and left.

Cong Li was as panicked as she was, so he also walked very fast.

"Why are you two leaving in such a hurry?" Helan Ruofeng asked, not knowing what they were thinking.

"Helan, you don't know that the people in the Yuling Sect don't know that I'm a merman. If they knew, they would definitely vent their anger on me, and I don't want to feel the power of heavenly punishment." Cong Li said seriously.

"They dare not offend you because your master is the god of the upper realm." Helan Ruofeng said with a smile. Why would Cong Li think so?

"The reason why you think so is because you are a member of the immortal sect. Moreover, you have already cultivated to the level of an immortal. You are of the same race, so they naturally dare not offend you." Cong Li said seriously.

Yu Xiaobai listened carefully to Cong Li's words and couldn't help but quicken his pace.

"Xiao Yu, why are you in such a hurry?" Helan Ruofeng quickly caught up with her, grabbed her and asked.

"Fast? Not really. It's getting dark and I want to go back and rest early." Yu Xiaobai lied.

She would never say that she was worried about being exposed and ending up like Zhu Ji.

"Xiao Yu, how do you know about the Red Snake Demon?" Helan Ruofeng suddenly asked, changing the subject.

"Ah? What do you know about the Red Snake Demon?" Yu Xiaobai pretended to be confused.

"How did you know about the appearance of the red-banded snake demon in the secret realm?" Helan Ruofeng repeated it again. He originally wanted to say it was about the crystal.

"Well... Lan Moqiu told me!" Yu Xiaobai's mind turned. Didn't Lan Moqiu also witness the disciple selection competition?

"Really?" Helan Ruofeng looked at her as if to say, "Please don't lie to me."

"Really? He also said that you guys were roasting alligator meat, right?" Seeing that he didn't believe him, Yu Xiaobai continued to make up stories. Anyway, he couldn't go to confront Lan Moqiu, Lan Moqiu was still on his side.

"When did you become the high priest's disciple?" Helan Ruofeng asked again.

"Hey! Helan Ruofeng, why do you seem to be torturing me? Tell me, what do you want to do?" Yu Xiaobai asked angrily on purpose.

"I'm just asking casually. If Xiaoyu doesn't want to say it, forget it." Helan Ruofeng immediately replied perfunctorily.

If he remembered correctly, the little fish appeared during the time he lived in the priest's house.

He stayed at the Priest's House because he went to Xinyue to find Zi Yan, and Xiaoyu also appeared in the Priest's House at that time.

Judging from Aji and Long Xiao's performance, they seemed quite surprised by Xiaoyu's appearance, as if this person had never existed before.

But Xiaoyu appeared as the apprentice of the high priest, which means that Lan Moqiu was the one who knew Xiaoyu's true origins.

Helan Ruofeng always felt that Xiaoyu now was very similar to Zi Yan before. Whether it was her temperament, her way of speaking, or her attitude towards her, they were all very similar to Zi Yan three years ago. The only difference was the face that could be distinguished at a glance.

Yu Xiaobai suddenly took Helan Ruofeng's hand and looked at him coquettishly in a cute and lovely manner.

"Ruofeng, let me ask you a question. You can accept being friends with Cong Li even though he is from the water tribe. But suppose one day, I mean suppose! I become a terrifying monster like the red snake monster, will you still be friends with me?"

After Yu Xiaobai finished speaking, he looked at the other person with a deliberate smile.

"Hmm?" Helan Ruofeng was stunned at first, and then a string in his head tightened. Could it be that the little fish in front of him... was a red snake demon?

No way? When in the secret realm, Zi Yan did suck a lot of blood from the red snake demon and swallowed its demon pill. But if Xiao Yu was transformed from the red snake demon, how did she separate from Zi Yan's soul? How did Zi Yan seem to have become a different person? What is the connection between them? Why did Zi Yan seem to have not known Xiao Yu before?

"Come on, answer me. If I were a red-bellied snake demon, would you still be friends with me?" Yu Xiaobai continued to ask.

"The red-banded snake demon is an ancient ferocious beast with a brutal and cruel temper. Xiaoyu is not a red-banded snake demon." Helan Ruofeng shook his head and quickly denied the guess in his mind.

"Are you stupid? I told you it's just a hypothesis, a hypothesis." Yu Xiaobai let go of his hand in annoyance and walked forward angrily.

"Xiao Yu?" Helan Ruofeng didn't know what he said wrong. Why was Xiao Yu angry?

"Cong Li, did I say something wrong?" Helan Ruofeng looked at Cong Li.

"Helan, I don't know either, but why did you become friends with me in the first place?" Cong Li also asked.

"Why do you ask such a question?" Helan Ruofeng was overwhelmed by these two guys and could only stand in the wind for a while.

The next morning, Tong Yi, Liu Junsheng and Shang Zhongyan were released by the Yuling Sect and stood at the door of the inn in a miserable state.

The waiter thought that the three people were beggars begging for alms. Tong Yi was so angry that he took out a gold ingot and the waiter let them in.

Aying and her brother also came to the inn early in the morning. Aying said that since they had understood everything about her uncle, they would not stay in Chancheng any longer as their parents were waiting for them to go back and reunite.

The main purpose of coming to the inn was to thank Yu Xiaobai and others for their help to them, and to say goodbye to everyone.

After saying some words of thanks, the brother and sister said goodbye and left.

Zhou Ze was a considerate senior brother. He waited until Tong Yi and the other two had cleaned up and eaten their fill before notifying everyone to continue on their journey.

Yu Xiaobai followed the group forward in boredom. The further they went, the colder the weather became. Even if it wasn't snowing, it was still a vast expanse of white, which made people feel cold just by looking at it.

Zhou Ze said that the snow in the far north never melts all year round, and Hanxing Country is a veritable kingdom of ice and snow. There are also many lush green plants in the white snow, in patches, like forest guards standing hand in hand.

Due to the cold weather, the journey became slower and slower. As the sky gradually darkened in the evening, Zhou Ze asked for everyone's opinion and decided to spend the night in a small village.

Rather than a village, it is more like a few scattered hunters.

The houses they live in are all made of tree trunks of uniform size, with mortise and tenon joints, covered with thick hay on the outside, and the walls inside the house are sealed with animal skins.

The hunters' leader, Lao Sun, received them and helped find two vacant houses for them to stay in.

Although not as spacious as an inn, the two rooms are enough to accommodate more than 20 people each.

Old Sun’s son is named Ah Zuo, a young man in his early twenties, tall, with rosy cheeks, and a simple and cute smile.

When he saw Yu Xiaobai and his group, Ah Zuo was extremely happy. He took the initiative to help them light a fire, brought them hot water, and curiously asked them where they came from and what the world outside was like.

This was also Zhou Ze’s first time here. He found everything new and interesting, so he just let his fellow junior brothers and sisters act as they pleased.

Everyone sat around the fire, talking excitedly and chatting about what they had seen and heard.

"Big Brother, when we were in Chan City and the Heavenly Punishment Formation was broken, only Zhu Ji's body was left. So where did the other demon go?" Xing Fang suddenly asked curiously.

"Big Brother, the three of us were locked up by the Yuling Sect. What did you experience outside?" Liu Junsheng immediately asked Zhou Ze when he heard Xing Fang's question.

"How dare you mention that you were locked up?" Zhou Ze wanted to laugh, but couldn't help asking.

Liu Junsheng suddenly felt ashamed and lowered his head in embarrassment.

"Xing Fang, just tell us, how did you catch the bird monster outside?" Tong Yi quickly stood up and moved to Xing Fang's side. He was definitely too embarrassed to ask Zhou Ze again.

"Well? How about you give me some money, and I'll tell you the story for free." Xing Fang immediately put forward the condition.

"Okay, as long as you say it well, I have plenty of silver." Tong Yi said as he took out two silver ingots and handed them to Xing Fang.

Xing Fang took the silver without saying a word and threw an ingot directly to Chu Huaiqin.

"Huaiqin, you speak." He ordered directly.

"Okay! Listen carefully, the three of you." Chu Huaiqin took the silver and, without even looking at the surprised looks of Tong Yi and the others, began to talk incessantly and exaggeratedly about the process of capturing the bird demon.

When it comes to exaggeration, everyone else would burst into laughter, which would make Tong Yi and the other two confused and excited, and they would say they regretted not participating.

Yu Xiaobai sat quietly and listened, and found that Chu Huaiqing's eloquence was extraordinary. He had never noticed him before. The apparently ordinary things were exaggerated with a strong legendary color after he spoke.

How wise and intelligent Zhou Ze was, how perfectly everyone cooperated, how ferocious and brutal Zhu Ji was, how powerful the Tianzhu formation was, and how tragic and spectacular the scene was.

Yu Xiaobai himself felt his blood boiling after hearing this, let alone those three guys who stayed out of the matter and relied entirely on their imagination.

Ah Zuo also sat on the side and listened attentively, as if he was listening to a fairy tale.

That night, everyone chatted until very late before going to bed. The male disciples stayed in one room and the female disciples stayed in another.

Zi Yan was very alert this time. She asked for a barrier to be set up around the house before going to bed. She always felt that there were some unknown potential dangers in the ice and snow.

But Mo Xiaotan thought she was meddling and went to sleep.

Yu Xiaobai couldn't bear it, and Zi Yan was cold and unwilling to say it a second time, so she could only look at a group of people ignoring her.

Well, Yu Xiaobai decided to help her, it's okay, and deliberately said loudly: "I heard from my senior brother that wild beasts often appear in this icy and snowy place in the middle of the night. A white bear is more than two meters tall and can eat a person in one bite. If it suddenly runs in at night... It's scary to think about it."

As she spoke, she secretly winked at Zi Yan.

Zi Yan seemed to understand her thoughts and imitated her tone and said, "Alas, it's a pity that I can't set up the barrier by myself. Even if I succeed, it will be very fragile."

"Or let's just forget it. The worst that can happen is we can just sit here all night and sleep during the day." Yu Xiaobai said loudly on purpose.

Sure enough, the timid Bai Xing and Xiao Yu both stood up and were willing to help.

Mo Xiaotan and Hong Ling didn't dare to sleep anymore, so they got up and woke up the others.

In this way, several people worked together to enclose the house in a barrier, and Zi Yan then fell asleep guarding the door with peace of mind.

Yu Xiaobai lay on the relatively soft animal skin mat and finally fell asleep with heavy eyelids, but tonight's dream did not seem so beautiful.

In her dream, she accidentally lost the beads around her neck, and all the people in Yunji Villa pointed their swords at her, shouting, "Kill her, kill her, let her turn into ashes, let her never reincarnate..."

Helan Ruofeng stood aside and watched indifferently, muttering to himself, "I trusted you so much, why did you lie to me? You turned out to be a red snake demon, why did you lie to me? You liar."

Lan Moqiu also stood aside and watched, the corners of his mouth moved slightly, as if to say: "I told you not to take off the beads no matter what, why didn't you listen to me? You brought this upon yourself."

Then, a dense rain of swords came towards her, piercing her body again and again. She was in so much pain that she couldn't scream.

"Ah... I'm not... I'm not..." Yu Xiaobai finally woke up with a loud scream.

The surroundings were surprisingly quiet. The fire in the middle of the room was still emitting flickering lights, and everyone's gentle breathing could be vaguely heard.

Yu Xiaobai couldn't fall asleep anymore. She quietly got up, lifted the heavy door curtain, and stood still at the door.

That’s right, she is Yu Xiaobai. If I remember correctly, she is almost nineteen years old this year.

Nineteen years old is the best age for a girl, but she? In this strange world, a creature with unknown parents and unknown identities, where will her future go?