“Now that things have come to this, this old one still has one more matter to tell Your Majesty.”
“What is it?”
“Your Majesty must be wary of Li Jiuyue of the human race. Do not be deceived by his current low cultivation. His present level does not reflect his true strength. Before he used his divine ability to reincarnate, he made many preparations in advance. Moreover, he carries an Imperial Artifact. I hope Your Majesty will be extremely cautious.”
Granny Gui spoke earnestly. Imperial Artifacts were weapons personally refined by a Great Emperor using their own essence blood. Very few existed in the world, and each one was comparable to a ninth-rank cultivator.
Su Tiantian chatted with Granny Gui for a while longer before ending the conversation.
She sent demons to escort Granny Gui back, then looked at the rabbit-eared girl beside her and said, “The human faction that came today…it was the Heaven Devouring Sect, correct?”
The Heaven Devouring Sect, the legacy left behind by the Heaven-Devouring Great Emperor. Although its foundation could not compare to ancient superpowers like Yaochi Holy Land or Heaven’s Pinnacle Sect, because it had produced a Great Emperor, its strength surpassed first-rate forces and ranked just below the superpowers.
Even a Great Emperor could not erase the gap between such sects and true superpowers. In front of them, the Heaven Devouring Sect was like a nouveau riche.
“Yes, Your Majesty. Should we prepare to wage war against them?” the rabbit-eared girl asked. Although they could not wipe out the Heaven Devouring Sect in one blow, they could still severely damage its vitality.
“No rush. First, inform the Heaven Devouring Sect: within seven days, hand over Li Jiuyue. Otherwise, this Empress would not mind erasing a force from the cultivation world.”
Recklessly going to war against a human faction would inevitably invite retaliation from the human side. Taking advantage of these seven days, Su Tiantian mobilized the demon tribes, making thorough preparations.
Daring to strike against the demon race within the Demon Capital was a blatant slap in the face of the Demon Empress. This insult could not be swallowed. Otherwise, her prestige among the demon race would be greatly diminished.
***
At night, somewhere on the outskirts of the Demon Capital, a bonfire blazed. A large pot hung over it, bubbling vigorously.
“Haha, it’s done, it’s done! Hey, Old Niu, stop eating your grass and come try this!”
Protector Hu shouted loudly, picking up a piece of meat and tossing it into his mouth, revealing a look of enjoyment.
“You should eat it yourself, Protector Hu. This old Bull is fine with just grass.”
The horned Bull Demon King chewed on grass as he spoke. Beside him sat—
That’s right, the pot was filled with beef.
After Protector Hu turned into a streak of light and flew off, he crashed to the ground. And what a coincidence….it just so happened that he ran into a white cow and a black bull mating in the wild, shouting that they would stay together until death.
On the way back to the Demon Capital, after meeting the Bull Demon King, Protector Hu told him about it.
Who would have thought that upon hearing this, the Bull Demon King flew into a rage. This pure-love Bull swore to kill all adulterous cattle!
Thus, under Protector Hu’s lead, the Bull Demon King slaughtered the two.
Adhering to the principle of not wasting anything, Protector Hu set up a large pot on the spot and stewed both bull and cow together.
In the end, they died… and ended up in the same pot.
Watching Protector Hu devour meat in big mouthfuls, the Bull Demon King asked, “Protector Hu, who inflicted the injuries on you?”
You had to know that for someone to beat Protector Hu into this state within the Demon Capital, the disturbance would have been enough to alarm the Empress. Could it be related to that streak of black light?
“Don’t even mention it.” Protector Hu sighed and recounted what had happened in the council hall.
“Hmph! The human race is full of schemes. When they fight us demons, they always gang up on the few with the many.” The Bull Demon King angrily took a big bite of grass, then said, “You’re saying the Empress beat you? Why would the Empress do that?”
Normally, when the Empress punished demons, there was always a reason.
Protector Hu spat out the bone in his mouth, looking utterly puzzled. “I don’t know either. That rabbit said the Empress fainted from excessive exhaustion, but a thousand years ago during that rebellion, the Empress killed three Eight Rank demons in one go and fought a Ninth Rank Great Demon King for three days and three nights before finally slaying him. Even then, the Emperor didn’t faint from exhaustion. So how could he possibly collapse from something like this?”
Protector Hu simply couldn’t figure it out. What exactly had he done wrong? He had been utterly loyal to the Empress, not daring to tell even the slightest lie; every word he spoke came from the bottom of his heart.
The Bull Demon King pondered for a long time, even stopping his chewing, before finally saying, “This old bull can’t make sense of it either.”
***
Not long after Su Tiantian had just left, with a creak, the door was pushed open and a green-haired woman walked in.
Seeing a member of the opposite sex inside the Empress’s bedchamber, Xiao Qing’s eyes widened in shock. When she recognized Chu Feng, she hadn’t expected that this human would be so favored by the Empress.
“Human, where is the Empress?”
Chu Feng looked at the green-haired woman before him. Her ears were pointed like an elf from an anime, yet her pupils were vertical slits like a snake’s.
“As for the Empress, she said just now that she had something to attend to and went out.”
“Is that so…” Xiao Qing glanced at Chu Feng. “Human, since you’re here, that makes things easier. Starting tomorrow, you’ll train with me.”
For some reason, the Empress had asked her to pass on the endurance of the snake clan to this human.
The endurance of the snake clan ranked among the very best within the demon race.
“Miss, I haven’t fully learned body refinement from Protector Hu yet.”
Chu Feng said reluctantly. Protector Hu’s body refinement had deeply intrigued him; he wished he could master it as soon as possible.
But now, before he had even finished learning that skill, he was already being made to learn a new one from another demon.
“I know. That’s why you’ll train with me in the morning, and in the afternoon, you’ll go to Protector Hu.”
Xiao Qing looked at Chu Feng’s frail body and felt that this human really did need to train with that tiger. With such a weak physique, she could crush him into dust with a single finger.
After giving her instructions, Xiao Qing left the bedchamber.
With nothing to do, Chu Feng wandered around the chamber and sighed. It was truly enormous.
The room was large, and the bed was just as large, now covered in spotless white without a single blemish.
The spacious room had everything one could need: a dressing table, a couch, a tea table, a screen…
And there was also a large wardrobe.
Curious, Chu Feng walked up to the wardrobe and gently opened it.
In that instant, he was stunned by the dazzling array of colorful clothes before him!
Chu Feng didn’t know what any of these garments were called, but there were an astonishing number of them.
At that moment, he noticed that beneath the clothes, some items were covered with a white cloth. After hesitating for a moment, curiosity got the better of him and he lifted the cloth.
Underneath were all kinds of multicolored fabrics. Some were plain, while others were embroidered with patterns such as lotus flowers, peonies, chrysanthemums, and more.
If he remembered correctly, his master’s pattern was a sword pattern, and Sister Wan’er, being the younger sister of the Empress, had a golden dragon embroidered on hers. However, because of Sister Wan’er’s ample chest, the golden dragon had been stretched into a chubby-headed dragon.
Chu Feng picked up a piece. It was as thin as a cicada’s wing. From the feel of it, the material was of the finest quality. Perhaps it was just his imagination, but it seemed to carry a faint fragrance.
For some reason, a strange impulse arose in him to confirm it.
As if possessed, he picked up the light fabric…nothing.
He put it back and picked up another…still nothing.
The third one….there it was!
At that very moment—
Creak—
The door was slowly being pushed open.
Chu Feng: “!!!”
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