Chapter 348 - A Soldiers Joy (1/2)

Invincible Heavenly Palace, in the back palace.

A certain Demon King was kneeling on the ground, tears streaming down his cheeks and howling for his life.

“Exalted… Exalted Goddess, I really like Little Hong. I beg you not to tear us apart.”

“Exalted… Exalted Goddess, I’m the one who seduced Little Hong. She’s not to be blamed for any of this. If you must, punish me!”

“Exalted… Exalted Goddess, even if you beat me to death, I will insist on being together with Little Hong.”

“Exalted… Exalted Goddess, if I stop being a demon, would you let me join Invincible Sect?”

“Exalted… Exalted Goddess, please let me marry into your sect?”

“Exalted-”

“Enough, enough, enough! Quit howling!” Lonemoon could not listen to him any longer. The Demon King’s face was covered in mucus and tears. Had he forgotten that he was the supposed king of one entire realm? “Since when did we say we would not allow the both of you to be together?”

“Eh?” Little Black paused and raised his head. “You’re… agreeing?” He glanced at Shen Ying, who was already eating and ignoring him altogether. Then, he faced Yu Hong, who was by then so embarrassed that she was acting like she did not even know him. As if finally understanding something, his face brightened up with a silly grin.

“Heh, heh heh, heh heh heh… I knew that Exalted Goddess is a very reasonable person. I knew you would let us be together.” Little Black was overcome with emotion. He started to reach out to Yu Hong with both of his arms. “Little Hong, we can finally be together.”

“Get lost!” Yu Hong kicked him away with one foot. She began to suspect if she had been blind to fall for him.

“Alright, talk. How did your cultivation get sealed? And why were you hiding in your own treasury?” Lonemoon interrogated him.

“I don’t know who it was either,” the Demon King began to explain. “A few months ago, I was planning to present some dowry to Little Hong. Just as I was exiting the demon realm, that man charged at me out of nowhere. He insisted that I stole something of his. We began to fight. I was not losing out to him initially, but he began to employ some strange technique that I did not even recognise. My demonic Qi became frozen. I escaped to my treasury to hide. Later on… I found out that the entrance to my treasury’s mystic realm could no longer be opened. Then, you appeared.”

“Was it the new Demon King that you met?”

“What new Demon King?” Little Black stared blankly back at them, as if he had no idea that he had been replaced by a new king.

Lonemoon pondered for a moment. He raised his hand and conjured an image of the man who was sitting in the jail cell. “Was it this person?”

“It was him!” Little Black jumped to his feet and pointed to the image. “he was the one who attacked me.”

“He’s the current Demon King of the demonic realm,” Lonemoon explained.

“What!” Little Black started. It was clear from his expression that he could not wait to beat that man up. Awhile later, he thought of something and suppressed his anger, saying, “Forget it. In any case, I have no intention of being the Demon King any longer. I don’t mind whoever takes my place.” Afterall, he had Little Hong now. Heh heh heh, he glanced at Little Hong and blushed. The silly grin re-appeared on his face.

The group: “…” *F*cking retard! *

“Wait! That’s not right!” Little Black exclaimed, just when everybody thought he had become retarded. “He’s not a demon. How can he be the new Demon King?”

“Indeed, he isn’t a demon,” Lonemoon answered, looking at Little Black who had regained his sanity. “Think carefully – when he attacked you, did he say anything? Did he say what his motive was?”

Little Black thought hard, then shook his head. “No, he only said he wanted me to return something to him. I… I don’t even know who he is. How would I know what he was looking for?”

“What kind of dowry did you prepare?” Shen Ying suddenly asked.

Little Black paused, subconsciously placing his hand on the storage back hanging by his side. “Exalted… Exalted Goddess, I intended to give this to Little Hong.” He meekly leaned against Yu Hong.

Yu Hong pursed her lips and looked at him with contempt. Kicking him, she said, “Take it out!”

“Alright!” Little Black pitifully opened his storage bag, taking the dowry out piece by piece. There were many valuable items like pills, talismans, arrays and weapons. There were also less important items like tables, chairs, stools and pots. Little Black retrieved all types of items from his little storage book. Soon, the entire room was filled with items.

Everyone: “…”

This freaking man had emptied the entire Demon Palace, hadn’t he? Did he even consider how the next Demon King would feel?

“Alright, alright!” Lonemoon frowned. He quickly stopped the Demon King from taking more items out of his storage bag. “What we meant was, were there any special weapons – specifically, jewellery – that you intended to give to Yu Hong as the dowry? An example would be the hairpin that you gave to Yu Hong earlier.”

Little Black stared blankly back at him. As if recalling something, his eyes brightened, and he nodded profusely. “Yes, yes, yes!” Once he finished speaking, he retrieved an antique-looking box from his storage back. It looked like a box from ages ago. On top of it were written words in a language that none of them understood. Little Black opened the box, presenting to them different types of hair accessories for ladies. Inside, there were also different earrings, necklaces, rings and the like. There were more than ten different accessories in the box.

“This is one set. I was planning to give this box to Little Hong after we got married. In the future, we would then be able to pass them down to our children,” Little Black said proudly. Pointing to each accessory in turn, he said, “This one can be for our eldest daughter. This, our second. This, our third-”

“Shut up!” Lonemoon was in no mood to listen to a silly and lovesick Blackie. He turned to address Shen Ying. “Is it these?”

Shen Ying walked over and glanced at the accessories in the box. With a flick of her wrist, she retrieved the purple gas that they had found in Yu Hong’s body.

With the appearance of the purple gaseous mass, something seemed to be activated. There was a bright purple glow. What initially looked like ordinary gas began to stir. The items in Little Black’s box shone with a similar glow as well. Then, they emitted purple smoke that mixed with the gaseous mass in Shen Ying’s hand.. The gaseous mass got thicker and richer. A few seconds later, it grew to become as big as a basketball.

All around, they felt the immortal Qi expand. It became even richer than God Power, threatening to take their breaths away. Shen Ying, Yi Qing and Lonemoon were fine, but Yu Hong and Little Black were having difficulty withstanding the burst of immortal Qi. Immediately, they fell to their knees.

Shen Ying retrieved a transparent box and slapped the ball with it. The rich purple gaseous mass flew inside the box, taking the immortal pressure from the room with it.

“What… just happened?” Lonemoon looked around, confused. If not for the assistant seal which broke their connection with this realm, he and Chef would likely have not been able to withstand the immortal pressure as well. “That immortal power… How come it felt even stronger than God Power?” It was clearly just immortal Qi.

Shen Ying frowned. This was the first time she was seeing such a rich body of gas as well.

“Master, it seems like this was what that man was after.” Yi Qing looked at the jewellery, which seemed much less colorful now without the purple gas. The person who caught Little Black and tried to catch Yu Hong multiple times must have been after these.

“Little Black, where did you get these accessories?” Lonemoon asked.

Little Black paused. He was just regaining his composure after being overwhelmed by the immortal pressure. Matter-of-factly, he answered, “I stole them from the previous Demon King!”

“You mean the previous Demon King, Zhan Ting?” The one enslaved his wife, Cuihua, with whom he eloped?