After His Demise, the Demon Lord's Doted Canary Finally Sees the Light - Chapter 87

The human trafficker was caught. It was the Skeleton.

In the lush bamboo forest, the Skeleton recounted a story similar to the innkeeper’s, but with a completely different truth.

The red-robed woman, named Cui’er, was over a hundred years old. She was the unfortunate woman from the innkeeper’s story who had been taken by the bully.

Her child had indeed gone missing, but it wasn’t taken by a so-called “heavenly being.” It was stolen by a human trafficker.

After her child disappeared, Cui’er searched everywhere in the chaos after the earthquake. She finally found the trafficker who had stolen her child in the town’s graveyard.

The trafficker had intended to take advantage of the chaos to steal and sell the child. It was never a divine offering.

During the struggle for the child, Cui’er accidentally dropped the infant on a hard tombstone. The baby, barely a month old, died instantly from blood loss.

Seeing the child’s mangled and bloody body, the trafficker fled, afraid of legal trouble. Only Cui’er remained, kneeling and crying hysterically in front of an unknown grave.

This scene was witnessed by the Skeleton, who had come to feed on the blood and flesh of the dead.

Cui’er was the first human woman the Skeleton had ever seen, and with just one glance, his heart was moved.

Love at first sight happened to the notorious Nine Fiends.

Unfortunately, Cui’er had already gone mad from the death of her child. The Skeleton helped her bury the baby and noticed that she didn’t show any fear when she saw him, a monstrous fiend. Her expression was unusually calm.

Mortal life is limited. The Skeleton came up with a plan. He scattered a lot of gold dust in the gold-panning river he had brought to lure greedy adventurers to drown in the mud. After these people were buried, he could feed on more of their flesh and blood, which he would then convert into power to extend Cui’er’s lifespan.

Midway through the story, Jiufang Cangze looked at the Skeleton with a hint of pity. This guy was so easy to deceive and had a simple heart, but he never expected to be ruined by a lunatic.

“So what happened to the other children?”

The Skeleton hugged his bald head, shrinking into a ball. He looked very troubled. “Cui’er seems normal on most days, but every time it’s the anniversary of her child’s death, her madness returns. She searches everywhere for a child. I had no choice but to steal other people’s children for her.”

Jiufang Cangze had a bad feeling. “One stolen a year?”

The Skeleton nodded. “I would steal one for her during the day, and she would drop and kill it at night. But after the children died, she would return to normal.”

He spoke of cruel facts in a calm tone. The last shred of pity that had sparked in Qiu Fuxue’s heart vanished without a trace.

Fiends were fiends. They treated life as if it were a toy.

Jiufang Cangze sensed the cold killing intent and hesitantly stood in front of Qiu Fuxue. “A-Xue, he has his reasons…”

“Fiends have no humanity.” The other man looked into his eyes. His own disheveled reflection was mirrored in those light crimson pupils.

Qiu Fuxue clenched his fists, constantly telling himself to remain calm. Jiufang Cangze was also a fiend.

But he had paid with a life to get this relationship. He really didn’t want to give it up.

The Skeleton vaguely sensed the tension between them and didn’t want to make things difficult for Jiufang Cangze. “Sect Leader Qiu, my spiritual body is still in the Moon Shadow Wall. You can kill me, but… can you spare Cui’er?”

Cui’er was completely oblivious to the conversation. She held the stolen baby and laughed and hummed to it. No one would have thought that such a seemingly loving mother would drop innocent young lives on graves every night.

The Skeleton was not human and naturally couldn’t feel the absurdity of this behavior. All he wanted was to constantly satisfy Cui’er.

After a long hesitation, Qiu Fuxue’s sword, Zhengxin, did not appear in his hand. “Her lifespan should have ended. It was your interference that kept her alive until now. Even with her spiritual body maintaining her, she will age quickly.”

The two of them, one human and one fiend, carried countless lives on their backs.

With a silent sigh, Qiu Fuxue was deciding their fate, but it was as if he was also passing judgment on himself.

If the Nine Fiends were not exterminated, the world would never be at peace.

Since the moment he decided to accept Jiufang Cangze, he had been avoiding this problem, immersing himself in their short but beautiful relationship.

But one day, this beauty would be shattered.

Jiufang Cangze had also clearly realized this.

He walked over and gently pried open the other man’s clenched fists. “A-Xue, it’s been so long. We’ve already learned to face things calmly.”

What should be cherished is the present.

Tears welled up in his usually cold eyes. Qiu Fuxue turned his back to calm himself down for a moment, then swung his sword, cutting off one of the Skeleton’s finger bones.

“I will seal all of your power here and take you back to the Qianshan Sect at a later date.”

Even though he knew this was wrong, he had sacrificed so much for the world. It was okay to be selfish just this once.

The Skeleton scrambled up from the ground, excitedly stammering, “Then, then Cui’er…!”

Qiu Fuxue looked at him with cold eyes. “The two of you will be together. You’ll spend the rest of your days in the prison of the Qianshan Sect.”

For the Skeleton, this was already the best possible outcome. He cheered happily. Who knows what he was thinking in his skull, but he gave Jiufang Cangze a big hug.

Jiufang Cangze stiffly looked at Qiu Fuxue and saw that the other man’s face was darker than the bottom of a pot. He silently made a note of this.

There were plenty of cells in the Qianshan Sect. It was normal to lock them up separately.

After knocking out Cui’er, Qiu Fuxue took advantage of the night to place the innocent baby at the door of the government office. He then sent a message to Li Yun, asking him to bring people over.

Li Yun acted quickly after receiving the message, bringing his disciples to the town in half a day.

In the room, Qiu Fuxue and Li Yun sat across from each other.

“Senior Brother, with Ye Chu secretly plotting, the road to Morning Twilight City will only be more dangerous.”

“We can’t always run from what we have to face.” Qiu Fuxue peeled a piece of warmed bamboo rice and handed it to him. “I must find the Primordial God’s statue and release him. The immortal realm is a temporary illusion. If something happens to the God one day…”

He didn’t dare to continue. If the immortal realm was ever destroyed, the Primordial God’s last wisp of soul would also disappear.

“I know all this, but I’m still worried about you, Senior Brother.” The sweet glutinous rice tasted like sawdust, especially when he saw that in a room with two beds, only one of them had been slept in.

And it had two blankets.

There were four of them in total. The truth of who was sleeping with his Senior Brother was right in front of him.

“A-Yun?” Seeing that his face wasn’t looking too good, Qiu Fuxue waved his hand in front of him, a little worried.

Li Yun snapped out of it. He glanced at the hairpin on the other man’s head and forced a smile. “It’s nothing. I was just thinking about what kind of formations to use to imprison the fiends.”

Qiu Fuxue believed him. “I’ve reinforced the formations in the Qianshan Sect. Imprisoning fiends shouldn’t be a problem. But with all these things happening, you’ll have to work hard again, A-Yun.”

“This was my choice to begin with.”

After a few more distracted words with his Senior Brother, Lan Shiyi suddenly appeared and called Qiu Fuxue away to discuss their travel plans.

The door creaked open, and Jiufang Cangze walked in.

Having a rare opportunity to be alone, Li Yun grabbed his collar without a word, pushed him to the ground, and angrily raised his fist.

“Jiufang Cangze! What exactly are you?!”