Queen of Ten Thousand Demons Insists on Marrying Me - Chapter 29

In a dimly lit space within an underground great hall, the ground was covered with scattered rubble, and the bodies of disciples from various immortal sects lay crisscrossed.

In a deep section of the hall wall, there was a hole taller than a person, and two women were leaning against the wall inside, resting and leaning on each other.

At this moment, a young man’s figure suddenly appeared in front of the two women.

The young man had silver hair and wore a faded red wedding gown. However, his figure was somewhat illusory, not like a person of flesh and blood. Upon closer inspection, he was a wisp of a remnant soul.

The young man stared fixedly at Dantai Jing until Lu Xiaoxiao woke up, seemingly oblivious to her presence.

Lu Xiaoxiao looked at the young man, unsure of the situation. Being stared at by the person in front of her made her uneasy. She slowly patted Dantai Jing: “Wake up! Wake up! A pervert is staring at you.”

The young man, who had been watching intently, suddenly frowned and shouted fiercely when he heard Lu Xiaoxiao: “Who are you? Who are you calling a pervert?”

The young man was tall, and his fierce shout startled Lu Xiaoxiao: “It’s the middle of the night, you stand here without a sound, secretly watching my friend sleep. What would you call yourself if not a pervert? I’m telling you, my friend has a very high cultivation level!”

“And… and where did you pop out from? You scared me to death!”

Hearing her words, the young man was so angry his eyebrows almost stood up. His face alternated between blue and white, but feeling that she was Dantai Jing’s friend, he didn’t want to hurt her and suppressed his anger: “Don’t talk nonsense! I am not!”

The back-and-forth between the two had long since woken up Dantai Jing. She stood up, her face cold as she looked at the young man: “Are you Bai Wu?”

Bai Wu asked nervously: “I am… I am Bai Wu. How is Zhuyue? Are you… are you the daughter of me and Zhuyue?”

Dantai Jing’s eyes darkened: “My mother passed away long ago.”

Hearing this, Bai Wu took two steps back. His soul became paler, and he clutched his chest with disbelief: “How could that be?”

“Why not? You killed her clansmen! She was only in her early twenties at the time. She had no survival skills after leaving the Miao village. The whole world thought she was from the Miao village and understood Gu, so they all kept their distance!” Dantai Jing spoke sharply, every word stabbing into Bai Wu’s heart.

Bai Wu clutched his head, backed up, and fell to his knees, as if enduring immense pain. He murmured: “I didn’t mean to, I didn’t mean to. That wasn’t my intention. I didn’t want to kill them… Zhuyue… I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”

He seemed to be descending into madness. Dantai Jing stepped forward, shielding Lu Xiaoxiao behind her, looking at her father with a complicated expression.

“He seems to have gone mad…”

“This is just a wisp of his remnant soul. He was likely already mad when he was alive. That was just a moment of lucidity.”

Bai Wu suddenly roared, slamming his palm onto the vermillion lacquer-red coffin. The coffin lid instantly flew off, smashing against the wall nearby.

Afterward, the remaining spiritual power in his body was too weak to maintain the fragile wisp of his soul. It gradually turned into specks of light, vanishing with the wind.

Only one faint, indiscernible sentence echoed gently in the air: “Jing’er… I’m sorry…”

Dantai Jing reached out, seemingly trying to grasp the light. But the traceless light silently slipped through her fingers. She opened her mouth as if to say something, but no sound came out.

Lu Xiaoxiao suddenly felt a pang in her heart. Dantai Jing probably had never seen what Bai Wu looked like before. Today was likely the first time, and it was only a remnant soul. She must be very sad.

She wanted to say something but didn’t know how to comfort her. Feeling even worse, she slowly reached out and gently held Dantai Jing’s slightly cold hand, trying to transfer her warmth to her.

Dantai Jing didn’t speak either, she just squeezed Lu Xiaoxiao’s hand back a little tighter.

The two walked to the coffin in the center. The person lying inside was indeed the Bai Wu who had just appeared.

The man in the coffin had red lips, white teeth, and a slender figure. He didn’t look like someone who had died two hundred years ago, but more like a handsome young man taking a nap who would wake up the next moment. The moonlight-white silk robe of the person in the coffin was stained black in one area, and a wound was cut open on his abdomen. He held a crimson demon core in his hand.

Lu Xiaoxiao thought to herself: This Bai Wu couldn’t have endured the torture of the Love Gu and literally dug out his demon core to kill himself, could he? Or maybe it wasn’t the Love Gu, but the regret of killing his lover’s entire clan and being abandoned by her. Regardless of the reason, it was tragic enough.

“A thousand-year demon core…” Dantai Jing said expressionlessly, holding Bai Wu’s demon core.

Lu Xiaoxiao: “This should be left for you by your fa… by him.”

“Although I really don’t have any feelings for him, he is indeed my father. You are not wrong, why are you stammering? Now that we are trapped here, I must absorb his demon core and find a way to break through.”

As she spoke, the Bai Wu inside the vermillion coffin also began to turn into specks of light and disappear.

Dantai Jing: “Without spiritual power to sustain it, he should have long since dissipated into the world.”

Dantai Jing found a spot and sat down cross-legged, beginning to absorb the demon core left by Bai Wu. This demon core contained infinite demonic power, with a faint spiritual glow flowing over its surface, like a brilliant star.

She stared at the demon core, her heart filled with mixed emotions.

She never expected that her father, whom she had never met since birth, would connect with her in such an unbelievable way.

She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, gently held the demon core in her hands, and slowly began to guide the power within it into her body. As Bai Wu’s demon core came into contact with her body, a warm and powerful force instantly surged into all her limbs and bones.

As the power of the demon core continued to integrate, the spiritual energy in her body gradually became full and powerful, as if she had been reborn and granted a new life.

When she opened her eyes again, Lu Xiaoxiao saw a strange red light in them, so enchanting it was breathtaking. It made her feel dizzy, her mind blank. This was the first time Lu Xiaoxiao had a visceral feeling that Dantai Jing was truly a demon.

Dantai Jing didn’t expect Bai Wu to have the ability to charm. She slowly stood up and walked to Lu Xiaoxiao, kneeling on one knee in front of her. Thinking of the question she wanted to ask, a slight smile spread across her lips.

Watching Lu Xiaoxiao’s eyes become increasingly hollow, Dantai Jing asked: “What is your real name?”

Lu Xiaoxiao looked at Dantai Jing blankly and answered: “M-y, n-a-m-e, i-s, L-u, X-i-a-o-x-i-a-o.”

Like an artificial intelligence.

Could the spell be ineffective? Dantai Jing’s eyes flashed with red light. She asked again: “Why did you seize Lu Xiaoxiao’s body?”

“I did not seize Lu Xiaoxiao’s body. I am Lu Xiaoxiao.”

Dantai Jing still didn’t want to believe that Bai Wu’s spell could be flawed. But Lu Xiaoxiao’s current demeanor didn’t resemble the young sect leader of the Xuantian Sword Sect at all. Perhaps Lu Xiaoxiao really was Lu Xiaoxiao of the Xuantian Sword Sect, but her mind was damaged when she was injured in the Demon Beast Mountain Range?

She was about to retract the spell when a thought suddenly crossed her mind. She involuntarily asked: “Do you have someone you like?”

This time Lu Xiaoxiao’s reply was slower: “I’m not quite sure. Maybe I do.”

Dantai Jing pursed her lips, gazing at the person in front of her: “Who… who is it?”

Lu Xiaoxiao opened her mouth to answer: “It is…”

Clatter.

The Chaoyuan Sword, which had been leaning against the wall, suddenly fell over, hitting Lu Xiaoxiao’s finger.

“Hiss… that hurts!” Lu Xiaoxiao loosely clutched her finger, her face twisted in pain.

“Why are you suddenly so close to me? Have you finished absorbing your father’s demon core?”

Dantai Jing unnaturally looked away and stood up: “I saw you were asleep and was afraid you’d catch a cold. I was just about to wake you up when you woke up yourself.”

Lu Xiaoxiao glared fiercely at the Chaoyuan Sword. How could a divine artifact not stand steadily? It hurt her so much when it fell.

She got up and dusted off her clothes: “Then can we go out now? What is your cultivation level now?”

“Naturally, the Great Vehicle stage.”

Dantai Jing walked to the wall and struck out with a forceful palm. With a loud boom, a large hole was broken in the wall. The smoke cleared, and the moonlight shone in from outside. The two exited the cave.

Lu Xiaoxiao exclaimed: “It was that simple? It’s still night outside. I wonder how many days have passed.”

“Mm, the space inside this mountain belly was likely created by a Great Vehicle stage cultivator. Before the breakthrough, my spiritual sense couldn’t penetrate the mountain wall, and without Great Vehicle stage cultivation, I couldn’t break through the wall either.”

Afraid that someone might mistakenly enter, the two filled the hole and found the mountain path. Dantai Jing put on the Evasion Pearl, and she and Lu Xiaoxiao headed toward the mountaintop. She figured Lu Wanbai would be waiting for them at Wule Temple since she couldn’t find them, and sure enough, Lu Wanbai and the mother and daughter, Wan Xuan’er and Wan Qingyi, were there.

Everyone concernedly surrounded Lu Xiaoxiao and Dantai Jing.

Lu Wanbai asked anxiously: “Where did you two go? Did you encounter any danger? I circled the entire mountain seven or eight times but couldn’t find you. I was so worried I went back to Qingzhou City and asked Palace Mistress Wan to come help.”

The two concealed the matter of Bai Wu and recounted what happened inside the mountain belly to the group. Lu Wanbai appeared extremely shocked and worried. In this trip, not only did they fail to find Lu Mingyu, but Lu Xiaoxiao and Dantai Jing were also nearly severely injured.

Lu Xiaoxiao: “What about the Mei Ce matter? Has it been investigated?”

Before Wan Xuan’er could speak, Wan Qingyi quickly answered: “Yes, those fools from the Mei family were completely wrong. It was actually a demon who killed Mei Ce. Mother didn’t have to fight much to catch the culprit.”

Dantai Jing: “Why did that demon kill Mei Ce?”

Wan Xuan’er: “That is unknown. Perhaps afraid of being locked into the Demon Locking Tower, the demon committed suicide as soon as it was captured. Nothing was asked. However, demons usually kill without much reason. The matter is closed, and it’s good that the Mei family is no longer falsely accusing Yaoxia Palace.”

“Alright, can we go back to Yaoxia Palace now?” Lu Xiaoxiao said. She was exhausted from the past few days, with one thing happening after another.

Lu Wanbai hesitated: “I want to stay here and search for Master’s whereabouts in the nearby provinces.”

Since she was her own biological mother, Lu Xiaoxiao couldn’t just stand by. She finally agreed to stay with Lu Wanbai and continue searching the nearby cities for a month. If there was still no trace of Lu Mingyu, they would return to Yaoxia Palace.

Wan Qingyi shook Wan Xuan’er’s arm: “Mother, we finally got out of the palace. Why don’t you let me stay here and help them search for Aunt Lu?”

Wan Xuan’er firmly refused: “Absolutely not. Wanbai and Xiaoxiao have already reached the Golden Core stage. You would only be a hindrance here and would cause trouble for them. We have important duties in the palace. You and Dantai Jing must return to Yaoxia Palace with me.”

“Palace Mistress! I also want to stay and do my part. Qingzhou City is not too big and not too small. It will be difficult for Xiaoxiao and the others to investigate the whole area in one month.”

“Very well. You have just entered the Golden Core stage, so you do need more outdoor experience.”

“Mother…”

In the end, Wan Qingyi was taken away by Wan Xuan’er. The remaining three returned to the inn.

In Dantai Jing’s room at the inn.

“Lu Xiaoxiao, I want to return to Gouwu Mountain for a trip, would you be willing to come with me?”