Chapter 53 (Part 3)

The Demon Lord lay on the roof of the main hall, watching them like that.

It seemed he had never seen Mother laugh so openly before. Even when she smiled occasionally, it had only been a faint smile.

Leaving this boy behind had been the right choice. He could make Mother happy.

If not for the little selfish motive in his heart, the Demon Lord could absolutely have sent people to escort Yu Yu back to the Taizhen Immortal Sect. Even if someone intercepted them along the way, it would not be a major problem.

Once they left the Demon Realm and arrived at the next immortal cultivation city, they could spend a few more spirit stones to use a teleportation array and teleport directly to an immortal cultivation city near the Taizhen Immortal Sect, then send a message for the people of the Taizhen Immortal Sect to come receive him.

It was only his selfishness that made the Demon Lord refrain from doing so, instead leaving Yu Yu here.

The Demon Mother knew this as well. As for whether that little brat, whose mind had more holes than a sieve, knew it too, the Demon Lord was not sure.

But the Demon Lord guessed that Yu Yu should know clearly in his heart. So why had he not made a fuss?

The Demon Mother was asking Yu Yu this question too. She was indeed very happy to have Yu Yu’s company, but she did not want him and her adopted son to fall out.

“Because this is not Senior Demon Lord’s or Senior Demon Mother’s responsibility! I am very grateful that you two saved this junior, but that is not a reason for this junior to rely on my identity and demand that you send me back to the Taizhen Immortal Sect. If I really did that, wouldn’t this junior become an ungrateful little wolf with white eyes?”

Yu Yu explained after hearing her.

To be honest, once he gave this explanation, not only was the Demon Mother deeply shaken, even the Demon Lord felt very ashamed. He was the grand king of the Demon Realm, yet he could not see things as clearly as a child.

Now the Demon Lord suspected that even if he had not played any tricks and had clearly told Yu Yu he wanted him to stay and keep the Demon Mother company, Yu Yu would still have stayed.

“Senior Demon Mother, this junior truly is very grateful that you and Senior Demon Lord saved me. So Senior does not need to feel guilty. This junior’s injuries require a year to heal anyway. During this year, I will have to trouble Senior to take care of this junior.”

Once his injuries healed a year later, even if the Demon Lord said more, he would not stay, because his master and the others were still waiting for him to return.

“Little Lingyu, you’re so good.”

The Demon Mother hugged Yu Yu. At this moment, she truly wished this child were hers.

But the Demon Mother was also very clear in her heart that just his age and spiritual roots alone did not match, let alone the fact that an entire world stood between them. Although Yu Yu was not her child, the Demon Mother still liked him.

Back then, because of hatred, because she wanted to take revenge as soon as possible, and because her physical body had been destroyed, she had been forced to switch to demonic cultivation. But she was still that kind human woman. She would not become unrecognizable because of hatred, nor would she implicate innocent people.

All these years, the only people she had targeted were that scumbag and his so-called fiancée. They were the true culprits who had caused her to lose her child.

As for that scumbag’s explanation, she did not want to hear it, nor was there any need to hear it. With her child gone, half of her heart had emptied too.

Even if he was a man she had once loved, the Demon Mother would not be soft-hearted. She only hated that the other party’s power was too great. Every time, she would cause trouble and then run. Otherwise, if she were caught, she would bring trouble to her adopted son.

She knew that every time she escaped smoothly, it was all because her adopted son was helping from behind. Otherwise, she would have been captured by that scumbag and his fiancée long ago.

“Senior, in this world, three-legged toads are hard to find, but men with two legs are everywhere. There’s no need for you to hang yourself on a single tree.”

Yu Yu felt that he should tell the Demon Mother what it meant to say goodbye and move on to the next, better-behaved one.

Wouldn’t it be nice to raise a little wolfdog? If she pointed east, he would not dare go west. Let the scumbag blow away with the wind. After she found her child, living well together with that child would be far better than keeping that scumbag in her thoughts!

“Pfft. You’re so young. How do you know so much?”

The Demon Mother did not get angry because of Yu Yu’s persuasion. Instead, she found the way he earnestly advised her to raise a younger man very amusing.

“Senior, I’m not young.”

Yu Yu’s tone was full of resentment. It was only because he had eaten the vermilion fruit that he could not grow up.

“Ahem. Sorry, I forgot.”

The Demon Mother turned her head and laughed secretly. She definitely had not meant to laugh out loud on purpose. It was simply too funny.

Hahaha.

On the roof, the Demon Lord was also lying there, his shoulders shaking. Clearly, he was laughing too.

“…”

Yu Yu pulled a long face. So when exactly would he be able to advance to Nascent Soul?

He had advanced to Golden Core a few years ago, and it had even been a rare supreme-grade Golden Core. Many people in the sect had exclaimed that he was an unmatched genius, advancing to Golden Core after cultivating for less than forty years. Many people at his age had not even reached Foundation Establishment yet.

He had spent over thirty years achieving Golden Core, and his Golden Core tribulation had been grand and imposing. It was said that even people outside the sect had seen the tribulation lightning.

Only the people on Holy Sun Peak knew that although the tribulation lightning had looked great, only a little bit of it had actually descended. Each time, the force had been exactly right. First, it refined Yu Yu’s body, then it refined his bonded spiritual weapon a little.

At the end, it had even sent down a large amount of spirit rain. After Yu Yu absorbed it all, he had directly broken through the early Golden Core stage and reached mid-Golden Core.

Everyone had originally thought that because Yu Yu’s talent was so good, his tribulation lightning would be fiercer too. Who knew this was a classic case of thunder loud, raindrops small?

Every bolt of tribulation lightning descended with force that was exactly right, making everyone suspect that Yu Yu might be the illegitimate son of the Heavenly Dao. Otherwise, why would the Heavenly Dao be so biased toward him?

Thinking about Lingji, back then, even his cave residence had been split apart. As for Yu Yu, at most, some of the flowers and grasses around him had been struck dead.

Lingji had been injured by the lightning back then, while Yu Yu had not even broken the skin.

When the two were compared, the difference became obvious.

Even with how biased Qingyang was, he could not bring himself to say that his little disciple had worked hard during his tribulation.

This time, not only Lingbao and Qingsheng, who had long since noticed something was off, but even Qingyang and Lingji reacted.

Fortunately, Yu Yu had undergone tribulation on Holy Sun Peak at the time, with the mountain-protection array blocking things, so everyone had not clearly seen the exact situation when Yu Yu underwent tribulation.

But from then on, two more people started worrying over Yu Yu.

With such special favor from the heavens, could the little disciple, the little junior brother, truly bear it?

Yu Yu was not very clear about his master’s and senior brothers’ worries. He had never seen a Golden Core tribulation before and had thought the tribulation lightning he underwent was normal.

As for why Lingji’s tribulation lightning had been so fierce, that was because he had been undergoing the tribulation to advance to a Tribulation stage Daoist Lord! It was several major levels higher than Yu Yu’s, so it was normal for it to be fiercer, right?

Because of this oversight, Yu Yu ignored certain truths.

The current him was still in the Demon Realm. Every day, after finishing absorbing spirit stones, he went to play with the Demon Mother.

After giving her flowers last time, he also made cake and some small desserts.

Girls liked sweets. This was something he had heard his teammates say, because one teammate’s girlfriend especially loved sweet things.

Every time that teammate went home on leave to see his girlfriend, he would buy a pile of sweets. If he did not have enough money, he would even borrow some from them. Of course, he repaid it very quickly.

So the reason Yu Yu, a person who had never even been in love, knew these things was entirely thanks to his teammates’ contributions.

As a ten-thousand-year bachelor, he had been forced to hear all sorts of secrets about how to get along with a girlfriend.

I already said I was a single dog, so why did I have to listen to them discuss these secrets? Where exactly did things go wrong?

Fortunately, these secrets were indeed somewhat useful. Using them to cheer up the Demon Mother now was quite nice. Of course, Yu Yu paid attention to propriety. On top of that, with his current figure, no one would suspect he had any improper thoughts.

The prerequisite for having improper thoughts was first having the conditions for it, and Yu Yu clearly did not meet the requirements.

The Demon Mother herself did not think too much about it, and the attendants around them were the same. Everyone only saw an obedient and adorable child doing everything he could to make their Demon Mother happy.

“Senior, where are we going now?”

Today, Yu Yu had come to play with the Demon Mother, only for her to bring him out of the Demon Palace.

“You’ve been in the Demon Realm for almost a month, but you still haven’t properly admired the scenery here, have you?”

The Demon Mother felt that it was not good to keep a child shut inside the Demon Palace all the time. She had to let him go outside and move around more.

“Thank you, Senior. Then this junior will take advantage of Senior’s blessing and properly admire the scenery of the Demon Realm!”

Yu Yu knew that in the Immortal Realm, there was an even larger Demon Realm. Immortals generally called that place the Demon Realm.

Although Yu Yu had not opened his heavenly eye, he still knew that the energy of the Demon Realm was different from that of the immortal cultivation world. The energy here was demonic qi. If Yu Yu had not already had no spiritual energy left in his body when he was teleported over, he would have caused the demonic qi and spiritual energy to clash upon suddenly entering the Demon Realm, then suffered a backlash.

When the Demon Mother treated him, she had also drawn out the demonic qi that had invaded his body. Otherwise, Yu Yu might have had to switch to demonic cultivation. This was something the Demon Lord had told him after he woke.

Spiritual energy and demonic qi did not mix. Yu Yu wore a piece of Demon-Concealing Jade provided by the Demon Mother, which allowed him to avoid being invaded by demonic qi. That was also why he could move freely in the Demon Realm.

Before the demonic qi could even come near him, it was blocked by the barrier formed by the Demon-Concealing Jade.

In truth, a small amount of demonic qi would not cause much harm to Yu Yu. Unfortunately, this was the Demon Realm, where the demonic qi was far too pure, so Yu Yu had to wear the Demon-Concealing Jade to stop demonic qi from entering his body.

The same was true if demon cultivators went to the immortal cultivation world. They could wander around ordinary places as they pleased. But in major sects and secret realms, where the spiritual energy was highly pure, demon cultivators would also be invaded by spiritual energy if they did not wear Spirit-Extinguishing Jade.

As long as he was not invaded by demonic qi, the Demon Realm was still quite fun.

The creatures of the Demon Realm were completely different from those of the immortal cultivation world. How should he put it? Not only were they large, they also looked very casual.

For example, a crooked-neck tree was considered a relatively normal-looking tree in the Demon Realm. There were always some strangely shaped trees whose appearances Yu Yu could not even describe.

Even snakes were not as twisted as them when they crawled.

“The roots are on top, and the crown is below?”

Yu Yu saw a devil plant with an extremely unusual appearance. Unlike other trees, its roots were exposed outside, while its branches and leaves were buried in the soil instead.

“Ahem. This is a Ghost Demon Tree. It’s different from other trees. Its roots are very fond of the outside world.”

Forget Yu Yu thinking this tree looked strange. In more than a thousand years, even the Demon Mother had never thought it was normal.

“Ghost Demon Tree? This name is strange too. Wait, its leaves are full of human souls?”

Yu Yu noticed something wrong. Why were there souls inside the leaves? Did this kind of devil plant eat souls?

“Little Lingyu, you…”

The Demon Mother suddenly looked at him.

“What is it, Senior?”

Yu Yu blinked, as if the person who had let something slip just now was not him.

“No, it’s nothing. Next time, don’t let it slip. The Ghost Demon Tree does not eat souls. On the contrary, it is a very kind devil plant.”

She would simply pretend she had not heard what he had said just now.

The Demon Mother’s reaction confirmed that Yu Yu had not misjudged her. This Demon Mother had a higher moral bottom line than most immortal cultivators.

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