For some reason, Lu Meir always felt that Sha Yanyan was somewhat familiar to herself. Although she said she was "disgraceful" when observing his behavior, she would occasionally feel a faint yearning for him in her heart... It was as if the image of Sha Yanyan overlapped with the self she had always longed for in her heart...
If it weren't for the fact that Chu Tianxiao was her Achilles' heel and she would never allow anyone to take him away, she would have already become familiar with Sha Yanyan and made friends with him.
Especially after the "Black Tide" incident just now, in view of "Sha Yanyan's excellent performance", Lu Meir had already begun to prepare to "show her princess's generosity" and accept Sha Yanyan into the "two-person team"...
As a result, Sha Yanyan said that she was actually Her Highness Wen from the demon clan
Humans and demons are incompatible.
Not to mention becoming friends and confidants, even if the human and the demon sat down face to face and drank a pot of wine together, it was something Lu Meir couldn't imagine.
And her most pleasing friend, the one she had been through life and death with, was actually a demon...
Is he her worst enemy
How could she accept this!
How could she be so calm and collected
"Fake! All fake!—"
At that moment, Lu Meir couldn't help shedding tears. She wiped her tears while biting her lower lip and said fiercely, "珟... Really? You are amazing. I actually, hehe... didn't notice it at all!"
“I…” Upon hearing that, Sha Yanyan’s eyes dimmed to the extreme. He stretched out his right hand slightly, but in the end he did not stretch it out. He just let it hang down weakly, speechless.
She wanted to explain, but... She suddenly felt that if she put herself in their shoes, she wouldn't even believe those explanations...
It will only be seen as a deeper conspiracy...
Too.
I... am a demon.
They... are people.
The devil finally...
"I say, that's enough. Stop playing Lily's heartbreak and let's get this straight. We have business to do."
Just as one of the two women was feeling sad and the other was crying bitterly, Chu Tianxiao spoke with a hint of helplessness.
He pressed his forehead and said speechlessly, "Really? I accidentally made you two turn the tables... I say, isn't it just the difference between humans and demons? Is this important? Will you be struck by lightning if a human and a demon make friends? Will your character be ruined? Will you get sores? None of that! So why think so much? Just make friends, all kinds of friends, don't be a coward!"
After hearing such simple and rude words, the two girls were stunned. Chu Tianxiao himself was also stunned for a moment, and slapped his forehead: "Ahem... Why do you make it seem like you are persuading two beautiful girls to have a lesbian relationship... What a sin."
After muttering to himself, Chu Tianxiao coughed twice and said seriously, "In short, Yanyan is our companion on this trip to the Liu clan's imperial palace. She was, is, and will be."
"This has nothing to do with whether she is a demon or not, or whether she is a demon or not."
After these words fell, Lu Meir stopped crying, and Sha Yanyan looked at Chu Tianxiao with shining eyes...
The only person who could make the relationship between humans and demons full of hatred so humorous... was Chu Baijia, who didn't even take 'treason' seriously...
How could other people have such an idea...
"But... But Brother Tianxiao, there is a lot of blood debt between the demons and our human race... How can we..."
After a moment of stagnation, Lu Meir's low voice finally rang out...
Chu Tianxiao's words were totally contrary to her understanding.
"You've got Mei'er wrong." Chu Tianxiao shook his head slowly, "Not all demons are hostile to humans..."
"What, what?" Lu Meir was stunned when she heard the voice.
Chu Tianxiao took a step forward, stared at Sha Yanyan and said, "If I'm not mistaken... Your Highness, should be the leader of the 'conservatives' in the demon clan? The Qin Jiaojiao I met that night in the Forbidden City... no, Jiang Xianer, should be of the same mind as you?"
"... Xian'er was blinded by hatred at first, and had been working for Chan until she woke up and came to my side..." Upon hearing this, Sha Yanyan's eyes suddenly showed a trace of nostalgia. After a moment's silence, he nodded, and said with a hint of regret, "I should have stopped Xian'er that night in the Forbidden City... But I never thought that Brother Xiao... actually remembered it until now..."
In response, Chu Tianxiao smiled faintly and said, "I am not a pedantic person who would break a promise, but since I have promised, it must have weight."
After hearing this, Lu Meir was confused and asked quickly. Chu Tianxiao then told Lu Meir the whole story of how he had broken the Black Sky Blood Altar that night and forced the cicada to descend in the worst state.
After hearing this, Lu Meir couldn't help but exclaimed: "Brother Tianxiao... Are you saying that you made a deal with the Demon Lord's daughter?"
"Yes, I found that the daughter of the Demon Lord seemed to be fundamentally different from those vicious demons, so I promised her that I would contact the conservative members of the demon tribe in the future to see if what they pursued was really possible... Originally, I was going to do this after I ascended to the level of a great cultivator, but now that I am face to face with Her Highness, there is no need to be so troublesome..."
At this point, Chu Tianxiao paused, looked at Sha Yanyan, his face slightly solemn, and said solemnly: "Now we are in the same boat... Please, Your Highness, help me solve my doubts."
Seeing Chu Tianxiao's trusting eyes, Sha Yanyan felt warm in his heart. After taking a long breath to calm down, he finally told the whole story...
…
…
In the distant past, there was a prophecy of catastrophe in the demon world, which caused a shock among the top leaders.
At that time, the first generation Demon King was defeated by the Demon Lord, so he led his subordinates to the human world to find the "key" to "resolving the catastrophe" as predicted.
But, for some unknown reason, he failed.
After a long time, the demons under his command finally forgot their original intention of coming to the human world and split into two factions, one conservative and the other radical.
The radicals are ambitious and want to annex the entire Chinese land, while the conservatives just want to maintain the status quo, live in peace, and seek ways to return to the demon world.
This also led to the fact that the radical demons fought countless battles with the human race, resulting in heavy casualties; while the conservatives did not use force and their fighting power was not obvious...
In this way, there is just a balance.
This balance was maintained for many years, and the conservative demons were scolded as "cowards" for many years because they never sent out a single soldier. However, few demons saw that if they had not engaged in farming, labor, and learned human culture to earn the necessities of life, the demons in the entire Tianhuang Continent might have destroyed themselves long ago.
An unknown amount of time passed like this... Suddenly one day, the prophecy came true, and a large-scale "disaster" occurred in the demon world. In order to save the situation, the demon world's top leaders tried every possible way, but in the end, they only agreed on two feasible plans.
First, complete what the first generation of Demon King failed to accomplish, thus resolving the "disaster".
Secondly, break the seal between the human and demon worlds, invade the human world, conquer it, and seize its "unique resources" to avoid or even survive the "disaster."
Finally, the top leaders of the demon world decided to take a two-pronged approach and have the 'Heavenly Demon Palace' train two of the most gifted demon geniuses - the reason why they didn't send veteran demons was because the seal had been solid by then, and that was the best they could do - this is the origin of "His Highness Chan" and "His Highness Wen".
The cicada is responsible for the first path, while the scorpion is responsible for the second.
The teacher who guides them is Mr. Ku, the wisest demon in the demon clan.
Compared with the two, Chan's talent seemed to be stronger. At a young age, he had encountered many adventures before he set foot on Tianhuang Continent, and he actually broke through to a level comparable to the peak powerhouses of the human race! Therefore, the mainstream trend of the demon world at that time was the second path he was responsible for. Therefore, '珟' entered the world much later than 'Chan', but she was weaker in cultivation, so it was easier for her to teleport. She set foot on Tianhuang Continent early and had more time to plan.
That's fair, actually.
At that time, Tianhuang Continent welcomed this generation of Demon Lord—he was different from all previous Demon Lords. First, he was very strong, so strong that some demons compared him to the first generation of Demon Lord, which was enough to shock all the human strongmen in the vast land of Shenzhou; secondly... he came from a small tribe and had lived with the captured human slaves in the past, so he had a clearer understanding of the human race... Therefore, he advocated peace between humans and demons and was a thorough conservative.
With his help, '珟', who had just arrived and whose cultivation was not enough to intimidate the demons, quickly gained a foothold and led this generation of conservative demons.
At that time, the relationship between humans and demons was most likely to be eased, and even "humans and demons coexisted". But the good times did not last long. Just as Wen was slowly making plans, the Demon King believed the lies of the current leader of the Hidden Sect about "negotiating peace between humans and demons" and stepped into the Hidden Sect alone...
Once you leave, you will never come back.
I don’t even know whether I’m alive or dead.
It’s not that Wen didn’t try to dissuade him from doing this, but the Demon Lord was very confident in his own strength, and the “sincerity” shown by the Hidden Sect was quite sufficient. If they hadn’t known about it beforehand, I’m afraid no one would have thought it was a “trap”…
What’s more crucial is that Lian Wen couldn’t think of how the Hidden Sect managed to keep the Demon Lord here - you know, based on the strength of the contemporary Demon Lord, it’s strange that he was defeated, not to mention that his life or death is unknown
But this kind of fantasy... just happened.
That's why Wen felt despair about the "real strength" of the Hidden Sect... The only thing that puzzled her was why the Hidden Sect didn't publicize it and enhance its prestige
However, this doubt could not change anything - the Demon Lord had disappeared, the conservative situation was deteriorating, and the demons of the entire Tianhuang Continent were facing the danger of genocide. This was an ironclad fact.
For this reason, Ku, who had been lurking in the Tianhuang Continent using "certain means" for a long time and occasionally taking action, had to step in person, take over the situation in an all-round way, and stabilize the situation with his wisdom.
After this, Wen was almost ordered to stop the operation.
Cicadas and the "radical" demons began to raise their heads.
This is the situation in the Forbidden City.
If it wasn’t for the fact that at the critical moment, after exploring clues and reading a large amount of literature, he finally miraculously deduced the key to resolving the catastrophe, which was the "human race", and obtained Ku's recognition in exchange for his support... thus being able to enter the Purple Forbidden City, and the Demon Lord's daughter Jiang Xian'er also returned to the camp of Wen... then I'm afraid that now the conservative demons have either been annexed or thrown out as abandoned pawns.
Of course, things aren’t much better now.
After the Battle of the Forbidden City, the "catastrophe" in the demon world seemed to be getting worse, and Jing was slow to come up with a definite and feasible plan. Although Jing had proposed a draft that could get the human race to cooperate and help, it had to be based on the easing of the "human-demon" relationship, and achieving that step was too difficult.
The clues she found were of no practical use. At least, the high-ranking demons "could not see" the "results" that would satisfy them.
Of course, there were demons who saw the profound meaning behind Wen's actions, but... they didn't have time.
Whether in terms of clarity or feasibility... the demon leaders are more optimistic about Chan's plan - to weaken the human race as much as possible, and preferably destroy it, and wait for an opportunity to break the seal between the human and demon worlds, allowing the elite demon army to pour out of the demon world and subdue the human world!
What's worse, Wen's strong supporter, her teacher, Mr. Ku, seems to have changed his mind because of the increasingly dangerous situation in the demon world...
This is how the current situation came about.
This situation started several months ago.
"... I don't know everything the teacher did... But what is certain is that he successfully planted a hidden chess piece in the human race, and used the 'Power of the Nine Abysses' to provide him with countless 'Memories of the Future', nine of which were true and one was false... He lured him to lead the human race's strong men into the outer perimeter of the Liu Clan Imperial Palace, and then... destroyed them all."
After these words fell, Chu Tianxiao, who had roughly guessed the whole picture of the trip to the Imperial Palace of the Liu Clan, was fine, but Lu Meir was suddenly shocked, with surprise in her eyes: "Wait! Are you saying... those memories are simply... lies, right? Could it be..."
She was halfway through her words when she suddenly looked at Chu Tianxiao with questioning eyes.
Seeing this, Chu Tianxiao nodded slowly.
"I guess you've guessed before, kid, that Zhou Lin was reborn, right?"
Lu Meir nodded. As the true love who took away Zhou Lin’s memory, she naturally had some perception and had suspected it long ago.
What's more, she had seen similar scenes in biographical novels.
But now it seems...
"We all guessed wrong."
Chu Tianxiao stared into Lu Meir's eyes, and his voice was calm, but it seemed to carry some unknown and ethereal meaning...
“It’s just a scam.”
"Not at all..."
"There is no such thing as rebirth."
…
In fact, Chu Tianxiao had already anticipated that Zhou Lin was not truly "reborn".
Chu Tianxiao felt something was amiss since the Big Prodigal System had been slow to assign him the "torture his true destiny" mission. Now that he thought about it, it was probably because his foundation was "incomplete" that caused the delay... and the subsequent "Tian Wei" attribute prompts and the "True Destiny Girl Plan" allowed Chu Tianxiao to verify his guess step by step.
Of course, at the beginning, Chu Tianxiao did not involve Ku. He just guessed that there was a powerful person who deduced the future and added memories to Zhou Lin, making him look like "reborn". However, as more clues appeared, and Sha Yanyan pointed it out...
Chu Tianxiao can roughly deduce the whole picture of the "rebirth incident"...
(PS: Strictly speaking, the blood debt cannot be completely attributed to the human and demon races... It involves subsequent foreshadowing, so I won’t spoil it for now.)
(ps: Two-in-one, finished today.)