Chapter 1: A Kingdom Where Humans and Gods Coexist

“Bang!”

A board fell.

Chi Changyuan walked slowly towards him, like a poisonous snake hiding in the darkness. His emerald green eyes showed a hint of disgust as he looked at the blood-stained man tied to the torture bench.

The devil, who had always been so powerful and arrogant, actually bowed to him for his daughter and gave him a beautiful and moving gift...

Chi Changyuan looked down at the man on the torture bench. He was wearing washed-out clothes, with silver hair hanging down to his bloody buttocks, and he looked very thin.

The falling board created blood foam. The person who was as exquisite as a work of art a day ago now looked like a lifeless rag doll, and the silence was a bit desolate.

"Your Highness, I've already dealt you a hundred blows. If you continue... I'm afraid I'll have trouble explaining myself."

Jiang Mo didn't want to mention this matter. Who is his own prince?

A thousand years ago, the God of Thunder and the God of Fire provoked a war among the seven nations, causing great suffering to the people of this continent. As the winners, the five gods of water, wood, ice, metal, and earth defined them as demons. Chi Changyuan, the only son of the God of Water and the prince of Hanxu Kingdom, hated the former God of Fire and now the Demon God.

After much difficulty, the Demon God's daughter, the beloved eldest princess of Jin Kingdom, fell into the trap and came to Hanxu Kingdom. Before Chi Changyuan could do anything, the Demon God sent another "hostage", saying that it was just an insignificant slave who could be dealt with at will. He hoped that if the eldest princess did anything wrong, His Highness would forgive her.

"A slave in exchange for the eldest princess? Someone who doesn't know would think that's his son?" Jiang Mo felt that the demon god had a problem with his brain. No normal person would think that this was an equivalent relationship.

Oh, He is not a man, He is God.

But Chi Changyuan accepted it. After sending the unreasonable princess away, he directly ordered the man to be beaten with a hundred sticks, under the pretext of washing away his bad luck.

The reason why Jiang Mo stopped him was not out of sympathy, but because the supreme god of Taiqing Palace, the true monarch of Hanxu Kingdom, the Water God, suddenly sent an oracle, demanding that this slave not die.

Otherwise, he would have believed, as Chi Changyuan did, that the Demon God was deeply sinful, and that this little devil from the Jin Kingdom thrown over by the Demon God would naturally not be a good thing either.

Moreover, although he was called a slave, he was in his opinion an assassin sent to kill His Highness, but for some reason he could not detect his magical powers no matter what.

In this case, either the magic power is too high or there is no magic power at all.

Jiang Mo didn't think it would be the second one.

"He is not a mortal."

Chi Changyuan, dressed in a moon-white robe, lazily raised his hand to signal someone to stop. Although the gods directly commanded mortals, and even the Taiqing Palace had mortals serving in positions, judging by this man's appearance...

He lifted the other person's chin, the silver hair fell into his palm, and slowly opened a pair of scarlet eyes.

"He's really a little beast."

Chi Changyuan's eyes were filled with disgust. He raised his hand and slapped the man on the cheek. Han Zhi was almost unconscious from the beating, and Chi Changyuan's sudden slap made him completely defenseless.

He rolled off the torture bench, struggled to stand up, and subconsciously knelt down.

"I know I was wrong."

His lips were pale and weak, and he could only utter the words of apology by instinct.

"wrong?"

Chi Changyuan sneered. The scarlet eyes in his eyes were so dirty that he wanted to dig them out immediately. He raised his leg and kicked Han Zhi in the heart, saying: "Tell me, what did you do wrong?"

Han Zhi pursed his lips.

wrong

He had only been here for one day and he was already being beaten up. How could he know what mistake he had made?

But such questions and answers were too common, so Han Zhi said without hesitation: "As a slave, if I cannot please my master, it is my fault."

He straightened up, took two steps on his knees to get in front of Chi Changyuan, and bent his waist so that his hips could be lifted.

"If you are unhappy, please punish the slave yourself."

Chi Changyuan sneered: "You look like you're worthy of being punished by me personally?" The bloody mess was disgusting to look at.

He lifted Han Zhi's chin with the tip of his shoe and asked, "What's your name?"

Han Zhi lowered his eyes: "Han Zhi."

Chi Changyuan said with a smile: "Do you think I'm easy to fool? Do you really think I don't know where you come from? What's your last name? Your beastly mother doesn't care about you, and where's your...father?"

Han Zhi had no expression on his face. He lowered his eyes and said calmly, "I don't have a surname."

snort.

It’s not like he doesn’t know about it.

Chi Changyuan gradually lost his patience. Who was he pretending to be so servile for? This man was so arrogant when he went to Jin Country a hundred years ago.

Now he feels that he doesn't recognize him?

"It seems like you won't learn your lesson unless you're beaten. Even after so many punishments, you still won't learn to be obedient."

When he went to the Kingdom of Jin, wasn't he very capable?

The memory flashes back to a hundred years ago, when the birthday banquet of the eldest princess of Jin Kingdom was held in a grand manner. The demon god intended to repair the relationship with the gods and sent out invitations widely.

He didn't want to go at first. He was not born when the Demon God launched the war, but he knew how many people of Hanxu Kingdom he had slaughtered. How could he easily forget such a deep blood feud?

But the Water God obviously didn't think so. Although the Five Gods won the war, they also suffered heavy losses. Moreover, there is no two suns in the sky. His intention to become the master of the universe meant that he wanted to make peace with the Demon God.

The temple of the Jin Kingdom is a hundred times more luxurious than the Taiqing Palace, and the towering tower building is as dazzling as colored glass.

The closer he got to the center of the banquet, the deeper the rage in Chi Changyuan's heart grew.

How can a sinner live in such extravagance?

The eldest princess was dressed in luxurious clothes, with crow feathers adorning her skirt. Her face was as beautiful as a lotus, and her long black hair looked very much like the demon god sitting beside her. The two of them standing together were a perfect picture of a loving father and a filial daughter.

Chi Changyuan briefly chatted with the other gods and then found a place to sit down. For him, staying in this place for even one more second would be torture.

When the sun set, he went out under the pretext of being drunk, and happened to see the Ice God's eldest son being pushed by Han Zhi, and could faintly hear Han Zhi's suppressed scolding.

"Are you done yet?" Han Zhi's arm was grabbed, his face looked extremely ugly, and he was hesitating whether to slap him.

The person who caught him refused to give in. His blue eyes were as pure as glass, which made people feel soft-hearted.

Water and ice are of the same origin, and Chi Changyuan subconsciously rushed over to save the beauty and slapped Han Zhi.

Perhaps he was not expecting a sudden sneak attack, and Han Zhi was caught off guard. He took a palm strike and took two steps back.

"Who are you?"

After being hit by a palm unexpectedly, Han Zhi's face turned unfriendly and he said coldly: "I don't remember offending you?"

"What do you care who I am?" Chi Changyuan adhered to his principle of never using his status to bully others. With the blue spiritual energy still flowing through his fingertips, he pointed and cursed: "You are indeed a demon, and you have not changed your bad habits."