An Ge was thinking about the Crown Prince's hard work recently and was about to offer some words of encouragement when she heard a "beep" sound. She immediately perked up and quickly activated her holographic ring.
"Your Highness, what happened? Is there anything I can do for you?" Lu Qingyang immediately perked up, as if he would go through fire and water for just one word from An Ge.
An Ge's smile made the Crown Prince somewhat uneasy. "It's nothing, it's just that someone you know is coming back."
The eldest prince was puzzled until he saw Lu Yan several hours later, when his doubts were finally resolved.
Lu Yan looked at the familiar face and sneered, "Long time no see, my uncle!"
"You, you are Lu Yan?" Lu Qingyang trembled when he saw Lu Yan's strength. In less than a hundred years, that kid who was just a Demon General had actually reached the Demon King realm!
Lu Yan deliberately revealed his strength, and unsurprisingly, he saw the surprise and fear in Lu Qingyang's eyes. He looked at Lu Qingyang as if he were already dead, his expression suggesting he wanted to tear Lu Qingyang to pieces.
Lu Qingyang was so frightened that she knelt down on the ground. "Your Highness, save me! He murdered my uncle!"
An Ge looked speechlessly at Lu Qingyang, who was crying with snot and tears streaming down his face. She had thought that Lu Qingyang's change in reputation was intentional, but seeing how pathetic he was, she could only sigh once again that fools are sometimes lucky.
"Okay, stop scaring him!"
"Hmph, still so stupid after all these years, a disgrace to the royal family."
Seeing this scene, even the most clueless person like Lu Qingyang would know that Lu Yan and the Holy Maiden knew each other and seemed to have a good relationship!
"You two know each other?"
Lu Yan rolled his eyes at Lu Qingyang, "Like family!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Qingyang's fearful gaze immediately turned into envy.
An Ge naturally wouldn't explain her relationship with Lu Yan to Lu Qingyang. After waving away the curious Lu Qingyang, she instantly transformed from a dignified saint into a lazy bum.
Seeing An Ge's completely unrefined appearance, Lu Yan silently breathed a sigh of relief. The shopkeeper was now completely in demon form, both in appearance and power, and he felt quite unfamiliar with her when they first met.
He had originally intended to conceal his identity, but the shopkeeper told him to appear openly, and then he met the First Prince. While the First Prince was begging for mercy, the two also communicated privately through the holographic ring, discussing how to deal with the First Prince.
"Are you really going to let him off so easily? Although he's practically one of my followers now, if he ever bullied you before, you shouldn't hold back."
Lu Yan smiled, touched. "Although he was indeed not good to me, it wouldn't be fair to say he bullied me. With his intelligence, it would be difficult for him to bully me." Indeed, although Lu Qingyang tried to bully Lu Yan, he was always outmaneuvered by Lu Yan.
"What you said makes a lot of sense!" With Lu Yan's shrewdness, even if Lu Qingyang wanted to harm someone, he would have to be smart enough to do so.
After thinking for a moment, An Ge told Lu Yan about the Demon King's attitude, "Whether you forgive him or not is up to you, but since you're about to take over the Demon King's position, it's still necessary to meet with the old Demon King."
Lu Yan was still immersed in the feeling that his grandfather actually loved him, but also hated him, and finally regretted it, when he heard An Ge mention the position of Demon King, "What, take over the position of Demon King?"
An Ge's eyes shone brightly, and she said with a smug look, "Now you are the only rightful heir to the throne among the demons, and this is all thanks to my efforts!"
During her time as a saintess, An Ge did her best to eliminate dissidents for Lu Yan. There were quite a few demons with the same status as Lu Yan; the descendants of the Great Prince alone could form a small army, so Lu Yan didn't seem to have an advantage.
With the Demon King intending to abdicate, Ange gathered the demons of the three generations of the Demon King's royal family to choose a successor on behalf of the Demon God. The result, of course, was that none of them were suitable.
The demons originally thought it would continue to the fourth generation, until the Demon King mentioned that his third son had another bloodline. He said that the selection of the fourth generation would not take place until this bloodline was blessed by the power of the Demon God.
Lu Yan's lips twitched after hearing this. "Shopkeeper, have you come here to play tricks on the demons?" He even suspected that if the shopkeeper recommended someone suitable, even if that person wasn't a royal demon, the demons wouldn't object.
An Ge was displeased. "What do you mean by pretending to be a ghost? I have science, no, I have evidence. Those royal families are indeed incompetent, their talents are too poor, and their demon bloodline is too far removed from the Primordial Demon. The most threatening prince once sided with the God of Darkness, and the demons know this, so it's impossible for him to succeed to the throne."
"I will use the power of the Demon God to enhance your bloodline. Even if you're only half-demon, or even if you only have a trace of demonic blood, I can make you a pure-blooded demon. Then, when you ascend to that position, both your bloodline and strength will be perfectly legitimate."
An Ge wasn't exaggerating. The reason the power of the Demon God had such an absolute suppressive effect on the demon race was because it could influence their bloodline. In the years since the Demon God disappeared, the bloodline of the demon royal family had drifted further and further away from the Primordial Demon, and even the current Demon King's talent could only be described as average.
"What demonic power?"
An Ge briefly recounted her experiences after arriving in the Demon Realm, which amazed Lu Yan. "I think the Demon Realm doesn't need a Demon King anymore; the shopkeeper is enough."
"Haven't you always wanted to usurp the throne?"
"I just feel that none of the Demon King and those elders vying for the throne are reliable. The demon people will definitely fall into misery under their leadership, which is why I want to take the throne. Now that I'm in charge of the demon race, I'm at ease. What does it matter whether I become the Demon King or not? Besides, I have lofty ambitions now. Old Hu has already ascended to immortality, I can't be trapped by the position of Demon King."
An Ge narrowed her eyes dangerously, her tone leaving no room for doubt, "Whether you become the Demon King or not is not up to you. If I, the Holy Maiden, say you are, then you are, and if you aren't, then you aren't!" She was joking, wasn't all her hard work for Lu Yan? She had wanted to get rid of this mess for a long time.
"Manager, this is forced sales!"
"Since you've agreed, let's find some time to test the power of the Demon God."
“I never said I agreed.”
"Okay, five days from now. We can use this time to reveal your identity to everyone."
"Manager, are you even listening to me?"
"Tell me about Hu Jiu! Is his ascension dangerous? Why didn't he come to the Demon Realm with you?"
Lu Yan... The store manager's shamelessness is outrageous. Who taught him this evil habit of forcing people to buy and sell?
Knowing that further struggle was futile, Lu Yan sighed resignedly and told An Ge about Hu Jiu, "Before I left, Old Hu was almost fully recovered, and he might already be on his way to the Demon Realm."
After hearing this, An Ge felt both happy and sad. The situation was indeed as she had thought. Hu Jiu would not stay in this plane for long after his ascension, and his choice was just as she had expected: to go to the Divine Realm first.
Lu Yan comforted him, "We'll meet again in a hundred years, so don't worry, shopkeeper."
“Yes, but… a hundred years!” An Ge murmured to herself.
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