The various sects led their forces to attack the Demon Realm for the same reason as the internal strife within the Demon Realm: they sent their junior disciples into the Desolate Swamp Secret Realm, waiting to fight the Demon Realm to the death. Even if they could not win, they wanted to severely damage the Demon Realm so that it would not attack their disciples for a short period of time.
They gathered all their strength, but the Demon Realm remained completely silent. Upon investigation, they discovered that the Demon Lord was not in the Demon Palace at all!
They knew more about the Demon Realm than even the Demon Lord himself. When they learned that the Demon Lord had taken two protectors into the Desolate Swamp Secret Realm, they felt as if they had seen new hope in a desperate situation. Although they did not know why the Demon Lord had entered the secret realm, they were certain that he had suppressed his cultivation since he had gone there.
There, even dragons have to coil up, and tigers have to lie down!
He has only a 50% chance of making it out, maybe more, but the remaining smaller chance is enough to justify their actions!
So they reached the gates of hell.
Because of the sudden arrival of "guests," the patriarchs of various demon races who wanted to "usurp power" were temporarily spared from disaster.
Inside the Demon Palace, Geng Qi sat on the main seat of the Ziming Hall. As usual, the maids of the Demon Palace placed a plate of melon seeds and several plates of snacks on the small table of ghost immortal stone beside him. He was not very sleepy, but his long-standing habit still made him reach out his sinful hand to the food.
He cracked sunflower seeds with one hand and rested the other on the armrest.
There were only five people in the hall; the enormous Demon Palace, after a hundred years, finally began to resemble a place for deliberation.
Nobody knows what they were discussing.
Because the only sound in the entire hall was someone cracking sunflower seeds.
Qinghan sat on the right, separated from Scorpion by a small table. There was something strange between them. They had been through life and death together in the secret realm, and he couldn't bear to part with this person. But back in the Demon Realm, he had an urge to escape from this person's side all the time.
He hadn't forgotten the emotional fluctuations on Scorpion's face when he heard the truth about the massacre of the Zhan Prince's mansion; in the end, he didn't care about himself.
Feeling a little lonely, I couldn't help but start to dream about something.
If only what that deputy commander of the royal golden-armored guards said was true, if only he really was Prince Zhan.
Lost in thought, I lost track of what I said to them.
The two on the right were out of sorts. Mu Shan was as dull as ever, and the only one Geng Qi could talk to was Leng Ning Shuang, whom even he found intimidating.
"How was the Demon Palace destroyed a hundred years ago?" After a long silence, he finally spoke.
His departure from the Demon Palace was always very secretive. Apart from the few maids and four guardians who regularly served in the Demon Palace, it was impossible for anyone to know that he had left the Demon Realm. Now that the news has been leaked, it can only be the work of someone inside the Demon Palace.
When he realized there was a traitor among his own men, he couldn't help but think of what happened a hundred years ago.
The barrier outside the Demon Palace was left behind by the Demon Lord before his ascension. Even he dared not boast that he could break it with brute force. No matter how powerful the righteous sects are, how could they so easily break through the Demon Realm?
In his memory, the original owner spent a full fifty years repairing the Demon Palace barrier. Although his repair was done in shifts, taking ten hours to dry the nets, given his strength, it took him so long just to repair a barrier. One can only imagine how powerful the original barrier must have been.
But it was broken so easily!
Leng Ning Shuang said, "A hundred years ago, in order to protect you, His Majesty the Demon Lord left a wisp of his spiritual consciousness with the maid who took care of you. Originally, it was to inform him if something happened in the Demon Realm. However, he misjudged her, and the maid betrayed him and used His Majesty's spiritual consciousness to break the barrier!"
The "Demon Lord" she referred to was the former Demon Lord; she never used honorifics to address the current Demon Lord.
After all, they were raised by me; they weren't masters and servants, but family!
Geng Qi pondered for a moment and asked, "How is that maid?"
"Dead."
"Dead? How did he die?"
Xie Beiying calmly sipped her tea and said, "The same way Your Excellency escaped is how she died."
"..."
The maid took care of him, but he was still an egg at the time. He only learned from others later that he was brought to Mount Kaopan by the former protector, Wang. So, Wang killed the traitor and rescued him?
Geng Qi's brows furrowed slightly.
Based on his understanding of the former Demon Lord, those who were loyal to him and whom he trusted should have been the Four Guardians first. Instead of entrusting his own confidants, he entrusted the protection of his son's spirit to an ordinary maid!
Given his status as the Demon Lord, he wouldn't be so desperate as to eat the grass near his own nest!
Suddenly remembering something, Geng Qi asked, "Have you ever seen my mother?"
The frost shook its head.
Jie Beiying sipped her tea.
Qinghan was curious.
Mushan...his face was expressionless.
Geng Qi said speechlessly, "Weren't you always by my father's side? Haven't you seen this before?"
"..."
"..." This "follow" is not the same as that "follow"!
They followed the Demon Lord and protected the Demon Realm, but there was never a true mistress in the Demon Palace until the Demon Lord returned with an egg, and they realized that the Demon Lord actually had a partner.
The one who went out with the Demon Lord at that time was the Dharma Protector.
Coincidentally, both of the demon lords they followed liked to sneak out of the demon palace, and the creatures they always carried with them were "Wang"!
Seeing Leng Ning Shuang glance at him, Qing Han was startled and immediately straightened his back.
Unable to find the answer he wanted, Geng Qi stroked the bone whip on his wrist, gave up in despair, and sighed, "And now?"
He used to do nothing but sleep and eat in the Demon Palace, and he treated people very well. Who would be so foolish as to betray him?
Geng Qi: "..."
That makes so much sense!
But if you suddenly appear out of nowhere to scare people like this, you'll lose me sooner or later!
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