Hearing this, Yuan Xin's expression softened slightly, and she asked thoughtfully, "You and Qing Han... who exactly are you people?"
"A person with nothing to do."
"Don't be ridiculous!" Yuan Xin interrupted him: "An adult Guhuo Ghost is equivalent to a human in the late Golden Core stage. How could an ordinary person defeat it so easily?"
"..."
"But it doesn't matter. As long as you're not from the Demon Realm, it doesn't matter who you are."
Geng Qi was displeased and pressed, "What's wrong with the people from the Demon Realm?"
"What's wrong? What do you think is wrong? People from the Demon Realm are all a bunch of demons, none of them are good!" Yuan Xin sneered, "When you insisted on staying in the village head's office, I was wondering if you were spies sent by the Demon Realm. I've never seen an ordinary cultivator as shameless as you, not only stubbornly staying here, but also being lazy and gluttonous, um... and a lecher."
Geng Qi: "..."
"I know I misunderstood you before. Actually... you're a good person."
"..." Girl, do you know that the good person you're talking about and the devil you think he is the same person?
Geng Qi's lips twitched slightly, puzzled yet also curious: "Why do you think there are no good people in the Demon Realm?"
Yuan Xin gave him a strange look: "With a few scourges ruling the Demon Realm, even kind-hearted people in the Demon Realm probably can't survive."
"Which ones are the scourges?"
Yuan Xin asked in surprise, "You didn't know?"
Geng Qi said, "I would like to hear the details."
"..." An even stranger gaze lingered on him for a long while. Yuan Xin sighed softly and continued, "After the Demon Realm was unified a thousand years ago, the former Demon Lord established four guardians, named Chimei Wangliang. Chi is a poisonous scorpion that kills people invisibly, Mei is a Gu butterfly that devours hearts and people, and the last guardian, Liang, after becoming a demon, massacred his own ancestral home. He was so ruthless that he didn't even spare his own father. With such a scourge of the world led by them, how could the people of the Demon Realm be at peace?"
Her indignation only made those devils seem truly wicked. Geng Qi was silent for a moment, then asked, "And the other one?"
"Wang? That demon died on Kaopan Mountain a hundred years ago."
"..."
He glanced furtively at Qing Han behind him; it seemed that the righteous path was still unaware of the new protector's rise to power in the Demon Realm.
After lowering his eyes and thinking for a moment, Geng Qi asked again, "Then... what about the current Demon Lord of the Demon Realm?"
Upon hearing this, Yuan Xin paused slightly, a thoughtful expression appearing on her face: "I don't know much about him, only that after the battle of Kaopan Mountain a hundred years ago, the Demon Lord has been in a deep sleep and has not yet awakened."
"Then do you know what the great war between good and evil was for a hundred years ago?"
"Naturally, it's to reclaim the sacred artifact of my sect."
Geng Qi's eyes narrowed: "What sacred object?"
Yuan Xin said, "I don't know about that. I only know that the sect's sacred artifact was stolen by the Demon Lord, who used its power to ascend to immortality. Otherwise, how could he, a person from the Demon Realm, be the first person to ascend in the Xuanling Continent!"
"Since it was a sacred relic that was stolen, why was it never mentioned before the Demon Lord ascended to immortality?"
Yuan Xin smiled and said, "You don't understand. The theft of a sect's sacred artifact has a great impact on all sects and factions. If we were to inform them rashly, it would cause unnecessary chaos, so no one has brought it up."
Geng Qi narrowed his eyes slightly: "So, did you manage to get your sacred object back in the end?"
Yuan Xin shook his head regretfully: "It all came to naught. The elders of the major sects had already stormed their lair, forcing the demon out of the Demon Palace and tracking him all the way to Mount Kaopan. Unexpectedly, the guardian demon risked self-destruction to protect the bastard left behind by the Demon Lord. We thought that the guardian was the last obstacle, and after his death, the sacred artifact would be within our grasp. But fate played a trick on us, causing the bastard, still in its eggshell, to be born prematurely, triggering heavenly lightning and a great fire. This resulted in heavy casualties among the elders of our righteous sects, with less than one in ten surviving. The fire burned on Mount Kaopan for a day and a night. After the fire was extinguished, the sacred artifact and the new Demon Lord were nowhere to be found."
She kept calling him a bastard, but Geng Qi's face remained unchanged, though he secretly sneered inwardly.
What kind of sect's sacred artifact? In the original owner's memories, he had never seen any sacred artifact since birth. Even if there were, why did they have to take it back so soon? Why did they have to take it back right after the former Demon Lord ascended and before the new Demon Lord was born? They took advantage of the situation and even turned around and attacked him. I have never seen anyone more shameless than these righteous big shots!
It's unclear whether Rong Yu's appearance at Kaopan Mountain was for the same purpose. Those important figures wouldn't specifically bring an eight-year-old child when they go to seize treasures. So why did Rong Yu appear at Kaopan Mountain?
He was deep in thought, unaware that the person secretly feeding him behind the pillar had stopped. Qinghan clenched his fists, and something in his sleeve moved slightly, so he slowly relaxed them.
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