As she spoke, she reached for the fox mask, but just as she was about to touch it, her wrist was grabbed by a large hand.
A hint of surprise flashed in Murong Zheng's eyes. She didn't know that the Demon King was Qinghu.
A deep voice came: "Does it matter who I am?"
"Afraid to admit it?"
Qinghu looked at her and slowly lowered her hand. Just then, Ji Jiuying grabbed with her other hand, and the fox mask instantly came off.
Upon seeing Qinghu's face clearly, Ji Jiuying sneered, "It really is you!"
"Is it fun to lie to me?"
"I didn't mean to deceive you..."
Qinghu wanted to explain but didn't know how. When he first learned that she had mistakenly entered the Demon Realm, he did want to be honest with her, but it wasn't until she asked how to get to the Demon Palace that he realized what was going on.
His years of caution had made him wary of her. Later, he learned that she was only going to save that human, but that human's purpose in coming to the demon realm was extraordinary. So he deliberately sent her to the demon realm so that he could see what that person was up to.
Later, it was discovered that both of them were after that Xuanbing Flower, which he had obtained by chance and which was indeed of no use to him.
During the confrontation in the Demon Palace, he saw the endless disgust in her eyes when she looked at him, which deeply stung him. Since she hated his identity as the Demon King, he would approach her as Qinghu.
But this time, she appeared in the Demon Realm severely injured. When he saw that she was covered in blood, he didn't care about anything else and took her back to the Demon Palace.
Ji Jiuying snorted coldly: "If it wasn't intentional, then it was!"
"······"
"Miss Jiu, I have prepared a banquet in the front hall. Why don't we eat first and then talk?"
Qinghu opened his mouth.
"No need, I have other things to do, I need to leave the Demon Realm."
Qinghu stared at her resolute gaze for a long while.
"The Demon Palace is protected by a barrier; you can't get out."
"You want to imprison me?"
Ji Jiuying's tone turned cold, and her eyes were fixed on Qinghu.
"I just want to have a meal with you."
Qinghu smiled innocently, which slightly startled Murong Zheng.
Inside the main hall.
Qinghu, Murong Zheng, and Ji Jiuying sat together. The aroma of delicious food filled the hall, but the atmosphere was somewhat strange.
Ji Jiuying's gaze shifted back and forth between Qinghu and Murong Zheng before she noticed that the two looked somewhat alike, and that Qinghu's attitude towards him was even more special than that of Princess Wan.
If I'm not mistaken, the two are brothers, since all the others who weren't related were killed by Qinghu.
Ji Jiuying glanced at the dishes on the table, picked up her chopsticks and started eating quickly. This action stunned the two men in front of her. Did she really want to leave?
Ji Jiuying quickly finished her meal.
"I'm stuffed!"
After saying that, he put down his chopsticks and watched the two of them eat.
"······"
Feeling uncomfortable being watched while eating, Murong Zheng quickly put down his chopsticks, but Qing Hu seemed not to notice her at all.
He ate slowly and deliberately, and it took him a long time before he put down his chopsticks.
"Can we go now?"
Ji Jiuying was already getting impatient.
Qinghu glanced at her, then said to Murong Zheng, "Zheng, go see her off!"
Murong Zheng stared at him in disbelief: "Me?"
"My demonic power is so weak, how can I break that barrier?"
"You'll have to figure that out yourself."
After Qinghu finished speaking, he disappeared from the main hall. Only then did Ji Jiuying realize what had happened and burst out cursing, "Qinghu, you stinking fox, you tricked me again!"
"You damned fox, you old vixen! You broke your word! What kind of hero are you?!"
"Screw you! Next time I'll definitely skin you alive and make you a scarf..."
Qinghu, who hadn't gone far, scoffed at her words and quickly disappeared.
Murong Zheng looked at Ji Jiuying, who was still cursing at the air in a fit of rage, and his lips twitched slightly.
"Xiao Jiu, he's already gone far away..."
Ji Jiuying then snorted coldly, and the two of them quickly appeared at the barrier of the Demon Realm.
Ji Jiuying looked at the barrier in front of her, a look of surprise flashing in her eyes. The barrier that Heaven had set up before had been shattered with the outbreak of the demon race. She did not expect that Qinghu could condense another barrier with the power of one person.
This demon realm is no smaller than the human realm. How much spiritual power and demonic energy must have been consumed to condense such a huge and sturdy barrier? Ji Jiuying couldn't imagine how powerful Qinghu was.
That makes sense. He stood out in the struggle for the throne among the nine sons of the demon race and even absorbed the power of his eight brothers, so his own power naturally became stronger.
"By the way, is your meager demonic power really enough?"
Ji Jiuying looked at Murong Zheng with suspicion.
"I don't know either... Let's give it a try!"
A dazzling light appeared in Murong Zheng's palm and struck the barrier hard, but the barrier did not budge!
······
Murong Zheng was unwilling to give up and attacked again, but the result was the same.
An hour passed.
Murong Zheng collapsed to the ground, exhausted, while Ji Jiuying's face turned completely black.
"Damn Qinghu, he's deliberately trying to make things difficult for me!"
At this moment, Ji Jiuying glanced at Murong Zheng out of the corner of her eye, a flash of inspiration struck her, and she quickly walked to Murong Zheng's side, grabbed his hand, and lightly slashed it with a dagger.
What's going on here?
A sharp pain shot through him, and Murong Zheng realized what was happening, looking at the person standing right next to him with a puzzled expression.
"Since demonic power won't work, then let's try your blood."
As she spoke, Ji Jiuying pulled his hand and placed it on the barrier. Sure enough, a gap appeared in the barrier, just big enough for one person to pass through.
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