SCT-Novel #153 - I almost forgot about you!
#153 - I almost forgot about you!
"Opportunity, opportunity."
"Turns out people of the same kind really do stick together!"
"Do you two love to mystify things so much? You like to call taking someone as an adopted son-in-law an opportunity."
Opportunity this, opportunity that, they never stop talking about it.
It's not about marriage!
General Yu and the demoness Mo Xuan are really something, how did they get the idea to recruit their brothers to be adopted sons-in-law?
Putting aside everything else, their perspectives on things make them a perfect match!
Xu Chengxian lay on the soft bed, coiling his snake body, and used his divine sense to communicate with Ling Xiao, who was in the room next door.
"Old ghost, you should say these words in front of your sister-in-law Mo Xuan," Ling Xiao said with a mischievous smile, "Maybe she'll be happy to hear it and give you two more Soul Returning Pills to eat."
The demoness Mo Xuan is quite interesting.
I don't know if it's because she really likes hearing Xu Chengxian call her sister-in-law, but after the matter was settled, she not only fulfilled the promise that the three of them hadn't taken seriously before, but also gave him two more Soul Returning Pills.
"When they need people, they often make empty promises, which is common."
"This demoness Mo Xuan, being able to keep her word, is something I didn't expect."
Anyway, the matter is already settled.
Xu Chengxian can't go to her to demand anything.
"She instructed me not to tell General Yu about her identity," Xu Chengxian said.
So, perhaps she has some admiration for General Yu and doesn't want him to look down on her?
Who knows, and I don't bother to think about it.
"Tsk."
He wants to see how this drama of a noble lady falling for a hero from humble origins will end.
"How it ends? That depends on what these two plan to do," Ling Xiao said.
What the Water-Avoiding Demon Marquis is worried about is that if the two of them combine, they won't be able to bear offspring.
If the demoness Mo Xuan chooses the path of dragon transformation and cultivates to ascension to the Heavenly Realm, transforming into a dragon, then everything will be easy.
Or she could change to cultivating Xuanmen techniques, shattering her demon core and rebuilding her Dao body.
"In this world, only humans with innate Dao bodies and dragons can combine with other races to breed offspring."
Unfortunately, both of these paths have very limited futures.
"I think the Great Demoness won't choose them."
"Then is there no other way?" Xu Chengxian asked curiously.
"Yes. Cultivate to the Demon Marquis realm," Ling Xiao said with a hidden smile.
"Cultivate to the Demon Marquis realm, and they'll be able to have children?" Xu Chengxian was stunned, "Then their children… ?"
According to his current understanding of the demon race, the offspring of different races mostly choose to awaken the bloodline inheritance of one of their parents during cultivation.
Just like snakes and pythons can ascend and transform into dragons, or temper their bloodline through cultivation.
Other races also have similar methods of 'dragon transformation' through tribulation and ascension, or tracing their bloodline to awaken it, eventually returning to the strongest existence within their inheritance.
That is, the powerful existence of the past—the ancient demon.
The path of ascension is called the divine path.
The path to becoming an ancient demon is called the path of demon cultivation.
Every ancient demon is at least an Emperor-level expert.
And achieving the divine path, the combat power will never be higher than a Demon King.
In fact, more than 90% of them are only on par with a Demon General.
After Xu Chengxian simply understood it, the growth ceiling of the latter was many levels higher than the former.
The purpose of tempering the bloodline and returning to the ancestors is to awaken combat skills and cultivation methods, and to constantly break through the growth ceiling.
Bai Xiaocui, whose aptitude at home is not very good, cultivates the divine path, which has a low upper limit, but is safe and secure.
And Ling Xiao is walking the path of demon cultivation.
In the last thunder tribulation, she also awakened a trace of the ancient giant snake's bloodline.
"It is said that the stronger the parents' bloodline, the higher the chance that the children will awaken their bloodline."
But these are not the issues he cares about.
The point he cares about is even a bit boring—he wants to know what the true form of the child born to General Yu and Mo Xuan will look like at birth.
The offspring of a snake and a monkey?
"It is said that whoever has the stronger bloodline, the child will inherit more of their bloodline characteristics. Will it be a little monkey with a snake tail?"
"Or half and half?"
"If it's half and half, is it the top and bottom halves, or the left and right halves?"
"…What I said about cultivating to the Demon Marquis realm has nothing to do with whether they can have children," Ling Xiao was somewhat amused by Xu Chengxian's wild thoughts.
Didn't this guy really hear the hidden meaning?
Or is he deliberately messing with her here?
"Tsk, boring," Xu Chengxian sighed upon hearing this.
Isn't it just saying that becoming a Demon Marquis means you don't have to listen to the Water-Avoiding Demon Marquis's arrangements anymore?
This answer is not interesting at all.
"If it's not interesting, then it's not interesting," Ling Xiao snorted softly, "Then let's continue talking about something interesting."
"What's interesting?" Xu Chengxian asked in confusion, then reacted, "Oh right, we were just talking about being used as a scapegoat to divert trouble to the north."
"What do you say, are we going or not?"
"…It's about going to the mountains belonging to the Northern Demon King to seize the teleportation talisman to enter the Emperor's Tomb," Ling Xiao showed some resistance and rejection to being compared to a scapegoat.
"Hmph, isn't it the same thing?" Xu Chengxian snorted.
In the current situation, the Water-Avoiding Demon Marquis can be said to have reluctantly recruited him as a guard for the royal palace.
He also gave him the Flood Dragon's blood essence.
And he treated them with courtesy.
But their actions obviously made this demon clan boss unhappy.
After all, they disrupted his plan to choose a son-in-law for his eldest daughter.
Even the secret recruitment of sons-in-law for the two younger daughters had to be put on hold.
This guy who caused him trouble is living in his marquis's residence, and he probably feels uncomfortable no matter how he thinks about it.
But he can't just send them away without any reason.
Of course, if he really wants to send them away, such as letting Xu Chengxian return to Luyang Mountain to recuperate, they wouldn't be able to say anything.
But the Water-Avoiding Demon Marquis didn't do that.
Letting them comfortably refine the Flood Dragon's blood essence in the marquis's residence can be considered very kind.
He even sent pills and pill furnaces.
Although the target of the gifts was Ling Yunzi, Xu Chengxian benefited from it, so he shouldn't say too many bad things about him.
But he still felt that this Demon Marquis was just going with the flow, wanting to send them far away.
So as not to be an eyesore in front of him.
"Didn't you say that the four Demon Kings are not very harmonious?"
As a subordinate of the Southern Demon King, the Water-Avoiding Demon Marquis might even have the idea of having them go to the Northern Demon King to cause trouble.
"With our cultivation, it may not be easy to rank in the top ten in the Northern Demon King's talent recruitment competition," Ling Xiao raised an eyebrow.
She thought, does the Water-Avoiding Marquis want the Northern Demon King to taste what it's like to recruit an un-transformed snake as a son-in-law?
Pulling a Demon King into the water?
He dares to think!
…Actually, if it could really happen, she would also like to see this spectacle.
Unfortunately, a Demon King and a Demon Marquis are not the same level of power.
The other party's recruitment order was issued with great fanfare.
At that time, I don’t know how many outstanding demons will gather.
To go to the Emperor's Tomb, the lowest cultivation level must be a Great Demon. But it does not prohibit Demon Generals from participating.
Therefore, she felt that Xu Chengxian was gilding his own face.
He is boasting.
So she ignored him and focused on cultivating.
"Ling Xiao? Sister? Tsk," Xu Chengxian, on the other hand, knew that the other party had entered meditation again when he didn't receive a response to his message.
The pills refined by Ling Yunzi, which contained the Flood Dragon's blood essence, greatly benefited everyone.
Especially Ling Xiao, her cultivation increased so quickly that it was eye-catching.
She took another Spirit Replenishing Pill a few days ago, and she probably hasn't completely refined it yet. She will have to rush to the Northern Demon Realm next, so she must hurry up and cultivate.
"If you didn't answer whether to go or not, then that means you definitely want to go," Xu Chengxian muttered.
That's right, why not go?
Lying at home and cultivating diligently is difficult to quickly improve one's cultivation.
—Although he can improve his cultivation quickly by lying down and sleeping, why should he refuse to become stronger faster?
Anything that requires effort to compete for must have its benefits.
For example, this time, didn't he get the Flood Dragon's blood essence?
The price offered by the Northern Demon King will only be higher!
"Wait! System! Flood Dragon's blood essence?" Xu Chengxian turned over and sat up. He seemed to have forgotten something.
He quickly opened his mouth and spat out a shining ball.
"The taste of absorbing spiritual pills is too comfortable, I almost forgot about you!"