“She is the most unusual person I have ever met,” said the divine girl, shaking her head. “I can’t imagine how much pain she endured at that time, but she held on and, as if nothing happened, fought my kin for three days and three nights.”
Even in those distant divine ages, the divine girl had no memory of anyone like this girl.
“But she was, after all, just a mortal. The price of defeating gods caused her to pass away many years later, and I, in turn, received my reward for helping her then,” the divine girl continued, her voice tinged with a sigh, as if reminiscing about the girl who had once fought alongside her. “That is to say, her soul.”
“?” Bai Ling froze. She was a little confused about what the divine girl meant by soul. Was it the kind of ghost she imagined?
But she hadn’t seen that soul.
“Don’t bother looking for it. She has already reincarnated. I’m not so selfish as to occupy all her time after death,” the divine girl said with a smile. “She accompanied me for nearly a thousand years. We watched together as her successor gradually expanded the foundation she left behind. Before returning to the cycle of reincarnation, she was in a very good mood.”
“After she left, I made this body for myself in her image, as a way to repay her for protecting the demons,” the girl beckoned to Bai Ling, signaling her to follow. “But, her descendants are all very capable, and there’s nothing for me to help them with.”
The boundless desert had vanished. What appeared before Bai Ling was a massive palace. The girl stood inside the palace, while Bai Ling stood outside it.
“This is the divine realm within the divine realm, which is where we are truly imprisoned. If you just stand outside, I can’t do anything to you. Her descendant should know this, so I believe that with that little girl’s intelligence, there won’t be any major problems,” the god said to Bai Ling.
Indeed, Leticia might not be good at anything else, but she was truly skilled at being clever.
However, did Leticia really know about this?
“Don’t worry. She has come into contact with gods quite a few times. She must know this common knowledge,” the god stated, assuring Bai Ling that she didn’t need to worry at all. Leticia even had two gifts from other gods.
If a god could give two gifts, could Leticia not know the common sense of interacting with gods?
“She has come into contact with gods quite a few times?!” Bai Ling was a little stunned. How did she not know?
Did she come into contact with gods among the demons?
If she had relationships with gods in the human world, Leticia should have told her.
She probably… would tell her, right?
As she thought about it, Bai Ling became unsure of herself. It seemed that judging by Leticia’s personality, she would only say things she deemed necessary to mention. If certain things seemed unnecessary to her, or if stating them offered no benefit, then she wouldn’t say them.
For example, she had previously hidden Evangeline’s identity, intending to use the divine seat to take Evangeline away from her.
That person loved to do things like that the most.
“It must have been when she left a few days ago. She disappeared somewhere in the past few years. When she returned the first time, she didn’t have those two items. After going out and returning the second time, she acquired those items, and she had the aura of three different gods. Excluding the one she had when she returned the first time, it means she had contact with two different gods in a short period of time.”
“She didn’t tell me about these things,” Bai Ling muttered unhappily.
They had said they would be open about matters concerning gods, but then, while she was being open, Leticia was secretly forming relationships with gods. How could Bai Ling not be angry?
“Don’t worry. She is the Demon King after all. She always has her own ideas,” the god chuckled, finding Bai Ling’s reaction quite amusing. “Her descendants, from the moment they are born, carry the fate of a race. The burdens on their shoulders are heavy, which also makes it almost impossible for them to be themselves.”
“I don’t think the burden on her shoulders is heavy at all. She stays at home all day and doesn’t do anything important, leaving everything to her sister. What a bad older sister,” Bai Ling continued to mutter. She had to take this opportunity to vent her dissatisfaction.
The person in front of her was a god who had protected the demons for an unknown amount of time. It shouldn’t be a problem to speak ill of Leticia in front of her, right?
After all, she was speaking the truth. This god must have seen it.
“Young girls always go through a rebellious phase,” the god said, bringing her hand to her mouth and coughing lightly. “Alright, alright, let’s get back to business. I’ve already understood the general situation. Opening the entrance to the divine realm is simple, but finding her within it will be somewhat difficult.”
Every god had the ability to open another god’s divine realm, but almost no god would do so, because doing so was basically equivalent to declaring war on that god.
Moreover, even if one opened the divine realm’s tortoise shell, the beast within that shell was not a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, but a fierce beast.
This was why the first Demon King, despite wielding a divine artifact, merely sealed the short staff that housed another god. She knew she couldn’t defeat that god.
A surprise attack might succeed once, but it would definitely not succeed a second time. Gods, no matter how arrogant, would not fall for the same trick twice.
If she truly fell for a second trap, it could only mean that the god’s brain might not be functioning properly.
“Unless the owner of the divine realm actively opens the entrance, the entrance to the divine realm will be random each time it is opened. The smallest area of a divine realm is roughly equivalent to a large city.”
A large city wasn’t that big for Bai Ling. If she flew up into the sky, Leticia would surely sense her aura, which would be equivalent to having found Leticia.
So, the difficulty wasn’t here, but rather, whether she would accidentally enter the most core area of the divine realm, the territory where gods were imprisoned.
“If you truly enter the innermost part, then all you can do is try to stall for time and then search for the hub that can close the entire divine realm,” the divine girl told Bai Ling.
Bai Ling knew this, of course. The battle with the Fog God was finally ended by using the hub. That thing seemed to have an extremely strong restrictive power over gods. Once activated, gods would have no ability to resist.
…
“Sister Bai, what are you doing?” Kira asked sleepily, looking at Bai Ling, who was tinkering in front of the throne with confusion.
She had only slept for less than an hour before Xueer woke her up, saying that Bai Ling had sneaked out of her room and gone to the hall.
When she arrived, she saw the scene before her.
Sister Bai, wearing pajamas, was brandishing her long sword in front of the throne, as if intending to split the throne in half.
“Ah, Kira, you’re here just in time. Come and help me,” Bai Ling said immediately upon hearing Kira, turning around and beckoning to Kira as if nothing had happened. Her reaction was so natural that it almost made Kira think this was at Bai Ling’s home.
Approaching Bai Ling with a multitude of questions, Kira still couldn’t understand what Bai Ling was trying to do.
“Help me hold this chair. I need to find a good angle,” Bai Ling said, holding her sword with both hands. She didn’t look like she was joking.
Kira’s eyes twitched. This was the Demon King’s throne, a throne passed down from who knows how long ago.
No matter what Bai Ling said, Kira couldn’t let Bai Ling chop up this chair.
Then Bai Ling’s next sentence plunged Kira into a dilemma. “There’s a divine artifact passed down through the demon race hidden inside this chair. I need to take it out to save Leticia.”
“Ah?” Kira’s eyes darted between the throne and Bai Ling several times. She suspected her ears might have a slight problem.
There was a divine artifact passed down through the demon race inside this throne?
Putting aside whether this was true or not, how would Bai Ling know this? It couldn’t be that her sister secretly told Bai Ling, right?
Impossible. If she herself didn’t know something, her sister would definitely not confess it to Bai Ling.
Kira knew her sister must have some secrets from her. Similarly, she also had secrets from her sister. But things they wouldn’t confess to each other would definitely not be mentioned to outsiders.
This was the tacit understanding between sisters. They were each other’s most trusted people. There couldn’t be anything Bai Ling knew that Kira didn’t know.
“How did Sister Bai know?” Kira asked.
“Hmm, that god gave me a dream.”
“Eh?” Kira never expected such an answer. A dream? That was too unbelievable.
If anyone else dared to give such a reason, Kira would not hesitate to display her side as a demon princess and let them know she wasn’t easily fooled.
However, Bai Ling was different.
This powerful girl, whose relationship with her sister was so ambiguous, had to take every word she said seriously. Even if she mentioned a dream, Kira had to consider the possibility that a god might have indeed sent a dream to her Sister Bai.
Especially since this matter concerned her sister. Now that her sister was imprisoned in the divine realm, her life and death unknown, Bai Ling wouldn’t make light of her sister’s safety at this time.
If Bai Ling were that kind of person, Kira felt she wouldn’t have to worry about her sister’s romantic issues.
Leticia would definitely not look favorably upon such a Bai Ling.
Unfortunately, Bai Ling wasn’t that kind of person. She wouldn’t deceive Kira about matters like this.
“Sister Bai, could it be that you were too worried about Sister, so you had a dream?” Kira carefully proposed her idea.
She would never believe in the concept of gods sending dreams, but Bai Ling wouldn’t lie. After much deliberation, Kira could only find this one possibility.
Bai Ling, too worried about Leticia, fell asleep and had a dream. In it, she dreamed of a god, and the god told her that there was something in the Demon King’s throne that could save Leticia.
“No, I can prove that I’m very awake,” Bai Ling said calmly. She knew her words were somewhat unbelievable, so she didn’t expect Kira to believe her. “But I must split this broken chair today, so I’m sorry, Kira. If you try to stop me, I will have to restrain you.”
She was serious! Kira didn’t know what to do either.
Fight?
She couldn’t win. With her sister absent, who could stop Bai Ling from doing what she wanted?
Persuade?
Did Bai Ling look like someone who could be persuaded like this?
She believed that there was a divine artifact in the throne that could save Leticia, and in her mind, the current Leticia was undoubtedly the highest priority.
Under these circumstances, Kira knew that nothing she said could stop Bai Ling.
Either she would join Bai Ling in chopping up this ancestral chair, or she would be tied up like a zongzi and thrown aside to watch Bai Ling chop up this ancestral chair.
In any case, this ancestral chair was doomed today.
Kira didn’t want to be tied up and thrown aside in such a disheveled state, but as a demon princess, she couldn’t help Bai Ling chop up her family’s ancestral throne.
After thinking about it, she quietly took a few steps back, turned her back, and began to mutter, “I saw nothing, I saw nothing…”
Bai Ling looked at Kira, who resembled an ostrich, with a bit of speechlessness. Since there was no longer any obstruction, it was time to begin today’s main event.
She gripped her long sword tightly and raised it high above her head. A faint illusion of the starry river entwined around the blade. To chop a chair, Bai Ling actually used some of her strength.
Even Kira turned her head with some curiosity, wanting to see what her Sister Bai looked like when she was serious.
“Slash!” Bai Ling shouted softly. The long sword descended with terrifying might. At this moment, even if a mountain stood in Bai Ling’s path, it would be split in two by this sword.
Clang!
Under the immense counterforce, the sword in Bai Ling’s hand almost flew out of her grasp.
Kira’s eyes widened. Under Bai Ling’s sword strike, the throne was only left with a small cut.
“So hard.” Bai Ling massaged her slightly numb wrist. She had expected her sword strike to directly cut the chair in half, but the result was beyond her expectations.
It seemed she had underestimated the methods of the first Demon King.
“Hoo, again.” She raised her long sword again. This time, the stars surrounding her were even more solidified. The power of this sword strike would only be greater than the previous one.
The previous slash had already alerted everyone in the Demon King’s palace. Some of them had already hurried to the scene.
“What is Miss Bai doing?” Sasa asked Kira at her side with a bewildered expression, “Why is she picking a fight with this throne?”
“Sister Bai said that there’s a divine artifact passed down from our demon race inside, and she’s going to split the throne,” Kira explained. “Her previous strike wasn’t very effective, and now she’s making the second attempt.”
“Oh, then Miss Bai has a lot of work to do. The materials used for this throne are quite exquisite. In terms of hardness alone, it’s no less than a divine artifact.”
