Chapter 676: Chapter 588: My Heart is Like a Bandit
The sudden change plunged the scene into an eerie silence, with the atmosphere awkward and heavy to an extre.
The elderly demon, who had just spoken, shakily pointed at the embracing pair, his face expressing terrified incomprehension, “You… you…”
Unable to articulate anything further after a long while, his face flushed red with a hint of frightened unease as he stealthily studied the Female Demon Lord’s expression.
The Female Demon Lord’s eyes flickered dangerously, both gloomy and shimring.
Silently, she watched the Heart Demon, shrouded by a somber atmosphere from the intensely suspended blood clouds, making the skies appear unusually dark. She sat atop the high Ti Platform, enveloped in this lancholic mood.
After a long pause, a grim smile slowly appeared on her face as she coldly rolled the words over her lips, “Yun Rong?”
She crossed her hands and rested her chin on them, her eyes deep and turbulent as if ocean waves were surging inside, “How was I not aware that the two of you have beco so intimate? Can a Heart Demon truly love soone?”
Demon Prison Xing Wu gazed deeply at the Heart Demon, his dull, ash-gray eyes seeming like stagnant pools.
The pair embraced below gradually loosened their hold. When Baili An saw her pull up the half-lifted mask once more, her pale lips briefly visible then vanishing, the lingering coolness by her ear almost seed like an illusion.
Her faint laughter ca from beneath the mask, “A Heart Demon’s very essence ought to be born from obsession. The matter of love is indeed the most chaotic and overwhelming obsession in this world.”
The origin of all this could be traced back to a disturbance at the Demon Cave a year ago. En route to the Demon Cave above the Endless Sea, I initially encountered Chen at Kongcang Mountain.”
“Your Majesty… do you believe in love at first sight?”
The Female Demon Lord’s fingers whitened as she clenched them, her gaze icy, “Nonsense! The Sword Maniac Yun Rong, known for her carefree spirit, you’re telling she fell in love at first sight with a stranger?!”
Murmurs of astonishnt echoed faintly below.
This woman was the Heart Demon born from that pure and moon-like, one-sword-loving Sword Maniac Yun Rong?!
How could this be?
Countless lovesick individuals exist in this world, and those madly in love throughout the ages are not few. Yet, there are very rare instances where soone could beco a demon due to love, detaching from their true self.
Just how deep and resolute must her love be to nurture her Heart Demon to such a mature and formidable level?
As for the Female Demon Lord revealing her true identity, the Heart Demon seed to care little. Her calm and profound black pupils shone like frosted, long ice on a snowy night, her gaze indiscernibly sad or joyous:
“Man faces seven sufferings and three lifetis of afflictions; only the heart is hard to control. In this fleeting world, a mont cos when one feels there is soone worth more than thousands of years, soone who can withstand the tides of the Four Seas.”
“With heaven and earth as the furnace, Yun Rong, once inside this vast sea of red, could hardly stay out of worldly concerns.”
The Female Demon Lord burst out laughing, her smile exuding an imposing beauty that was anything but gentle, “I had no idea that Tianxi Yun Rong was such an easy person to enlighten.”
The Heart Demon smiled, “Even if the fleeting encounter is brief and lonely, it can still bring thousands of joys. Yun Rong had dreamt as if from a deep sleep, seeing the ancient halls on Sword Mountain resplendent with mountain flowers like gems, a sight I’ve never seen in my dreams. Perhaps, this was predestined in a past life.”
Saying this, she gave the Female Demon Lord a aningful look before adding, “Your Majesty rules supre in the Demon World, unmatchable and above all, yet you particularly refuse to let go of Chen. It is clear that the matter of love is unpredictable, untraceable, and beyond anyone’s control.”
“Thus, the dao-seeking Yun Rong had no choice but to embrace an unconventional path, cutting down her own Heart Demon, thereby giving birth to . I first ca into the Mortal World, living a dreamlike existence, wandering aimlessly. This led Chen to wait in vain for over a year.”
“Yun Rong knows not love; I understand it. Yun Rong understands not affection; I comprehend it.”
“My previous commitnt with Chen was factual. I hope Your Majesty can let us be.”
Her past love story intricately unfolded before the Female Demon Lord, slowly weaving into an airtight perfect excuse of a lie.
Even the undertone of gravity in her words was displayed vividly; even Baili An, adept at reading hearts, felt for monts that her sorrowful words were her own true experiences, so tragic they seed.
If he himself wasn’t the protagonist of this story, he almost believed every word she said as truth.
But for so reason, he always felt that the Yun Rong from the Tianxi Sword Sect was sohow being unclearly wronged by her own Heart Demon.
Certainly, the animosity a Heart Demon harbors against its original self is often deeply irreconcilable.
The Heart Demon turned and took the ritual jade from Baili An’s hands, raising it high above her head, “Please, Your Majesty, take back this item.”
Baili An felt that the female demon was not so easily dismissed.
But with things spoken to this extent, before an assembly of countless demons and officials, his own chosen Royal Consort had already committed her heart to soone else?
Even if she was unwilling at heart, to save face, she might have to put this matter on hold, right?
The Female Demon Lord, her face clouded, indeed had to acquiesce and compromise before her subjects, “As the Demon Lord, I naturally won’t force love nor impose difficulty, but…”
Before Baili An could relax, he heard her suddenly shift the topic, “Do you think he truly loves you?”
Taking her words as a desperate struggle, Baili An imdiately spoke to control the situation, “My heart is steadfast, unchangeable.”
“Really?” Atop the Ti Platform, the darkness on the Female Demon Lord’s face suddenly cleared, her lips curling into a smirk, her eyes hooking onto Baili An’s face as if containing actual hooks.
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