Capítulo 864: Chapter 667: and the Sovereign_2
A slight attempt to tear away would reveal the deep crimson scars accumulated over the years.
It was precisely because of this that Baili An realized why he would rather choose Ning Feiyan than her.
The love in Arao’s eyes was genuine, yet not pure; it was mixed with too many complex, intense, and sticky emotions, making it difficult to distinguish love from hate at tis.
So much so that Baili An sotis felt that her gaze was akin to his own intense craving when the urge for blood arose, much like the ravenous hunger pang of looking at vibrant human beings.
He did not like this kind of ‘adoration’.
Baili An slowly stood straight, looking out at the snowy night scene beyond the hall doors, and when his gaze drifted to nowhere in particular, he chuckled lightly and said, “I do not want anything from His Majesty, and as for this heart His Majesty desires, I cannot even decide for myself, so how could I presumptuously give it to His Majesty?”
“Earlier His Majesty also ntioned, my intention is not in the Demon World, and naturally, I never thought of sharing Qingzhou Demon World with His Majesty. I do not wish to deceive His Majesty either…”
His gaze gathered, firmly staring at Arao, saying clearly word by word, “I have long had soone in my heart, and that person is not His Majesty. It’s even less likely to give His Majesty a complete heart; if His Majesty insists, I think in the end, it would be no more than a situation of mutual destruction and mutual disgust.”
Arao’s knuckles in her sleeves turned pale as her complexion darkened: “So is this the reason you agreed before the Demon Ministers to beco the Phoenix Monarch today? You had long known that Zangxin was secretly colluding with others, and it was impossible for you to firmly sit as Phoenix Monarch and expand my power. Therefore, you went against the grain to force him into a desperate move seven days later, making him expose all his ans in targeting with sches, and you, then conveniently leave the Demon World, is it not?”
Baili An was very candid: “For His Majesty, Zangxin must be a very good opponent, just as for Zangxin, His Majesty is not as simple as he appears, nor is Zangxin himself.”
Tonight, the Demon Lord’s intent to kill had arisen, yet he survived today.
It was not because Zangxin was lucky, nor was it because the Demon Lord held any lenient thoughts.
There must be unknown reasons that prevent the Demon Lord from truly taking action to kill him.
Zangxin never engages in anything without a sure plan; tonight’s rebellion, if he did not have a complete plan to retreat, he certainly wouldn’t act rashly.
The Demon Lord commands Si He, but how could Si He not also subtly suppress the Demon Lord?
The Female Demon Lord’s gaze was sinister: “Turns out from the beginning, you never intended to be my Royal Consort, even the wager was just your delaying tactic!”
Baili An shook his head and said, “This is no less than His Majesty’s own delaying tactic. The ancient secrets recorded at the Gate have long since been destroyed; even if I read all the ancient secrets of Yihe, it’s impossible to find the specific location of the Gate.”
The Female Demon Lord was montarily stunned, as if she hadn’t expected Baili An’s thoughts to be so clear. She imdiately sneered and said, “I have never deceived you. The records of the Gate were indeed in the first batch of ancient secrets I gave you, except that they were disguised as insignificant ancient secrets using secret languages, and then they were disassembled into thousands of words and separately hidden in every book of ancient secrets.”
Although she did not lie, the secret languages have been lost for ten thousand years; not to ntion Baili An, whose bone age is no more than two hundred, even the knowledgeable and cunning Erhe Zangxin struggled to decipher even fragnts of these languages.
And the content of the first batch of ancient secrets Baili An had read was already burned and destroyed by the Female Demon Lord upon his return.
For Baili An to find any traces of the records about the Gate within them was no different from wishful thinking.
This is why, for half a month, Baili An was not at all worried about that ancient secret wager.
Instead, he knew that the Demon Lord never intended to let him win.
Since she had planned it, naturally she would complete it by any ans necessary.
“But now, why do you seem a bit unperturbed?” The Female Demon Lord intently gazed at Baili An.
Outside the hall, the blizzard grew fiercer, and the long wind swept up snowflakes the size of a hand, fluttering the hall curtains.
Baili An spread his palm, catching a delicate snowflake, and laughed, “This snow, could it have co from the North?”
Arao slowly lifted her gaze, looking at the heavy snowfall as if nostalgically rembering an old acquaintance; her calm gaze was underlined by a bloodthirsty implication, yet it was terrifying: “You already guessed it.”
Baili An raised his eyebrows, side-eyeing her: “I wonder if this counts as winning the bet?”
Arao’s face turned icy: “Of course not. You did not accurately pinpoint the specific location of the Gate within the ancient secrets, and since Ning Feiyan gave you the answer, how can it be valid?”
This move was clearly shaless.
Baili An smiled and shook his head, not arguing further with her.
Half a month ago, Ning Feiyan left Royal City in a hurry and suddenly. Everyone at Chao Mu Hall, including Su Jing and Yin Baishuang, thought she had recklessly slept with the first man in the Demon Lord’s harem, and had thus provoked the wrath of Tai Sui and was fleeing for her life.
But Baili An knew well that even if Ning Feiyan wanted to flee for her life, she would definitely not escape northward.
At the northern end lies Beiyuan Forest.
The holand of the Enchanting Demon.
In her youth, Ning Feiyan fought a renowned battle against the Demon Lord, then an abandoned demon, in Beiyuan Forest, claiming the position of the lord of Si He.
It was also that year she officially left her holand, and through the ages traveled across the Four Seas and Eight Desolates, Five Realms of mountains and rivers, yet never managed to return ho.
But now, she was heading north.
Despite Ning Feiyan’s silence on the matter of the Gate, she and Baili An had a tacit understanding, reaching an unspoken consensus.
Seven days later at the Phoenix King’s Soul Banquet, the Gate hidden far in the north…
Was clearly an almost impossible predicant to reverse, yet Arao saw the confident smile on Baili An’s face, as if certain that in the short span of seven days, Ning Feiyan would inevitably find the location of the Gate.
He had placed the crucial last move on Ning Feiyan?!
A re acquaintance of only a few short months—the Enchanting Demon—could make him lower all defenses and offer his trust completely?!
And she, his constant companion day and night, pleasing him at every turn, couldn’t even exchange a mont of his sincere attention?
At this mont, Arao was furious. She had thought her heart, already scabbed over and full of scars, would no longer feel sorrow, yet the intense emotions in her chest clearly told her otherwise.
No matter when or where, what she received from him were always bleeding wounds.
Arao slowly closed her eyes, her expression unexpectedly calm and composed: “You seem to always foresee things more than I do, but tonight, unguardedly revealing everything—aren’t you afraid I’ll kill you and Ning Feiyan?”
Baili An pondered for a mont, then said: “The Demon Lord’s killing at Mohe wasn’t just to fulfill the purpose of ‘mastery in action,’ right?”
This isn’t the Monarch’s Return Banquet of the Wash River Ceremony.
The Demon Lord missed the best chance to kill the Demon Lord; Ning Feiyan has returned to Beiyuan Forest, the deep woods of the Enchanting Demon’s holand.
Furthermore, she possesses the Divine Origin Bead nurtured in Beiyan Forest; now that she’s returned to that body, naturally both her body and soul are deeply protected and favored by the deep woods.
The Female Demon Lord’s desire to kill her is no longer an easy task.
The Female Demon Lord’s expression was not as gloomy as before, and she was silent for a mont before speaking: “Your tiring efforts to escape from truly bore ; it’s also clear making realize how the forcibly twisted fruit truly isn’t sweet. I don’t want to keep a re shell here, with the heart elsewhere—so be it, if you do not anticipate that marriage, I won’t force you.”
Such a straightforward attitude of letting go left Baili An stunned.
“Are you looking at like that because you think I might deceive you?”
Baili An found her gaze sincere, seemingly not feigned, with sudden realization like a mont of clarity.
The intense, hot, sticky, uncomfortable light in her eyes vanished, leaving only calm.
Despite his surprise, Baili An felt sowhat gratified.
He did not know which aspect of his detailed behavior had awakened her understanding.
He smiled sincerely: “Thus, I thank Your Majesty for your blessing.”
Yet Baili An didn’t notice that the Demon Lord’s self-address had silently changed from “I” to “We.”
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