flstandardbreds Chapter 175 The Choice of the Nine Infants
Chapter 175 The Choice of the Nine Infants
After Shi Tian finished speaking, he stood up, waiting for Li Ji to tell him the whereabouts of the evil demon so he could go find him and fight him.
Seeing his unruly behavior, Li Ji couldn't help but scold him: "What have you learned in the two hundred years you've been away?"
"Your reputation among female demons is so well-known that even I have heard of it in Jiuqi City."
"If you weren't Jiuying, you would have suffered sooner or later for being so arrogant and unrestrained outside."
"Although I don't know how that demon obtained your ancestor's essence blood, he must have extraordinary abilities. Why are you rushing over without asking any questions?"
Shi Tian looked indignant, his eyes bloodshot: "My Nine-Headed Serpent's essence blood has fallen into the hands of a mere demon. If word gets out, won't the little demons below us laugh their heads off?"
“I must kill him and retrieve my great-uncle’s blood.”
Li Ji's face immediately turned cold. "If you insist on doing this, I won't tell you."
"Your grandfather died with guilt towards his brothers, and your father, to fulfill your grandfather's last wish, traveled thousands of miles to the human world, risking the exposure of his identity."
"You just killed him without any regard for the situation or asking any questions. How can you face your father?"
“In any case, that demon was the last demon cultivator to see your great-uncle. You have to let your father meet him.”
"At that time, I will have no objection to whatever your father decides to do with him."
The Nine-Headed Serpent Clan is born with nine heads, and therefore possesses nine drops of primordial essence blood.
Essence and blood are only consumed in life-or-death situations, or in short, they are used for explosive release.
However, when facing certain death, the Nine-Headed Serpent will not burn all nine drops of its essence blood, but will leave the last drop of essence blood to wait for its clansmen.
The last essence of blood contains the demonic power of Jiuying before its death, and can preserve the words that Jiuying wanted to send back to its clan before its death.
Once the essence and blood have been purified, they can be left for the younger members of the clan to refine into their own demonic power.
If any demon cultivators of other races were to covet the Nine-Headed Serpent's essence and blood, they would explode and die without the Nine-Headed Serpent's help to purify it.
This can be considered the last act of tenderness from this famously fierce beast clan towards its people.
Now that the demon has clearly refined the essence blood of Shi Tian's great-uncle, it means that it has gained the approval of Jiu Ying. Shi Tian's great-uncle even personally helped him purify the essence blood.
The purified essence and blood cannot be separated at all.
Upon hearing Li Ji's words, Shi Tian immediately deflated. He slumped back into his seat, saying, "My father has been searching for him for two hundred years!"
"My father was searching for him, and now I can't even get in touch with him. He so easily handed over his life essence to a demon."
Shi Tian grumbled, unaware that Mu Yunjian was Jiu Ying's last chance.
Jiuying had no choice but to either give his essence and blood to Muyunjian or remain forever slumbering in the Rakshasa Illusion Sea.
The Rakshasa Sea is so vast that even cultivators above the Foundation Establishment stage cannot enter it, let alone his demon king father.
Let alone two hundred years, even if they searched for another two thousand years, until they found the Rakshasa Illusion Sea and its destruction, they still wouldn't be able to find the whereabouts of their ancestors.
Li Ji sat at the head of the table, not responding to him, and quietly waited for him to finish venting and calm down before speaking.
Fortunately, Shi Tian did not disappoint her; he stopped talking after saying those two sentences.
He said, "Aunt Li, do you mean to imprison him in Jiuqi City and wait for my father to return?"
Li Ji was momentarily speechless at her silly child's question. She said with a straight face, "I have never said such a thing."
"It's better to resolve conflicts than to let them fester. Let's find out more about his background first."
Shi Tian perked up and kept asking, "Where exactly is that demon?"
Li Ji asked, "Can you guarantee you won't harm him?"
Shi Tian sighed, "Since you've said that, why should I kill him? My father hasn't returned from the human realm yet. Let's wait until he comes back."
Thinking about it, his father was quite pitiful. He searched in the human world for two hundred years, and if he didn't even find a trace of it in the end, he would really be furious.
Li Ji secretly breathed a sigh of relief upon receiving this promise.
Shi Tian had already come of age. She didn't know what kind of fortune E Yao would have after obtaining the Nine-Headed Serpent's essence blood, but the E Yao clan was destined to be weak and inferior.
If Shi Tian were determined to kill the other party, it would be a headache for her to protect the demon from Shi Tian's grasp.
Li Ji sighed and said, "This matter begins with the day when it seemed as if the Nine-Headed Serpent had taken human form."
"On the day of the transformation, even the heavens and earth of Jiuqi City began to tremble, and all the demon cultivators in the city heard a roar."
"Your father's former subordinates were so excited that they almost started a rebellion to welcome back their former master. I was worried that the city would be thrown into chaos, so I suppressed them for the time being and sent people to the seaside to scout out the situation."
As Li Ji said this, she glanced at Shi Tian. If Shi Tian hadn't been so unreliable, always running away when he was unhappy, she wouldn't have taken on this mess.
Shi Tian asked, "And then?"
Li Ji said, "That demon did not arrive in the demon realm alone through your father's teleportation array; there were several human cultivators with him."
"Among their group, I think the one we need to pay the most attention to is a red-robed demon cultivator named Di Zhao."
"They look like a fire-elemental winged race, and their fire seems to be a strange flame. It's very peculiar, but I haven't heard of such a person in recent years."
“That Feathered Demon killed Wu Lin and seized that sea area. I thought he would come to Jiuqi City to see me these days, but I didn’t expect him to sit still.”
Shi Tianqi asked, "Why would a bird like him want to take over territory in the sea?"
They released the Nine-Headed Serpent into that area of the sea because they were too lazy to go into the water.
As long as they don't cause any trouble, the Lord of the Seas gives them the respect they deserve, and they usually turn a blind eye.
Li Ji said, "Speaking of which, this matter is somewhat related to you."
In these few days, Li Ji had enough time to figure out the grudge between the Emperor's decree and Wu Lin.
Only those close to the Emperor knew about Lingwan signing the master-servant contract.
So the version that reached Li Ji's ears was: Ling Wan mistakenly believed that Shi Tian's son was undergoing tribulation here, so in a fit of anger she destroyed the teleportation array and used it to blackmail the emperor and his men into helping her take revenge and retrieve her beloved son.
So the emperor ordered Wu Lin to be killed and his territory taken over as well.
Li Ji guessed that the demon was probably one of the Emperor's subordinates, so she was waiting for the Emperor to arrive so she could approach the demon from his side.
But after waiting and waiting, the imperial edict never arrived; instead, Shi Tian returned.
Upon hearing his former lover's name, Shi Tian looked embarrassed and asked, "Ling Wan? Her partner was killed by Wu Lin? Did she save her child?"
Li Ji shook her head: "I only found out about this myself. If I had known a year or two earlier, I would have sent someone to get her child back from Wu Lin."
For the past hundred years, the sea area where the Ling Clan lived was controlled by the Wu Lin Clan. Li Ji was busy with affairs in Jiuqi City, so the affairs of the Ling Clan never reached her ears.
Li Ji herself had a notorious reputation, and Ling Wan didn't know Li Ji well, nor did she know that Li Ji had a very good relationship with Shi Tian. She thought that Li Ji hated the Jiu Ying clan, so she didn't dare to ask her for help.