As a result, whenever they discussed important matters of the Demon Realm together, he thought that there was no such person as King Qi at all.
But why did King Qi react so strongly to the alliance between the celestial and demonic realms?
The Demon Emperor frowned, thinking seriously. It seemed that there were some unstable factors in their Demon Realm as well.
The demon realm and the immortal realm are both watching and seeing how the demon realm will weather this chaotic situation.
After searching for three days, there was still no news from the Demon Lord. All the elders were in the main hall, waiting for news, only to be met with disappointment time and time again.
As for Wuchen Residence, the men Mo Yun sent out did not report back.
The news from Wuchenju dealt a further blow to the Demon Lord and his group.
We have no idea what the outcome will be, or what will happen to the demon realm if things continue like this.
Just as everyone was in a panic, Yu Jinshuo, who had caused chaos in the demon realm, quietly arrived at a certain place.
That was a forbidden area in the demon realm, a place no one in the demon realm would ever set foot in, and which had recently brought disaster to the demon realm's capital.
Yu Jinshuo did not go to the place where Liu Xinya and the others entered last time, but went around to a place that would not be discovered by others. This place was also well protected to prevent the leakage of the power within the forbidden area.
Looking at the forbidden area, Yu Jinshuo stood quietly for a while before stepping inside.
As Yu Jinshuo entered the forbidden area, a bright light flashed deep within, quickly disappearing without a trace, as if it hadn't been noticed.
As Yu Jinshuo entered, the dormant power within the forbidden area slowly began to surge, detecting the intruder and entering a state of alert.
Yu Jinshuo sensed the reaction of the power within the forbidden area, but he did not stop and continued to move forward, without even a hint of vigilance, as if he did not take the power within the forbidden area seriously at all.
Gradually, the surrounding forces began to react, and even faint physical entities could be seen surging in the air like ocean waves, surrounding Yu Jinshuo and eventually engulfing him.
As the power accumulated, it finally reached the limit that the forbidden area's power could tolerate with Yu Jinshuo's entry. Suddenly, the ethereal waves surged up and rushed towards Yu Jinshuo.
Yu Jinshuo did not use any of the power in his body, but simply turned around abruptly, glaring angrily at the void waves that were about to rush towards him.
As the ethereal waves approached, a bright crimson light suddenly appeared on Yu Jinshuo's forehead. When the light faded, it revealed a mark that resembled a flame, vividly alive as if it were burning and leaping.
The ethereal waves seemed terrified of the flame mark, and with a whoosh, they quickly rolled back, no longer daring to approach Yu Jinshuo.
Yu Jinshuo snorted coldly, turned around, and continued to walk deeper into the forbidden area.
The forces from those forbidden areas ceased their pursuit and retreated, allowing Yu Jinshuo to roam freely.
Soon, Yu Jinshuo crossed the canyon and arrived at the depths of the forbidden area.
They stopped in front of a mountain hollow, where the weeds had withered and yellowed, blocking the entrance to the hollow. The desolate and bleak atmosphere almost brought tears to Yu Jinshuo's eyes.
He reached out and touched the flame mark on his forehead. The mark emitted a glimmer of light, a fleeting glimmer that seemed to have startled the people in the mountain valley.
"Who?" The familiar female voice was the same one that had spoken when the power of the forbidden area erupted that day.
"Sister." Yu Jinshuo tried hard to control his emotions, but even so, his voice still trembled.
An eerie silence fell over the valley, as if the sound just now was Yu Jinshuo's imagination and had never existed.
Yu Jinshuo took a deep breath, closed his eyes briefly, then opened them again, staring at the entrance to the valley, and whispered, "Sister, it's me. Don't you remember me?"
His only response was complete silence; there wasn't even a sound of wind.
Yu Jinshuo seemed to be getting a little impatient. He reached out to push aside the obstructing withered yellow weeds.
The moment his fingers touched the withered weeds, a sudden burning pain shot through him, causing Yu Jinshuo to instinctively pull his arm back.
He looked up, holding his palm up to his eyes. Seeing only a burning sensation on his fingers, but no burns, he sighed softly and looked up into the depths of the mountain valley: "Sister, it's me. You don't care about me, but don't you care about Xinyi either?"
"Xinyi?" The woman inside finally reacted upon hearing these two words, her voice filled with confusion and doubt. It seemed that these two words were very familiar to her, yet she couldn't recall them immediately.
Ignoring what the woman inside was thinking, Yu Jinshuo took a step forward, pushed aside the withered weeds, and barged in.
A powerful surge of flames seemed poised to engulf Yu Jinshuo, but he remained oblivious to the terrifying heat and continued walking forward.
Not only did they not avoid it, they went straight at it.
Just as the flames were about to touch Yu Jinshuo, the flame mark on his forehead suddenly flickered, and the flames in the ravine immediately receded.
"Jin Shuo?" The woman's voice was filled with surprise and joy, as if she had regained consciousness.
“Sister.” Yu Jinshuo’s eyes lit up, knowing that the woman had recognized him.
He quickened his pace and ran inside.
Deep in the mountain valley, a graceful figure emerged. Her face, which had not been seen for a long time, was still the same, only now it looked more haggard.
Yu Jinshuo stopped in his tracks. He clearly wanted to see her, but when he saw someone familiar, he didn't dare to approach, fearing that it was just an illusion that would shatter at the slightest touch.
"Jin Shuo..." The woman smiled with delight upon seeing Yu Jin Shuo.
“Sister…” With his closest relative in the world right in front of him, Yu Jinshuo’s voice choked with emotion.
The woman took two steps forward and went to meet her: "You're such a grown-up, why are you still acting like a child?"
"Sister, I miss you." Only in front of his sister could Yu Jinshuo let go of all his burdens and feel as if he had returned to his childhood, when he was cared for by his sister.
"Come, come here, let your sister take a good look at you." The woman tried to suppress her excitement, but her trembling hands betrayed her feelings. She reached out and gently stroked Yu Jinshuo's cheek, choking back tears, "You've grown up, you've grown taller... Good, good..."
Yu Jinshuo let the woman touch his cheek; the warm touch made him feel as if he had returned to his carefree childhood.
"Yes, I've grown up." Yu Jinshuo said, smiling, his eyes slightly moist.
"It's been so long, you should have grown up by now." When the woman mentioned the word "time," her eyes seemed to glaze over, as if she had thought of something, and the light in her eyes quickly dimmed.
Not wanting to continue the topic, the woman quickly composed herself and asked, "Jin Shuo, what made you decide to come here?"
"Sister, do you know what's happening in the demon realm right now?" Yu Jinshuo asked instead of answering.
The woman paused for a moment, then said, "I don't want to get involved in the affairs of the demon realm anymore." Her soft words couldn't hide her dejection.
"Sister, is someone trying to kill me and they're not even doing anything about it?" Yu Jinshuo's words startled the woman, who looked up anxiously and asked, "What's going on?"
Chapter 129: A Journey of Contemplation
Faced with the woman's urgent questioning, Yu Jinshuo did not answer immediately. Instead, he turned his head to the side and asked, "Sister, how much longer are you going to stay here?"
"The demon realm belongs to us, not that man," Yu Jinshuo said loudly, ignoring the woman's reply. "We're family, what is he?"
The woman, Yu Jinshuo's older sister Yu Lijin, looked up at Yu Jinshuo with a complicated expression: "Isn't he doing a pretty good job as the Demon Lord?"
"Is that good?" Yu Jinshuo chuckled strangely. "As the ruler of the demon realm, you can't protect it yourself and have to rely on the power of the demon god. Is that considered good?"
Yu Jinshuo's sarcasm made Yu Lijing feel uncomfortable. Clearly, she didn't want to talk about this topic and asked the question that had been bothering her: "What did you just say? Who wants to kill you?"
“He’s my good brother-in-law.” Yu Jinshuo said through gritted teeth without thinking. When he mentioned him, he immediately thought of the cold pit in the dark night and the pungent smell of bone-dissolving water that wafted into his nose.
He had been so close to death, so close that he would never forget it.
"Him?" Yu Lijin covered her mouth in surprise, preventing herself from exclaiming, her face full of disbelief. "Why would he want to kill you?"
“My nephew’s strength is insufficient to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the Demon Lord. He probably doesn’t want me to inherit the position of Demon Lord,” Yu Jinshuo said nonchalantly.
"Nonsense!" Yu Lijing frowned, her pale face full of disapproval. "Xinyi's strength is insufficient, so it is only natural for you to inherit the position of Demon Lord. What? Does he want to monopolize the position of Demon Lord?"
Yu Jinshuo could only shake his head helplessly at Yu Lijing's words: "Sister, you've been here for too long. He must have changed by now."
"Why do you say that? What did you discover?" Yu Lijing narrowed her eyes and pressed for an answer.
"Over the years, he hasn't given Xinyi any special guidance. He's just let him grow up as he pleases, and now Xinyi has become an idle playboy." Yu Jinshuo said with a regretful expression when he mentioned Yu Xinyi.
"How could this happen?" Yu Lijing was clearly surprised that her son had turned out this way. She frowned in astonishment. "Xinyi was quite talented when he was young. Even if he couldn't become a standout among the younger generation, there was absolutely no way he would become a spoiled brat."
Yu Lijing had not seen her son for a long time, but the image of Yu Xinyi as a well-behaved and adorable child remained in her mind.
She simply couldn't imagine her son associating with a good-for-nothing playboy who did nothing all day.
“I know what Xinyi was like when she was little. What she was like when she was little is not important. What is important is how she was raised.” Yu Jinshuo did not specify whose fault it was, but could Yu Lijing not understand the implication in his words?
"How could he do this to my child!" Yu Lijing frowned, her eyes burning with anger, on the verge of exploding. Suddenly, a raging fire appeared out of nowhere on the dry, hard ground behind her.
"I'll tear him to pieces!" Yu Lijing roared through gritted teeth, her eyes already lost in a frenzied daze.
Yu Jinshuo's pupils contracted, and he sighed inwardly. Sure enough, his sister's mind was still unclear.
Despite so many years of quiet solitude, her mind seemed to show no signs of recovery; she remained in a state of alternating clarity and madness.
"Let's go! Jinshuo, let's go find him!" Yu Lijing grabbed Yu Jinshuo's arm, and because she completely forgot to control her strength, Yu Jinshuo couldn't help but cry out in pain.
Hearing Yu Jinshuo's cry of pain, Yu Lijing regained some of her senses. Looking down at her pale arm that Yu Jinshuo had gripped so tightly, she quickly let go and apologized repeatedly, "Are you alright? I was careless... How are you? Let me see."
"It's nothing," Yu Jinshuo said with a smile, not paying attention to the pain he had been in, but instead saying with concern, "Why don't you go check on Xinyi?"
"Don't just talk about Xinyi. He wanted to kill you because he wanted to seize the position of Demon Lord, right?" Yu Lijing finally remembered the key question: that person wanted to kill her precious younger brother. How could she allow such a thing to happen?
"Maybe I was too hasty." Yu Jinshuo was very smart. He knew how protective his sister was, he knew about the "relationship" between his sister and the Demon Lord, and he understood that sometimes it was better to take a step back.
"In a hurry?" Sure enough, Yu Lijin was unhappy when she heard Yu Jinshuo say that. "What do you mean by in a hurry? Since Xinyi's strength is not enough, it is natural for you to take the position of Demon Lord."
Yu Lijing snorted coldly: "The only reason I made him do it back then was because of the turmoil in the Three Realms."
I'm glad the Demon Lord isn't here, otherwise hearing those words would have made me want to vomit blood and die.
"Come on, I'll go with you and see what he's up to." Yu Lijin snorted coldly. She refused to believe that the man in the demon realm could possibly rebel against the heavens.
Having achieved his goal, Yu Jinshuo was no longer in a hurry. He comforted Yu Lijin, "Sister, don't rush. I've built my own forces over the years. Let's contact my trusted subordinates first, and then see if the Demon Lord's position goes to Xinyi or..."
"No need to say anything more." Yu Lijing waved her hand, stopping Yu Jinshuo from speaking. "Since Xinyi's strength is not strong, the position of Demon Lord is naturally yours."
“Actually, my sister can also regain her position as the Demon Lord,” Yu Jinshuo said.
Yu Lijing gave a self-deprecating laugh: "Don't be silly. I know my own situation. My mind is always muddled, and it's rare for me to be clear-headed."
As he spoke, he reached out and gently patted his temples; the constant dizziness was really uncomfortable.
"You said you wanted to contact your trusted subordinates, go now, don't waste any more time. If you wait too long, who knows what he'll do, and whether I'll still be conscious." As she spoke, Yu Lijing's voice was filled with undisguised desolation.
"Okay." Yu Jinshuo said, turning and leaving.
Yu Lijing stood still, her beautiful eyes containing a raging storm, her delicate features gradually distorting as if she were desperately suppressing something.