I was born a god, the son of the Demon Lord.

Tianxing's face turned green.

His strongest move was as fragile as paper in front of his opponent.

Shen Jiuyuan gave him no chance to catch his breath.

The black scythe twirled in his hand, slashing one after another in rapid succession. Each strike carried the power to shatter the void, each strike deadly, each strike sealing off any escape route.

Tianxing could only desperately activate the Four Symbols Plate Array to continuously block, with the Heaven Plate, Earth Plate, Human Plate, and God Plate taking turns to resist, shattering, repairing, and shattering again.

He was forced to retreat, the ground beneath his feet plowed out by the residual force of the sickle.

"Shen Jiuyuan!" Tianxing yelled as she dodged the attack, "You son of a bitch, you've gone mad! Having a child has turned this demon into a lunatic!"

The seventh strike landed.

Tianxing's defensive array was mostly destroyed, and he was slammed three feet into the ground.

Shen Jiuyuan's voice came crashing down from above.

"Who told you to call my child a jinx?"

"I'm talking about natural disasters! Natural disasters! Not jinxes!"

Tianxing poked his head out of the pit and argued vehemently, "Besides, that was the divination I calculated! Why don't you blame Heaven!"

The eighth cut.

Tianxing was photographed back into the pit.

"My daughter is clearly an auspicious omen." Shen Jiuyuan's tone left no room for argument.

Tianxing rolled his eyes in anger inside the pit. So, high combat power means you can say whatever you want? You call it an auspicious omen? Then what is he, Tianxing Daoist, who has been divining for a thousand years? Nothing at all?

He struggled to pull half of his body out of the ground and frantically turned his head to look in the direction of his wish.

"Sister Yuan! Save my life!" Tianxing screamed hoarsely, "I'll tell you all of Shen Gou's dark history! Back then he—"

Before he could finish speaking, a golden arrow grazed his scalp and pierced through the remaining half of the Tower of Babel behind him.

Tianxing's voice abruptly stopped.

He slowly turned his head.

Holding the Sunset Divine Bow, Xu Yuan was frighteningly calm, his golden eyes revealing no emotion.

"The next arrow won't miss."

Tianxing pulled his head back into the pit.

It’s over.

Couples playing mixed doubles.

Tianxing didn't really want to recall it.

All I remember is the black scythe and the golden arrow falling alternately, his Four Symbols Heavenly Disc clanging and rattling, and him rolling eighteen times on the ground before finally being smashed into a ten-meter-deep pit in an extremely humiliating position—face down.

The whole world finally fell silent.

a long time.

Tianxing struggled to climb out of the mound of earth, his upper body barely visible. His purple robe was torn to shreds, and his long white hair was disheveled, covered in mud and pebbles.

He looked up and met Xu Yuan's condescending gaze.

Xu Yuan sighed and put away the Sunset Divine Bow.

"Tianxing, hand over the Hunyuan Heavenly Disc." Her tone was slightly calmer than before. "I won't continue dismantling this Tower of Babel."

Tianxing was stunned.

Then she realized what she wanted and was so angry she almost fainted.

"Have you all forgotten who gave this to me?" Tianxing held the cracked celestial plate, his face full of disbelief. "This is a magical artifact bestowed upon me by the Daoist! How dare you take it!"

Shen Jiuyuan landed beside Xu Yuan and said calmly, "He's the one who sent us to retrieve it."

Tianxing's mouth was halfway open when he froze.

"...What did you say?"

Shen Jiuyuan repeated impatiently, "Let us take it back. Just bring it here already, stop dawdling."

Before Tianxing could even hold onto her treasure, the Heavenly Disc had already flown out of her hand and landed steadily in Shen Jiuyuan's palm.

"you!"

Shen Jiuyuan didn't even glance at him, and handed the Heavenly Disc to Xu Yuan beside him.

"Keep it safe, and give it to Little Phoenix when you've collected them all."

Xu Yuan took the celestial disc and casually put it into his sleeve. The two exchanged a glance and turned around at the same time, perfectly in sync.

There was no farewell, no explanation.

The two figures, one golden and one black, transformed into streaks of light and vanished into the night sky in the blink of an eye.

Tianxing remained in the position of half his body sticking out of the pit, staring blankly in the direction they had disappeared.

Ten breaths have passed.

"You two heartless bastards!" Tianxing's roar echoed across the wilderness. "At least help me out of that ditch—!"

Only the night wind responded to him.

Tianxing lay on the edge of the pit, his spiritual energy so depleted that he couldn't even pull himself out. He sniffed and let out a mournful cry into the empty night sky.

"Lin Qingyue—! I've missed you so much while I'm stuck in this pit! Come quick and heal those two!"

In the empty wilderness, only rubble slid down from the ruins of the Tower of Babel.

……

In a side room of an inn, the candlelight cast four small shadows on the wall.

Xu Nanyi sat cross-legged on the large wooden bed, with a white porcelain medicine bottle and several clean gauze strips spread out in front of her knees, applying medicine to Wu Qiyue's exposed forearm.

The wound wasn't deep, but the exposed flesh looked rather horrifying.

Wu Qiyue turned her head completely in the opposite direction and closed her eyes tightly.

Little Stone obediently squatted on her other side, his two chubby hands covering her eyes, even though he had already closed them himself.

"Waaah...it hurts so much..." Wu Qiyue's voice was choked with sobs, and her body was still trembling slightly.

Xu Nanyi spread the ointment evenly and gently blew on the wound.

"Who told you to rush up and fight someone today?"

Wu Qiyue's tears were still clinging to her eyelashes, but upon hearing these words, her back instantly straightened.

"Who told them to insult my Lord of the Underworld first!"

Her voice was crisp and clear, filled with righteous indignation, "My studies are almost killing me, and I haven't said a word to her! What right do others have to say anything to her!"

Shen Xizhou sat at the foot of the bed, arms crossed, his face turned away from the window.

"What does that have to do with me... with that Lord of the Underworld?"

Wu Qiyue turned her head back, her eyes sparkling.

"Of course it's related! I..." She paused, puffed out her cheeks, "I'm not telling you."

Then she moved closer to Xu Nanyi, a bright smile spreading across her face.

"I'll tell you, Yiyi!"

Xu Nanyi continued working with her hands, and upon hearing this, she blinked her amber eyes.

"Okay, whisper it to me." She obediently turned her head and brought her ear close to Wu Qiyue's mouth. "I won't tell anyone."

Shen Xizhou's head was turned away from them, his ears standing straight up.

If he hadn't known that his sister was trying to get information out of him, he would have had a real problem with it.

Wu Qiyue put her hands together to form a small megaphone, covered Xu Nanyi's ear, lowered her voice, and said mysteriously.

"I'll tell you a secret... actually, I'm her best subordinate!"

Xu Nanyi's eyelashes trembled.

How come she didn't know?

Seeing the confused look on her face, Wu Qiyue assumed that the other woman was surprised because she knew that the daughter of the Demon Emperor didn't have many people around her. She patted her chest and smiled even more proudly.

"Although she hasn't seen me yet! I've been waiting for her for a hundred years!" Wu Qiyue became more and more excited as she spoke, jumping up from the bed, hands on her hips, her little braid swinging back and forth.

"I've studied witchcraft for a full hundred years for her! So with my help, she'll definitely become the most powerful ruler in the history of the Nine Netherworlds! Haha!"