Third-person POV Weisheng and Lu Ping both were surprised to hear the voice
appeared out of nowhere. It took them a few seconds to process what happened
and the quick-witted Lu Ping knew that it would be troublesome if Weisheng
answered the anonymous person when Weisheng was in an extremely bad mood. Lu Ping also deeply aware that the owner of the voice was
not someone he should offend since he could use such an outworld spell-like
waking up the rotting corpses from the ground. Lu Ping graciously stepped
forward and bowed with his fist cupped. "If I may ask, who is this esteemed elder?" Lu Ping politely
inquired. "Elder? I am the guardian of the Cursed Land! The Demon of
Mischievous, Tao Qi! How dare you mortals intrude my land and destroyed
everything?!" Tao Qi bellowed with his real voice. (A/N: Tao Qi is the demon of mischievous, that''s why he has the body of a child. But he used his demon voice a.k.a real voice when he talked to
Weisheng. And that''s why Lu Ping addressed him as an esteemed elder because his
voice is very deep and sounds like an old man that smoked too many cigarettes.) Lu Ping and Weisheng stared at each other as they hadn''t met
real demon in their life. They only heard about the demons from books and
stories therefore it was shocking to find the guardian of the Cursed Land to be
a demon rather than a spirit. Lu Ping quickly regained his composure and beamed
a friendly smile. "Ah~ Our apologies, we came here to find something and didn''t
mean to disturb your rest. And if it is not a blunder of mine to ask, do you
happen to see a lady with injuries in her eyes?" Lu Ping disregarded Tao Qi''s
rampage and went straight to the point. "Lady? There is none. Even if there is, she would be dead as
soon as she entered. You asked a question and I answered it. Now scram!" Tao Qi
roared. Weisheng narrowed his eyes in suspicion and thrust his sword
to the ground. His dark power flowed from his sword to the ground and caused
the ground to shook fiercely that it caught Tao Qi off guard. As a result of the tremor that Weisheng caused, tiny
bits of pebbles and soil feel from the ceiling. Tao Qi quickly put on a
protective shield around Hong er and him in fear the ceiling of the cave
collapsed and killed the currently fragile Hong er. Hong er tugged Tao Qi''s collar and incoherently scolded him.
But Tao Qi only patted her hand to reassure Hong er as he had a more important
business to deal with Weisheng. Tao Qi stared at Weisheng''s crimson''s eyes with
black sclera surrounding it which ridiculously similar to a demon''s eyes when
they use their power. ''This mortal brat is demon descendant? No, it is impossible,
it must be only a pure coincidence. If a demon had a child whether it is with other
demon or another species, they have to take full responsibility of the child
and must not be thrown to the human world as it will disturb the balance of the
world. Maybe a noble family was blessed with red eyes like a demon when I was resting in the mountain. But is it possible for a mere noble
human to change the color of its sclera?'' Tao Qi racked his brain whilst biting
his nail. Then he parted his lips to ask, "The guy with red eyes.
Which family are you from?" Weisheng''s brows twitched in annoyance, "The f*ck do I have
to tell you?" Weisheng''s usually aloof image disappeared as the anger had
eaten up his brain. Hong er strictly prohibited him to curse as she was afraid
that their child would follow the bad behavior. As there was a saying, children
are a reflection of the parents. Moreover, they are public figures and showing such crude behavior to the public is very disgraceful for the Liu Royal Family. If
by any chance, other kids followed the behavior that their emperor and princes
displayed, it would stain their reputation even in the eye of the commoners.
However, he didn''t care any of that. As long as he can see his wife, he would
do anything. "I am asking you a question and you just need to answer it,
you mortal. Your red eyes, is it a blessing? Since when?" Tao Qi demanded as
his voice grew firmer. A surge of Weisheng''s dark power exploded and caused the
trees around him to blown away, "Liu family, 112 years ago." "Liu family? I never heard of that name." Tao Qi
nonchalantly spoke. "My great great great grandparents saved a spirit king that
was detained by the previous emperor. Therefore, granted the blessing of the
spirit king. Satisfied?" Weisheng said grudgingly. Tao Qi''s lips formed into a wide grin and laughed hysterically,
''Spirit king? More like, a demon king!'' Weisheng shoot another wave of his dark power into his dark
power and created a hollow on the ground where he was standing. Tao Qi''s brows arched in interest as his true nature started
to re-surface from seeing Weisheng''s rampage reaction. "I know enough. So don''t destroy my favorite mountain. It filled
with too many corpses and it is hard for me to clean up the mess. I swear under
God of Darkness, Hei An, that no one entered the Cursed Land today expect you
bunch." Tao Qi purposely silenced the ''today'' word and only lip-synced the
word. With his palm placed on his chest, an enormous red magic
circle appeared above the mountain where he was hiding. Weisheng and Lu Ping
were instantly convinced that Tao Qi wasn''t lying when there was no lightning
struck the magic circle. This act has been done for a long time and one of
the most ancient spell that was still being used nowadays. It was very simple.
One had to swear under the god that they were serving, the stronger the god is,
the more effective it is. Usually human with average power couldn''t use the spell
because it consume abundant amount of Qi depends on the rank of the god that
they swore under. So they called a
priest or anyone that had enough Qi to perform the spell which generally needs
a lot of money. And the most usual god that people chose is the five main
element god or goddess. The name of Goddess
of Light, Sheng Jie, was only used on special cases such as noble trial which
rarely happens regarding how disgraceful it is to lose the trial. Since Tao Qi is a
demon, the god that he served under is undoubtedly Hei An, God of Darkness. The
consequence if the statement that they declared was different from the truth is
lightning would strike them 3 times. Knowing that the last
resort proved that Hong er wasn''t in the Cursed Land, Weisheng retracted his
dark power and unsummoned his sword. Weisheng reluctantly
stepped forward and bowed, "I apologize for my misbehavior. We will leave this
instance." "Hmph! You had offended
me once, don''t you dare step even a foot in my land ever again!" They turned around and left the Cursed Land with an
extremely depressed on their faces. But Tao Qi didn''t manage to see it as he
immediately closed his water mirror the moment Weisheng decided to withdraw. Hong er that had been standing behind him sighed in relief
when the earthquake finally stopped. Then she took his small hand with her
rough slender hand. ''Don''t push yourself too hard.'' Hong er drew a smiley face
with two small horns on top. Tao Qi''s face softened as his heart filled with an indescribable
emotion. "You are the only person that genuinely cares about me
despite knowing that I am a demon king." Tao Qi patted her head. He grabbed his hand and excitedly wrote, ''We are family, I am
your grandfather and you are my granddaughter.'' He ended with a drawing of his and Hong er''s smiling face
next to each other but with a halo on top of Hong er''s head. "Devil and angel? What a weird combination!" Tao Qi laughed
at his weird imagination.