"She colluded with the demon race and betrayed this Venerable, framing the Dragon God's daughter. This Venerable was merely cleaning house, what business is it of yours!" Ju Xin said without restraint.
"She is one of our demon race. It is not for you to deal with her. You deserve to die!"
Feng Du was furious. He had long considered Xuan Ji his future queen. Knowing she possessed demon blood only strengthened his resolve to completely transform Xuan Ji into a demon, hence he planted the demon seed within her.
It turned out that in the past, due to discord among the great Demon Kings of the demon race, Feng Du was among those who opposed cooperating with extraterrestrial gods and demons to attack the Divine Wood Realm. He was jointly sealed in the Endless Barren Land by the Demon Lord and the great Demon Kings. When the Blue Demon Woman was giving birth, fearing that the demon race would discover her child had immortal blood, she hid in the Endless Barren Land to give birth to Xuan Ji.
Xuan Ji was born with innate immortal spiritual energy, and inadvertently unsealed Feng Du's seal. Upon emerging from the seal, Feng Du saw the Blue Demon Woman, who had fainted from exertion after childbirth. Examining the female infant, he saw she was a hybrid of immortal and demon, and realized she had saved him.
Looking at the wailing infant, who, upon seeing him, opened her beautiful, large eyes, her clear gaze reflecting his own ugly form, a strong voice within Feng Du declared that he wanted to claim the infant as his own. Under a strange compulsion, he planted the demon seed within her. Before he could leave, he sensed someone approaching, and a powerful immortal being at that. Feng Du was extremely weak at the time, and with a newborn infant still bearing the scent of blood, escape was impossible. He quickly burrowed into the ground and fled.
The one who arrived was Haotian Divine Venerable, disguised. He had sensed the birth of his bloodline and had come searching. Seeing the comatose demoness on the ground, he had intended to kill her, but upon seeing the wailing infant, he ultimately did not act. After assisting her recovery, he quietly took the infant and left the Endless Barren Land. He then found a random family in the immortal realm to adopt her before departing.
At this moment, Feng Du furiously unleashed his "Demon King's Kiss," filling the sky with demonic energy, which alerted the divine guards of the Azure Sea Blue Sky. Everywhere it spread, all immortal plants and spiritual herbs rapidly withered.
"How dare you, demon, come here to cause trouble!" a divine general, clad in black robes and full armor, flew from afar.
Upon seeing Ju Xin and Long Hu Hu, the newcomer was startled!
"Venerable, your subordinate is late!" The newcomer, named Que Yi, had only just emerged from seclusion and was unaware of Divine Venerable Ju Xin's return.
"General Que Yi, you are truly something! Hurry and capture this Demon King!" Ju Xin said with a cold face. The lax defenses of the entire Azure Sea Blue Sky Mirror and the slackness of the divine soldiers had allowed this demon to sneak in, which greatly angered her!
"Yes!" Que Yi responded and immediately swooped down to block.
"Feng Du, are you trying to reignite the war between immortals and demons? How dare you trespass upon the Azure Sea Heaven!" Que Yi recognized him, as they had interacted countless times during the tens of thousands of years after the Venerable's dissolution.
"Que Yi, get out of the way! I want revenge for Xuan Ji!"
Ju Xin quickly set up a barrier to prevent the demonic energy from spreading. Watching the two fight intensely within, she realized this Demon King was Feng Du. She had heard he had been annihilated by the Demon Lord before her dissolution, so how had he reappeared now? And why was he entangled with Xuan Ji?
"Xuan Ji is from our Azure Sea Heaven. What business is it of yours, Demon King?" Que Yi slashed towards Feng Du with a long saber, radiating killing intent. His entire body was imbued with immortal spiritual energy, rendering the demonic energy useless against him. His practiced technique was the Innate Gang Qi, which was incredibly domineering, and this demonic energy could not harm him.
"Que Yi, you brute, ask your Venerable. She sent Xuan Ji into reincarnation. Would you still serve such a master?" Feng Du knew that Que Yi also harbored feelings for Xuan Ji, and he maliciously provoked him.
"Xuan Ji was sent into reincarnation? When did this happen?"
Que Yi was stunned. Feng Du seized the opportunity, flicked his demon spear, and sent Que Yi flying, crashing into several coiled dragon pillars.
"Trash!" Ju Xin was enraged. With a flick of her hand, two green vines lightning-fast wrapped around Feng Du, binding him and then directly pounding him like a sandbag!
Que Yi, watching from a distance, trembled. His Venerable was as ferocious as ever. His Venerable had truly returned! He had committed a grave offense by doubting the Venerable. Although Xuan Ji was his beloved, her actions had become increasingly erratic in the past tens of thousands of years. When his persuasion failed, he had become disheartened and entered seclusion. He wasn't worried about Xuan Ji doing anything to the ten thousand divine soldiers; without the tiger tally, no one could command them.
However, this did not absolve him of his negligence. With the Venerable's return, the Seven Star Guards would surely return as well. Thinking of the unfathomable methods of Emperor Qing Yang, he swallowed. It was over. Had he emerged from seclusion too early?
Feng Du, bound and being smashed against the ground, was both furious and aggrieved. He hadn't expected his Demon King's Kiss to be useless against Ju Xin. Instead, the green energy from those strange vines countered his demonic arts. Being beaten like a sandbag was a complete humiliation. No wonder the Demon Lord was defeated by her, and to this day, his fate was unknown!
Long Hu Hu, witnessing the scene, felt her sister might be losing control. Was she this violent? Was this the legendary pre-wedding anxiety? Poor Demon King, what had he said to ignite her sister's fury?
Ju Xin's rage was ignited by the destruction of the coiled dragon pillars that recorded her childhood memories. Who dared to cause trouble in the Azure Sea Blue Sky Mirror millions of years ago?
This insignificant Demon King truly had the audacity of a leopard. How dare he destroy her home? Moreover, why hadn't that Hua Xun fellow come running yet? She was truly infuriated!
Ju Xin's face was as cold as ice. The lax vigilance of the divine soldiers and Que Yi's late arrival had already put her in a foul mood, and now she couldn't suppress it any longer.
After everything was over and Hu Hu had purified the demonic energy, she looked at her sister, who stood tall and graceful on the rooftop. Even she dared not approach now. Her sister had once slaughtered vast numbers, striking fear into the hearts of the demon race. The killing aura surrounding her sister at this moment struck fear into both her and Que Yi.
Feng Du, who had been smashed into a pulp, was unrecognizable. He still had a breath left.
Divine Venerable Ye and the Dragon God rushed over upon hearing the news. Their eyes exchanged glances.
"What's wrong with little Ju Xin?" the Dragon God transmitted to Ye Ming.
Ye Ming, upon arriving, saw the broken coiled dragon pillars and understood.
"These coiled dragon pillars were where Xuan Ji and Xun Bao used to measure their heights against each other as children. You can still see the recorded marks on those pillars," Ye Ming explained. He hadn't taken action against Xuan Ji back then precisely because he anticipated how much Xuan Ji meant to his daughter.
Xun Bao, having lost her mother at a young age, learned everything quickly. However, the smarter and more precocious she became, the more lonely she grew. She had finally made a friend, which allowed her to regain some of her childish innocence.
The year she met Xuan Ji, Xun Bao had snuck into the immortal realm while Ye Ming was out of the divine temple. There, she encountered an evil rogue immortal. That rogue immortal took a liking to the beautiful little Ju Xin and lured her, unaware of the wickedness of people. When he realized that little Ju Xin's immortal bones were a rarity of ten thousand years and that she already possessed divinity at such a young age,
his greed intensified. He wanted to use forbidden arts to extract little Ju Xin's immortal bones and steal her divinity. The opponent had drugged Xun Bao, incapacitating her cultivation and techniques. She managed to escape with great difficulty but then fainted. When she awoke, it was to find the six-year-old Xuan Ji saving her. Xuan Ji's magic was weak, and as they were close in age, she painstakingly carried the little Ju Xin and fled. Injured and exhausted, they only managed to return to the divine realm. Ye Divine Venerable, who had tracked his daughter's scent, found them.
From that day forward, the Seven Star Guards were formed. The Divine Venerable, uneasy, personally trained the Seven Star Guards for his daughter's safety!
The Dragon God sighed after listening. His obedient daughter had returned with a drastically changed temperament. The cultivation techniques, formations, and swordsmanship she had previously been lazy to learn, she now practiced day and night without complaint. She became increasingly cold and arrogant, only showing a few smiles when with Xuan Ji.
This was how Ju Xin Divine Venerable came to be.
...
The Dragon God sighed again. So that was it. Seeing how she treated Xuan Ji, he had thought she was detached and indifferent. However, some wounds were internal.