[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take":3,"chapter-if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-chapter-85":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","If You Will Not Reject Me, I Wish to Bow and Take You as My Adoptive Father",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2276812,4454,"Chapter 85: The Demon Master, Kunpeng","if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-chapter-85",85,"\u003Cp>Bao’an Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Dan sat upright, bowing slightly to the two of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before they could return the gesture, he walked over to the bed on his own, closely examining Xiao Yu lying there, “Sigh, her life... is truly hardy!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t say whether she was lucky or cursed—only that her life was hardy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Changqing looked up at him, puzzled: “Master Li, are you here to find me, or...?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shoujing Palace lies within Luodou’s royal city, once the residence of the Prince of Qinghe when he was still a prince; the Magistrate of Qiyuan is also an official of Shu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, does this Li Dan represent the Prince of Qinghe?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why did the Prince of Qinghe send someone to find him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he had just returned to Tianmen Town when he came looking for him...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Dan regarded him with a sly smile and said, “At Feixian Ferry, due to Guan Huchen’s involvement, you became enemies with Miss Yu; the day before yesterday, under the pretense of paying a visit, you ambushed and severely wounded her.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Changqing pressed his lips together—it wasn’t true, but he understood this was now the only truth officially recognized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Dan added, “The Guan family, reprimanded over the ‘Little Lifu Plan,’ has decided to sever all ties with Miss Yu to ensure mutual safety.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What ‘Little Lifu’?” Song Changqing asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even now, you still don’t know why Guan Huchen adopted her as his daughter? Sha Man Yu bears a striking resemblance to Lady Li, the mother of the Yangyang Marquis. It’s said they look like twin sisters...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Dan pulled over a chair himself and calmly recounted the gist of the “Little Lifu Plan.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Changqing was first stunned, then suddenly understood: “So the Yangyang Marquis was furious over this...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Guan Huchen deserves death for more than just the Little Lifu Plan. The old duck at Yingxiang Pass is truly deserving of his name!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Dan shook his head, offering no further explanation, only fixing his gaze on Song Changqing and asking curiously, “And you—what’s your story? Is it truly as Master Qingsong said, that all your strange actions stem from the karmic consequences of severing the sand dune’s dragon vein—you cut the vein she nurtured, and this time you acted foolishly out of impulse?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I also heard that at Feixian Ferry, when the Eight Immortals shot down the sun, she intercepted Zhou Lang’s flying sword to protect you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or did you simply resent her kind, unable to bear it, and deliberately made the Guan family suffer?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Changqing’s heart burned with anger, sneering: “Your Excellency knows a lot—and has great courage too. This is still Tianmen Town!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is still Shu. I represent the King, I represent the Prince!” Li Dan replied coolly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Changqing grew even angrier: “Shu? What Shu? What King? What Prince of Qinghe? They’re all the same damn scum!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Truly bold! I admire you—genuinely admire you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Dan laughed and bowed to him again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Changqing remained silent, face cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Dan wasn’t embarrassed; he picked up the teapot on the table, poured himself a cup, and sipped slowly: “Miss Yu’s status is extraordinary. The Guan family has abandoned her, but the King and the Prince cannot simply ignore her.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Changqing stayed silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Min the Divine Physician, who had been sitting quietly beside Xiao Yu checking her pulse, finally reacted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For the next three days, she goes nowhere; after three days, you may do as you please.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh? Her injuries are this severe? Even you, Divine Physician Min, need three days to pull her out of danger?” Li Dan exclaimed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She’s extremely weak. Three days may not even be enough for her to wake.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—But within three days, it should be enough for the latent divine ability hidden in her bloodline to awaken... if my judgment is correct, and a second divine ability truly exists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For these three days, I will conceal her spiritual aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her future now depends on her own destiny... sigh, I am but a physician.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yu never expected Song Changqing would ambush her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had even secretly guarded against Madam Wen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though his cloying, whiny behavior made her feel awkward and humiliated, she still clung to Madam Wen, urging her to reveal as much of the Wind-Yin Treasure Mirror as possible—her sole goal: to maximize the “Madam Wen’s Killing Method.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never mind the journey they’d taken together, or their relationship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just consider power—Song Changqing’s realm was inferior to Guan Huchen’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she could kill Guan Huchen using the “Tiger-Slaying Sword Intent” targeting the flaws in the Tiger Soul Seven Kill, she could kill him too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she let her guard down—and Song Changqing ambushed her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, she was utterly bewildered and furious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the next instant, her consciousness plunged into darkness, sinking deeper and deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if beneath her lay an endless abyss, and she was falling, plunging further into deeper, darker depths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until she reached the abyss’s bottom—endless darkness, endless ice, endless water—finally jolting her out of her daze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where am I? This seems like...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked around, more confused than ever: “The ocean? How am I at the bottom of the sea?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding seawater had never known sunlight—only blackness and cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the dark, icy seabed gave her a strange sense of comfort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, when her consciousness was foggy, she had felt unbearable pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, at the bottom of this dark, icy sea, she felt serene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a fish returning to water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This feeling arose from her body’s instinct, clashing with her self-awareness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body felt this place was paradise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mind insisted: I am human—I shouldn’t be in the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m not a fish. I must rise. I must leave this place~~”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thought gradually solidified in her mind, growing stronger and stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the dark, icy sea erupted into a colossal tsunami and storm—the ice and water split apart, surging into waves tens of thousands of zhang high. She shot upward, filling the entire sky, pressing the whole ocean beneath her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That feeling of comfort returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, it wasn’t the ease of a fish entering water—it was the freedom of a bird returning to the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She “turned her head” and saw wings so vast they split the sky in two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each black feather on those wings was immense—any single feather, if it fell, could form an island large enough to house millions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve turned into a bird again? What a huge bird...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then a question flashed through her mind: “When I enter water, I become a fish; when I ascend, I grow wings—then what am I?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She grew confused again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Confused, she plunged headfirst into the dark, icy sea, sinking to the ten-thousand-zhang depths where warmth and safety embraced her. She flicked her tail gently—the ocean surged into waves ten thousand zhang high, stirring heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she leapt again, “Aaaang~~~”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She soared once more, without a single hesitation, spreading her wings and flapping lightly, summoning gales and tsunamis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the boundary between heaven and sea blurred—for her, the world itself had become one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>South of the Four Great Continents, Zhannan Continent lies at the center; south of Zhannan lies the Southern Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the east, separated from Dongsheng Shen Continent by the Eastern Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the north, separated from Beiju Lu Continent by the Northern Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the west, it connects with Xiniu He Continent at the northern corner, with the Western Sea between them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet west of Xiniu He Continent, mountains and seas still exist; east of Dongsheng Shen Continent, mountains and seas still exist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the farthest north of Beiju Lu Continent lies the Endless Sea—called “Beiming”!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Xiao Yu’s consciousness sank into darkness, shifting between becoming a fish in water and a bird with wings, deep within Beiming Sea, a colossal, continent-sized kui fish stirred awake in its slumber, moving slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had no wish to move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For countless tens of millions of years, it had lain motionless as a dead fish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, it was too excited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heaven above! Since I injected that strand of essence into the Kunlun Mirror, forty million years have passed... hahaha...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It laughed, bitter yet joyful: “Forty million years—countless cycles of sea turning to mulberry fields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mount Buzhou collapsed; the primordial earth shattered into fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Jun of the demons perished; the demon celestial court truly lost its heavenly mandate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My demon race, like the ancient clans before us, has been dethroned from the throne of ‘lords of heaven and earth.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the innate supreme treasure, the Kunlun Mirror, was shattered into fragments, lost in the river of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My child, you have finally been born, finally returned from time, born in this primordial world... how arduous it has been.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since you’ve been born as I planned, the one thread of the Purple Qi of Hongmeng that escaped the Great Dao must have awakened within you, yes?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hahaha! My chance to attain the Dao has appeared—the Sainthood is within reach!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My child, grow quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strengthen your bloodline, reveal your divine abilities, let your father pinpoint you precisely, then...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It swallowed hard, exerting immense effort to suppress its greed and ecstasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, softly, it transmitted its voice a million li away: “Peng San, come to me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A million li away, on a continent near Beiju Lu Continent within Beiming Sea, a crowned monarch tossed aside the half-eaten skull of a human palace maid, leapt three thousand zhang into the air, spread wings that blotted out the sun, and with a single flap, flew one hundred and eight thousand li.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the great peng arrived above a dark, icy sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aaaang!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It cried out in excitement, hurtling downward—just before hitting the water, its thousand-zhang body shrank into a tiny black dot—a tall, five-meter-tall nobleman with a pale face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five meters tall, powerfully built, yet handsome, clad in brocade robes, dignified and noble, like a prince from the heart of the Central Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Peng, you’ve finally awakened!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Landing on the seabed, he knelt before the colossal entity before him—larger than mountain ranges—and bowed with tears in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alas, another great calamity stirs among mortals; I have felt it faintly...\" said the Demon Master with a sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Concerned with the chance to become a Saint, he had no intention of letting anyone know his plans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Peng San immediately said: \"Indeed, a great calamity is coming to the mortal realm. The Mandate of Heaven of Great Qin is nearing its end, and the Emperor Qin Zheng seeks to make one final gamble.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world says he has perished, but we know he is surely playing a grand game—his soul never went to the Netherworld.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knows we know he is playing a grand game; it remains to be seen who holds the superior strategy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heh, this great calamity will claim countless lives, and how many Immortals and Buddhas will be drawn into it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it has nothing to do with our Demon Race, and will not affect the Northern Dark Demon Master Palace.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You think too highly of yourselves!\" the Demon Master sneered. \"Since you were dethroned from the position of 'Celestial Protagonist,' which mortal dynasty transition ever did not see our Demon Race charging ahead as the vanguard for kings?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's not that bad...\" Peng San muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not that bad? I ask you—what is the true cause behind the frequent demonic disturbances plaguing the eight vassal states of South Zhonghua in recent years?\" the Demon Master sneered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Peng San lowered his head and said: \"Indeed, some descendants of the old court of the Demon Court have entered the mortal realm, hoping to revive the glory of their ancestors and restore the grandeur of the Demon Court.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they are clever—they avoid putting themselves in danger, instead recruiting wild demons and spirits to serve as their frontline shock troops.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alas, even you think this way—no wonder our Demon Race has declined.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Demon Master sighed again and said: \"Fine, if you wish to stir up trouble, then stir away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I summoned you here only to send word: recall all Demon Race beings of the Kunpeng bloodline.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before this great mortal calamity ends, all of you must remain quietly within the Northern Dark.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Lord, only those of Kunpeng bloodline?\" Peng San frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Demon Master said coolly: \"Do you think the other Demon Race clans will obey me when I order them to retreat to the Northern Juru Continent? Since you’ve ignored me so many times, I shall merely recall my own kin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Lord, we may retreat now, but someday we may lose even the Northern Juru Continent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Peng San grew agitated and cried: \"Only thirty thousand years ago, during King Wu’s campaign against Zhou, the Northern Sea was entirely ours, and vast lands of northern South Zhonghua belonged to our Demon Race.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thirty thousand years—on the Heavenly Court or in the Blessed Realms, that’s merely eight hundred years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now all northern lands belong to Great Qin. Two hundred years ago, Qin’s ocean-going ships crossed the Northern Sea and entered the Northern Juru Continent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In recent decades, Emperor Qin Zheng has gone mad—he dares to establish commanderies and counties in southern Northern Juru, and has grandly enfeoffed feudal lords, creating the 'Sixteen States of Yan and Yun.'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(ps: In Journey to the West, it is clearly stated that the Jade Emperor has endured 1,750 Great Calamities, each lasting 129,600 years, totaling 226.8 million years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the Jade Emperor, the celestial court belonged to the Demon Race.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Assume the Demon Emperor Jun of the Demon Court possessed greater cultivation than the Jade Emperor (which is obvious).\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Kunpeng Demon Master, using the time artifact Kunlun Mirror, sent a strand of his Kunpeng essence blood and the Purple Qi of Hongmeng into the River of Time, during the reign of the Demon Emperor, before the Demon Court collapsed, while the Demon Race still held the position of Celestial Protagonist.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 'four hundred million years' figure is derived thus.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As to why the Demon Master did this, it will be explained later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Xiao Yu’s experience of the 'Kunpeng Transformation' was preordained by the Demon Master as 'Heaven’s Mandate.'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the Kunpeng Demon Master is the player; Xiao Yu, at this time, is merely an ignorant pawn.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, with this preordained Heaven’s Mandate in place, Xiao Yu could not die before awakening.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, the people of Shu and the Green Pine Daoist Child lacked the power to break the Mandate crafted by the Demon Master.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Dan’s assessment—that she has an unbreakable fate—is the truth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the future... the Demon Master will certainly push his preordained Mandate to full realization.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alas, he planned everything flawlessly—except for one thing: becoming Xiao Yu’s father himself. This truly... is the Way of Fifty, Heaven’s Evolution of Forty-Nine, leaving one path unaccounted for.\")\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sigh, he planned everything to perfection, yet missed one thing—voluntarily becoming Xiao Yu’s father; this was truly... the Great Dao numbers fifty, the Heavenly Dao evolves forty-nine, leaving one to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>",2522,"2026-06-20T00:29:13.334Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b0fd94db8bf4b5db9447e7430992c701ba385aa11a5467ea494df3fce6929f84","if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-chapter-86","if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-chapter-84",840,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fif-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-cover.jpg"]