Chapter 12: Professional Son-in-law

Nangong Xiaoyan helped Meng Su find a ruined temple.

The ruined temple was dilapidated, but it could shelter from the rain. Meng Su fell asleep as soon as he arrived at the ruined temple.

Meng Su slept for seven days, not eating a grain of rice or drinking a drop of water for seven days. In those seven days, the wounds all over his body slowly scabbed and healed. His left arm, which was the most seriously injured, had a piece of flesh cut off and was stabbed through, also began to grow and heal slowly.

Nangong Xiaoyan watched Meng Su's changes every day. She sighed in her heart: "What kind of monster is this? Such a serious injury, if it were someone else, they wouldn't be able to get out of bed for a month. But he is like nothing happened. He healed basically after a sleep."

Seven days later, Meng Su opened his eyes.

The maid bought food from outside, fish and meat, and boiled a pot of hot porridge.

Meng Su was like a hungry wolf, wiping it out like a whirlwind. Soon, he finished it all.

The full Meng Su seemed to have discovered Nangong Xiaoyan. Meng Su said in surprise: "Miss Nangong, why haven't you left yet?"

Nangong Xiaoyan smiled bitterly: "Marry a chicken, follow a chicken; marry a dog, follow a dog. Where can I go?"

Meng Su stretched: "Following me has no future, you'd better leave and find a good person to marry. I'm leaving."

Nangong Xiaoyan: "Wherever you go, I'll go. Anyway, I'll follow you."

Meng Su smiled: "Are you sure?"

Nangong Xiaoyan: "Sure."

Meng Su: "Alright then, let's go to the Nangong family."

Nangong Xiaoyan: "..."

Meng Su: "Your father and your two younger brothers hurt me so deeply, I should go and collect some interest."

Nangong Xiaoyan said softly: "Husband, I really don't want to see them again, let's not go and trouble them anymore. Okay?"

Meng Su: "Your father seems quite rich, I miss his Nine Yang Pills very much, I want to go and ask for some. He should be willing to give me some."

Nangong Xiaoyan laughed: "You think Nine Yang Pills are cabbage and rice, and you can have as many as you want? Those are pills from the Medicine King Shi Buli, which cannot be bought with money. Shi Buli has a strange temper, and anyone who wants his pills must help him do certain things in exchange, so these Nine Yang Pills are extremely precious. All the Nine Yang Pills of the Nangong family are now in your stomach. Even if you kill my father, you won't get any Nine Yang Pills."

Meng Su: "A huge Nangong family only has twenty Nine Yang Pills, really poor."

Nangong Xiaoyan laughed: "Although the Nangong family is not the strongest among the Four Great Families in Li City, it's not bad. But in my husband's eyes, it seems they have become poor ghosts."

Meng Su thought for a while and asked: "Do you know if other families have Nine Yang Pills?"

Nangong Xiaoyan: "I don't know about others, but my grandfather's Ouyang family must have them, and not less than the Nangong family. Logically, the other two families, the Murong family and the Dugu family, should have them too. Nine Yang Pills are crucial for practicing Pure Yang Qi, and general families will have stock."

Meng Su: "Do they recruit sons-in-law?"

Nangong Xiaoyan scolded: "What do you want to do?"

Meng Su: "I found that the profession of son-in-law is quite suitable for me. I'm preparing to go to them one by one to be a son-in-law."

Meng Su stood up: "Let's go, let's go to your grandfather's house first."

Nangong Xiaoyan: "I still don't know my husband's name, can you tell your wife?"

Meng Su: "My name is Meng Su, I am really a beggar, and I... don't have that thing. I can't be your husband. I'll send you to your grandfather's house, and you find a good person to marry."

Nangong Xiaoyan: "Does husband not want me anymore?"

Meng Su: "I have many things to do, I... am not suitable for you."

Nangong Xiaoyan: "I don't care, since we have already had a wedding night, you are mine. Wherever you go, I will follow."

Meng Su: "..."

Meng Su and Nangong Xiaoyan arrived at the gate of the Ouyang family.

Nangong Xiaoyan let the servants go in to report.

One stick of incense, two sticks of incense, three sticks of incense. Just when Meng Su was about to fall asleep, a young man walked out quickly from the depths of the courtyard.

The young man had sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes, full of heroism, and looked somewhat similar to Nangong Xiaoyan.

The young man clasped his fists at Nangong Xiaoyan: "Sorry to keep cousin waiting, there is something at home, it's not convenient to receive cousin at this time, cousin please return."

Nangong Xiaoyan said anxiously: "Little Yuan, what happened at home? I have nowhere to go now, I want to see my grandfather and uncle."

The young man's name was Ouyang Yuan, the third son of the family head Ouyang Xiu, and also the youngest son of the family head.

Ouyang Yuan said apologetically: "Father and grandfather are discussing big things, really can't see you, or I'll lead cousin to the side hall to rest first. But cousin must promise me, no matter what happens tonight, you must not come out."

Nangong Xiaoyan: "What happened at home? Is it Demon Planting?"

"Cousin had better not ask, anyway, just stay in the side hall for a few days. Maybe after tonight, the Ouyang family will be removed from Li City."

Nangong Xiaoyan didn't speak. Meng Su asked curiously: "What is Demon Planting?"

Nangong Xiaoyan and Ouyang Yuan looked at each other. Ouyang Yuan asked: "Cousin, who is this?"

Nangong Xiaoyan: "This is my husband. Let's go in and talk."

Ouyang Yuan glanced at Meng Su: "Okay, then cousin and cousin-in-law, please this way."

Ouyang Yuan led Nangong Xiaoyan and Meng Su to the side hall and left in a hurry.

Nangong Xiaoyan looked at Meng Su and asked seriously: "Husband is highly skilled, but knows very little about our Demon Realm, so he should not be from this realm. Everyone has their own secrets, and I don't want to interfere too much. Does husband know why we are called the Demon Realm here?"

Meng Su shook his head.

Nangong Xiaoyan: "Since it's called the Demon Realm, there must be demons. What is a demon? No desire, no thought, no emotion, no righteousness, no father, no mother, that is a demon. There were no demons in the world, but since the first Demon Lord ruled our realm, there have been demons."

"To form a demon, one must first extinguish the seven emotions and six desires. This process is called Demon Planting. Demon Planting is slaughter. When the seed sees its closest and dearest killed while being powerless, it will be heartbroken, and then the Demon Seed is planted. The Demon Planting Sect takes the seed back, passes on its demon art, and makes it a Demon Seed. This completes the whole process of Demon Planting."

"Next is to cultivate the demon's killing intent, let the Demon Seeds kill each other, and then the winner advances to a Void Demon. The Void Demon has no independent consciousness, just a killing machine. Most of these Void Demons cannot restore self-consciousness in their lifetime. So there will be more and more out-of-control Void Demons in the world. They will kill in the world periodically."

"Only a very few Void Demons awaken self-consciousness in infinite slaughter and become True Demons. True Demons are no different from ordinary people. But their cultivation is powerful, and their evil spirit is infinite."

"True Demons advance to Demon Gods through cultivation, Demon Gods advance to Demon Saints through cultivation, and Demon Saints have abandoned killing intent, using the cultivation method of refining evil spirits through killing, becoming worried about the country and the people, and caring about all living things in the world. After Demon Saints cultivate, they advance to Demon Venerables, and Demon Venerables begin to compete for hegemony among themselves. The winner advances to Demon Immortals, and Demon Immortals grow for tens of thousands of years and prove the Dao. They grow into Demon Emperors."

"In the current Demon Realm, no Demon Emperor has proven the Dao for ten thousand years. Demon Immortals have also disappeared. There are only a few Demon Venerables, who are old and decaying. And the major Demon Sects are actually managed by Demon Saints. Demon Sects kill each other, and in order to supplement True Demons, major Demon Sects frantically plant demons among the people, leading to complaints from the people." ===== CHAPTER 13 =====