4 – The Demon Lord Discovers She Has a Deeply Loved Ex-Husband Brother
Yun Sangsang rested her chin in her hands, smiling as she looked at him. “Let’s not talk about that for now. Are you hungry? Even the dead should be well-fed. Let’s have something delicious first.”
She pointed at the departing parrot. “I sent my bird to catch a wild rabbit. I’ll roast it for you later.”
Yuan Ning Wang found it somewhat amusing.
Was this silly celestial maiden becoming more persistent the more setbacks she faced? Why hadn’t she given up yet?
Since she refused to leave, he couldn’t be blamed for being ruthless.
So he feigned surprise and asked, “Wild rabbit? You celestial maidens invite people to eat something as humble as wild rabbit? Really? I remember stories where Immortal Deities serve seventy or eighty dishes at a feast—everything from the sky, land, and water gathered for one table—”
He looked Yun Sangsang up and down, slowly poking at her sore spot. “You’re a celestial maiden too, so why aren’t you treating me to seventy or eighty dishes? Why only wild rabbit? Are you not as capable as them, or am I not worthy of that standard?”
“Uh…” Yun Sangsang met Yuan Ning Wang’s “innocent and guileless” gaze, her smile barely holding up.
Ahhh, this little brat was so hard to deal with!
Was he forcing her to admit she was useless?
She had just bravely shielded him from the Thunder Tribulation, and her Immortal Power was now less than thirty percent. If she exhausted her Immortal Power, she would die! Under such circumstances, how could she possibly waste her power to conjure up a table full of useless delicacies and exotic dishes?
So she wasn’t useless—he just didn’t deserve that standard! He didn’t deserve it! Didn’t deserve it!
Wasn’t wild rabbit meat still meat? Wasn’t it just as edible? Why insist on fancy food? One should make do when possible. Children shouldn’t have such high demands!
After mentally venting her frustrations, Yun Sangsang took a deep breath and tried to fool the silly boy in front of her.
She spoke with great seriousness, “Of course, I’m just as capable as them! Treating you to a feast is no problem at all. Not just seventy or eighty dishes—even seven or eight hundred would be a piece of cake for me!
But, little one, you’ve been skipping meals and eating irregularly, so your stomach must be weak. You can’t handle rich, heavy food right now. Be good—”
Would Yuan Ning Wang, who was far from a silly boy, let himself be fooled?
Yuan Ning Wang looked at her with a mocking smile. “That doesn’t sound right. If my stomach is weak, then you, celestial maiden, shouldn’t be offering me roasted rabbit. You should treat me to shark fin soup, white fungus broth, or bird’s nest congee. I’ve heard wealthy families eat such things—easy to digest, good for the stomach, nutritious, and respectable… Wild rabbit is hard to digest and doesn’t taste good. For a dignified celestial maiden like you to serve it to guests is really unbecoming, don’t you think?”
“Uh…” Yun Sangsang’s smile was truly on the verge of collapsing!
She wanted to be respectable too, but as a God of Misfortune with nearly depleted Immortal Power, she really couldn’t afford such dignity!
Her current abilities only allowed her to treat this child to one roasted wild rabbit—and even that required the parrot to catch it for her!
No, she couldn’t give this little brat another chance to belittle her. She had to belittle him first!
So she put on a pained expression and looked at Yuan Ning Wang. “Sigh, since you insist on getting to the bottom of this, I might as well be blunt. It’s not that I lack ability—it’s that you’re not worthy. Because you haven’t agreed to worship me yet. You’re not worthy, understand?”
She added expectantly, “So if you want to eat well, agree to worship me. Not only will you eat and drink well from now on, but you’ll also have a celestial maiden’s protection. It’s all gain and no loss for you, right?”Yuan Ning Wang let out a light scoff.
A good meal?
Sorry, but he had just enjoyed a table full of exquisite delicacies in the demon realm three hours ago—one hundred and eighty dishes, each made from rare ingredients sourced from the Monster Realm, Demon Realm, and Immortal Realm. Did he really need her crude, poorly prepared meal?
To eat her food, he would have to worship her, the invincible Broom Star of Misfortune, and suffer endless bad luck with her every day. How desperate would he have to be to agree to that?
He was tired of wasting time with her and decided to leave.
Just as Yuan Ning Wang was about to stand up and shake off this clingy nuisance, he suddenly detected a faint trace of demonic energy lingering nearby.
He abruptly turned his head to the left rear, his pupils contracting sharply.
Had the demon realm’s scouts caught up with him?
His fingers slowly clenched, ready to summon the Demon Sword and unleash a massacre—
But for some reason, the demonic energy that had been gradually approaching suddenly retreated.
Yuan Ning Wang was puzzled.
He hadn’t even revealed his killing intent—why had the scouts withdrawn?
Narrowing his eyes, he split off a strand of his Divine Sense to follow the demonic energy and investigate.
As the one being pursued, he couldn’t rest easy without understanding what was happening.
His Divine Sense quickly reached several dozen yards away, where he saw two small, dark, horned demons slightly hunched over, sneaking backward while whispering to each other—
“Boss, why aren’t we going closer to check? I saw dense black energy swirling over there. Maybe one of that man and woman is the Demon Lord in disguise!”
“You fool! You only noticed the black energy—didn’t you recognize the woman crouching in front of that child?”
“Boss, who is she?”
“Ignorant fool! That’s the infamous Broom Star of the Immortal Realm. The dense black energy we saw is emanating from her—it has nothing to do with the Demon Lord!”
“Boss, I’ve never heard that the Broom Star is a skilled fighter. She’s not the Goddess of War—why should we fear her? Let’s go back and kill her now. We could even take her head back to claim credit with our master!”
“Are you an idiot, you stupid pig?! It’s true she’s not the Goddess of War, but her overwhelming Misfortune is terrifying! Everyone across the Three Realms—Celestial, Demon, and Monster—knows that the Broom Star is someone you absolutely must not provoke!
If you befriend her, her Misfortune will curse you to death! If you make an enemy of her, before you can even kill her, her Misfortune will fiercely backlash and destroy you!
So, unless this woman provokes us first, we stay as far away from her as possible. Don’t go seeking death! With our low strength, we wouldn’t survive even one round of her curse!”
“Wow, she’s that terrifying?”
“Tch, that’s nothing—there’s something even scarier! I heard the Broom Star is deeply in love with her Fu Jun, Lingyao God, but he wants nothing to do with her. Driven mad by unrequited love, she flirts with every handsome man in the Immortal Realm—she won’t let any male escape her attention. She’s made life miserable for everyone in the Celestial Realm…
Sigh, your boss here is quite dashing and charming. What if we approach and she decides to latch onto me? How could I withstand her full force of Misfortune?”
“That’s too horrifying! Run faster, Boss! We’re both so handsome—what if she chases us? I don’t want to play with the Broom Star!””Well…” Yuan Ning Wang’s Divine Sense silently watched the two extremely ugly little demons.
Watching the two demons scampering away into the distance, he felt quite speechless.
He never knew that the males in their demon realm could be so ordinary yet so confident. Who gave them the courage to boast about being handsome young men?
And they were afraid of being pestered by Broom Star – did they think all the other men in the world had died out?
Just as Yuan Ning Wang was about to withdraw his Divine Sense, he suddenly saw that after running some distance, the two little demons encountered a group of seven or eight other little demons coming toward them.