Chapter 1706 - 766: Ancient Demon Clan

Chapter 1706: Chapter 766: Ancient Demon Clan

Zhan Hen was startled, and he hurriedly summoned the Alchemists within the palace.

Who could have known that the Alchemists had come and gone like flowing water, and after checking, each one’s face was as pale as paper.

"Tell me! What exactly is wrong with the Demon Empress!"

Zhan Hen hugged the frail figure of Moonflower, his heart both furious and fearful.

"Your Majesty, the Demon Empress’s body is not in a bad state, just somewhat weak, but her spiritual despondency is a heart ailment. Heart ailments require heart medicine; we little ones are utterly helpless."

Each Alchemist was sweating profusely, their faces full of bitterness.

This time, the Demon Empress and Demon Emperor went out together; upon returning, the Demon Empress was like this.

The worst part is, the Demon Emperor wouldn’t even let them ask more questions. How can they prescribe medicine to match the symptoms in this situation, let alone counsel the Demon Empress?

"Can none of you, with so many people, come up with even a single solution?"

Seeing Moonflower emaciated to the point of being unrecognizable, Zhan Hen’s heart felt like it was being cut.

"The best plan now is only to take the Demon Empress to the South Nether Ancient Clan. Your Majesty, you know that the South Nether Clan Leader’s demonic power reaches the heavens and he is proficient in witchcraft techniques. Perhaps he can uncover the Empress’s heart knot and heal the Demon Empress."

Upon hearing this, Zhan Hen pondered for a moment, then picked up Moonflower, his heart burning with anxiety, and hurried toward the South Nether Ancient Clan.

Years ago, when Moonflower was rejected by Di Shen, with her spirit on the verge of collapse, her father persuaded her to marry Zhan Hen.

At that time, the South Nether Tribe was much stronger than the Zhan Clan, Zhan Hen was quite the social climber.

The South Nether Clan Leader had only one request: that the newly established empire must be named after the South Nether Tribe, and power divided with Moonflower.

Zhan Hen was deeply in love with Moonflower at the time and gladly agreed. After they plotted and killed Di Shen together, they established South Nether City.

Once everything had settled, the South Nether Clan Leader stepped back, and the once-dominant South Nether Tribe retreated from the Demon Clan’s view.

Moonflower’s father, Xi Zhong, is also the South Nether Ancient Clan’s leader and has been secluded in a picturesque valley for hundreds of years, served only by several dozen elderly clan members from the South Nether Tribe.

Zhan Hen traveled day and night and reached the South Nether Ancient Clan in just a night.

Xi Zhong expressed surprise upon seeing Moonflower’s gaunt and closed-eyed figure in Zhan Hen’s arms.

He inquired about the events and immediately ordered Zhan Hen to wait outside while taking Moonflower into the inner room.

Inside the inner room, Xi Zhong saw a massive Blood Pool.

In that Blood Pool, who knows what had been poured, for the crimson liquid was boiling continuously.

In the pool’s center, there floated various-sized skulls, some of beasts and some human, forming a bone bed.

Xi Zhong rose into the air and placed Moonflower on that bone bed.

Xi Zhong gathered spiritual power, using his finger as a brush, and sketched a strange talisman in the Void.

The talisman hung above the bone bed.

The previously motionless skulls suddenly loosened their jaws and spewed out streams of black Evil Qi.

Those Evil Qi drilled into the top of Moonflower’s skull.

If Zhan Hen had seen such a scene, he would’ve surely realized that this was the infamous demonic power infusion in the Demon Clan.

Even Zhan Hen couldn’t achieve this level.

The more demonic power and Evil Qi infiltrated her body, the greater the changes in Moonflower’s complexion.

Moonflower’s originally sallow countenance turned rosy; her dull yellow hair became thick and black, her lips reddened, and her breathing, once faint, gradually returned to normal.

However, the previously crimson liquid in the pool slowly lost its color, becoming clear.

Sweat poured from Xi Zhong’s forehead as well; it was evident that urging the Evil Qi from this pool and that mysterious Demon Talisman required a tremendous amount of Qi.

About an hour later, when Moonflower’s eyes, tightly shut for days, slightly trembled and suddenly opened, Xi Zhong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

With a wave of his sleeve, the Demon Talisman vanished into his spacious robe.

The bone bed, composed of countless skulls, emitted a crisp sound and crumbled.

Moonflower sat up, and upon seeing her father’s caring gaze, she couldn’t help but cry.

"Father, why did you save me? I have disgraced the South Nether Ancient Clan, and I have no face to live in the world anymore."

"Yanyan, how have I taught you, after all these years, why are you still so emotional? Just one Di Shen, when will you stop degrading yourself for him!"

Xi Zhong had barely saved his daughter, but upon hearing Moonflower speak of wanting to seek death, his expression darkened, filled with frustration.

Di Shen, truly is Yanyan’s calamity.

"Father, it’s not that I wish to be this way, but I can’t control myself. I thought I had long let go, but upon seeing him, I realized how madly I love him. Why must he be so cruel, watching as I was humiliated by a Human Clan Demon Hunter? He... he fell in love with another woman."

These days, Moonflower’s mind was saturated with scenes of herself being crushed under Tang Lei, humiliated, and Di Shen watching coldly from the side, with the enchanting Mermaid standing next to him. These images were like brightly polished knives, stabbing into Moonflower’s heart, riddling it with wounds.

"You say Di Shen fell in love with another woman? Impossible, that boy simply doesn’t know how to love someone."

Upon hearing these words, Xi Zhong was astonished and firmly denied them.

Di Shen didn’t even take a liking to his precious daughter, Moonflower; it begged the question: what woman in the world could catch his eye?

"I too once thought this, but all of this I saw with my own eyes. He’s different now. He... he never looked at me with that gaze before." Moonflower sobbed, heartbroken.

Moonflower once believed Di Shen incapable of love.

But seeing Di Shen’s indulgent love for the Mermaid, she wavered.

That gaze was clearly a man’s gaze at a woman, matching the expression Zhan Hen had when looking at her.

Only before her father could Moonflower reveal her heart without reserve.

Xi Zhong witnessed her state, shaking his head repeatedly.

The word ’love’ is truly the most misleading.

Moonflower never truly let go of Di Shen.

He, as a father, had stopped it once before, but now it seemed he could no longer intervene.

After pondering, Xi Zhong finally sighed.

"Yanyan, do not be reckless. Di Shen is cruel and unfeeling; back then, he might not have even saved you if not for considering the Demon God Guard’s morale. You are already married to Zhan Hen, you should wholeheartedly live with him. I hear that Beiyu Emperor Chi Ye hasn’t attended court for days. This time is the best chance for you to annex Beiyu Palace. As for Di Shen, rest assured, if you really can’t let go, once the Demon World is unified, I have ways to bring him back to you."