The Demon King Always Thinks I’m Secretly In Love With Him

Chapter 77

Bai Yang understood that this was a crack in the Demon Realm. There is an abundance of miasma buried underground, which is constantly bubbling to the surface through the crack. Once at the surface, it forms a strong demonic barrier that can cut off one’s life force. Only those with extremely tenacious vitality can survive. Anyone weaker will be completely drained until nothing is left.

Bai Yang had seen a miasma bubble out before. Anyone who sees it can’t help but be afraid. However, the landscape created by the miasma bubbling out of the crack was quite magnificent. One could even call it beautiful.

Bai Yang was amazed.

Normally, very few people could approach this kind of area, but the Demon King and Bai Yang were exceptions due to their high cultivation level. For them, this miasma was rather easy to deal with.

This place wasn’t far from the Palace of Eternal Darkness, but Bai Yang didn’t know that. The important thing was that neither the former Xie Zetian nor the present-day Bai Yang would ever willingly approach this kind of place.

Who’d have nothing better to do than come to this kind of creepy place?

But the Demon King knew and brought him there.

“Your Highness, do you want us to seal the crack together?” Bai Yang asked curiously. This was the only reason he could think of as to why the Demon King would bring him to this place.

The Demon King shook his head and raised his hand to point at the gorgeous landscape and said, “Don’t you think our Demon Realm also has some beautiful sights?”

Bai Yang: “….”

Unexpectedly, he didn’t know how to respond.

Truthfully, he really didn’t know that this kind of sight where a crack split the earth and miasma bubbled out could be this beautiful. Even if he knew, what about it? Who had nothing better to do than to come to this kind of place to appreciate the beautiful scenery?

The Demon King, who had nothing better to do, asked somewhat expectantly, “What do you think?”

How could Bai Yang respond?

Looking into those eyes brimming with expectation, he could only nod and say, “Very beautiful.”

The Demon King smiled proudly, like a little kid receiving praise from an adult. “I knew you would like it.”

Wait, don’t tell me the Demon King dragged me to this kind of place just to admire the scenery?

Bai Yang watched him in disbelief, but after seeing his self-satisfied appearance, knew that that was most likely the case.

Bai Yang was once again shocked by the Demon King’s thought processes.

Would ordinary people bring the person they like to this kind of place to sightsee?

“This place is where my father and mother exchanged love tokens.” The Demon King whispered, “You said you wanted to go to the human world to look at the scenery and I suddenly thought of this place.”

“This is where your mother and father exchanged love tokens?” Bai Yang recovered his wits and looked around in surprise. To be able to choose a place like this to exchange love tokens, the Demon King’s parents were not ordinary people.

The Demon King nodded. A spray of miasma floated onto his hair, covering it in a layer of black ash.

He waved a hand and the surrounding ashy drizzle transformed into fog and dispersed.

Even though Bai Yang didn’t fear the miasma and thought the scenery was very beautiful, miasma was still miasma. It’s sticky when you inhale it. It tastes strange, and it makes you feel like someone scattered a layer of ash on you.

Frankly, he didn’t want to stay much longer.

The only reason he hasn’t turned around and left already was for the sake of the Demon King’s tender expression. Instead, he bore it.

Who told him to fall in love with a guy with a strange thought process, who would bring him to this kind of place for a date?

Bai Yang tried hard to focus and ignore the surrounding miasma. “Your parents could exchange love tokens in such a place, which couldn’t have been easy.”

The Demon King didn’t catch what he was implying at all. He just thought Bai Yang was interested in his parent’s story and enthusiastically explained. “During that time, they were full of youthful vigor. They wanted to solve the problem of the miasma running wild in the Demon Realm. They both swore to seal up all the cracks. One day, they ran into each other here. Both wanted to seal the crack and so they battled over who got there first….”

Bai Yang was curious. “They didn’t exchange love tokens? How did it end in a fight?”

The Demon King let out a big laugh. “They fought and my father reduced my mother to tears. My father had no other choice but to take her away. In this way, they developed feelings for each other.”

“Oh….” Bai Yang suddenly had a realization. “Fighting is like a kiss and scolding is like love. The more you fight, the more you fall in love.”

The Demon King remained silent. His lover’s reactions could sometimes be very unexpected.

“They believed this crack brought them together, and so they didn’t seal it.” The Demon King then continued, saying, “When I was young, we’d always come here every year. After father inherited the throne, he no longer went on trips, but mother’s original goal never changed. She continued to travel the world, sealing up cracks. Ultimately, she died of an accident….”

His voice gradually grew quieter.

Bai Yang was instantly nervous. He walked over and put a hand on his shoulder to comfort him. “If it makes you upset, you don’t have to talk about it.”

“I’m not upset.” The Demon King shook his head. “She was able to die for her dreams. She wouldn’t regret it. My father also thinks this way.”

Bai Yang didn’t know what to say.

“When mother was seriously hurt, she risked further injury to return to the palace. In the end, she died in my father’s arms,” the Demon King said. “She was able to fight for her dreams and finally die in the embrace of the person she loved most. She had a good life. I’m not upset at all.”

“Then your father….”

“My father wanted the people of the Demon Realm to live freely. He told me his dream and let me inherit it.” With his back to Bai Yang, the Demon King watched the everchanging miasma. He said in a deep voice, “Mother struggled her whole life. My father struggled for the greater half of his life. They wanted to seal up all the cracks in the Demon Realm. However, they both failed. The source of the demonic barrier wasn’t the cracks. Rather, it’s the underground miasma. Even if I sealed a crack, I can’t guarantee that another crack wouldn’t form somewhere else, so I came up with an idea. I want to bring my people into the Human Realm so that they’ll never have to worry about the demonic barrier.”

So that’s how it is!

This is the reason why the villain must attack the Human Realm.

“But if demons enter the Human Realm, the humans won’t just leave them alone,” Bai Yang couldn’t help but say.

“Then there will be war!” The Demon King flung out his arms, his spacious black robes fluttering around him, making him look like a male eagle spreading its wings. It was all very grandiose.

Tyrannical, formidable, powerful!

Bai Yang was shocked by his handsomeness!

Wasn’t this what his father always wanted him to be?

Bai Yang’s heart pounded.

As a modern man, he considered the Demon King invading the Human Realm as an act of aggression. He shouldn’t support it.

However, after knowing the Demon King for so long, he felt that his three views were skewed. What the Demon King just said was obviously a villain’s declaration, but strangely, he didn’t feel that it was inappropriate.

Bai Yang was stunned by his own thoughts.

“Xie Zetian!” The Demon King turned to face him.

Bai Yang subconsciously straightened up and loudly answered, “Here!”

“Are you willing to fight with me in the Human Realm? To rule the Mortal World together?”

There was no sound within 100 li of the crack shrouded by the demonic barrier.

There was only the clear sound of the Demon King’s voice.

He asked again, “Are you willing?”

Under such circumstances, the atmosphere affected him, and Bai Yang involuntarily said, “I’m willing.”

There was a pause. He came back to his senses a little and his expression gradually became complicated. He suddenly understood why the Demon King brought him to this place, but thinking of the future, he felt some regret.

He said, “Your Highness, in the future, no matter where you go, I will follow you… until I die.”

The Demon King was instantly happy and reached out to hold him, kissing his forehead and his hair. “Very good, very good!”

However, Bai Yang’s smile was somewhat strained. He couldn’t bear to look him straight in the eye and lowered his head.

The Demon King can’t know what he meant.

He can never know. He will die soon and afterwards he will leave this made-up world to return to a reality where there is no Demon Realm or Human Realm; where his name is Bai Yang and where he will live a peaceful and ordinary life.

For some reason Bai Yang suddenly felt very sad, as if someone was twisting a dagger in his chest.

The Demon King held him firmly, like a kid getting what they were promised. He was so happy that he didn’t know what to do.

“Right, I have something to give you.” The Demon King let go of Bai Yang. He took out a necklace from his robes and gave it to Bai Yang.

To be more precise, it wasn’t actually a necklace, but a pearl attached to a string so he could wear it.

“What’s this?” Bai Yang asked, struggling to control his chaotic thoughts.

“This is a token of love,” the Demon King said. “At that time, my father also gave a love token to my mother here.”

Bai Yang took the pearl, which was smooth and white but not too glossy. It didn’t look like a luxury item. Bai Yang examined it closer but couldn’t find the reason for this.

“This pearl contains my shield. It can take three of my strikes at full strength.”

It can withstand three full-strength strikes from the Demon King?!

Damn, what a stroke of good luck!

In the future, he won’t have to worry about dying.

“I’m giving this to you now. You must keep it on you.” The Demon King held Bai Yang’s hand and said seriously, “Do you understand?”

Bai Yang gripped the pearl. He felt very grateful. “I understand.”

After he said that, he remembered the meaning of the pearl and his face turned red.

The Demon King smiled faintly and drew a pearl necklace from around his own neck. “They’re a pair. The other one is here.”

Unexpectedly, they’re a pair.

Bai Yang’s face reddened further.

“I gave you one to wear. In the future, never take it off.” The Demon King took the pearl from Bai Yang’s hand. He walked behind him and gently put it on for him.

“I won’t,” Bai Yang said, joking. He would definitely wear this kind of item. He couldn’t leave it even for a moment!

The Demon King laughed again. “Since you understand, I feel reassured.”

He put the pearl around Bai Yang’s neck and let out a sigh of relief.

Now that Bai Yang wore the South Sea Mermaid’s Pearl, wherever he went, the Demon King would know where he was, what he was doing and what he was saying.

The Demon King was very cheerful.

“Let’s return. Don’t you want to go to the Human Realm? I’ll take you there,” he offered.

Bai Yang immediately felt so moved. The Almighty Demon King not only showed him this beautiful landscape and gave him a precious treasure, but now he was even fulfilling his promise to bring him to the Human Realm. He really was very good.

With this kind of person as his partner, of course he would be very happy.