Chapter 859: The Mystery of Long Haochen’s Ancestry (I)
Chapter 859: The Mystery of Long Haochen’s Ancestry (I)
Bai Yue’s sorrowful face calmed down slightly. She suddenly turned around and hugged Long Haochen firmly, “Sorry, Haochen. Sorry. Mother’s made you suffer. Mother shouldn’t have hidden everything, leading to a misunderstanding that was almost a mistake. It’s mother’s who’s let you down, making you suffer all these years.”
Exactly! After Long Haochen cultivated with Long Xinyu for two years, Long Xingyu left with Bai Yue, making him lose the love and care of his parents. He could only rely on himself over the years after that. Who knew how many times he came close to death. If it were not for luck, Long Haochen probably would have died on the path forward already.
Whether it was Long Xingyu or Bai Yue, neither of them had truly helped him after that.
Long Haochen’s body swayed. After all these years of training, his mind had already become forged like steel. However, he still felt aching pain in his heart. Only now did he find out that his father never treated him as his true son. Then, why did his father raise him? Was it so that he could kill the Demon God Emperor one day and create a tradegy that he believed was pitting son and father against each other?
Long Haochen’s heart was filled with bitterness. Through this misunderstanding, Long Xingyu had been hurt. Bai Yue had been hurt as well, while the person who had been hurt the most also happened to be the one most undeserving of it all, himself! He clearly had a mother and a father, yet he passed all those years without the love and care of his parents. His own father even suspected him to be someone else’s child. He was not an orphan, but he suffered a fate worse than an orphan. At least, orphans would not hold any hope for familial love. However, he clearly clung onto this hope, yet it was just trampled over by reality.
Taking in a forceful breath, Long Haochen looked at the sky. He did his best to prevent his tears from rolling down his cheeks. He held his mother and said with difficulty, “Mother, I don’t blame you or father. You two brought me into this world, so that’s already the greatest kindness you’ve shone me. I have no right to blame you. I just want to know the truth right now. Why are you the Demon God Emperor’s daughter and what happened before I was born?”
Bai Yue nodded gently. Long Haochen said he did not blame her, but that instead made her feel even worse, “Alright, alright. I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you all of it.”
“My mother, which would be your grandmother, was once a priest. She had a very nice name called Bai Lingxuan. She was a priest, and also a member of a demon hunt squad. Since her childhood, she had demonstrate great talent as a priest. Within the Priest Temple, she was an existence akin to a prodigy. After becoming a demon hunter, she followed her demon hunt squad and moved through the territory of the demons freely. Her cultivation climbed higher and higher as well. Countless demon powerhouses died to their squad.”
“One time, they encountered a powerful enemy in their mission. The squad was basically annihilated. It was a warrior in her squad that protected your grandmother with his life that she managed to escape. However, the warrior died after saving your mother as well. At that time, they were still within the territory of the demons.”
“While your grandmother was very powerful, she was still a priest after all! Not only had she almost exhausted all of her spiritual energy back then, her wounds were very severe as well. She did not manage to flee very far before fainting in a forest.”
As soon as Bai Yue reached there, the Demon God Emperor continued, “It was me who saved her. I just happened to be inspecting the various clans. Just when I passed by, I sensed the aura of a human, which lead to me meeting Lingxuan. Back then, her wounds were very heavy. Her face was sheet-white. However, from the first moment I saw her, I was drawn to her by her gentle aura and beautiful appearance. It was a kind of beauty completely different from my race. As a result, I did the unexpected by not killing her. Instead, I shirked away from responsibilities and saved her.”
“When Lingxuan woke up, she saw me who was under a disguise. With my cultivation, it was impossible for her to tell that I was a demon. I told her that I was also a part of a demon hunt squad, and that my companions had died on the battlefield, just like hers. I just happened to be passing by and I found her, which was how I saved her.”
To the Demon God Emperor, this could also be considered as a secret. Aside from his ulterior motives, the reason why he had said this before all the demon powerhouses was so that Long Haochen could understand his feelings towards his grandmother.”
“While Lingxuan was a demon hunter, she was extremely simple-minded. She did not doubt me at all. Under my assistance, her wounds gradually healed and we grew closer and closer. She was so beautiful and so gentle. In order to gain her trust, in order to spend more time together with her, I even went as far as to assist her with her missions. I even assisted her in killing the clansmen that had claimed the lives of her companions. Back then, she was very grateful of me and she trusted me as well. Unknowingly, we both fell in love.”
Upon reaching there, the Demon God Emperor actually became melancholic, “Perhaps, this was an emotion that should not have appeared. However, Yue’er, even now, I can tell you confidently that your mother’s the woman I’ve loved the most in my life. There is no other.”
Hearing the Demon God Emperor, Bai Yue could not help but burst into tears once more, while Long Xingyu tottered and almost fell down. He finally believed everything that Bai Yue had said. The entire time, what made him feel conflicted the most, and what caused him the most pain was his son, Long Haochen! Now that he had learnt that Haochen really was his son, his pain instead became even more intense than before. Compared to Bai Yue, he felt like he had let his son even more. And, he even…
The Demon God Emperor’s voice was very gentle. None of the demon gods had ever witnessed something like that before. Even Agares could sense the unprecedented sincerity in the Demon God Emperor’s voice. Only when did he realise that he was not the only one who had fallen in love with a human woman. The emperor of the demons who had reigned over the demons for hundreds of years also held feelings towards a human woman in the past as well. As a matter of fact, his love for the human woman was so deep that he could never match it.
“I spent an entire year with Lingxuan within my own territory. During that time, I helped her complete all of her missions, and she finally fell in love with me as well. With a lone man and woman, coupled with the elation of emotions, she finally became my woman.”
“Linxuan told me one day that she missed home. She wanted to go back. She wanted to see her family and friends, as well as tell them about me, so she could marry me.”
“Back then, I don’t even remember how many times I wanted to tell her my real identity, but I never managed to gather the courage to do so, because I could sense her hatred towards my race. I even knew her father died in battle against my race. I couldn’t say it, because I was too afraid of losing her. Back then, I even considered abandoning the position as the emperor of the demons for her and continue like this, posing as a human the entire time. The year I spent with her also happened to be the happiest year of my life.”
“I tried multiple times to influence her into changing her mind, but for some reason in the end, she insisted on returning with determination I had never seen before. With no other choice, I could only accompany her to the boundary of the Temple Alliance. In her eyes back then, I was a human warrior. In order for her to not find out, I told her to return to the Priest Temple and wait for me. I would go to the Warrior Temple to tell my parents, before going to find her.”
“Lingxuan left reluctantly. However, what I never expected was that after parting, that was the last time we saw each other.” Reaching there, Fengxiu’s eyes actually became moist. Two streaks of tears ran down his face.
Bai Yue sobbed, “The reason why mother insisted on returning to the alliance was because she had become pregnant with me! She was unwilling to tell you, because she was embarrassed. You promised you should marry her once she returned to the alliance. After returning to the Priest Temple, she waited for you, waiting for you to come for her. However, you never came. You never ended up coming.”
Fengxiu’s body trembled, “Yeah. I never went. Back then, I was only thinking about how I could continue being with Lingxuan. It was also at that moment near the boundary of the humans that my identity had been exposed for some reason. Before I could remove my disguise and the seal to cover my aura of darkness, I was under attack from two titled demon hunt squads. There originally was no reason for me to fear them with my cultivation, but in order to conceal my aura perfectly, the seal I had placed on myself was just too firm. It was impossible for me to get through it without enough time. As a result, I faced a bitter battle. Although I managed to escape in the end using the power of the Devil Dragon Pillar, I was heavily injured as well.”
“That was the only time I became heavily injured in my life. I could not help but suspect Lingxuan, because only she had been with me the entire time. If she hadn’t discovered who I was and had sensed the seal within my body, how could it have been so coincidental, that I would be attacked by two titled demon hunt squads when she insisted on returning to the Temple Alliance?”
“Back then, I was in great agony. The agonising sorrow and my heavy wounds caused me to fall unconscious for a very long time. My wounds only took a turn for the better because of my natural regenerative ability. However, when I had awoken, a year had already passed.”
“Back then, I still thought of Lingxuan. I refused to believe that she would set up a trap like that. I wanted to find her. I wanted to get to the bottom of this through her no matter what. As a result, as soon as my wounds recovered, I disguised myself and ventured into the Temple Alliance, to the Priest Temple to look for Linxuan.
“However, when I arrived at the Priest Temple, the only thing that I found was Lingxuan’s grave! As it turned out, it really was a coincidence. It was a coincidence that I had encountered the two titled demon hunt squads.” The Demon God Emperor actually struggled to choke back his sobs when he reached there.