After years of diligent service as the Daoist leader of the Immortal Sect, keeping the world at peace, Cheng Shangzhou finally retired.
He closed his eyes and happily “ascended,” abandoning his body and spiritual power to be reborn into a mortal family.
When he was born with demonic energy and spiritual power entwined inside him, the retired Cheng Shangzhou simply decided that he must have happened to encounter some lowlife from the Demon Realm at birth.
When his childhood friend discovered his spiritual root and immediately abandoned him, others urged him to rise again, saying that fortunes change and those who are down today may prosper tomorrow. Cheng Shangzhou simply shook his head and chose to go on a matchmaking date.
When the husband he had picked up got hurt and a tail showed, Cheng Shangzhou studied his handsome face and thought it over. Then he relented, rolled up the tail, and tucked it away. It was just a little demon, nothing to worry about.
As he turned away, a demonic mark unique to the Demon King flashed across the man’s face.
Later, after Cheng Shangzhou took his picked-up “husband” to watch the Immortal Sect competition where his former fiancé was competing, he returned to find his sister collapsed and unconscious on the ground. His father wore coarse clothes, and the demonic energy in his body was nearly drained by someone’s formation. His mother was covered in blood, standing at the very front with a sword in hand and spiritual energy swirling around her.
With no time to think, Cheng Shangzhou raised his hand and summoned “Yun Xiao,” teleporting in an instant to stand before his family. He faced the invaders, his voice full of pressure. “I may be retired, but I’m not dead!”
His whole family: “!!!”
At last, Cheng Shangzhou learned the truth. His father was the Demon Venerable of the Demon Realm. After Cheng Shangzhou ascended, his father had decided there were no more worthy opponents in the world and gone into seclusion. When he saw that his mother, a noblewoman of the Immortal Sect, was about to be driven to death by a transmigrator, he had simply scooped her up and taken her away.
His sister, like him, had only just learned that she was of mixed immortal and demonic blood. But Cheng Shangzhou worked it out with a quick calculation: in her previous life, she had been the Ghost King’s consort. After enduring physical and emotional abuse, she had faked her death just like him. The Ghost King’s enormous bounty for her was still posted outside.
Just then, the family dog barked twice. Cheng Shangzhou nearly had a heart attack, but fortunately, the dog only rubbed against his legs.
Thank goodness the dog was still normal.
Cheng Shangzhou looked at his family. The dog was the only normal one among them...
At last, he slowly closed his eyes. His retirement was nowhere in sight.
He didn’t notice that the husband he had picked up was even more despairing than he was.
2023.08.05
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