After the Demon King Was Dumped, He Became a Popular NPC

On the day of his wedding, Lan Xiao was dressed in a gorgeous wedding robe and surrounded by the people of the Immortal Sect, led by his master and soon-to-be husband. He couldn't help feeling speechless.

He had concealed the fact that he was the former Demon Emperor's son and infiltrated the Immortal Realm as a spy, so he was certainly in the wrong. But none of this had been his idea.

If not for the need to protect the demons in his territory, he would never have let his brother, who had always shunned and feared him, threaten him into spying on Xie Chongyuan.

Immortal Venerable Xie Chongyuan was far too powerful. Spying on him was practically a death sentence. Lan Xiao had racked his brains and worked at it for a hundred years, eventually even getting into Xie Chongyuan's bed, and still hadn't succeeded.

...All right, he just hadn't been able to bring himself to do it.

The main thing was that Xie Chongyuan said he loved him, and promised he would always protect him. No one had treated him like that since his mother died. Xie Chongyuan had sounded so sincere that Lan Xiao believed him.

Looking back, it did seem pretty stupid. The immortals and demons were irreconcilable enemies, so now that his identity was exposed, being attacked by the Immortal Sect had been only to be expected.

Compared to the others in the Immortal Sect, Xie Chongyuan was already showing him mercy.

"There's no need to kill him. I'll take him away and strip him of his demonic bones," Xie Chongyuan said. "Lan Xiao can still be my cultivation partner."

But he didn't understand that Lan Xiao wasn't an ordinary demon. His demonic bones could never be stripped away. At those words, Lan Xiao let out a villainous laugh and blew himself up right there in front of Xie Chongyuan without the slightest hesitation.

The Immortal Venerable had never expected this. His eyes nearly burst with rage as he tried to stop him, but all he could do was reach out and catch the blood raining down from the sky.

Many years later, Lan Xiao was reborn in the rarely visited Black Marsh Domain. He had lost nearly all his demonic power and could no longer even maintain his human form, but for some inexplicable reason, he had become bound to a System. The System told him that he could summon powerful warriors from another world. These mighty and evil warriors never tired, could do anything, and were the most terrifying beings in the world.

That sounded incredibly amazing!

Lan Xiao immediately rallied himself and delivered an impassioned speech to the first twenty warriors he had summoned.

"My beloved demons, it's been proven that crooked schemes won't work. We must regroup and seize the whole world with our mighty power! And once I reclaim my strength, I will share all the spoils of victory with you!"

The players standing in front of Lan Xiao looked at one another in confusion.

"This fluffy little fox cub must be the game's tutorial NPC. What is it getting so fired up about?"

"I can't understand it. It's saying some weird stuff... Isn't this a farming game?"

"The game environments are a little bare-bones, but the models are great. This engine is incredible. The realism is amazing."

In his fox form, Lan Xiao didn't understand what the warriors were whispering about. He also couldn't quite figure out why, after he told them to conquer new lands and rule the world, they would rush to farm and mine as soon as they succeeded, busily building and harvesting, while occasionally letting out strange cries like, "Hehehe, so cute, I wanna pet it!"

Whatever. No need to sweat the details.

He was definitely going to regroup and become the mightiest Demon Emperor ever. No one could stop him. Things were looking great!

Lan Xiao was certain of it.

Bonus Scene:

Another new post was pushed to the top of the Hot section on the country's biggest gaming forum today.

"Are the damn developers of Paradise here? When are you fixing Xie Chongyuan's bug? How can a villainous NPC be this unhinged? I went to a danger zone to sneak some ore, and I don't know what kind of formation I stumbled into, but he nearly gave me a lifetime of trauma trying to kill me."

"Same here. I don't even know what to say. This damn game, Paradise, would have gone under ages ago without Lan Xiao's popularity. But I don't think Xie Chongyuan is bugged. Check out the latest lore. Apparently his wife died, and he's been crazy for ages."

"That villain everyone hates had a wife?"

"Check the lore-analysis thread. He used to be an Immortal Venerable. The original poster probably ran into one of his formations for collecting the scattered fragments of his wife's three spiritual souls and seven physical souls across the land. Better steer clear of him in the future. Tsk, they say he drove his wife to suicide himself, and her soul shattered completely."

"I don't get it. What unlucky person would get involved with a lunatic like that?"

Quite some time later, someone bumped the thread again.

"Aaaah, damn developers, come out and face your punishment! Why does Baby Lan Xiao have a romance route?! And with that bastard lunatic Xie Chongyuan, no less! (￣口￣)!!"

Theme: A farming game saves the world