novelhk Chapter 371
Chapter 371
Watching Yu Xi and the others leave on the ancient giant vine, Shu Nanzhi touched the crying Huahua and looked up at Shu Tianzhu:
"Grandpa, shall we go back?"
Shu Tianzhu nodded and teleported her back to Yaoling Valley.
The moment they returned, the plants around Yaoling Valley seemed to have turned on some switch and began to grow wildly, soon hiding the entire Yaoling Valley between the mountains.
Shu Nanzhi looked back, suddenly thought of something, and asked hurriedly:
"Grandpa, when are we going to worship the Demon God?"
“No need to offer sacrifices.”
Shu Tianzhu touched her head.
Shu Nanzhi opened his eyes wide, "Why?!"
The Demon God saved them, so why don’t they continue to worship him?
"Grandpa, you're repaying kindness with enmity! You're just a villain!"
Shu Tianzhu angrily slapped Shu Nanzhi on the head.
"We, the Dryads, have always been mature and steady. How come you've gone astray? You're the youngest and only child of our Dryad clan! Can you please respect your elders?"
Shu Tianzhu was heartbroken.
Shu Nanzhi replied with reason and evidence:
"You learned this from Grandpa. Even though you were seriously injured, you still set off fireworks in front of the monks!"
Oh, too.
Shu Tianzhu smiled awkwardly and quickly changed the subject:
"Have I ever told you the origins of our Dryad clan?"
Seeing Shu Nanzhi shaking his head, Shu Tianzhu coughed lightly and said quickly:
"We tree demons were just ordinary plants in the past, born weak. The environment back then was unsuitable for human life. The land couldn't grow crops, the mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas were filthy, and even the rain could corrode people. The heavens rained down their wrath, and the sky was filled with meteors and meteorites.
"Later, the divine beasts sacrificed themselves, and the world gained more spiritual energy. After about a thousand years, cultivators appeared, and we became demons.
"But we are very weak, so weak that we have no offensive power at all. We can only rely on other demon tribes to survive."
Shu Tianzhu paused, "We don't have a home of our own. We can only survive by contributing our demonic energy and trunks to other demon and human races, or by helping them grow crops, without receiving any compensation."
Shu Nanzhi listened quietly, his eyes full of surprise.
It hadn't occurred to her that they had been enslaved in the past.
"Did Lord Demon God help us?"
"kindness."
Shu Tianzhu smiled and said, “The Demon God brought us to Yaoling Valley. It is said that this was where she took her lunch break.
"Besides us, many other demon tribes also came to Yaoling Valley. I wasn't even born then, but I heard that Yaoling Valley was the busiest back then. Although only tree demons and tiger demons remained in the end, and the other demon tribes found other places to live, they all maintained contact with each other."
Shu Nanzhi was puzzled: "Why did the other demons leave?"
It's a great honor to be able to stay in the place where the Demon God once lived!
"Because the Medicine Spirit Valley belongs to the Demon God, not us. The Demon God wanted to give it to us, but we refused."
Shu Tianzhu said, "We and the Tiger Demon Clan stayed here simply to help the Demon God defend the Medicine Spirit Valley. We even offered the demonic power as an offering. The Demon God needs this power to nurture a new body."
Shu Nanzhi scratched his head, his wooden brain unable to think straight at the moment: "Then shouldn't we continue to offer sacrifices now?"
Shu Tianzhu patted her head with his beard again:
"The Demon God has a body now, so what is there to worship?"
Seeing Shu Nanzhi holding his head and crying, Shu Tianzhu laughed out loud, remembering that when he was a child he was just like Shu Nanzhi, and could never calm down.
When the Nine-tailed Fox Demon God stayed in Yaoling Valley to rest, he and Hu Xia Xia, a good friend of the Tiger Demon family, sneaked into the valley where she was resting, bypassed the guards, and ran to the front of the Demon God.
The two of them wanted to take a peek and then beat him up, but they didn't expect the demon god to wake up.
She just exhaled and almost blew them both away.
But not only were they not afraid at all, they were staring at the demon god's red eyes in a daze.
"What beautiful eyes!" Hu Xia Xia exclaimed, "Your eyes are like red gems!"
She usually loves to collect beautiful stones. Even her pigtails are tied with colorful stones. She was so amazed that she couldn't take her eyes off them. Even the long tiger tail behind her was lifted high.
Seeing that Hu Xia Xia dared to speak, he also mustered up the courage to say, "Master Demon God, you are like a big cloud!"
The demon god was happy.
She was not angry at their unauthorized intrusion, and even asked their two names with a smile.
After hearing their names, the demon god said gently, "Xiao Shu, Xia Xia, you are also very cute."
The Demon God praised them as cute!
Hu Xia Xia fainted with joy on the spot.
Shu Tianzhu felt ashamed when he saw his friend, and hurriedly carried her on his back to leave, but suddenly the demon god said to him:
"Xiaoshu, do you like Yaoling Valley?"
Shu Tianzhu nodded quickly.
The demon god looked at him and said, "Then I will give you the Medicine Spirit Valley. Do you want it?"
Shu Tianzhu quickly shook her head again: "Father and mother said that Yaoling Valley belongs to you, Master Demon God. I can't take it."
"Those old antiques..."
The demon god grumbled, then said, "How about this? Later, when I tell you that you no longer need to offer demonic power to me, I will give you the Medicine Spirit Valley as a reward. How about that?"
Shu Tianzhu was anxious: "Master Demon God, do you want us no more? Why doesn't he need our offerings?"
He was so anxious that even Hu Xia Xia woke up and looked at the demon god with a look of tears in her eyes.
The demon god was helpless. He lowered his long fox ears, and the furry tips of his ears swept across their faces, and said in a coaxing voice:
"Don't cry, don't cry. I just need the demonic power to nurture a new body. Once I have a new body, your demonic power will be useless, right?
"And as long as Yaoling Valley is yours, you can live however you want and everyone will listen to you. How majestic is that?"
At that time, Shu Tianzhu and Hu Xia Xia were still young, and they were fooled by just two sentences. They thought what the Demon God said made a lot of sense.
They all imagined themselves running around and making trouble in Yaoling Valley in a majestic manner, but the adults did not dare to teach them a lesson.
The two of them laughed foolishly for a while, and Shu Tianzhu couldn't help but ask again, "Then when will Lord Demon God tell us that you no longer need to offer demonic power?"
The demon god thought for a moment and said gently, "I'll tell you one day."
Shu Tianzhu came back to his senses from his memories and remembered what Yu Xi had said to him in the pavilion.
They no longer need to offer offerings of demonic power.
Yaoling Valley belonged completely to them from then on.
It’s a pity that the old woman Hu Xia Xia won’t be able to see it.
"Grandpa?" Shu Nanzhi saw water dripping, and looked up to see Shu Tianzhu's face covered with tears.
"Why are you crying?" Shu Nanzhi quickly grabbed Shu Tianzhu's hand.
"I'm thinking of your Tiger Demon Grandma." Shu Tianzhu waved his hand and pulled Shu Nanzhi towards the depths of Yaoling Valley.
"Let's go and plant some trees. This will be our home from now on. We can plant whatever we want in Yaoling Valley... Let's plant some more plants that can fight, to make it more lively."