Chapter 709

Chapter 709: I’ll Pass

Cloud Mountain Range

Su Jin quietly approached a bush. Outside the bush, there was a clouded leopard. The leopard was very fast and cautious. Su Jin could only release her flying sword up to ten meters away, so she had to get within ten meters to kill the leopard.

Just as Su Jin was about to cross the bush, the leopard seemed to smell her presence. Suddenly, the leopard’s fur stood up, and it growled in Su Jin’s direction.

"Go."

Su Jin panicked and used her mental power to activate the flying sword, trying to kill the leopard. But the leopard dodged the flying sword easily and then lunged at Su Jin.

"Ah!"

Su Jin screamed in fear and her next move was to cover her eyes.

However, a bloody scene didn’t occur. The leopard was frozen in mid-air, with Small Shadiao holding Su Jin close and flicking the leopard away.

When Su Jin opened her eyes, she saw the leopard disappearing into the distance. She complained, "Brother Lin, why did you let it go? It’s a clouded leopard, worth a lot of money."

"Little Su, there are not many advanced beasts in Cloud Mountain. This one is for you. You have to personally kill it. That’s your trophy, right?"

"Yes, I have to do it myself, women can’t rely on others."

Su Jin nodded firmly, as an independent woman, she must rely on herself, otherwise it wouldn’t fit her image.

"Hehe, that’s the little Sue I know. Come on, it’s getting late, I’ll take you back."

Small Shadiao glanced at the sky, realizing it was time to go back. Hurriedly taking the woman back so he could finish things before going home; otherwise, his sister would come looking for him.

Small Shadiao directly hugged Su Jin back to her villa. There were no servants in the house, but there were many household robots. Nowadays, many people prefer not to use servants anymore, as robots can fully replace them, making it quieter and safer.

The household robot served the food, and Small Shadiao took out a bottle of wine. After a few glasses, the atmosphere became ambiguous. Su Jin, feeling a bit tipsy, made Small Shadiao feel excited.

Their eyes were getting blurry. They soon sent the household robot to the room and sat closer together, leaning on each other.

"Brother, not here…"

Small Shadiao’s mischievous hands made it difficult for Su Jin to resist. Just before her defenses crumbled, Su Jin said something.

"Hey hey, let’s go to the room."

Small Shadiao nodded, this was their tenth day of knowing each other, but on the third day, Small Shadiao got lucky. Small Shadiao had a plan, if he couldn’t succeed in a week, he would switch.

But if he couldn’t succeed in just a week, he was already very familiar with this.

"Big brother, don’t rush, I’ll go take a shower."

"Let’s go together, we need to save water resources."

"Oh no, no, it’s wasteful to shower together, it will take two hours if we do. I’ll be quick, wait for me."

"Okay, you go in first."

Small Shadiao smirked, realizing the time, he knew he couldn’t go in, otherwise he would take too long to shower. In an hour, he had to go back, and that hour was just enough for him to get ready for battle.

Su Jin arrived at the bathroom, but her bracelet showed a message. Su Jin saw the message, feeling very reluctant. Even though it was just acting, she got into the role emotionally. From an emotional perspective, Small Shadiao was indeed a charming male, and many women who spent time with him ended up getting addicted.

Su Jin felt really eager to make something unreal come true, but she couldn’t disobey the strict information on the bracelet.

After washing her face, Su Jin opened a tile in the bathroom revealing a hollow, where she placed a magical stone called a spirit stone.

"Bang!"

As the spirit stone entered the hollow, the whole mansion’s magic formation instantly activated. Small Shadiao, lying on the bed, quickly reacted, clawing out and creating ripples in the air.

"Huh?"

Small Shadiao was surprised to see that the magic formation wasn’t immediately broken by him.

He sensed into the bathroom and found Su Jin had disappeared. Calmly, he spoke to the air, "Hey, friend, come out and meet me."

Small Shadiao was truly patient and confident. His strength was impressive, and even if he couldn’t win a fight, he could call for backup from Lin Ying, just a few thousand kilometers away, in the blink of an eye.

He knew there was something wrong with Su Jin. Small Shadiao had been roaming around the Cloud Mountain’s various training academies and villa estates for years, and his actions were well-known. Still, many women willingly approached him, all seeking their own advantages.

Because Small Shadiao is not a good man, but he is generous. Women who are with him will benefit a lot. Their skills will improve, and they will gain many resources. It will be a win-win situation. Small Shadiao will find comfort both mentally and physically, while women will receive tangible benefits.

So, Small Shadiao still considers Su Jin as one of these women.

Right after Small Shadiao’s appearance, a projection emerged. Inside the projection was a scene from the Xuanguang Mirror, but soon, the face of Demon Queen Lin Fanghua appeared in the mirror.

"Father."

"Fanghua?"

"It’s me, father. It was quite difficult to find you."

"Ah, Fanghua, it’s father’s fault for being incompetent. I was captured by the humans accidentally. Please don’t come to rescue me. It’s a trap. Rest assured, I won’t reveal any information about our kind."

When Lin Fanghua saw Lin Fanghua, Small Shadiao’s expression changed suddenly. He started muttering to himself, making Lin Fanghua on the other side look dark. If she didn’t know what Small Shadiao had done, she would have believed him.

"Father, please stop talking."

"Fanghua, you…"

"Stop acting, is it right to use your acting skills on me?"

"Ahem…"

"Come back, Dad, Demon God Temple is your home."

"Fanghua, I really can’t go back."

"Brother is about to break through to the seventh rank. Even if I marry into the Phoenix clan and no longer be your family, don’t you care about your own son?"

"Fanghua, it’s not that I don’t care, I just can’t control it, I am only at the fifth rank."

Small Shadiao shrugged, losing his mind, he is at the fifth rank managing the sixth rank peak monster clan, how can he manage it?

"Cloud Mountain, Lin Jiang’s manor has many top-grade spiritual herbs. If you bring back a few plants, maybe Brother can break through."

Lin Fanghua said that the humans have the ability to grow spiritual herbs using Spiritual Farmer technique, but the monsters don’t have it. The monsters have run out of spiritual herbs due to the lack of spiritual energy recovery, and all that is left are young herbs. She also knows that there are some very valuable high-aged herbs left by Cloud Mountain, which are very useful even for the monsters.

"Fanghua, you are overestimating my abilities. I can’t do it."

Small Shadiao directly refused because he knew that there were some top-quality spiritual herbs in the Spiritual Herb Garden left by Lin Jiang for himself and Lin Ying to break through Tao Achieving. He didn’t dare to steal.

"Dad, is your so-called brotherly loyalty more important than your own son?"

"Fanghua, why would you say that? Isn’t everything fine now?"

"Alright, there have been many battles between humans and monsters, with many casualties on both sides. It’s a never-ending cycle. I know you feel stuck in the middle, but you are a monster, you are my father, you have a wife and son in the monster tribe, you can’t stay out of it…"

Lin Fanghua tried to appeal to Small Shadiao emotionally, but he remained unmoved. It was a matter of choosing sides, but he refused to choose.

For him, the brotherhood with Lin Jiang spanned thousands of years and he couldn’t let go. On the other hand, although his family was with the monster tribe, his feelings for them were not that deep.

He married under pressure from Lin Jiang, as his lifespan was short. His womanizing nature was well-known, and he didn’t feel close to Lin Fanghua and Lin Wanli, his children.

In the Peng Bird Clan, he was like a member of the family. After Lin Fanghua and Lin Wanli were born, they were taken away and raised by an old bird named Rufu. Under Rufu’s guidance, Lin Fanghua and Lin Wanli didn’t really respect him because he belonged to the Aurora falcon tribe and was not even a pure-blooded mythical beast.

This can be seen from how they treat other descendants differently. The demon clan values bloodline a lot, and if the bloodlines are different, there’s not much to be said, especially if the bloodline is considered inferior.

That’s why Small Shadiao stayed at Cloud Mountain – he was more familiar and had a better relationship with the demon tribe compared to Lin Jiang.

"Dad…"

Despite Lin Fanghua’s efforts to persuade him, seeing Small Shadiao’s indifferent expression made her angry. She couldn’t understand why Small Shadiao was like this. Did he have no respect for the demon tribe at all? Did he not care about their children?

"Fanghua, stop. I’m not going back."

"Okay, Dad. Then I’ll ask you one last question. If one day, the demon tribe is defeated, and me, my brother, my mother, and other aunts all die at the hands of your brother Lin Jiang, what will you do? Will you seek revenge for us?"

"Do I have to answer?"

"Yes, I want to see how ruthless you can be."

"Then I’ll tell you, I won’t seek revenge for you. Even if one day, the human race is defeated and my brother Lin Jiang dies at your hands, I still won’t care. I won’t care about anything. Are you satisfied?"

Small Shadiao said coldly, he had pondered this question countless times. His final decision was to not care about anything. In a feud between two clans, the loser is simply not as skilled, there’s nothing much to blame. He was caught in the middle, whatever he did was wrong, so he decided to don’thing and just watch from the sidelines.

"You have such a cruel heart, you don’t deserve to represent the demon tribe…"

This response broke Lin Fanghua’s defense as she instantly burst into a rage, but Small Shadiao had already shattered everything in the room, and the projection had disappeared.