Next life, just pay attention.

"Take the child and go first!"

"I'll hold it off!"

After some thought, Luo Ruying quietly instructed Ning Yechen.

This was the best plan.

If Ning Yechen took the child and left first, she would be able to go all out against this Black Scale Giant Dragon.

Ning Yechen did not answer Luo Ruying. Instead, he gently picked up the terrified Luo Hongye from the ground and patted her back softly to comfort her.

"Yeye, don't cry, okay~"

"Father and Mother are here. It's all right now~"

Luo Hongye stopped crying and curled fearfully into Ning Yechen's arms.

Ning Yechen gently stroked her head, then lifted his gaze and looked coldly toward that Black Scale Giant Dragon.

When the Black Scale Giant Dragon saw Ning Yechen, its expression became incomparably terrified, and the aura around its body instantly vanished without a trace!

It was him!

That child was actually his child...?!

It was over!

It was dead for sure!

The Black Scale Giant Dragon turned its head and bolted, without the slightest hesitation!

Its enormous body flashed over the forest like an afterimage, its speed astonishingly fast!

Luo Ruying was utterly bewildered.

The Black Scale Giant Dragon, whose aura had been so ferocious just moments ago—why had it suddenly run?

So it turned out the Black Scale Giant Dragon could run this fast even without taking human form...?

Judging from its terrified appearance, could it have been scared off by her aura?

Luo Ruying could not figure it out no matter how she racked her mind.

In her heart, this was the only reasonable explanation.

No matter what, the Black Scale Giant Dragon had fled on its own, which also let her breathe a sigh of relief.

"Yeye, are you all right?"

Luo Ruying put away the Immortal Sword and hurriedly ran over to Luo Hongye, anxiously checking her body for injuries.

Fortunately, she had only taken a fall, twisted her ankle, and scraped a little skin.

Luo Hongye, who had only just calmed down, once again cried as she threw herself from Ning Yechen's arms into Luo Ruying's embrace.

"Wuuu, wuuu, wuuu... Mother...!"

"Be good, don't cry. Mother is here."

Luo Ruying gently rocked Luo Hongye up and down as she coaxed her.

She also blamed herself deeply for letting the child be frightened.

If she had looked a little more carefully, such a dangerous thing would not have happened.

"Let's go. We should head home first."

"This place is very dangerous."

Luo Ruying looked at Ning Yechen and said this.

The child had been frightened, so naturally she was in no mood to continue playing outside.

If they ran into other demonic beasts, it would also be very dangerous.

"Wife, take the child back first. Your husband is going to clean up the insects around the orchard..."

Ning Yechen softly instructed Luo Ruying, then turned and strolled into the forest.

Luo Ruying wanted to call Ning Yechen back and tell him not to bother with any insects for now. The appearance of demonic beasts nearby meant this place was already very dangerous.

For a mere mortal, casually running into even a single demonic beast would be extremely dangerous.

Yet in the blink of an eye, Ning Yechen had already disappeared into the forest...

Above the mountain forest, a pitch-black, massive figure streaked rapidly through the air.

While the Black Scale Giant Dragon desperately flapped its wings with all its might, it fearfully twisted its head to look behind it.

It had accidentally touched that lord's people. The Demon Realm Forest was absolutely no longer a place it could stay!

If it did not leave now, it would definitely be dead!

"Where are you going?"

Just as the Black Scale Giant Dragon turned its head, an icy voice came from ahead.

That voice was like a greeting from the god of death, making the Black Scale Giant Dragon feel as cold as if it had fallen into an ice cavern!

"M-My Lord...!"

"This is a misunderstanding. I—I truly didn't know she was your child!"

The Black Scale Giant Dragon stopped before Ning Yechen, his enormous body kneeling on the ground as he begged for mercy.

"It's fine..."

"Just be more careful in your next life."

Ning Yechen raised his hand and clenched it lightly. The Black Scale Giant Dragon's dozens-of-zhang-long body instantly began twisting and compressing without stop!

"M-My Lord...! Urghhh...!"

The Black Scale Giant Dragon still wanted to keep begging for mercy, yet his steel-tough body had already been compressed into a round ball the size of a palm!

"You frightened my daughter, made her cry. Letting you die like this is already letting you off cheaply."

Ning Yechen gave the ball twisted from the Black Scale Giant Dragon an indifferent look, then waved his palm and turned the ball to ash. He sent his voice out in a shout toward the surroundings:

"Chaos Bull Demon, Titan Giant Ape, Sky Swallowing Python! All of you, get over here!"

The voice was not loud. It spread out from Ning Yechen like a ripple.

Before long, three figures rushed over from different directions at lightning speed and arrived before Ning Yechen.

"M-My Lord!"

The three bowed respectfully and cupped their hands in greeting.

Their heads hung low, cold sweat streaming down their foreheads. They did not dare meet Ning Yechen's gaze at all.

Because they knew deeply that the person before them was absolutely not an existence they could casually provoke...

Once, there had been nearly a hundred demon kings in the depths of the Demon Realm Forest. After he arrived, only four remained...

No, now there were only three left...

Ning Yechen had casually crushed the Black Scale Giant Dragon to death, and they had all secretly seen it...

Sensing that Ning Yechen did not seem to be in a very good mood today, everyone's hearts hung by a thread, their legs trembling.

They were terrified that if he became unhappy, he would casually crush them to death too...

They truly had no idea how that damned Black Scale Giant Dragon had offended this lord!

Wasn't this going to get them killed too?!

Everyone could not help but curse inwardly at the already-dead Black Scale Giant Dragon.

Ning Yechen swept his cold gaze over them and spoke indifferently:

"My wife and my daughter returned recently."

"Not only did the Black Scale Giant Dragon frighten my daughter, he almost ate her as well..."

"So I killed him."

"That bastard Black Scale actually dared to attack your daughter, My Lord! He deserved ten thousand deaths!"

The Titan Giant Ape, with dense, pale-white hair, raised his fist and said angrily.

"Exactly! If I'd known, there'd have been no need for you to act, My Lord. I would've split him apart for you!"

The Chaos Bull Demon, tall and powerfully built with a height of nearly two zhang, also echoed furiously.

The other woman, whose figure had a slim waist like a water snake's, also nodded like a chick pecking rice.

"Right, right, right. My Lord, killing him just like that was already letting him off cheaply!"

"It seems all of you very much approve of me killing him?"

Ning Yechen asked.

"Of course!"

The three demon kings answered in unison.

"Good."

"I'm very worried that you might frighten my daughter too, or pose a threat to my daughter..."

"Tell me, should I clean up all of you along with him as well?"

Ning Yechen smiled faintly. His words were spoken very lightly, without the slightest trace of killing intent audible.

Yet when those words fell into the three demons' ears, they were like thunder exploding. Each of them went cold all over!

With a "thud," the three demons hurriedly knelt on the ground, trembling all over as they begged for mercy:

"Spare us, My Lord!"

"Even if we were given ten guts, we still wouldn't dare offend you and your family, My Lord!"

Ning Yechen's expression turned contemplative, and he did not speak.

The three demons did not dare move a muscle, quietly waiting for Ning Yechen's decision on their fate.

To them, every second that passed felt especially long...

This might very likely have been their final moments in the human world...

After a long while, Ning Yechen said to the three demons, "Remember what you said. Keep your subordinates in line."

"If even one demon frightens my daughter, you can just wait to vanish from this world."

With that, Ning Yechen vanished from where he stood in a flash.

"...Yes!"

The three demons still lay prostrate on the ground, not daring to move. Only after a full greater half-hour had passed did they cautiously lift their heads.

Only after confirming that Ning Yechen had truly left did they let out lingering breaths of fear.

There was a kind of relief at having escaped death by a hair...

No matter what anyone said in the future, they would absolutely never go near that wooden house again...

Too terrifying...