Ruthless Schemes, Bastard's Despair

Xuan You Demon Son's entire body stiffened, the madness on his face freezing in an instant. The last trace of longing for a father's love in the depths of his eyes shattered into nothing beneath that cold voice.

He looked toward the cage in disbelief, his lips trembling, even his voice carrying a faint, barely perceptible quiver. "Fa... Father?"

"Hmph. I, Xuanyan, have no bastard son with such filthy blood."

From within the cage, Demon Emperor Xuanyan Xuan's voice came again, so cold it held not the slightest warmth. Every word was tempered with bone-piercing malice, stabbing with precision at the pain Xuan You Demon Son had cared about most all his life.

He deliberately magnified the disgust and contempt in his voice, even adding a trace of intentional revulsion. "The supreme Sacred Clan bloodline of the Heart Demon Race was actually tainted by a lowly half-human, half-demon thing like you. If not for the fact that keeping you alive still had some use, that you could serve as an idle chess piece, do you think you would have had the right to live until today?"

That light, casual sentence not only tore apart Xuan You Demon Son's lifelong obsession, but also hid the scheme he had planned for ten thousand years.

From the time Xuan You Demon Son was still in swaddling clothes, he had deliberately allowed the clan's criticism and ostracism of this mixed-blood offspring to continue, yet had not allowed the clan members to kill him, forcing him to cultivate like a madman amid contempt and humiliation. This operation had only temporarily come to an end when they surrounded and killed the Ancient War Emperor;

From the moment Xuan You Demon Son infiltrated the Secret Realm, he had secretly guided him with a Heart Demon secret method,