Demon Eye Heavenly King stared at Zhang Yuanqing, meeting the Sun Lord's "radiance" and pressure head-on, and said:
"Fear came to see me."
Zhang Yuanqing nodded.
"I guessed as much! Given the current situation, the demigod-level forces of both the lawful and evil factions have suffered severe losses. After advancing to level nine, your Bewitch Demon Eye has become even stronger, and you also received an opportunity bestowed by Soldier Lord Chiyou. If you unleash your full power, keeping a demigod tied down for a short while won't be difficult.
"Fear will definitely try to pull you back into the evil faction."
"I'm very tempted." Demon Eye's gaze and expression held the same earnestness as a youth speaking of his dreams.
"I know!" Zhang Yuanqing's expression was equally earnest.
Demon Eye Heavenly King shifted his eyes away from Zhang Yuanqing's face and looked toward the azure sky. After roughly three to five seconds of silence, he slowly said:
"You may not know this, but I actually grew up in an orphanage. I was an abandoned infant."
Zhang Yuanqing pondered for a few seconds. "In the mural illusion of Southern Garden of Shu Mountain, that couple was..."
At first, he had thought that Demon Lord was the child who had grown up in the orphanage, which was why he was so keen on looking after its children. Later, when he saw Demon Eye's parents in the murals of Southern Garden of Shu Mountain, he had assumed Demon Eye cared about the orphanage because he believed its children were the weakest and purest, and that was why he liked them.
Unexpectedly, after going in a big circle, they had returned to his original guess.
"They were my adoptive parents." Demon Eye Heavenly King pulled a blade of wild grass from a crack