The Anxious Demon Empress

"Mother, have you devoured another stretch of sea?"

Seeing the terrifying blood aura surrounding her mother, Lan Fozu spoke sadly.

Things clearly had not been like this before.

Even though her father had been so brutal, their family had still been loving, and her mother had been so gentle.

But now, her mother was no longer gentle. The only thought left in her heart was revenge.

This made the naturally kind Lan Fozu feel utterly miserable.

Even though she often tried to persuade her mother, it had achieved very little.

The future Demon Empress quietly looked at her daughter.

Then, she reined in her bloody aura and said in a somewhat gentler tone:

"Silly girl, devouring is an innate ability of our race. Why shouldn't we use it?"

"Your mother used to be as naïve as you. I had never devoured anything."

"But what was the result? When your father faced a powerful enemy, I, his wife, could do nothing. I could only hide in the shadows."

At this point, the Demon Empress's tone involuntarily grew heavier, carrying a trace of indignation.

The more she thought about what had happened back then, the more regret she felt.

Immediately afterward, the Demon Empress patiently tried to guide her.

"Daughter, if you can use your devouring ability like your mother, then with your talent, your future accomplishments will surely surpass mine."

"Then, with the power of our mother-and-daughter pair, we may not be unable to take revenge on that man named Tang San."

"Forget it. I know I can't persuade you. Think it over carefully yourself." Seeing that her daughter remained unmoved, the Demon Empress could not say much more.

Over the years, while Lan Fozu had been trying to persuade her mother, had the Demon Empress not also been guiding her daughter?

Of course, the Demon Empress loved her daughter. Otherwise, she would not have always treated her so gently.

However, ten thousand years had passed, and the fire of revenge in the Demon Empress's heart had only burned fiercer.

Therefore, she hoped even more that her daughter could be like her, use her innate ability sooner, cultivate sooner, and grow stronger sooner.

"What is it, daughter? Is there something else you want to tell Mother?" Seeing that her daughter had yet to leave, the Demon Empress asked instinctively.

She knew her daughter exceedingly well. Her daughter was not accustomed to staying in waters where she had just finished devouring.

Seeing this, Lan Fozu no longer hesitated and recounted everything she had heard that day exactly as it had happened.

"Demon Empress, don't you want to avenge your husband, whose eyes were once gouged out and who was ultimately killed by that man's successor?"

The instant she heard those words, the Demon Empress flew into a rage, as though she had lost her mind.

"Who was it?!"

"Who the hell was it?!!"

The Demon Empress threw back her head and roared furiously. The bloody aura she had deliberately restrained upon seeing her daughter could no longer be contained and completely spread out.

Although the current Demon Empress had only three hundred and thirty thousand years of cultivation.

Her rapid growth and the strength of her race had already given her a shadow of the Demon Empress she would become ten thousand years later.

However, after realizing that her daughter was still beside her, the Demon Empress forcibly suppressed the anger in her heart and calmed herself.

After completely restraining her aura, she patiently asked her daughter:

"Daughter, has this information really spread widely throughout the ocean?"

"Mhm." Lan Fozu nodded obediently.

Could it be some vile scheme Tang San, that beast, has set against my race? At that moment, countless thoughts raced through the Demon Empress's mind.

Unlike the few possibilities her daughter had considered, she first ruled out the ocean and thought much further ahead.

The so-called three great overlords of the ocean were, in truth, merely titles humans had pinned on them.

In the deep sea, there were still plenty of soul beast clans stronger than them.

They simply rarely appeared.

As for the Evil Orcas, Demon Soul Great White Sharks, and Deep Sea Demon Whales, they were more or less known to the public because of the Sea God, and were ultimately listed together as the three great overlords.

The Evil Orca clan had nearly been wiped out ten thousand years ago. Even if a few scattered members remained, they could not amount to much.

Naturally, they knew even less about what had happened back then.

If, in the Demon Empress's view, the Evil Orca clan lacked the possibility, then the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan lacked the courage.

At the very beginning, they had never even met the Deep Sea Demon Whale clan, much less interacted with them.

If not for Tang San, the Sea God's successor, the two sides would likely have had almost no chance to encounter each other in the sea.

Moreover, the Demon Empress utterly despised the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan. Rather than live properly as soul beasts, they had chosen to become humans' dogs.

Even if the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan had learned some of the inside details back then because they followed Tang San, the second Sea God.

After the Demon Empress's years of secret retaliation against the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan, they absolutely would not dare provoke her over such a matter again.

The sea soul beasts that knew these details had neither the ability nor the courage. As for humans, the Demon Empress had not considered them at all, because it was impossible.

Not to mention how much those human fellows knew about Tang San becoming a god back then.

They knew very little about the ocean, sea soul beasts, and sea soul masters.

Much less anything related to becoming a god.

And most importantly, humans simply had no way to spread this matter throughout the sea.

Soul beasts had their own language. How could humans possibly understand it?

Thus, the Demon Empress naturally thought of that sinister fellow who had ascended to godhood ten thousand years ago.

After all, their Deep Sea Demon Whale clan had been targeted by gods or their successors on several occasions.

No, I have to investigate this matter thoroughly.

If it truly was done by that fellow from the God Realm, then my daughter and I may be in danger.

A trace of determination flashed through the Demon Empress's eyes.

If, after verifying the source of the information, she confirmed that it truly had even the slightest connection to a god.

Then she could only go mad once, stop concealing her devouring as she did now, and strive to raise her cultivation as quickly as possible.

In the end, she would use all her strength to inflict the greatest possible damage upon the human forces of Douluo Continent.

Because the Demon Empress refused to become a chess piece like her husband, a stepping stone for humans to become gods.

Before she died, she would make those so-called humans and so-called gods pay an incomparably painful price.

"Daughter, stay here in the sea and do not move. Mother is going out for a while."

After briefly soothing her daughter, the Demon Empress left the waters where she had been hiding.

She would find the source of the information as quickly as possible.