The Demon Empress Who Came Knocking with Her Daughter

That night, Su Ming completed his usual daily meditation training.

Even though he knew that after the Demon Empress's sacrifice, his soul power would inevitably surge straight to the level-twenty bottleneck,

he still did not slack off and continued completing his daily mandatory meditation.

Cultivation was all about persistence.

One could not become negligent just because of a momentary gain.

"Su Ming, meet me at the beach." Just then, a voice entered Su Ming's mind.

The Demon Empress has finally settled everything on her end. Su Ming was thrilled.

After staying in Salted Fish Village for such a long time, he had finally reached this step.

He then glanced at the clock hanging on the wall and, after calculating that the time was about right,

got up as he had before, left his room, and headed toward the beach behind the house.

"Your Excellency Demon Empress, show yourself." Looking at the empty beach, Su Ming spoke calmly.

Unlike last time, when she had appeared soundlessly before Su Ming,

the Demon Empress made quite a commotion this time. Of course, she kept its effects confined to the beach so as not to draw anyone else's attention.

A figure tore through the clouds and fell onto the beach like a meteor.

Yet when the Demon Empress landed, she did not make much noise, as though that immense power had been precisely contained within a tiny space.

As the dust dispersed, the Demon Empress emerged from the dark golden radiance. Her flowing long hair danced in the sea breeze, and her exquisite face was cold and majestic.

However, Su Ming's attention was focused on the petite little girl behind the Demon Empress.

So this must be Lan Fozu. She's pretty cute.

I just wonder what sort of heavenly treasures the Demon Empress used to let her cultivate to a hundred thousand years in such a short time.

Su Ming was somewhat curious.

In the original story, Lan Fozu had only reached a hundred thousand years through cultivation during the Dragon King Era, eventually taking human form.

As expected of the Demon Empress—she truly had plenty of treasures in her hands.

Is this the Su Ming Mother told me about? While Su Ming was observing Lan Fozu, she was also observing him.

She wore a plain white dress, and her skin was so fair it was nearly translucent.

Curiosity filled her azure eyes as she timidly hid behind the Demon Empress, occasionally peeking at Su Ming.

Lan Fozu was undoubtedly curious about the boy who had told her the name she would have in the future.

She was curious about Su Ming's origins, his identity, and his martial soul...

"Alright, since you've arrived, let's go. This isn't a good place for a sacrifice."

The Demon Empress looked at Su Ming, preparing to take him away from the beach.

"Alright." Su Ming readily agreed.

The commotion caused by a sacrifice would be enormous.

If it were carried out on this beach, everyone in Salted Fish Village would likely be drawn over.

As for the idea that the Demon Empress might use this chance to harm him, that was simply paranoid delusion.

If the Demon Empress had truly been unwilling to cooperate, she would have acted against him when they met some time ago instead of waiting until now, after arranging their cooperation and the matter of entrusting her daughter to him.

"Sit tight. Don't move around."

With that, the Demon Empress held Su Ming in one arm and Lan Fozu in the other, swiftly leaving the beach and flying toward the chosen location.

"Once the sacrifice is complete, I have already arranged how you and my daughter will return."

"Also, you already have a plan for how my daughter can reasonably stay by your side, correct?"

During the flight, the Demon Empress spoke directly with Su Ming to save time.

Su Ming answered as though he had long been prepared:

"Please rest assured, Your Excellency Demon Empress. Since we have already reached an agreement, I will make every aspect of it perfect."

"As for Lan Fozu's identity and her future schooling plans, I have already made arrangements."

"Furthermore, after Lan Fozu comes ashore, her strength will not be weakened because she is a sea soul master, and her daily life will be as comfortable as if she were in the ocean." He added one more point at the end.

With Kyogre as his martial soul, wherever he went became the ocean.

He innately possessed the power of rain, and if his strength were sufficient, he could easily turn the land into a vast sea.

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, who would have imagined that even the legendary Sea God could become a martial soul?" Upon hearing this, the Demon Empress could not help but sigh.

Su Ming's Sea God martial soul was not something the Sea God martial souls that had appeared on Sea God Island, back when its inheritance still existed ten thousand years ago, could even compare to.

Letting her daughter stay by Su Ming's side was not only to avoid those enemies in the ocean.

She also hoped her daughter might benefit from his favor.

If they developed a bond and Su Ming became a god in the future, wouldn't it be easy for him to lend her daughter a hand?

"Brother Su Ming, what is the human world like?"

At the same time, Lan Fozu curiously looked at Su Ming to her right.

Gentle and kind by nature, she had been filled with yearning for this world since childhood.

Naturally, she was also deeply interested in the sights of the continent.

"There is prosperity, and there are disasters as well." Su Ming sighed.

He then told her about many things, including some of humanity's darker aspects.

Such as evil soul masters.

There was no question about Lan Fozu's talent.

But she was far too innocent and kind.

Since she would be following him into the human world in the future, there were still certain things she needed to understand.

"Those evil soul masters are truly outrageously bold!"

When she heard that evil soul masters deliberately lured, slaughtered, and abused sea creatures merely to obtain souls, the Demon Empress was utterly enraged.

Although the Demon Empress now devoured other sea creatures as well, that was a racial ability and part of natural competition.

No matter how brutal she or her late husband had been, they had never resorted to such evil methods.

Moreover, after her husband died, her family had suffered extremely brutal retaliation as well.

The sea soul beasts that had once submitted to her family and treated her with great respect had all changed. Seizing the opportunity, they began hunting down the mother and daughter.

Their entire clan was also slaughtered, leaving only the Demon Empress and her daughter Lan Fozu of the Deep Sea Demon Whale Clan.

If the Deep Sea Demon Whale King had not possessed some foresight and left behind his whale pearl, the Demon Empress and her daughter would have long since died beneath the joint assault of other sea soul beast clans.

Naturally, the Demon Empress deeply hated those people.

After gaining strength, she had taken revenge on most of them as well.

But in the matter as a whole, the Demon Empress had clearly been inferior in skill. Having gambled, she had to accept defeat.

She had also changed from the innocent young girl she once was into the person she had become today.

Therefore, from the Demon Empress's perspective, there was absolutely nothing wrong with hating those evil soul masters who abused and slaughtered sea creatures.