"I refuse to believe that anything personally cooked by Lord Demoness could taste that bad!"
Hun Xian'er lightly lifted her jade chopsticks, picked up a slice of emerald-green leaf vegetable, and brought it to her lips with a trace of skepticism.
The instant it touched her tongue, her delicate brows twisted into a knot. She fought down the surge in her throat and barely managed to swallow that mouthful.
"It really is awful!"
Hun Xian'er smiled bitterly.
Seeing her like this, the Undying Demoness smiled softly. "If it is so hard to swallow, then do not eat it!"
"No!"
Lu Ren abruptly grabbed his black bowl and swept the remaining dishes into his mouth like wind sweeping clouds.
"This is Mother's first time cooking. How could her son waste it!"
Lu Ren ate in a great hurry. Every mouthful he swallowed made him bare his teeth in agony, his face full of misery.
As the Undying Demoness watched him force himself onward with a bitter face, fragmented amusement surfaced in her cold eyes. Even the aura of extinction around her softened somewhat.
Hun Xian'er could not help herself either, covering her lips as she chuckled.
For a moment, a hint of warmth arose within the crude little house.
After Lu Ren cleaned the plates spotless, he suddenly said, "Mother, why not leave Dou Luo Heaven now? I cultivate the Immortal Dao, so the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Immortals cannot openly target me!"
The Undying Demoness said, "Do you think he would not notice if I left now? In the time ahead, we must devise a foolproof response!"
Hearing this, Lu Ren's brows furrowed tightly as well.
What had happened in the imperial palace of the Dou Luo Immortal Dynasty quickly swept across the entire Twenty-Fourth Heaven.
For a time,