Translated by Luen Translations

Edited by Siren and Birdie

Chapter 17: Divine Companion, Deep Emotions (1)

Actually, as long as she wasn’t turned into cannon fodder, Tian Zhen could reluctantly accept the name “Bird Woman”. Lord Devil God was warlike and his skills in literature were slightly lacking. It was quite normal for there to be a problem in his usage of rhetoric, so you don't have to set the bar too high.

“En?” Not receiving a response, the Devil God indicated his limited patience.

The gods in the presence of his majesty were all fleeing. Tian Zhen discovered that those phoenix eyes were showing signs of narrowing. Thinking of how he had said before that he “will no longer show mercy to the Divine Winged Race” and then looking at the corpse of the Moon race’s bodyguard once again……she was both visually and mentally stimulated. Tian Zhen reacted unusually fast. Her kneeling changed to falling to the ground in the shape of a frog. “Long live Lord Lu-Lu……Lucifer!” 

Silence.

Sensing something was wrong, Tian Zhen hurriedly corrected herself, “Long live His Majesty the Devil God!”

“Bird Woman, you dare to recklessly slight me?” The Devil God looked down at her, anger hidden within his deep voice and killing intent surging. “Although my previous self barely lived for 10,000 years, my soul is naturally that of a god’s and I have already lived for 70 million years so far. To ridicule me, where did that courage of yours come from?!”

‘Forgot that the person in front is an ancestor, no, he’s an ancestor level deity.’ There were lines of tears on Tian Zhen’s face. “Your Majesty, I(我-modern ‘I’)……I(吾-old time) don’t dare! I don’t dare! I said 10 million because I’m only 25……”

The Devil God lowered his eyebrows. “1,000 years of cultivation, yet you’re claiming to be 25 million!”

Heaven doesn’t take numbers seriously, to actually use “million” as a unit of counting. Tian Zhen straightened her body and explained, “I’m not 1,000 years nor am I 25 million years. I’m 25 years old.”

The Devil God eventually found a mistake.

‘Cultivating into human form at 25 years yet her body carried a cultivation of 1,000 years?’

“I don’t dare to fool Your Majesty,” Knowing that she couldn’t oppose him at the moment, Tian Zhen overcame her fear and hugged his leg while saying, “I have admired Your Majesty’s divine might for a long time. If Your Majesty wants or needs anything at all, I’ll immediately get it!”

A slender, pure, and beautiful hand, brimming with power, extended out from underneath the golden-edged wide sleeve. It looked as if it was going to caress her face.

Tian Zhen’s entire body stiffened and her soul nearly flew into the sky.

‘Th-this…… Lord Devil God this is……’

Without giving her any time to think some more, that hand suddenly strayed and passed by her neck. The Devil God rudely grabbed the wing on her back, lifting her up to carefully examine her.

Tian Zhen controlled herself so as to not think of the scenario of a chicken being murdered. She firmly grasped the opportunity to show the image of devotion with an earnest and dignified tone. “Your Majesty doesn’t know. Actually, I……I admire Your Majesty’s divine might and have yearned for the Devil Realm for a long time now. I’ve had the mind to place myself under your hands. The blue sky has eyes to finally let me meet Your Majesty. From today onwards, I hope to follow Your Majesty as an attendant, laboring like a dog or a horse. I hope to help Your Majesty accomplish your aims!”

Hearing it, it seemed like a genius from the Divine Winged race at first, but after carefully looking at it, it was a good-for-nothing. The Devil God was very straightforward. “The physique of the lowest class. What would I need to use you for?”

She sought refuge, but was met with rejection. In Tian Zhen's moment of distress, she inattentively raised her head and was met with the sight of his face.

‘This god is dangerous!! Furthermore, he already has two sons with one of them being even older than me. But that face, those thin lips, those elegant eyebrows……really makes people want to commit a crime!’

A beautiful abyss with a murderous aura.

At that moment, Tian Zhen almost forgot to be afraid. Facing Zhao Huajun every day, her nose had originally become immune to this. Who would have thought that it would unexpectedly fail to live up to expectations and once more spurt out blood.

Stimulated by the blood, Tian Zhen found inspiration and loudly shouted– “Your Majesty! My blood is a cure-all healing medicine. I want to offer it to Your Majesty!” She scared herself when she said this. ‘Suppose if, by any chance, this god wants me to be a military doctor, wouldn't that be tragic?’ Hence, she supplemented her words with, “Your Majesty wants how much, I’ll give as much as possible, as much as possible.”

Silence befell for half a day and she passed the time with her heart alarmed, all the while trembling in fear.

Finally, the Devil God raised his elegant chin and started to talk once again, “Phoenix blood, what would I need to use it for?”

—‘Son likes blood, but “I” don’t have this interest.’ Tian Zhen rejoiced at not having to donate blood and immediately turned her face towards the sky to stop the bleeding. “Your Majesty speaks correctly. Your Majesty is unrivaled among the six realms. There is no need for phoenix blood. The annihilation of the God Realm and Immortal Realm is something that will happen sooner or later!”

The Devil God tossed her away. “A mere Immortal Realm is yet unworthy of me attacking it.”

Tian Zhen knelt down again. “It was my slip of tongue. Your Majesty is wise!”

As it turns out, being weak had its benefits. Other people would be disinclined to hit you.

The killing intent had dissipated by quite a bit. Seeing that he wasn’t planning on narrowing his eyes for the time being, only then did Tian Zhen let out a sigh of relief. ‘I still have hope of not becoming cannon fodder. Those who love to hear words of flattery are all incompetent rulers. It’s just a pity that this ruler is too powerful, stably sitting on top of the country without so much as budging. This fully confirmed the importance of military power. To speak of an example, the two-faced Heavenly Emperor and the two-faced leader were scheming around with addition of the War God’s use of psychological warfare, but the end result was that the moment “this” incompetent ruler narrowed his eyes, several millions of heavenly soldiers became cannon fodder.’

Of course, speaking in regards to a type of person like Tian Zhen, encountering an incompetent ruler is absolutely safer than encountering a wise ruler by far.

In order to save her life, Tian Zhen strived to unearth her own worth without regard to her face. “The Devil Realm has Your Majesty as well as two heavenly kings and surplus brave generals. Although my magic power is weak, I……I can stay by Your Majesty’s side along with ten million other subjects and witness Your Majesty’s glorious deeds together!”

“You have the courage to desert Heaven?”

“I do!” Tian Zhen was grievous and indignant, “The Heaven Realm is full of mutual deception, power struggles, and is utterly chaotic. I’ve long since found it unbearable!”

These words were quite fitting to his tastes. The Devil God was satisfied and had evidently forgotten that their original problem was himself. Pondering that the empty skies were vast, and that raising one additional Bird Woman beside him to flatter was quite pleasing to the ear, he consequently raised one hand and said, “I accept your vow of loyalty.”

“May Your Majesty enjoy life as freely and unconstrained as the Immortals and may you live as long as the omnipresent skies!” Having circled around the gates of hell, Tian Zhen was so emotionally moved that she was shaking.

“Return to the Devil Realm.” The Devil God turned around.

‘I must go on a trip for a while, leader. I’ll miss you.’ Tian Zhen gazed in the direction of Yu Mo Heavenly Palace, reluctant to leave. She endured her pain and replied, “Yes.”

A black wind rolled past and in the blink of an eye, the figure in front of her had already disappeared without a trace.

‘Who would have thought that he would leave like this?’ Tian Zhen was greatly alarmed. She crawled up and called him, “Your Majesty! Your Majesty!”

She looked around the vicinity. ‘Where was there a trace of a single person?!’

If she wanted to blame someone, she could only blame herself for not studiously cultivating every day. She had yet to master any pursuing spells. She reckoned that Lord Devil God also hadn’t anticipated that the newly accepted subordinate would be a good-for-nothing of this degree.

Tian Zhen discovered that she didn’t actually know how to get to the Devil Realm, so she obediently waited at the original spot for half a day. Still not seeing the Devil God return to fetch her, she held onto the vermillion fruits in her hands and flapped away to return to Yu Mo Heavenly Palace.

She hadn’t flown far when she unexpectedly encountered Zhao Huajun. He wasn’t riding the fire phoenix, but hastily arrived while riding upon a cloud. Catching sight of Tian Zhen in the distance, he halted. 

Tian Zhen was surprised. “King .……where are you going?”

The wind blew his clothes. With a relaxed grace, Zhao Huajun smiled, “I was worried that you had an accident so I came to look.”

Yu Mo Heavenly Temple had many maids. Leader was especially paying attention to only her, how could Tian Zhen not notice this? With a grateful heart, she promptly withdrew her wings and dropped on top of the cloud. She told him what had happened throughout the entire journey while omitting the disgraceful details. When she said that the Devil God had let her off on behalf of the Divine Winged race, Zhao Huajun didn’t express anything. It was only when he heard about the Moon race’s bodyguard did he slightly wrinkle his brows.

“It’s good as long as you’re alright. Let’s go back.”

Underneath the wide sleeve, that hand couldn’t be considered as grasping tightly. However, it made people feel reassured, very safe, and very stable. It brought about a kind of feeling that she hadn’t felt for a long time.

Tian Zhen seldom closed her mouth, but she wordlessly let him pull her along.

The area beside him suddenly turned quiet, Zhao Huajun was contrarily baffled, “Little Phoenix?”

Tian Zhen made an “ah” sound.

“What are you thinking about?”

“I recalled my……father. In those days he also often pulled me like this……” Tian Zhen subconsciously blurted out. When she came to her senses, she felt that it wasn’t proper and supplemented, “Of course, I only recalled that kind of feeling and I’m not saying that king is old at all……”

Zhao Huajun tenderly stroked her head and said, with a smile on his face, “Naturally. I’m merely 100,000 years old after all.”

Tian Zhen choked up, “King really is young and promising, young and promising……”

Zhao Huajun seemed to not have any underlying motives as he asked, “Who is your father?”

Letting it slip while being deeply moved, Tian Zhen regretted it. She feigned a strained pondering appearance, “Don’t remember. I only vaguely recalled a little bit of what my childhood was like.”

Zhao Huajun nodded his head. “If you can’t remember, then there’s no need for you to force yourself.”

Her magic power was bad beyond words, and her appearance was that of a Bird Woman. However, to be able to make the leader treat her differently, it was hard for Tian Zhen to not harbor doubts. She turned her head around to look at that pair of gray wings.

Seeing her like this, Zhao Huajun helplessly said, “Appearances aren’t all that important. Nevertheless, why are you so concerned about it? Just wait until your magic is complete, then there’ll be no one who will laugh at you.”

Tian Zhen replied, “But there are many times when beautiful women have the greater advantage.”

“Oh?”

“Does King dare to guarantee that your impression towards beautiful women isn’t a bit better? The first time you saw Dragon Girl De Yin, didn’t you think that she was beautiful?”

Zhao Huajun blanked and didn’t speak.

Discovering that she had been indiscreet, Tian Zhen apologized at once. “Sorry. I’m just speaking nonsense without thinking it through. Don’t mind it king.”

After this moment of commotion, both of them refrained from speaking for the rest of the journey. Returning to Yu Mo Heavenly Palace, the curtain of night had already fallen down. Zhao Huajun went to the palace hall first. Tian Zhen took the picked vermillion fruits and gave them to the Medicine Refining Residence. Thinking of how Heng Yue-ji was bound to bother him, it might be better for her if she didn’t go over there. Hence, she prepared to return to her room to rest.

Turning past the bamboo forest, a woman was standing at the gate to the garden along with an outsider bodyguard. They were talking. Tian Zhen had an impression of her. She was Heng Yue-ji’s personal maid.

“Bodyguard Five still hasn’t returned?”

“He hasn’t.”

“Don’t tell me that an accident really did happen……” The maid’s complexion wasn’t good. She lowered her voice and instructed, “I’ll inform the goddess first. This matter can’t be made public.”

The bodyguard agreed and then withdrew.

Tian Zhen’s heart jumped as she listened. She rapidly ducked behind the corridor’s pillar and waited for the maid to leave before she quickly walked towards the front palace hall. She found the usually friendly attendant, Yu Xiao. She pulled him aside and asked him two words. Hearing Yu Xiao’s reply directly turned her heart ice-cold. Promptly searching for an excuse to leave, she slowly walked towards the small courtyard that she was residing in.

“Such a coincidence?” A figure appeared from the corner. It didn’t seem like an accidental meeting, rather like she had been deliberately waiting.

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