Chapter 1 The Gate of Desire Section 22 Prelude to War
In this way, Unqi temporarily settled in the Misty Rose Manor. Nominally a lowly whale servant in the Misty Rose Manor, Unqi is actually the blood slave of the Wind Demon Yanayi. With the support and care of Yanai, Unqi found a well-established stone cave near the entrance to the underground whale house and settled there.
The job of raising star whales is very simple, because there are enough gray krill and whiteeye fish in the cold pool of the whale house for the baby star whale to eat, and all Uenqi has to do is to clean the skin of the baby star whale every day, play with them, and ensure their hygiene and health. Janai would often sneak into the underground whale house to exchange blood with Unki, and occasionally she would bring Anne over to chat with Unki. The environment inside the whale house is actually far better than the outside, quiet and safe, and it is a good place for cultivation and meditation.
At noon on this day, the Wind Demon Yanayi took the Night Clan leader Mosa to the cave where Unqi lived. In the Misty Rose Manor, Yanayi seemed to have one hand in the sky, and she could bring in any outsiders, which made Unqi feel very strange. Compared to the leisurely and beautiful scenery of the maid Chang Yanayi, the lord of the Night Clan, Musa, looked tired and down.
Musa leaned against the stone wall with a blank gaze and whispered, "Mr. Unqi, our houseboat has been repaired, but many women in the tribe are reluctant to leave the town of Fog Rose. I can't force them, so I can only allow them to break away from the NightClan. Thanks to Yanai, I wouldn't know what to do without her. β
Wu Enqi's face was pale because of the lack of blood, and he smiled bitterly and said: "I also thank her for the fact that I live in a daze every day." Now that the houseboat has been repaired, you are about to set off, right? You should already know that the great hero who saved the countess's mother and son is not me, but the real hero is someone else. β
Moussa said, "Well, I've always known that. You are not the Countess's hero, but you are a hot-blooded man, and I believe you will be the hero of our Night Clan. Although Lord Berrant has already bought off the internal affairs officer of the Holy Capital of Desire, I would very much like you to come to the Holy Capital to help us. β
Wu Enqi said miserably: "I can't protect myself now, and I can't help you." I'm going to stay here and think about it, think about the present, and the terrible future. β
Musa was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's wrong with you, I see that you look disheartened, you shouldn't be so vulnerable, right?" Or did they abuse you and something happened that I don't know." β
It was true that Mousa had been right, and now Unchi's heart was full of despair, and if his dream of that day had been an unmistakable foreknowledge, his future would have been bleak in the bleakest placeβhe had died, unexplained, along with his mother and daughter. Anyone who foresees such a future will become disheartened.
Unchi lowered his head and said, "Something bad happened, but it has nothing to do with anyone else, it's just my own problem." I am very grateful for your and Miss Yanai's help, and if I could still cheer up, I would go to the Gate of Desire to find you. β
Moussa sighed and said, "Yanayi won't come with me, I can't afford to pay her commission." Hello do it yourself, I hope you don't fall from now on. Maybe I shouldn't be too talkative, but there are two rats in the original demon realm, you boat people are burrowing rats, and we night people are rats crossing the street. After all, our Night Clan is still the Holy Clan clearly recorded on the Holy Wall, and if you Zhou people lose the Yunyun Mountain as a barrier, I am afraid that they will be inferior to our Night Clan. β
Unqi glared at Mousa fiercely, what Musa said was not wrong, so Unqi would sympathize with the Night Clan, but he didn't want to hear these words at all now.
At the end of the summer of the 51420th year of the Taiyi calendar, the water of the horizon visited the sky of the Tenth Demon Domain.
In the sky of the original demon realm, there was no sun, only thirteen demon suns and one black sun, no moon, only brilliant aurora and a dark night sky, no clouds, only a vast white water, which occasionally flowed through the sky. The white water on the horizon is the mother river that conceives the demon race, the White River.
The White River was in the sky, the torrential rain was pouring, and the countless demons in Wumei Town all knelt on the ground, holding the water jug in both hands, in order to receive the most precious rain in the original demon world.
Unqi stood outside the whale house in the Misty Rose Manor, looking up in the direction of the White River. He hated this river, because for the boat people, the White River, which originated from the Boundary of the Human Dragon Continent, was just a point of no return for them to leave their homeland. And today, this point of no return will send off one of his friends, the Daredevil Lord Mosa.
In the central square of Fog Rose, the renovated houseboat of the Night Demons raised its white sails and slowly rose into the air in the face of the torrential rain. The houseboat approached the White River and submerged into it.
The Daredevil women who had been left behind, with tears and tears, cried and waved their arms at their compatriots in the White River. Either they've found a mate in Misty Rose or found a makeshift errand, they're no longer wearing NightClan's iconic black dresses, they've left the tribe, they're no longer allowed to demonize black wings, and they're no longer allowed to call themselves NightClan. Like Unki, they can only consider themselves to be lowly mongrels whose demon blood cannot be awakened.
Still on this day, the Manor was full of flowers and lanterns, and Baron Bertrand Karfin, lord of Misty Rose, invited many of the town's distinguished guests to a dinner party. On this blessed day, the White River rains down nectar, and the beautiful and dignified Miss Monica, the youngest daughter of Baron Bertrand Karfin, enters into a sacred marriage contract with the promising Star Knight Phoebus.
On such an important occasion, the head maid of the Fog Rose Manor was absent. In the underground whale house of the manor, the wind demon girl Yanayi, who was like a white rose, threw herself on Unqi's chest and cried loudly. Patting her delicate shoulders and stroking her silky blonde hair, a strange and peculiar feeling arose in Unki's chest.
"Why do I feel so close to her?"
In the blink of an eye, Unqi knew the answer, Yanayi had his blood in her body, and she was his blood relative in the blood. There is a strong blood bond between the Wind Demons and their owners, which is why they are both loyal and caring. Ane Anna, the Wind Demon, would rather borrow the blood of Unqi than sign a bloodline pact with Lord Bertrand Karfin, presumably because she was only willing to be loyal to one master, the Daredevil Mosa. Unqi knew this.
"You don't have to worry about Mussana boy," said Unqi comfortingly, "he can endure grief and contempt, settle his people, and handle everything in order, he is a great leader." You no longer share his blood, and with his willpower, you will surely become a powerful warrior in the near future. β
Wind Demon Yanayi pulled the blonde hair that hung down to her chest, looked at Wu Enqi with a face full of grievances, and whispered a defense: "People have not become a drag...... Is it a heavy burden to give me blood?"
"If you're not that competent, I'm a lot less burdened. Unqi smiled bitterly: "Don't look at me like a wounded kitten, I won't leave you alone without keeping the contract." I know very well that I am inferior to Mussa, and even less to Bamubar, not because of my blood and talent, but because I am not strong enough. I'm going to sharpen my will, practice witchcraft and fighting spirit here, and my blood will always be lent to you during this time. β
After Wu Enqi was deprived of the crown prince, the person he once admired the most, his father Ayuqi, the king of Kaiyang, once pointed to his chest and told him that he had heroic ambition and heroic energy, but without heroic fortitude and heroic courage, he would eventually achieve nothing.
If time flies, in a few years, it is very likely that Unqi will be satisfied with the leisurely life of whale farming in the abandoned whale house, and he may marry a certain Daredevil girl as his wife, and regard the Wind Demon Yanayi as his adopted daughter, and spend a mediocre and happy life in the Misty Rose Manor.
However, the thread of fate never relaxed its play on Unqi, and in the early autumn of this year, the cloud sailing ships of the demon clan gathered on the shores of the Sea of Fog, and a large-scale demon invasion was imminent. The wheels of war are about to run over mercilessly, albeit reluctantly, but no one can stay out of it.
These days, people in the Fog Rose Manor are panicking, and Yanayi is even more busy as the head maid of the manor. She went to the cave where Unqi lived every morning, drained half of his blood, and then drifted away. Unchi lost half of his blood and became drowsy, but fortunately he had a very leisurely day. During this time, he used witchcraft to "turn fossils into mud" and dug a tunnel in the cavern that led straight to the outside of the Fog Rose Manor. With this tunnel, Unki has the freedom to travel between the town of Fogrose and the underground whale house.
On an autumn evening, in the cool breeze, Unch took Anne for a stroll around town, both dressed in half-worn linen clothes, thin but with a happy look on their faces.
Anne kicked a pebble and said briskly, "Brother Unqi, you seem to be in a much better mood, Anne was so worried about you a few days ago." β
Unqi laughed: "Not being strong enough is my shortcoming. But I've figured it out, a gentleman doesn't take his life to offend, and even if I already know the outcome, I shouldn't change my will because of this. What's more, there are a lot of evil arts that can manipulate dreams, and it's hard to guarantee that someone didn't deliberately trick me. Wouldn't it be too stupid for me to languish because of a dream?"
"You're stupid!" Anne tilted her head and smiled happily.
Unch and Anne talk as they walk, and Anne no longer takes care of the beehives because she often steals honey. Now she was Miss Monica's maid, and Miss Monica had twenty maids, and Anne was the lowliest, and was responsible for leading her horses and tiptoeing for her.
Anne said, "You know what? Miss Monica went out on Nightmare Beast again to-day, and Mr. Phoebus went with her, and they were happy when they went out, but when they came back, Miss Monica was angry and cried. β
Unqi shrugged and said, "That young lady of yours has a princess's disease, and it's not surprising that the Star Knight Phoebus can't coax her. I was once the prince of the king, and I didn't have twenty maids to serve me. β
Anne said unhappily, "No, I like Monica anyway." Most of her twenty maids are girls from our Night Clan, and she is willing to take us in because of her kindness. Miss Monica doesn't like Mr. Phoebus, they don't like him. β
Wu Enqi said: "I don't like him either, as the saying goes, 'Poor death is not a son-in-law', then it is not what the master does, and he deserves to be angry." β
Anne corrected, "Brother Unki, you are mistaken. Mr. Phoebus is the illegitimate son of the Holy Emperor, although he has no name, but he is extremely powerful, even the great lord of the Xinglan City-State has to give three points when he sees him. Mr. Phoebus is very cold to Miss Monica, and Miss Monica deliberately dyes her hair an ugly dark purple in order to get angry, but they are engaged anyway. β
After hearing this, Wu Enqi sighed lightly, saying that life is unsatisfactory nine times out of ten. Not only humans, but also demons.