Demon King's Repayment - chapter 318

“Qie Zhi? Haha, it’s Qie Zhi!”

Yuan Xiang gave Qie Zhi a big hug. Her body was muddy and wet, which stained all of Qie Zhi’s feathers.

“Hey, little girl. Let go, you are dirty,” Qie Zhi tried to break free from the human cub hanging around his neck, but failed.

The dirty human cub hugged his neck and shouted. When he first saw Yuan Xiang, she was a thin cub, but now she had become so big.

Are you so happy? Wasn’t she scared of him before?

Qie Zhi thought helplessly, spreading his wings and taking Yuan Xiang out of the sea.

The pure white bird, wearing a red crown, flew on the dull sea, carrying a dirty, wet human on his back with her arms around his neck.

The little girl was very happy, and Qie Zhi felt that he was a little bit happy, even though he didn’t know the source of his joy.

He often mocked Yu Yao for being stupid and ridiculous, but when the cub found him, it finally made him feel that Yu Yao was not so stupid.

Qie Zhi took Yuan Xiang to a safe island.

“Qie Zhi, where is my master?”

“Since you can find this place, you must already know what happened.” He said, “Yu Yao is such a foolish fellow.”

Standing on the reef covered with white feathers, Qie Zhi was watching the turbulent waves underneath the reef, and suddenly remembered that the first time he met Yu Yao, it was on such a dark shore.

At that time, he was chased by a group of vultures. His whole wings were bitten off in the battle, and he fell into the sea, and was washed to the shore by the waves.

The cold and turbid waves that day were no different from the waves under his feet. He moved his messy feathered body indifferently, which made him lose a lot of blood.

Just when he thought he was bound to die, a demon turned into a human appeared beside him.

“Ah, what a poor bird. Your wings are broken, so I can only take you with me.”

The half-conscious Qie Zhi was carried in the man’s black sleeve and brought back to a human courtyard.

There was a huge banyan tree in the courtyard. Yu Yao, who brought him back, put a bird nest on the tree, wrapped his body, and placed him on the tree.

The group of vultures chasing the smell flew and hovered nearby, making a terrifying howling like a roar that made all demons afraid.

They were powerful and cruel, what was troublesome was that they always acted in groups.

As long as it was the prey they fancied, they must be pursued. No matter how powerful a demon was, they would not be willing to provoke hordes of vultures.

“Don’t worry, rest till your wounds are healed. As long as you are in my yard, nothing can come in and hurt you,” Yu Yao stood under the tree, looking up at Qie Zhi who was sticking out his head from the nest.

When he came back again, the roar in the air had disappeared. It was just that there was a faint smell of blood on Yu Yao’s body, which was his own blood.

Since then, Qie Zhi had lived on that banyan tree. After getting along for a long time, he had gradually discovered the strangeness of the aftermath.

The man was obviously a powerful creature, but he seemed to particularly like weak humans. As a demon, he earnestly practiced human skills, learned human knowledge, lived a life like human beings, and could even use arrays like humans. Therefore, many demons had formed a contract with him.

That yard with a banyan tree had moved to another place as a whole within a period of time. There lived various demons, large and small, and everyone became Yu Yao’s apostles and friends.

But they weren’t Yu Yao’s only friends.

When the gate of the yard was opened, one or two human beings tremblingly seeking help would often come in. Yu Yao was always patient with them and would not let everyone bully them at will.

He became friends with an annoying Taoist, and even adopted a human cub as his apprentice.

The root of all that may be his wife who was a human being. Yu Yao loved his wife very much, and everyone in the yard also liked the human being who could make all kinds of delicious things. But everyone knew in their hearts that the lifespan of the human being was too short. That was the simplest truth all demons understood. Unexpectedly, the most wise and intelligent Yu Yao, failed to understand.

When Ru Shi’s lifespan came to an end, Qie Zhi found that Yu Yao, who had always been calm and composed, was completely panicked.

He always sat at the stone table under the banyan tree for a long time, flipping through books, consulting, writing and painting, then he covered his head and crumpled the thick manuscript paper that covered the table into a ball, turning it into ashes and throwing it into the stone table. 

“What are you panicking about? A powerful creature like you shouldn’t have anything to fear,” Qie Zhi couldn’t help sticking his head out of the shade.

“I used to think I’m strong.” Yu Yao shook his head and smiled bitterly, “Now I know that what is strong is my strength, but not my heart. Qie Zhi, I can’t get through this hurdle.”

In the end, Qie Zhi had to watch his friend do unreasonable stupid things.

Watching him foolishly make a deal with the human God under the bewitching of that human friend. With his most powerful body in the entire world, in exchange for the longevity of a mortal.

On the damp and dark sea reef, Qie Zhi kept staring at the dark sea, and said to Yuan Xiang, “You can’t imagine how magnificent his body is. On that day, all of us stood on the shore and watched the body, which was bigger than a mountain, sinking into the bottomless sea. His body guarding the sea cave, turned into a ridge. He will stay there forever and never come back.”

Although he had known everything in advance, when Qie Zhi recounted the matter, Yuan Xiang’s heart still seemed to be caught by something.

The sour pain welled up along with the childhood memories, and tears rolled in her eyes. She resisted not letting those tears fall into the sea.

Before he left, the master squatted in front of her and said, “Xiang’er, life and death is a cycle. We should go with the flow and should not be overly attached.”

But he himself did not, he was persistent and unwilling to let go.

On the day when the master disappeared, Ru Shi stood in front of Yuan Xiang, and touched her head, “I don’t know where your master has gone, or when he will come back, but I believe he will come back one day.”

“The only thing I can do is live my life well and live happily every day. When your master comes back, he will feel happy seeing that.”

Shiniang was working so hard to live, waiting for his return. She didn’t know that the master would never come back.

He gave his body in exchange for life, life and separation in exchange for death.

“What about everyone? Where did the others go?” Yuan Xiang asked sourly.

“He knew that he would never come back again, so he canceled all the contracts and let everyone go.” Two red scarves on the crown danced wildly on the sides of Qie Zhi’s cheeks, “I am the only one who was very bored. I stay here and talk to him occasionally.”