The Demonic World I designed-Chapter 757 - 748: Siege (Part 2)

Ye Qing had never been this angry before!

Of her three children, Chen Zhuo, the youngest, was the most understanding. Despite his excellent birth, he was cursed by the heavens with not even a trace of talent. Yet, he never blamed fate or resented others. Instead, he proved himself in other ways, silently supporting his two older brothers from behind the scenes.

Sometimes, his sensibility was heart-wrenching. novelbuddy-cσ๓

All she wanted for her son was a safe and prosperous life, but she never imagined that someone would harm her child...

She didn’t care who the other party was, even if it was the Nanhai Dragon King who could bring great benefits to the Chen Family. Today, she would overturn the table and fight that old demon to the death!

"Who am I?"

Chen Zhuo, upon hearing these icy words, was stunned at first, but then quickly realized what she meant; he couldn’t help but cover his forehead and laugh.

He had spent years with his mother; how could he not know what the other party was thinking?

It was clearly his mature and sensible younger self that wouldn’t have committed the act in front of him. It must be some demon that had taken over, right?

And indeed... hadn’t that been the case for decades?

Seeing Chen Zhuo laugh, Ye Qing’s expression grew even uglier. However, she didn’t strike immediately and for a simple reason: she didn’t want to destroy her son’s body rashly.

"Mother...can’t you recognize me?" Chen Zhuo sat down on the steps and looked up at her with amusement.

"If you call out those two words with my son’s body again, I will make you understand what it means to beg for death in vain!"

"Your mother really loves you," another woman’s voice came from Chen Zhuo’s body, gentle beyond measure. And at that moment, one might even notice the two voices sounding exactly the same.

"Loves me?" Chen Zhuo laughed again. "Is it love...or is it guilt? But it makes sense. If she were like those other family’s heartless matriarchs, she wouldn’t feel a sliver of guilt. Having a bit of emotion for me, I am far better off than many others. Who’s to blame me for...being born a worthless person?"

Opposite, Ye Qing was taken aback, staring at Chen Zhuo, suddenly filled with doubt.

The Chen Zhuo she knew would never speak like this. But... his words... struck a chord in her, that tone, that demeanor, it didn’t seem fake at all.

But if it wasn’t fake, could it be...

She wanted that outcome even less.

"Are you really Zhuo’er?"

"Mother still doesn’t recognize me?"

"What is that voice in your body?"

"Naturally, it’s something mother was reluctant to give me."

At those words, Ye Qing’s body shuddered, and her hands began to tremble.

In an instant... she seemed to understand something.

Maybe she really was wrong.

She had always thought that Zhuo’er didn’t care, but now she thought about it, how could he not care?

"Mother, do you think I seem indifferent?"

"Zhuo’er...."

"How could I possibly not care?" Chen Zhuo stood up, smiling at his mother: "Not to mention the status and honor of being a magician, just by becoming a magician, how many more years could I live? My older brother is already a Dragon Vein Sorcerer with a lifespan of at least a few thousand years. And me? I have nothing. Mother, I’m thirty this year... have you ever considered that as you all live thousands or even tens of thousands of years, with just a blink of an eye, I’ll be gone?"

"I...I didn’t mean it like this, Zhuo’er..." Ye Qing’s lips quivered, unsure of what to say.

That unique stone could change someone’s aptitude, and she did consider her youngest son. But her eldest son was more demanding; he wasn’t satisfied with his mediocre talent, and she had thought to let the eldest consume all the resources to suppress Chen Ye, so the family would still be led by her own flesh and blood. Even if something happened to her later, the eldest would look after his brothers. If there was another chance in the future, it would go to Old San...

"That’s not how it is, right?" Chen Zhuo’s eyes, tinged with crimson, seemed to see right through Ye Qing’s thoughts.

"The eldest gets to enjoy everything first, and after he succeeds, naturally he’ll look after us? Hahaha..." Chen Zhuo laughed maniacally. "Don’t you know what your eldest is like? When has he ever cared about me?"

"Your older brother does care about you. It’s just that he himself faces so many doubts, he’s too resentful, that’s why..."

"What gives him the right to be resentful?" Chen Zhuo interrupted. "Is it because the family gave him the resources meant for a hundred magicians? Is it because the Southern Sea granted him the opportunity that could have developed ten Dragon Transformed Sorcerers all to himself? And still, he is too resentful? Hahaha..."

"Zhuo’er..."

"That was clearly my only chance, Mother..." Chen Zhuo advanced step by step, "You knew that I would never get another opportunity, you knew it well, yet you didn’t hesitate for a moment to give that thing to the eldest. But it figures, for you high and mighty adults, wasting a little time is nothing, for I would be gone, and in the tens of thousands of years to come, what would the days of my existence amount to?"

"It’s not like that, Zhuo’er..." Ye Qing stepped forward and hugged Chen Zhuo tightly, "It’s not like that, Zhuo’er, it’s not... Your mother wouldn’t give up on you, she wouldn’t..."

"Is that so?" At that moment, Chen Zhuo’s bloodshot eyes eerily fixed on his mother; countless fine red threads emerged from his body and instantly enveloped Ye Qing.

"Then prove it to me."

"Mistress!!" The guards behind them were startled and furious, and as they were about to rise, they were instantly torn to shreds by some force.

Ye Qing’s body trembled, but she showed no sign of resistance and gradually became calm...

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"Who dares to intrude into the Chen Residence!"

Within the Chen Residence, the protective formation was shattered instantly, alarming the Formation Elders who remained in the house, and they rushed out in a furious uproar.

However, upon seeing the three arrivals, they were stunned, one of them frowning and asking, "Murong Yunji? What... what is Jiangnan trying to do?"

"The situation is urgent, we had no choice." Murong Yunji promptly stepped forward to explain, "There is a powerful enemy invading from the outside, and the city’s protective formation is in dire straits. Where is the person responsible for the main formation eye?"

The two Elders exchanged looks without speaking, their eyes full of wariness.

As they hesitated, two aging voices also arrived from behind, "She’s right, the exterior can’t hold much longer, where is Ye Qing?"

Looking back, the ones who were rushing over were indeed the Elders from the Su and Nie Families, both members of the protective formation.

"Old Nie, what on earth has happened?"

The white-clothed Elder glanced at Murong Yunji and her sudden companions, his eyebrows furrowing, but still, he said, "It’s true that there’s a formidable enemy outside. The Elder from the Chen Family at the formation eye can’t hold out much longer. Hurry and get Ye Qing out here – didn’t she come to take the magical artifact?"

"The mistress has gone to the treasury to fetch the artifact," one of the Elders nodded, "She should be out shortly."

"Where is your treasury located?" Ao Zhen stepped forward, her face grim, "When I broke the formation just now, I clearly noticed that the formation outside of the Chen Residence has another layer hidden, cloaking the Chen Residence from sensing the outside. Otherwise, with the Ghost Shark General’s terrifying aura outside, how could the people inside not notice anything at all?"

Upon hearing this, the Chen Family Elder’s face showed displeasure: "The Chen Family’s Treasure Vault is not for outsiders to..."

Before he could finish, Ao Zhen grabbed him and lifted him up, "Open your eyes and look outside, what is that? This is the time to worry about the Chen Family’s treasure vault? Once that thing gets in here, not a single chicken or dog from the Chen Family will be spared!!!"

It was then that the Chen Family members realized the horrific eye looming above the clouds in the sky, and a chill swept through them.

The Elders from Nie and Su Families looked at Ao Zhen in amazement.

This woman... What’s her background?

All of them were Dragon Vein Sorcerers, but the woman’s movements just now... the two Elders didn’t see them clearly at all; it was as if she had leaped through time, reminiscent of when they were mere mortals faced with those formidable Super First Rank Magicians.

But now they were of the Dragon Clan, and yet this woman was faster than a Dragon Clan’s eyes?

"In the back courtyard..."

No sooner had the words fallen than Ao Zhen rushed forward with the Elder, forcibly smashing through multiple arrays along the way. The several Elders watching from behind felt chills down their spine, yet they hurriedly followed.

But when everyone arrived at the underground treasure vault, the scene before them sent their hearts plummeting to the abyss...

Inside the vault, where they had hoped to find the Mistress Ye Qing, she was now floating in the air, turned into a dried-up corpse by the mysterious red threads surrounding her!

And right below Ye Qing, Chen Zhuo’s entire outfit was a startling red; his aura was enchanting and monstrously bizarre to an extreme!

"Chen Zhuo? What... What have you done?"

The Chen Family Elders howled with rage, but the first to burst in, Ao Zhen, remained eerily calm.

She knew... Nanhai City was finished!

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