The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

Chapter 289-290

289: Are You a Demon Wind?

Demon Wind knew the temple was guarded by a powerful phoenix clan, but he had never seen the phoenix, nor did he know that the phoenix guarding it now was a different phoenix.

Some time ago, while in the deep sea, he had found a tianwai ore. He wanted to use it to create a holy item. Since then, he had collected thousands of precious metals, hoping to use them to supplement the tianwai ore.

The three brothers had invited a master forger to the island to forge the holy item. It was not difficult to create a holy item with the tianwai ore. The difficult part was the payment. The master had wanted a Hell Black lotus.

Demon Wind could tell the master didn’t want to actually help them and was only using it as an excuse to get out of forging.

It would have been impossible for a normal person to get the flower, but this was Demon Wind and Demon Wind had the island. His predecessor had been to the underground temple and had seen the lotuses. Demon Wind already knew what to do in order to convince the master forger to come to the island.

He wanted to get the flowers, but he didn’t intend to break the seal, well not unless he had a death wish. He knew perfectly well how powerful the entity under containment was.

He was finally able to go down to the underground temple and not fear being contaminated by the flowers’ poison after merging with the drop of water essence. He never expected to find an intruder in the sealed underground. Not only that, the woman planned to destroy the seal. He was pissed! There was no way he could let her off the hook. It surely lead to disaster for the island.

“If I’m not wrong, you are the master of Demon Wind island... Demon Wind.” Zi Cheng quickly guessed the man’s identity despite never meeting him before. In part this was because of his weapon.

He was a swordsman and yet he used a knife. The knife was a demon weapon made of bones which threw strong wind attack.

There were monsters in the world, so naturally there would also be demons. Most were bloodthirsty and cruel, used to living with ongoing war, so they were naturally warlike. They lived in the demon world and rarely forayed into the human world.

The knife in Demon Wind’s hand was made by the first Demon Wind out of the bones of a holy level demon. It was a powerful weapon because of this.

“You’ve got good eyes. Yeah, I'm Demon Wind, but I don’t care who you are. You’re dead if you dare break that seal.” josei

Demon Wind instantly harbored murderous intentions toward Zi Cheng. He loved beautiful women, and Zi Cheng was indeed a beauty, but that didn’t matter if she dared break the seal. Even if she was a goddess, it was life over beauty!

Zi Cheng took out the sub-divine staff and preemptively attacked him with the five elements.

Demon Wind was from a great sword sect, so even if he was only a junior, his weapon’s aura barreled toward Zi Cheng and broke her attacks like an unstoppable flood.

Demon Wind had mastered intent. His was water and wind so his techniques surged like a flood and moved as quick as the wind. But he didn’t have to use his weapon’s intent to deal with a character as minor as Zi Cheng. He only needed to press her with the aura of his knife to make her sweat.

Even if the sub-divine Staff of Life was an amazing item, it was impossible for Zi Cheng to use its maximum potential. Zi Cheng was only an intermediate magician. It was like giving a small child a handful of god artifacts and expecting wielding expertise.

The only reason she wasn’t killed in the battle against Little Seven was because Little Seven didn’t have the heart to kill. She had only wanted to chase Zi Cheng away. Otherwise, with Little Seven’s strength, Zi Cheng would have been burned to a fiery cinder.

Zi Cheng's level was several realms below Demon Wind’s, so unless she could redeem an instant win item from her system, winning would be next to impossible. An item to overcome that many levels wasn’t too expensive though. However, she had used nearly all her points to deal Little Seven, so although it would have been inexpensive, she didn’t have enough.

She carefully avoided a strike. But though she avoided one, she couldn’t avoid them all. Demon Wind’s knife attacks were as swift as the wind, so soon she was cut. A slash on her shoulder made her fall into the black pond water.

Had she been at full strength, considering all the good items she had, it wouldn’t have been hard for her to defeat him, or at least escape. Unfortunately, she was suffering from severe internal injuries from the backlash of the failed blood contract that Jier interrupted with his fireball.

The healing and recovery potions she took earlier were working, but they weren’t instantaneous. Considering all this, it would have been understandable if Zi Cheng were to be horribly defeated, after all even the heroine of a story is not invincible from the get go.

Ming Xi arrived after Zi Cheng had sunk into the pond. The water was calm, without a ripple.

Demon Wind was about to engage the new intruder when he saw the entity next to Ming Xi. His eyes lit up and widened in disbelief. Was he dreaming?

“Master Phoenix! This isn’t a dream, right? I’m seeing Master Phoenix for real?!” Neither his father or grandfather before him had ever laid eyes on the phoenix said to be guarding the temple. Demon Wind was so excited, it was like his eyes were twinkling stars.

“Your friend?” Ming Xi asked Little Seven after glancing nervously at the overly enthusiastic beefy man in front of him.

Little Seven tilted her head to one side as she thought it over. “I don’t know him personally, but I think I know who he is.” She had internally transmitted her thoughts to Ming Xi.

“Are you the Demon Wind of this generation?” What came out weren’t bird chirps but the common language of the continent. Sure enough, people only understood her if she wanted them to understand her.

“Yes, yes, that’s me! I didn’t expect to ever see the true face of Master Phoenix. My father and grandfather would be so jealous!” Demon Wind said as he wiped tears of excitement from his face.

If it weren’t for the fact that the guy admitted to being Demon Wind, the leader of the Red Skull, Ming Xi would never have associated this guy, who was wiping tears away as he gazed adoringly at his contracted beast, with a murderous pirate.

290: Ming Xi’s Suspicions

Demon Wind had his reasons for being so excited to see Little Seven. When he was young, his father had told him all kinds of bedtime stories about the first-generation Demon Wind's adventures with Longze.

There were several characters who appeared over and over again, one of which was the multicolored phoenix. The phoenix was a friend who fought against the demons with them. After the battles were waged and won, the phoenix even promised to stay on the island and help guard it. Demon Wind admired this kind of self-sacrificing loyalty the most.

It was one of his favorite stories about the island. How could he not be excited to see the legendary Master Phoenix in the flesh?

It was just that Demon Wind hadn’t thought that maybe the phoenix of his stories had taken a mate and gone out to play, unscrupulously leaving his offspring behind to guard things in his place.

Little Seven understood the misunderstanding but she was too lazy to correct him.

“Demon Wind, let me ask you. Just now, did you see a loathsome woman cut through here?” Little Seven still remembered how Zi Cheng had tried to force a blood contract on her. Her dignity as a holy beast wasn’t something to be trampled on by a mere human. If she didn’t let that hateful woman pay, then her name wasn’t Little Seven!

“Loathsome woman?” Demon Wind was confused only for a moment before understanding who Master Phoenix was referring to.

“There was a woman here. She had wanted to pull out the Demon Suppression sword that Master Longze personally placed here and release the demon commander. She must have been a spy who managed to infiltrate our world,” said Demon Wind with certainty. Why else would she try to pull out the sword unless she was a traitor?

The sword was precious, but removing it would turn the seas into a blood bath.

It wasn’t like they had another Master Longze to come and seal the demon away again. If the seal broke, the first to suffer would be the population on Demon Wind island. From how resolutely the woman had tried to pull out the sword, it was safe to assume she must have felt she was immune to any after effects. Otherwise, as the person closest to the seal, she would have been attacked by the demon immediately.

There was no way she’d be that certain unless she was in cahoots with the Demon realm, otherwise why would the imprisoned ancient demon general spare her?

That man, for him it would be considered merciful if he didn’t kill all of humanity.

“Where is that woman? I have to personally teach her a lesson!” Little Seven didn’t bother paying attention to the rest of what Demon Wind said. She was only interested in dragging the wretched woman out and beating her up.

Demon Wind pointed to the black pond. “I shot at her too hard and killed her. She’s in the pond.” Had he known Master Phoenix wanted to personally teach her a lesson, he wouldn’t have tried so hard. He ended up killing her so now the master probably hated him.

Demon Wind was upset over this. He wasn’t sure how Master Phoenix would react.

“This is where the ancient demon commander is sealed?” Ming Xi pointed to the pond. Little Seven had already told him about the secret behind the island and the temple.

He would never have thought a pirate den would have anything to do with the deified Longze-Jiamoer. There was even an ancient demon commander, the number one demon master, sealed underneath the island. He would never have believed it if Little Seven hadn’t told him.

“Yes, he was sealed by Lord Longze long ago. You can tell by looking at the water that there is an ancient demon commander under there. His demonic spiritual energy has suffused into the pond and made it magical. That’s why there are so many Hell Black lotuses growing.”

Such pure demonic miasma could only come from the first demons.

“Did the woman surface?” Ming Xi had his doubts.

“No, she didn’t even flop over, just sank straight down.” Demon Wind replied to Ming Xi because he knew Ming Xi came together with Master Phoenix.

Ming Xi narrowed his eyes and thought about that. He didn’t believe Zi Cheng would die that easily. He hadn’t spent much time with her, but he knew there was something unusual about her. She always had unusual items in her possession – like that strange poison she used on Little Seven . . .

There were certainly all kinds of unusual items that could be used on all monsters and beasts, but a girl like her, someone from such a minor family, they weren’t things she should have been able to obtain.

He had sent someone to investigate her background so he knew everything about her life experiences from infancy to now. The most unusual thing he discovered was the strange charm Zi Cheng had on her body that attracted all manner of people to her. It made them ignore their own personal and family interests for her best interests.

Aristocratic children were given all kinds of benefits, but the most important was education. That they would disregard their family for a woman, was highly unusual. That there were multiple aristocratic children under her spell was a problem.

No matter how he looked at it, Zi Cheng would be difficult to deal with.

Another problematic woman was Ai Lin. She had come out the victor in the tomb[notes] despite competing against the odds. She defeated so many masters to get the treasure, evaded the final holy beast, and evaded all those who hunted her after escaping the tomb. All these things made her a person of interest.

The past few years had seen an influx of other realms coming into the human world. The four major empires along with Star Marshall hall had been sending people to investigate yearly.

Zi Cheng and Ai Lin didn’t know it, but Ming Xi had been suspicious of them for some time.

His investigations failed to show any signs they were influenced by outside forces, Ming Xi couldn’t relax and kept them under constant surveillance. In particular, Zi Cheng’s ability to influence people’s hearts made him very nervous. Because of all these factors, he doubted Demon Wind had managed to kill Zi Cheng. He wouldn’t believe it without a corpse. There was no way she would die so easily.

In fact, Ming Xi was correct. Zi Cheng had used a magic orb the moment she fell into the pond.