SOL Chapter 18

Mother of Demons (Part 2)

Tian Chang heard this and slowly increased the strength in his hand, “She is too weak now to kill me.”

Li Shan looked at him quietly, “Then kill it.”

He knew Tian Chang’s nature and had no doubt that he would actually do it.

It would be good to kill the little monster like this. It shouldn’t have been born into this world in the first place. Now it is ignorant and unaware, untainted by karma or slaughter, which is in accordance with coming cleanly and leaving cleanly.

When evil ghosts fight, both are injured. Whether Tian Chang kills the little monster or the little monster kills Tian Chang, they will lose half their lives if they don’t die. In any case, this is what Li Shan wanted to see.

When Tian Chang tore off the little monster, he took away most of its skin and flesh, without considering the parent-child relationship or himself.

One of his eyeballs was also pierced by sharp teeth and claws. As Tian Chang moved, it was torn off, revealing the wriggling blood and flesh tissue under his green eyebrows and white teeth.

So this is the true form of the Heavenly Demon Lord, as ugly and terrifying as the little monster.

Tian Chang turned to Li Shan with a face that was half handsome and half missing skin and flesh, revealing white bones and empty eye sockets. He grinned at him, looking extremely ferocious.

He slowly said with an unclear meaning, “Good, very good.”

The little monster was tightly grasped by his fingertips, making the sound of squeezing fruit and bursting juice.

For the first time, its chaotic, simple mind, which could not yet distinguish human affairs, felt the pain of dying. It knew that its mother was by its side, just quietly waiting for it to die.

The little monster didn’t have any resentment in its heart. The Demon Ancestor could produce hundreds or thousands of demon seeds in one pregnancy. Compared to offspring, they were more like consumables that could be abandoned at any time, using blood and flesh to pave a smooth road.

The instinct in the bloodline inheritance made the little monster completely obey Li Shan’s orders, even if it was facing a dead end, it would still go without hesitation.

However, its thin consciousness finally produced some superfluous emotions. It felt a little fear and sadness and couldn’t help but let out a sharp howl. However, its tentacles still stubbornly clung to Tian Chang, trying to strangle him or slowly digest the wrapped part with the mucus it secreted.

The little monster knew that its voice was a bit harsh, perhaps one of the reasons why its mother was indifferent to it. It wanted to talk to its mother one last time, learning the cries of human children, spitting out one syllable at a time.

“Mom, it hurts.”

Extremely clumsy imitation. The little monster’s organs could not yet make sounds proficiently, and the sound it made was half human and half ghost, several times more terrifying than howling.

But Li Shan felt like he had been struck by lightning. He felt that the exceptionally clear syllables were sharper than any sound, almost piercing his eardrums.

He suppressed his emotions and comforted himself. Demons had always been like this, accustomed to imitating human voices to beg for mercy.

The demons didn’t even understand what this behavior meant. They only knew that humans would hesitate and stop because of it, so they could take the opportunity to fight back. Many cultivators had been tricked.

But Li Shan couldn’t deceive himself. He could share thoughts and feelings with this monster, so of course he knew that it didn’t harbor evil intentions. This was just its current “thought”.

It had perception, and it had emotions. It even felt a little sad because of the “mother’s” ruthlessness. All emotions surged in Li Shan’s heart, knotted into a mess.

There should be no hesitation at this time. Hesitation means failure. Tian Chang suddenly felt that the power entangled around him weakened. Almost without hesitation, he struck. The ball of flesh hit the bed frame and shrank back into a small ball, as if it had lost its vitality.

Tian Chang laughed happily, “You’re still soft-hearted.”

Li Shan turned his eyes back to him and said calmly, “Yes.”

Li Shan did not have the self-awareness of a “mother” when facing this little monster.

But people are not plants. They are moved when they hear the wails of birds and beasts, let alone human words?

Half of Tian Chang’s body was eroded by the little monster’s mucus, and he couldn’t recover for a while. The monster’s true form was exposed, like a broken porcelain doll, with cracks extending all the way, revealing the inferior and dirty fillings inside.

He couldn’t help but feel a trace of irritability. He raised his foot and slowly walked towards Li Shan, “Soft-heartedness is really your biggest weakness. If you could have solved the group of useless people from Cui Wei Sword Pavilion who came to stop you that moonlit night, I’m afraid you would have killed Li Huai Su long ago. You are a sword cultivator, but you didn’t die in the hands of demons, but fell into the hands of your own people. It’s really pathetic and ridiculous.”

Tian Chang was probably really a little annoyed. Although he was still smiling on the surface, he said the most heart-wrenching things.

Li Shan was just listening quietly, but suddenly said, “You have planted a lot of spies in the cultivation world, taking the opportunity to stir up trouble. Since you set up the net for me from the beginning, then no matter which path I choose, I will eventually fall into your net, won’t I?”

Tian Chang raised his eyebrows slightly, “Well, that’s true. You are such a useless person, unable to save yourself or anyone else.”

Only a few steps away, Tian Chang had already calculated dozens of ways to make Li Shan’s life worse than death in his mind. At this moment, Li Shan was no longer just a toy in his palace, but also the invincible enemy of the past.

Even if the sun shines brightly, he will swallow it!

Thinking of this, Tian Chang felt very happy in his heart, as if a strong vitality was flourishing. The wounds that were difficult to heal for a while revealed flesh and eyeballs, so happy that he couldn’t wait to drill out. He floated as if walking on clouds, almost humming a song lightly.

Tian Chang did not restrain his thoughts, and the aura on his body was particularly restless.

Li Shan saw the thick, insoluble malice in his eyes, and felt a sense of peace in his heart. He had never expected that Tian Chang would let him go so easily now.

However, before Tian Chang could reach out and press on Li Shan’s shoulder, a snow-white sword tip suddenly lay between the two.

Li Huai Su arrived at some unknown time, standing with his sword and silently looking at Tian Chang.

Tian Chang was obviously stunned when he saw Li Huai Su, and then understood his intention. Instead of being angry, he smiled and asked, “Li Huai Su, what do you want to do?”

Li Huai Su stared at Tian Chang, “Don’t touch him.”

Tian Chang grinned, pulling the hideous and bloody muscles exposed in the air at the wound, “Do you want to rebel?”

Li Huai Su didn’t seem to care about the malice in Tian Chang’s eyes, and only said in a light tone, “I am already a traitor to the Sword Pavilion. What if I rebel against you now?”

He didn’t have much emotional fluctuation when he said these words, but Tian Chang didn’t doubt that Li Huai Su would really do it.

Since he chose Li Huai Su to instigate defection, he knew his stubborn and rebellious nature.

Li Huai Su’s heart is the easiest to shake and the most firm. The bedrock has no change, and he has his own reasons.

Tian Chang was greatly injured at the moment, so naturally he would not be stupid enough to confront Li Huai Su head-on. What’s more, he had provoked countless internal strife in the cultivation world, so naturally he knew how stupid it was to fight with his own people.

But looking at Li Huai Su’s desperate maintenance of Li Shan, taking the lead as a hero, he couldn’t help but laugh out loud, “Good, you two brothers are very good! You say you hate him, do you really hate him? You only hate that he can’t be a bird in your palm for the rest of his life. Li Shan, ah Li Shan, this is your upright and good brother, his mind is not much cleaner than mine, but now he is acting like a good person in front of you.”

Li Huai Su’s face changed drastically when he heard this, and he didn’t dare to turn around to look at Li Shan’s expression for a while, his heart was surging with anger. He raised his voice to Tian Chang, “Shut up!”

Where was Tian Chang willing to obey? He was going to expose his thoughts in front of Li Shan, “Why did you have to be this good person in the first place, asking for a title for him and bringing him to Cui Wei Sword Pavilion to practice? If he was just an illegitimate child in the courtyard of the Li family, illiterate and with his talent buried, would you still rebel against the entire cultivation world at the risk of offending the world?

“You shut up!”

The sword light in the house was great, and the raging sea was rising. Tian Chang only avoided it and didn’t answer, laughing wantonly, “I’m afraid that now I can just be a royal relative and a rich man, with beautiful wives and concubines by my side. If you like him, you can ask your father to take him into your room, and live this life in a sloppy way. The morning fungus doesn’t know the morning and evening, and the cicada doesn’t know the spring and autumn. It’s much happier to live so confused than to be awake and in pain, right?”

“Why is it so ugly?”

Shi En followed Li Huai Su and slowly walked into the small house. He saw the scene of Li Huai Su and Tian Chang fighting for Li Shan and couldn’t help but say something sarcastic. Of course, no one paid attention to him.

He looked at Li Shan with a playful expression and said in an ambiguous tone, “It’s really a gentle township, a hero’s tomb.”

Li Shan glanced at him when he heard this and didn’t say a word. Seeing that Tian Chang and Li Huai Su couldn’t tell who was better for a while, Shi En simply sat down beside Li Huai Su as if watching a play. Seeing the little monster in Li Shan’s arms looking listless, he took the initiative to say, “Let me see.”

Li Shan hesitated for a few seconds and still held the little thing in front of Shi En.

Shi En did know some medical skills. He picked up the little monster and checked it up and down, stopped the bleeding, and smiled and returned it to Li Shan, “Their Heavenly Demon clan has always been thick-skinned and can’t die. It’s just that a few eyeballs are damaged, but she originally had many eyeballs, so it doesn’t matter.”

Hearing Shi En say this, Li Shan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The little monster realized that it was shrinking in Li Shan’s arms, wrapping its tentacles around his fingertips, and pretending to be pitiful with a weak breath, “Mom…”

Shi En was also stunned when he heard this. After all, the Heavenly Demon clan was notoriously stupid, but the little monster had already learned human speech. Seeing this, he couldn’t help but reach out to tease, “So smart? Call me Dad and let me hear.”

Tian Chang finally couldn’t bear it any longer when he heard this. He pulled himself out of the dispute with Li Huai Su and sneered at Shi En, “Is she your daughter? Are you being so attentive here?”

Seeing that Tian Chang had nowhere to vent his anger and was attacking indiscriminately, Shi En spread his hands and said, “Demon Lord, do you still know that this is your daughter? What kind of anger are you having now? Yes, Li Shan wants to kill you, but isn’t this something everyone already knows? Ask the three of us in the house now, which one doesn’t he want to kill? It’s just that he can’t kill us for a while, so he can only lie down and let us do what we want.”

Tian Chang was obviously choked when he heard this. In the end, he threw down the people in the house in annoyance, flicked his sleeves and left, going out to sulk.

Li Huai Su turned back silently and saw blood on Li Shan’s face. He took out a silk cloth he carried with him and wiped it clean for him. He asked, “Are you injured?”

Li Shan lowered his head and avoided the other party’s gaze. He just obediently let Li Huai Su hold his face and nodded lightly.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Huai Su couldn’t help but think of the time when the two of them were together when they were children, and felt a trace of loss.

Shi En smiled and asked, “Two gourd mouths, are you two really not biological brothers?”

Li Huai Su felt even more annoyed when he heard this. He stuffed the silk cloth into Li Shan’s hand and turned to leave.

Seeing this, Shi En turned his head and smiled at Li Shan, “Okay, okay, he’s gone, you don’t have to be so restrained. People live in this world, food and lust are human nature. You just slept with him when you lost your memory, so why bother?”

Li Shan sighed and felt that he couldn’t communicate with Shi En. He turned his head and didn’t want to look at him, “I respect him. We two shouldn’t be like this. It’s me…”

Shi En immediately interrupted him, “Stop, stop, stop, don’t say those cliches. Can you say something nice to make me happy?”

Li Shan glanced at Shi En and only said, “Then there’s nothing to say.”

Shi En deliberately said, “Then do something to make me happy?”

Li Shan knew that he was teasing him. After all, if Shi En wanted to force him, he didn’t have to play tricks with him here. He was silent for a few seconds and suddenly asked, “Am I very useless?”

Shi En looked at him with a puzzled face, “If you are useless, then there is no useful person in this world.”

Li Shan slowly said, “I could have seriously injured or even killed Tian Chang, but in the end, I couldn’t do it because of the monster’s ‘Mom’. Maybe I shouldn’t be so indecisive. But then I thought, if I really did this, how would I be different from the people I hate on weekdays.”

Seeing that he was worried about this kind of thing, Shi En was really a little surprised. After all, sometimes Li Shan was more like a statue. He stubbornly followed the laws of the world and went all the way to the dark without knowing how to adapt. Once he did it, he would naturally have no regrets.

After all, the prophecy said that he could become an immortal and a god. Sometimes Shi En would forget the human part of his character, as if he was blaspheming.

At this moment, Li Shan was more like a living person. Shi En looked at him and only smiled, “As the saying goes, ‘A heartless man is not necessarily a hero, how can a man not love his child?’ It should be so.”