Chapter 91: Mother and Son Reunite

Night Nine Demon looked at Lu Qingyu’s flawless beauty, then lowered his lips to that exquisite face, and at once the sound of hearts breaking grew even louder.

“Mm…”

Lu Qingyu gave an incredulous little murmur, and a flush instantly flooded her face, rising from the base of her neck all the way to the tips of her ears.

She buried her head in Night Nine Demon’s chest, like an ostrich fleeing danger, her girlish shyness and modest charm laid bare without reservation.

“Forgive the trouble of making this journey, esteemed guests. The Jade Heaven Sect is deeply apologetic. I was not aware of this beforehand, and I still must ask you to remain in the side hall and continue enjoying the spirit fruit…”

“No need. Today we have truly witnessed the strength of the Jade Heaven Sect…”

“Exactly…”

“...”

Before Zhu Qing could finish, someone interrupted her in a dissatisfied tone, his face full of anger. Yet beneath the great formation, none of them made a move.

As they spoke, they kept glancing at Night Nine Demon with resentment, but they only stared a few more times.

At this moment, Night Nine Demon was holding Lu Qingyu. Naturally he had no mind to pay attention to them. After all, a single night of romance was worth a thousand pieces of gold.

To let a bargain go unclaimed was stupidity.

Much less a bargain like this one.

“Farewell!”

“We shall also take our leave!”

“...”

As soon as the first person prepared to depart, the others followed in chorus.

Disgust showed in everyone’s eyes, as though they feared the Jade Heaven Sect’s troubles might spread to them. From their earlier eagerness to pounce, they now wished only to stay as far away as possible.

The contrast between the two was as vast as heaven and earth.

Zhu Qing did not try to keep them. After all, those who wanted to leave could not be persuaded, and those who wished to stay would naturally remain, just like this seventh-rank sect before her.

“You should leave as well...” Zhu Qing said, looking at the remaining powerful figure from the seventh-rank sect.

“Since you have not married either, do I not still have a chance? Besides, the oath I made back then is watched by the heavens themselves. Do you think I would dare break it?” the middle-aged man said with a smile, though his tone carried a trace of desolation. Night Nine Demon glanced at the two of them, and the meaning in his eyes was plain.

“Looks like there’s a story here.”

Lu Qingyu was also visibly astonished, as though hearing of it for the first time.

“Come. I’ll take you to meet someone. If she is willing to speak on your behalf, then you will have no worries, and neither will the sect...” Zhu Qing’s tone was heavy with helplessness, and the two behind her could also feel that same helpless air in the atmosphere.

In the crowd, a woman’s gaze flickered as if she were considering something. When Night Nine Demon and the other two departed, she too vanished into the sea of people.

“We should go back and prepare as well. After all, we come from the same roots.”

The middle-aged man watched Zhu Qing lead the two of them away. For a long while he could not let go, his eyes filled only with Zhu Qing’s figure.

...

Jade Heaven Sect, the prison.

A woman sat cross-legged upon a lotus throne, her eyes gently closed, while strands of pure white, milky qi circulated around her body.

The qi slipped in thread by thread into her flesh. Her exquisite beauty, a face that could shame all blossoms into envy, now seemed to be enduring a battle between heaven and man.

“Han Province...”

Suddenly, the woman’s eyes flew open, and she softly uttered those two words, like a sword cutting through the air.

“Han Province...”

After opening her eyes, she repeated the two words once more.

As if they meant a great deal to her, her eyes shimmered with recollection, soft as water.

Rustle, rustle...

Footsteps sounded outside. The woman turned her gaze toward the prison entrance, and soon three figures appeared before her. Yet because of the confinement formation, she could not make out their faces.

“You came?”

Her voice was very calm, neither angry nor pleased.

Zhu Qing nodded slightly, a hint of awkwardness on her face as she looked at the woman. Her lips parted, then closed again.

“You want me to act, to help the Jade Heaven Sect through this crisis?”

“You know the Jade Heaven Sect is already in grave danger right now. I do not want...”

“You do not want? Was it not that damned old thing who captured me back then? Separated me from my husband? Kept me from seeing my own child?”

“And where is that damned old hag now? Why does she not come out herself?”

“...”

The woman’s questions came one after another, and Zhu Qing’s face grew even uglier.

“Back then... Master was wrong...”

“Hmph. If she had not saved my life back then, I would already be gone. At worst I would have swallowed my pride once and begged my father, that is all...”

Zhu Qing fell silent again, because what the woman said was the truth.

“Mu Wan... for old times’ sake...”

“Zhu Qing, there is no need to say more. I can help you, but I must take Qingyu with me. I think she would make a fine daughter-in-law. When I see my son later, I will introduce her to him right away...”

“...”

Night Nine Demon felt a little embarrassed after hearing this. What a formidable mother. He could not help feeling a pang of envy.

“Cough... um... senior... she... Qingyu is my wife now...”

“What?!”

Mu Wan suddenly cried out in shock.

“Qingyu is already someone else’s wife? Then what about my son? It has been so long since I saw him. I wonder whether he has married, whether he has enough to eat, whether he is dressed warmly...”

Mu Wan suddenly transformed into a loving, radiant mother, murmuring these words under her breath. Night Nine Demon and the others heard every word clearly, and could not help but feel worried as well.

“Zhu Qing, open the formation. I want to see who is worthy of my Qingyu!”

Abruptly, Mu Wan once again became a formidable woman, her tone iron-hard as she ordered Zhu Qing.

Zhu Qing glanced at Night Nine Demon.

Night Nine Demon nodded.

“Open it.”

Zhu Qing swiftly formed hand seals, and in no time at all the formation binding Mu Wan was undone.

Mu Wan’s gaze immediately fell forward.

In that instant, her body began to tremble violently. Tears glimmered in her eyes, and after a moment they slipped down her cheeks.

“Nightingale Han Province, is this our son?”

“Heaven has eyes!!!”

That final line was almost a roar from Mu Wan.

Looking at Mu Wan upon the lotus throne, Night Nine Demon felt something stir within him. A feeling he had once sensed only from Night Han Province now unexpectedly arose before his eyes in this woman he had never met.

Could this person truly be his mother?

Night Nine Demon could not help feeling doubtful, his eyes flickering.

“Child, is your father Night Han Province?”

“Huh?!”

The three of them suddenly shouted at once.

Surprise filled all three pairs of eyes. Lu Qingyu was the most shocked, followed by Zhu Qing, and only then Night Nine Demon.

The moment the formation was undone, the sensation that rose within him could not be wrong. And now, hearing such a question, he became all the more composed.

Lu Qingyu, however, knew Night Han Province. Hearing Mu Wan’s question, her first reaction was, of course, astonishment.

As for Zhu Qing, she simply could not understand why Mu Wan would ask such a thing. After all, who asks for a stranger’s father the moment they meet?

Of course, there are always a few oddities in the world.

“Is your father Night Han Province?” Mu Wan asked again.

“Yes.”

This time Night Nine Demon did not hesitate at all. He nodded without the slightest pause.

“Child, I am your mother!”

Mu Wan could no longer hold back her tears, and with a voice thick from crying she called to Night Nine Demon, her face overflowing with excitement.

“Mother...”

Only now did Night Nine Demon dare to be certain that the person before him was indeed his mother.

It was not because of Mu Wan’s words, but because of that blood-tied, flesh-tied feeling that had dispelled his earlier doubts.

Besides, he still remembered Night Han Province’s instructions.

“Go to the Jade Heaven Sect. Remember to bring your mother back.”

Now that Night Nine Demon had finally met his mother, he could be said to have completed half the task entrusted to him by Night Han Province.

Mu Wan rushed toward Night Nine Demon with astonishing speed, like a bolt of lightning.

She embraced him, tears falling without end, and Lu Qingyu and Zhu Qing watched with aching hearts.

Just as Mu Wan was about to speak to Night Nine Demon, a thunderous boom suddenly exploded, and the entire prison shook.