Chapter Four: Feng Xiu Intends to Establish Bai Yue as the Imperial Princess

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Bai Yue stared intently at her father, Feng Xiu, and spoke slowly, “Father, I am truly grateful that Mother is still alive. I want to see her, even if she is now in a state of slumber, I still wish to see her.”
“Every year, I burn incense at Mother’s grave, hoping she can see that I am living happily.”
Bai Yue’s heartfelt longing made Feng Xiu reluctant to refuse, but the place where Bai Lingxuan currently resided was inaccessible to him and he could not bring Bai Yue there.
Feng Xiu explained, “Yue’er, I also want you to meet Lingxuan, but you have no cultivation yet, and your attribute is light. Entering that place would cause a backlash. Even with my protection, your body could not withstand it.”
[Host, the Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu’s words are true. The formation preserving Bai Lingxuan’s last breath of vitality is carved into the Star Demon Pillar. Only hosts with cultivation at or above the eighth stage can enter.]
“But I am of the light attribute, and after the blood exchange, my veins are blocked and I cannot cultivate.”
[Host, the blood exchange disrupted the balance between darkness and light attributes within you, causing the blockage. The solution is simple: Liuliu can help you create a doppelgänger to bear your light attribute, while you undergo the baptism of the Heaven-Defying Demon Dragon Pillar to activate the Heaven-Defying Demon Dragon bloodline, granting you supreme darkness attribute.]
[However, host, it is advised to activate the Heaven-Defying Demon Dragon bloodline only after giving birth to your destined child, Long Haochen, to avoid risk of miscarriage.]
Bai Yue now understood: to see her mother, she must reach cultivation stage eight, but to cultivate, she must first activate the Heaven-Defying Demon Dragon bloodline—and all this must wait until after Haochen’s birth.
Abao blinked his eyes, quietly watching his sister Bai Yue, and softly asked, “Sister, don’t you have a mother either?”
“Abao doesn’t have a mother either. The palace people say it’s because Abao’s fate is to harm his mother, which caused her death.”
Hearing his son’s innocent and confused words, Feng Xiu suddenly realized how neglectful he had been in caring for Abao, unaware that the demons tending him were spreading such rumors.
“Abao, tell your father, who told you these things?” Feng Xiu frowned and asked sternly.
What Feng Xiu did not realize was how terrifying his expression must seem to such a young child.
Abao ran a few steps behind Bai Yue, poking his little head out beside her. Pointing at Feng Xiu, he declared confidently, “Father only scolds me. Sister, please save me! Father hits my bottom whenever he’s angry!”
Bai Yue frowned slightly, casting a disapproving look at her father and reproached, “Abao is still so young—how can Father lay a hand on him?”
“Will Father also whip Yue’er if she ever does something to displease him?”

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“...” Feng Xiu felt speechless.
He had indeed spanked Abao’s bottom; after all, the boy was mischievous beyond his years, and a little discipline was necessary.
Besides, he never struck hard—at most, he had given fewer than ten slaps, only enough to leave a little redness. Yet the boy held it in his heart and told every elder who could defend him.
As a result, every one of the demon gods—Agales, Washak, Huang Shuo, Anan, and Valif—felt Feng Xiu’s discipline was too harsh. They had repeatedly advised him that children were too young for corporal punishment and that it might cause lasting harm.
“Yue’er, Father truly has never harmed this naughty boy!” Feng Xiu tried to explain.
Bai Yue held Abao’s hand and walked away without looking back, leaving Feng Xiu sighing alone in the wind.
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A few days later, Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu convened a council meeting, summoning the top twenty most important demon gods.
At the meeting, Feng Xiu announced a major decision: he officially named the heir to the demon throne. All the demon gods expected it to be Abao, since, as far as they knew, the Demon God Emperor had only one child.
Although a palace maid was currently pregnant, it was still unknown whether she would bear a son or daughter.
Moreover, in the demon race’s six-thousand-year history, no female had ever inherited the throne, so succession was always assumed to be male.
But the heir Feng Xiu named was a half-human, half-demon named Bai Yue.
“Your Majesty, this Princess Bai Yue—who among the harem’s consorts is her mother? I’ve never heard of her,” the bear demon god Valif asked awkwardly.
Agales frowned slightly. The surname Bai reminded him of the human woman the emperor loved deeply—could this be her daughter?
He glanced at Washak, their third brother, whose expression was calm, his face as pale as ever.
Agales leaned close to Washak’s ear and said, “Third brother, rest assured, I will never allow that woman’s child to become the first in line for the demon throne.”
Washak looked at Agales in confusion, unsure why his second brother was targeting a niece he had never met.
Could it be simply because Bai Yue was a half-blood?
But wasn’t the second brother’s favored consort also of human origin?
“Second brother, don’t clash with our eldest!” Washak quickly advised.
“At the council meeting, we three brothers must be united. If you oppose, what authority does the eldest have?”
Agales glanced deeply at Washak, pursed his lips, and finally heeded his advice, restraining himself from causing a scene and planning instead to confront Feng Xiu privately.
He could not understand what power that woman held to bewitch wise and martial Feng Xiu into becoming a ruthless and tyrannical ruler who forced Washak to rely on life-prolonging prophecies.
Over the years, if not for his own exhaustive search across the Holy Demon Continent and the Moonlit Night Guild’s resources to find pills and methods to sustain life, Washak’s life would have ended long ago.
Yet Feng Xiu showed no concern, no words of care for his brother, which deeply disappointed the demons.
Poor Washak still idolized the eldest brother, unaware that Feng Xiu had disregarded brotherhood for the sake of one woman.
“Bai Yue is the child of my beloved. Her mother shall be my only Demon Empress, but due to certain reasons, she is currently in seclusion and we cannot hold the wedding yet,” Feng Xiu personally confirmed Bai Lingxuan’s status as Demon Empress, to establish Bai Yue’s legitimacy as the noble princess.
“The Demon Empress’s daughter, I hereby proclaim her Crown Princess. Does anyone still object?”
Feng Xiu’s sharp gaze swept over everyone, and none dared to meet it.
No demon dared challenge the authority of the Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu; the last who tried to challenge him has been buried for over a hundred years.
“Your Majesty, we naturally dare not object,” the Moon Demon God Agales led the response.