Ling Yun stretched out his hand and gently patted Zhao Yao's head. "You don't need to be nervous; whether you're a human or a demon, you're still my woman."
"En." Zhao Yao nodded and released Ling Xiya from her embrace, but her body immediately shrank and turned into a black cat with three blue eyes on her face. "This is my true form, according to the memories."
"You're cute!" Ling Yun then lifted Zhao Yao onto his lap and caressed her black fur. "And your fur is smooth."
"I feel weird being a cat like this, especially when I have to walk on four legs!" Zhao Yao grumbled in annoyance, as she still couldn't adjust herself to her sudden change.
At first, she was really shocked by her transformation, but Ling Xi explained it to her, and she tried hard to accept the fact that she wasn't a human but a cat demon. (A/N: I didn't mention this before, and this is just inner dialogue.)
She was also still trying to understand all the vague memories that popped up in her mind. Moreover, she herself was a child who grew up in an orphanage, so she didn't know the identity of her birth parents either. From those memories, she could see her mother's figure, but she couldn't find her father's figure at all.
Ling Yun was amused remembering his other women. "Anyway, Kate is a vampire, and Duan Wu is half demon and half fairy. As for Fei'er and Ruxue, they are the Fire Phoenix. And now there is you, a cat demon."
"Eh?" Zhao Yao was taken aback by his words, but she was also relieved to hear that, because she wasn't the only one who wasn't human. At first, she was worried that Ling Yun would hate her because she was a cat demon, but it turned out that there were also many other non-human creatures beside him.
"Do you want to see my other form?" Zhao Yao asked in a teasing tone.
Ling Yun's eyes lit up upon hearing that, and he slightly guessed her other form. "Do you really still have another form?"
Without saying anything else, Zhao Yao changed her form again. This time she became no different from her human form, only her human ears were turned into cat ears, and there was also a long black tail on her back hip.
"As expected! You look like those neko girls in the anime movies!" Ling Yun spoke with sparkling eyes.
Zhao Yao smiled mischievously and brought her face to Ling Yun's ear, licked his ear, and whispered to him. "Are you thinking of something dirty?"
"You dare to tease me, huh?" Ling Yun said with a mischievous grin and grabbed Zhao Yao's tail.
"Meow!" Zhao Yao exclaimed like a cat, then she pleaded with a pitiful face. "Let go... Let go of my tail, Yun'er."
"Since you dare to tease me, then you must bear the consequences." Ling Yun immediately pounced on Zhao Yao, and they started dual cultivating again.
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Meanwhile, a man and a woman were standing side by side at Xianghu Lake, and their expressions were very serious.
They were none other than Wei Lan and her husband, Ding Yuan.
"Why did you suddenly come here?" Wei Lan asked.
Ding Yuan turned to her and took her hand. "Wife, I came here to take you back to the village."
"I don't want to go back to the village." Wei Lan replied as she pulled her hand away from her husband.
After Ling Yun left her earlier, Wei Lan had thought things through for quite a while, and she felt that she couldn't leave his side, at least not now.
"Why don't you want to return to the village with me?" Ding Yuan asked with a frown, and he felt suspicious of her.
Wei Lan sighed softly and answered. "I've gotten quite a decent job in this town, and if I go back to the village now, then I'll be wasting my chance to earn money for us. Moreover, your income from working in the village is always uncertain, so I can't just rely on you alone to meet our household needs."
"Is that your only reason?" Ding Yuan suspiciously asked.
"It's up to you whether you want to believe it or not." Wei Lan answered with a shrug, and she then turned to leave. "Anyway, I'll be going to my workplace now since we're opening soon, and you should go back to our village right now."
Ding Yuan clenched his fists tightly as he continued to stare at Wei Lan, who was walking away, and he muttered in his heart. 'Could she have another man in this city? That's why he doesn't want to come back with me to the village? Moreover, she seemed dissatisfied after having sex with me last time, and she always refused to do it with me again afterwards.'
After that, Ding Yuan decided to follow Wei Lan from afar, and he wanted to prove his suspicions towards her.
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Ling Clan
"Have you gone mad, wife? You even sent Huo Yi to kill Ling Yun." Ling Jie shouted angrily at Huo Lan, who had just arrived at the main hall.
Ling Yu'er, who was sitting beside her father, also looked at her mother with a disappointed look. Even though she had never met Ling Yun, he was a descendant of the Ling Clan like her, so she felt very disappointed that her mother had attempted to kill him.
Huo Lan's face darkened at that, and she fired back at her husband angrily. "Didn't I do it for our sake? Would you like to accept a child who suddenly appeared out of nowhere as a member of this clan?"
"You-"
"You what?" Huo Lan interrupted her husband and then continued. "We don't even know Yi Mingxia; it could be that her son is someone else's, but she deliberately gave her the surname Ling to rule over this clan!"
Ling Jie and Ling Yu'er frowned at that. Indeed, they did not know Yi Mingxia well, but they were certain that she was not that kind of woman. Moreover, she hadn't been a cultivator before, and she didn't know anything about their clan, so they couldn't believe she would do such a thing.
In addition, Ling Xiao had also given them the evidence regarding Ling Yun's birth, and they were certain that he would not make things up about it.
Ling Yu'er sighed heavily and stood up from her seat, and she walked out and spoke to her father. "It's useless for us to argue with her, Father. Mother has been blinded by wealth and power, and she will never be willing to accept the truth."
"Yu'er!" Huo Lan shouted angrily at her daughter's words.
However, Ling Yu'er paid no heed to her mother's shout, and she quickly left the main hall.
After that, Ling Jie also got up from his seat and looked at his wife. "You really have gone too far, Huo Lan! Since it was you who tried to kill him first, even if you were my wife, I would not mind if Ling Yun killed you later."
After saying that, Ling Jie left the main hall, leaving his wife in shock.
Huo Lan stood frozen in place as she continued to stare at her husband's back; she never expected that his husband would say such a thing to her, and he would even prefer to support someone he didn't know over his own wife.
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Meanwhile, in a bright white room, a man with six wings on his back was standing and looking at the three people in front of him, and he was listening to their report seriously.
After they finished reporting everything, the man then asked. "Are your wings really all right, Arael?"
"Yes, Michael." Arael then explained it to him. "Fortunately, Yi Mingxia has light qi, and she has already healed my wings, but it will take me a long time to regrow them."
Michael nodded in understanding as he breathed a sigh of relief, then he turned to Mariel. "Is it true that Lucian has become that human man's slave?
"That's right, Ling Yun himself told me." Mariel answered with an approving nod.
Sophie was then added. "Moreover, not only Lucian, but even his daughter is also his slave."
Michael sighed after hearing that. "Back then, those humans didn't have any power, but everything changed since those people came to the human realm. They slowly started to change, and they became very strong, some of them even stronger than me."
"Do you mean those people who created that cultivator realm?" Mariel asked.
"Yes." Michael nodded at her. "They weren't earthlings, but they came from another world, and they were extremely powerful. Fortunately, they had no intention of dominating this world, nor did they seek trouble with us angels, or else this angel realm would fall into their hands."
Sophie then asked. "So what's your next plan, Michael?"
"Since Lucian is already his slave, and there are many strong people by Ling Yun's side, we can't do anything to him." Michael then sighed softly and spoke to them. "You guys can go rest now; I will inform the others about your report."
"All right." The three angels nodded and immediately left the place.
After they left, Michael muttered to himself. "It seems that I have to descend to the human realm to meet that Ling Yun."
- To Be Continued -
