Desperate Love: Rebirth of the Demon King

"I don't know either. I'll ask my master later, maybe he knows the reason." Helan Ruofeng thought that Taibu Xingjun came from the God Realm and must know more than him.

"This is the only way. Let's go find Cong Li first, and then find something to eat together in this secret realm." Yu Xiaobai said with a frown, rubbing his stomach with one hand.

She hasn't eaten for a long time since her identity was exposed. If this continues, she will be forced to lose weight.

"Hehe..." Helan Ruofeng couldn't help but chuckle when he saw her like this, with a look of doting on his face.

"Master, I'm actually a little hungry too. I wanted to taste the Samadhi Fire of Lord Baiji to satisfy my appetite, but I didn't have the chance." Heiduo wagged his tail very ignorantly and joined directly between Helan Ruofeng and Yu Xiaobai.

"Heiduo, how about you use your hunting talent to get some prey for us?" Yu Xiaobai had a flash of inspiration and looked at his pet.

How could she forget the expert hunter Hei Duo? Back then, when he was in the snowy mountains, he could easily eat two tigers.

"Master..." Hei Duo looked at Yu Xiaobai with a dark face. He really had a master who was considerate of him.

"Go, my dear pet, bring me all the delicious food. Ruofeng and I will go find Congli first!" Yu Xiaobai shamelessly took Helan Ruofeng's hand and left.

"Master, master, you are really my good master! There is no other way, I have to love my own master myself." Hei Duo shook his head helplessly and rushed into the depths of the dense forest.

Yu Xiaobai and Helan Ruofeng walked for a while and suddenly they smelled a fragrance. Following the fragrance, they saw Cong Li and Su Jin bending over on the ground to stir up a fire.

There was a beautiful alchemy furnace placed on the fire, with bursts of white smoke coming out of the furnace and bursts of fragrance coming from the furnace.

"Cong Li? You're not going to use the alchemy furnace to roast chicken again, are you?" Helan Ruofeng raised his voice a little when he saw this.

He could never forget the time when he was on the way to Hanyu City. He and Cong Li used the alchemy furnace given to her by Bai Qiyang to roast a chicken. As a result, the furnace exploded. Not only did they not get to eat the chicken, but the whole cave was filled with minced chicken.

"Brother Helan, we are not only roasting chickens, but also wild rabbits! This batch is enough to feed the four of us." Cong Li stood up excitedly and said as soon as he saw the two men coming back.

"Is it enough for us to feed ourselves? I hope what you said is true! But the terrain here is spacious, so it won't be a problem even if the alchemy furnace explodes." Helan Ruofeng looked around. The view was wide and they were in an open space, so he couldn't help but tease.

"Brother Helan, how can you look down on me like this? This time I will definitely let you eat roast chicken." Cong Li said with full confidence, his eyes shining.

"Cong Li, have you ever roasted a chicken together before? And it was also roasted?" Su Jin asked like a curious baby.

"That happened a long time ago, so let's not talk about it." Cong Li said modestly.

"No need to add more fire, leave it to me!" Yu Xiaobai, a top foodie, saw Su Jin heating the alchemy furnace desperately, and immediately took over his job excitedly.

"Xiao Yu, are you okay?" Su Jin asked doubtfully.

"Anyway, I can guarantee that this alchemy furnace won't explode. Will you give it to me?" Yu Xiaobai looked as if he was still unhappy.

"Here, here, you do it!" After all, Su Jin had seen the alchemy furnace explode once, and he didn't want to see it a second time.

Yu Xiaobai quickly began to remove all the firewood that was wrapping around the furnace, leaving only a low fire for slow cooking.

I couldn't help but complain in my heart that Cong Li and Su Jin were actually using chicken and rabbit meat as medicine to refine. It would be strange if the alchemy furnace didn't explode when using such powerful fire to roast chicken.

"Can you really roast chicken and rabbit like this?" Helan Ruofeng asked in confusion when he saw Yu Xiaobai doing this.

"Just wait quietly to eat the delicious chicken and rabbit meat!" Yu Xiaobai took charge and started to work.

I saw her carefully open the lid of the single stove, take out various seasonings from the Qiankun bag and start pouring them into it. After finishing, she squatted down and began to look after the firewood.

Cong Li, Su Jin, and Helan Ruofeng all looked at her with curiosity, wondering whether they could get to eat the roast chicken.

As time passed, waves of strong meaty aroma wafted out of the furnace. Yu Xiaobai began to remove all the firewood, extinguished the fire, and then opened the furnace.

"Now, everyone can enjoy the delicious chicken." Yu Xiaobai announced excitedly.

When I stood up, I saw Heiduo, who had turned into a human form, carrying several pheasants and two snakes.

"Oh my god..." Yu Xiaobai was so scared that she jumped directly onto Cong Li who was closest to her.

"..." Heiduo's face was full of question marks. What happened to his master?

Helan Ruofeng smiled playfully, walked straight to Hei Duo, took out his Qiankun bag and said, "She is afraid of snakes, so put them in first." Then he put the two snakes into the bag and put them away.

"Master, snake soup is very delicious." Heiduo looked at Yu Xiaobai and said flatteringly, with a lovely smile on her red face.

"I know it's delicious, but I'm scared just looking at it! Why don't you stew it and let me see." Yu Xiaobai looked at Heiduo with sparkling eyes.

"I don't know how to do it, master. How about letting Master Helan stew it?" Hei Duo looked at Helan Ruofeng with a pleading look.

"Let's eat the chicken first!" Helan Ruofeng immediately changed the subject and went to get the chicken.

Cong Li and Su Jin also couldn't wait to return to the alchemy furnace. Yu Xiaobai adjusted his mentality and began to share the slaves' food with everyone.

When it was time to divide the food, Yu Xiaobai discovered that there were more than a dozen chickens and several rabbits in the furnace. This amount was enough for the four of them to have several meals.

"This is too scary! I'll take one for myself, and you guys can take one too!" Yu Xiaobai thought, there are so many now, why should we share them? If everyone gets one, there will still be some left.

She took one for herself, found a place to sit down and started enjoying it.

Cong Li also imitated her, took out one and sat next to her, eating it like her.

Next are Su Jin and Helan Ruofeng.

Everyone held a chicken and sat together happily eating and chatting, until they heard the sound of the alchemy furnace overturned, and then they turned around to look.

Only Heiduo's two tails and two legs were left outside the furnace, and its entire body was completely buried in the furnace.

The four of them looked at this scene with a jaw-dropping look. Although they didn't eat much, a chicken per person was enough to fill them up, and the rest could indeed be considered Hei Duo's, but the way he ate was really ugly.

"Burp..." Heiduo slowly stepped out of the alchemy furnace, his face covered with oil stains. He burped with satisfaction, pointed at the pheasant he had shot and asked Yu Xiaobai with a smile: "Master, when will you stew those too?"

Yu Xiaobai took a deep breath, his eyes wide open: "Heiduo, how about you stew your master as well?"

How was she supposed to pluck and gut a dozen chickens? She was good at roasting chickens, but she didn't know how to clean them.

"In my opinion, next time we have some small fish, we can roast them without using the alchemy furnace." Cong Li quickly put away the alchemy furnace and put it into the bag.

"It's too much, a bit too much." Hei Duo muttered, smacked his fingers, turned and walked into the jungle.

"Eat first. Don't worry about him. He won't be angry. He is an ancient ferocious beast that can eat a tiger alive. A dozen chickens won't be enough to fill his teeth." After saying that, Yu Xiaobai continued to sit on the ground and eat the chicken.

"What should we do after we have eaten and drunk our fill?" Cong Li asked worriedly, his mouth full of oil.

"After eating and drinking, we naturally need to find a place to rest first!" Yu Xiaobai looked at the innocent Cong Li and couldn't figure out what Bai Qiyang had taught him.

"Okay!" Cong Li responded and then started to eat the chicken again.

After eating, Helan Ruofeng led them deeper into the jungle.

"Why do we have to go from here?" Yu Xiaobai asked as they walked.

"In the entire secret realm, only the environment here is closest to the outside world. If we want to live in the secret realm for a long time, it would be most appropriate to start exploring from here." Helan Ruofeng explained the reasons why he chose this place as he walked.

"Isn't it safer for us to live in a cave?" Yu Xiaobai asked again.

"It is indeed safe to live in a cave, but to get to the cave you have to pass through an isolated island. There is not enough food in the cave, and there is nothing there except fish. But it is different in the jungle. There are all kinds of plants, pheasants, rabbits, and even snakes, which means that there is not much difference between here and the outside world." Helan Ruofeng explained.

"But there might be spider spirits here!" Yu Xiaobai said carelessly. She could not forget the time when Helan Ruofeng was ambushed by a spider spirit.

"We weren't afraid before, so will we be afraid now?" Helan Ruofeng patted his chest with his hand, as if to say, "I'm here to protect you."

Cong Li looked at Helan Ruofeng with admiration, while Su Jin just looked at Yu Xiaobai with a gossipy look.

"Kid, why are you looking at me like that?" Yu Xiaobai noticed Su Jin's eyes and asked in a teasing tone.

"I'm over a thousand years old. Do you think it's appropriate to call me a child?" Su Jin looked at Yu Xiaobai very maturely and said in an air of superiority.

"More than a thousand years old, are you kidding me?" Yu Xiaobai didn't believe Su Jin's words, and walked behind Helan Ruofeng with a swagger.

As we go deeper into the jungle, all kinds of rich and diverse trees begin to appear, including some strange and bizarre plants that have never been seen in the outside world.

There were small animals running away everywhere. There were all kinds of round-haired little beasts running and jumping back and forth on the ground, and there were also flat-haired little animals flying everywhere. When they saw strangers breaking in, they seemed extremely excited and did not feel afraid at all.

"They don't seem to be afraid of us." Cong Li looked at the animals walking and jumping around him.

"They are definitely not afraid of us. If they were afraid of us, how could you and I catch so many chickens and rabbits?" Su Jin said with great self-awareness.

"Maybe it's because this place is isolated from the outside world, so the animals here have never seen humans." Yu Xiaobai guessed.

"It may also be that they are too bold and not afraid of us at all?" Cong Li said again.

"Is this problem worth your concern? Let's find a place to sleep quickly. If we continue to struggle, it might be dark soon." Su Jin said worriedly.

"With the sky as a blanket and the ground as a mat, can't we just build a fire?" Hei Duo said as she walked around to Su Jin.

"Let's walk a little further. The trees here are getting taller and taller. Some monsters might really appear at night." Helan Ruofeng said.

He still looked around carefully. The trees were getting taller and taller, blocking all the light. Although ordinary monsters couldn't do anything to them now, if they encountered a big monster, it might not be the same.

The few of them walked and talked for a while, and finally came to a forest nestled in the mountains and beside a river. The vegetation here included emerald green bamboos and a few yellow sycamore trees.

There is a gurgling stream under the paulownia tree. The water is clear and transparent, and you can see small fish swimming in groups.

Not far from the paulownia tree there is a small farmyard. The houses are all built with bamboo. I don’t know if it’s because no one has lived there for a long time or for some other reason, but the bamboo house has been wrapped in lush vines. It looks more like a vine house than a bamboo house.

Outside the house there are lush and colorful flowers, many common ones and many that I have never seen before.

"Sleeping Fire Lotus? Red Jade Beads? Golden Yao Chi Peony? Pearl Mandragora? Purple Jade Calendula? Who lives here? Why are there so many precious flowers and plants that only exist in legends?" When Su Jin saw the flowers and plants in the yard, he ran over like crazy.

"Su Jin, run slower..." Before Cong Li could finish his words, Su Jin was trapped by the magic circle in the courtyard and was directly bound by the Immortal Binding Rope.

"Cong Li, save me..." Su Jin stood there with a look of grievance on his face, and began to ask for help with a look of wanting to cry but having no tears.

"He was actually trapped by the ropes? This means that the people who used to live here were either from the God Realm or from the Immortal Sect." Helan Ruofeng analyzed carefully.

"It definitely can't be someone from the demon world. How could someone from the demon world have the Immortal Binding Rope?" Yu Xiaobai replied with a smile.

"Can you please stop talking nonsense? Get me down?" Su Jin said in a flattering manner while struggling.

"Yes, let's put Su Jin down first!" Cong Li ran towards the yard in a hurry.

"Ah..." Before Helan Ruofeng could utter a word, Cong Li was trapped like Su Jin.

"Why are you all so impatient? Are you dissatisfied that I'm too full?" Helan Ruofeng held his forehead with his hand, looking helpless.

"Help you digest the food, hahaha..." Yu Xiaobai pointed at Cong Li and laughed.

Heiduo was also jumping back and forth, very excited.

"Stop laughing, save us first!" Su Jin's voice was almost crying as he begged.

Cong Li also pouted and looked at Helan Ruofeng with grievance. Ruofeng said, "Brother Helan, I have to treat you as a brother, so put me down quickly!"

Helan Ruofeng stopped making fun of them and began to carefully check the magic circle in the courtyard.

"Is there any mystery behind this?" Yu Xiaobai stood cautiously outside the yard, not daring to get closer.

"It should be the magic circle set up by the owner of the courtyard to prevent outsiders from invading. It can only trap the intruders but will not cause any other harm." Helan Ruofeng explained.

"Then what should we do to take this yard for ourselves?" Yu Xiaobai asked with a conspiratorial look on his face.

"Xiao Yu, we can't say that?" Helan Ruofeng chuckled. How could he say that?

"This is someone else's house and we are planning to move in. Doesn't that mean we can claim it as our own?" Yu Xiaobai said as if it was his own house.

"Master, the owner of this house may have passed away long ago. If we can stay here, it won't be a waste of this house." Hei Duo flattered Yu Xiaobai obsequiously and stuck out her tongue at Helan Ruofeng.