Sleeping for a second increases my blood energy. I become the strongest sky-swallowing snake

"You know?" Ling Xiao didn't believe it.

General Yu didn't explain it clearly, how could Xu Chengxian know?

Could it be news he heard from somewhere else?

"How would you know?" Ling Yunzi also didn't believe it.

Within the entire cave, the flower snake went out the least.

How could he know more news than them?

Was it knowledge from a previous life?

Based on their observation of Xu Chengxian, this guy knew very little about the demon race.

It made no sense that he would know about this particular matter.

"I really do know." Xu Chengxian said between bites, unable to resist taking another bite of the Great Demon's flesh, swallowing it before continuing, "Although it's just a guess, it's definitely eighty or ninety percent accurate."

"Oh? So certain?" Ling Xiao raised an eyebrow, "Why don't you tell us about it?"

"The opportunity General Yu mentioned is likely a powerful demon race member seeking a son-in-law."

"Seeking a son-in-law?"

"Seeking a son-in-law?"

Ling Xiao and Ling Yunzi were both stunned.

"... Do you have any basis for this judgment?"

"Of course." Xu Chengxian raised his head, "Am I the kind of person who speaks nonsense?"

Regarding this point, no one refuted him after he finished speaking.

Clearly, in their eyes, he was.

"Alright, I admit I'm sometimes a bit casual when I speak." Xu Chengxian thought for a moment and said, "But this time, I'm confident that my guess is correct."

"Ling Xiao, think carefully, what did General Yu say before mentioning the opportunity?"

"He talked about your and Ling Xiao's cultivation." Ling Xiao had a good memory, she remembered that he mentioned encouraging them to cultivate to the ninth rank as soon as possible, and then break through to the Great Demon realm.

"That's right." Xu Chengxian nodded.

General Yu praised Ling Xiao first, but didn't mention the opportunity.

"Now that you have perfectly transformed, according to common sense, you will definitely advance to the Great Demon realm before the two of us."

If this opportunity could fall on Ling Xiao, General Yu should have directly encouraged her.

"But he also mentioned Ling Xiao and me, and said words like 'you two'."

Xu Chengxian grinned, "So, isn't it possible that this opportunity is meant to fall on one of us two?"

Hearing this, Ling Xiao and Ling Yunzi recalled what was just said and couldn't help but realize that he made quite a bit of sense.

The meaning in General Yu's words seemed to indeed imply that the prerequisite for obtaining the opportunity was for one of them to reach the Great Demon realm.

"It's a bit far-fetched to determine that the opportunity is seeking a son-in-law based on this." Ling Yunzi said.

"How is it far-fetched?" Xu Chengxian chuckled, "Old brother, if there's something that you and I can do, but Ling Xiao can't, the only thing I can think of is this."

"...Becoming a son-in-law to a powerful figure?"

"Wrong! It's getting a powerful figure's daughter pregnant!"

"..."

Although reluctant, Ling Yunzi had to admit that Xu Chengxian was right.

The unique temperament of the Empress was difficult to simply define as male or female.

If she was willing, she could conceal her identity and dress up as a man.

I'm afraid that many powerful demon race members would be willing to take him as their son-in-law.

"Hmph hmph, that's right." Ling Xiao raised the corners of her mouth.

Even though she was the Empress, and had seen countless people bowing and flattering her, very few men would admit it so frankly.

Admit that she was very powerful.

No matter how someone acted on the surface, they would still secretly think that a woman achieving the position of Emperor was just a fluke.

"Under normal circumstances, upon reaching the Great Demon realm, one should transform." Xu Chengxian continued, "This should be the minimum standard for seeking a son-in-law in the demon race, right?"

She hadn't thought about this aspect before.

Now she realized that the so-called opportunity was likely that General Yu knew that a powerful figure would be choosing a son-in-law for their daughter within three years.

"However, I remember the demon race seeking sons-in-law..." Ling Xiao paused and looked at Ling Yunzi.

"I have also heard that the demon race's seeking of sons-in-law is similar to the human race's seeking of live-in sons-in-law." Ling Yunzi nodded.

"Ah?" Xu Chengxian was dumbfounded, "A live-in son-in-law?"

Good heavens!

He knew about live-in sons-in-law.

He heard that they had to work like cows and horses in their wife's house, being bossed around, and the children they had wouldn't even bear their surname.

And even if they were beaten to death, they would only need to pay his parents some money to settle the matter.

In ancient times, they belonged to the lowly class.

"Apart from the last point, how is it different from a woman getting married?" Ling Xiao seemed very surprised, "Why are you making such a fuss?"

The lowly status was also to prevent the live-in son-in-law from disobeying.

After all, men are stronger than women.

Those who become live-in sons-in-law are either poor families who can't survive, seeking a living in a wealthy family, or some people who seek advancement and enter the family as a live-in son-in-law.

"That's right." Ling Yunzi nodded, "If you don't want to, just don't agree."

Since ancient times, there have been more cases of forcing good women into prostitution and forcibly marrying women, but very few cases of forcibly marrying sons-in-law.

"Recruiting a son-in-law is all for the sake of having children. If the pants are on you, can you let people take them off at will?"

"...Damn it!" Xu Chengxian looked at Ling Yunzi with a bewildered expression.

Old brother, you, you... forget it.

"Why are you so shocked? Am I wrong?" Ling Yunzi asked in confusion, "Even if you become a live-in son-in-law, so what? In this world, isn't it all about the strong being respected?"

A mere identity as a live-in son-in-law cannot hinder my path to success!

Is that so?

For a Dao Lord to say this, it is too naive, and it is obvious that he has not experienced the warmth and coldness of the world.

Xu Chengxian glanced at him, old brother, you are speaking a bit too confidently.

Be careful that you encounter a tigress in the future, catch you as a live-in son-in-law, beat you black and blue, and force you to have seventeen or eight children, and see if you can still say such irresponsible things.

"Moreover, this is in the demon race." Ling Yunzi continued, "They are different from the human race."

The demon race doesn't have so many rules and regulations, and concepts of propriety, justice, honor, and disgrace.

What live-in son-in-law and live-in son-in-law are just terms used in the human world.

There is no such thing as low status and being subjected to humiliation.

Here in the demon race, the strong choose a son-in-law to select a junior with good strength and potential to be used by the family.

Being selected means that you will have to contribute to the family in the future, and you will definitely receive the cultivation of the strong and the investment of the family's cultivation resources.

So it can be called a good opportunity.

"Then who will the child take the surname of?" Xu Chengxian asked.

"Whoever is stronger, they will take the surname of." Ling Yunzi said indifferently.

"..."

No problem!

Very reasonable!

Admirable!

Xu Chengxian blinked, unable to resist taking another bite of snake meat.

He needed to calm his nerves.

"Haha! Still asking who the child will take the surname of?" Ling Xiao laughed, "Will Mao Shijiu's child be named Mao?"

Mao Shijiu's name is Mao Shijiu, it doesn't have a surname.

Not only are small demons like this, but so are big demons.

Just like Lang Qing and Hu Xiao, they are just names based on the demon's original form.

Some are too lazy to think, and a group just takes a similar name to someone else's name.

Most of the time, they will choose to take the name of the strong.

Lang Qing became a big demon, and many small wolf demons in his garrison also took the word wolf and named themselves after him.

For example, Wolf One and Wolf Two.

These are already considered to have rules.

Many demon race names are even taken randomly.

They simply have no concept of family bloodline inheritance.

"Understood, understood."

Xu Chengxian nodded after listening.

So it is not wrong to say that whoever is stronger will take the surname of.

"..." Ling Xiao wanted to say that they were not surnamed Wolf.

But on second thought, the emergence of human surnames seems to have come about in this way.

After a long time, the Lang Qing clan may be surnamed Wolf.

"In the demon race, generally only the strong above the demon commander will form family forces and consider inheriting their own bloodline." Ling Yunzi also said.

That's why there is such a thing as seeking a son-in-law.

"Oh oh! So that's how it is."

Xu Chengxian took the opportunity to nod, took another bite of meat, swallowed it, and then asked the two of them, "Then the question is, who do you think General Yu wants Yunzi to be a live-in son-in-law for?"