Chapter 206: What Kind of Great Demon?
"Then you speak," he said, still not turning, but also unable to walk away.
Lady Hong, however, stepped on the chaos beneath her feet and gracefully walked to face him. She ran a finger over Li Yunxin's chest and said, "Young Master Li, think again. Young Master Nine lived in the Wei River for a thousand years, so how could Bai Yunxin not know? But why did he flee just a few days ago—fearing that Bai Yunxin would come after him?"
This question had been in Li Yunxin's mind all along.
When he first met Young Master Nine in the ruined temple on a rainy night, he seemed to be hiding from someone. He used the temple's incense table to make a fire and roast the limbs of a Lingxu Sword Sect Taoist priest. Halfway through eating, he heard a sound from the sky and fled in a panic. He later realized that at that time, he must have been hiding from Bai Yunxin.
Before, Li Yunxin thought that Bai Yunxin didn't devour Young Master Nine because both had powerful backers—Young Master Nine was the son of the True Dragon, and Bai Yunxin was the adopted daughter of the Golden-Winged Great Peng. The True Dragon was the lord of all demons in the world, and the Golden Peng was the lord of all feathered creatures. But later, he learned that at least "it seemed" that Young Master Nine was not "in a favorable position"—his status before the True Dragon was far from comparable to Bai Yunxin's.
And neither of them seemed like the kind of people who would play a game of cat and mouse.
"So, something happened during that time. And those things are related to my future in Dongting?"
"Precisely. Young Master Li is so intelligent." Lady Hong smiled and said, "The world says that the Golden-Winged Great Peng King loves to eat dragons. But how many dragons are there in this world? One True Dragon and nine Dragon's Sons—where would he get so many to eat? But this kind of thing can't be a rumor. If it were, how could the True Dragon, as the lord of all demons, allow such a rumor to circulate? So..."
"—It's this Vicious Flood Dragon?" Li Yunxin sighed softly. "So the legend of the Golden-Winged Great Peng eating dragons actually refers to this Vicious Flood Dragon?"