The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

290: Ming Xi’s Suspicions

Demon Wind had his reasons for being so excited to see Little Seven.
When he was young, his father had told him all kinds of bedtime stories about the first-generation Demon Wind's adventures with Longze.

There were several characters who appeared over and over again, one of which was the multicolored phoenix.
The phoenix was a friend who fought against the demons with them.
After the battles were waged and won, the phoenix even promised to stay on the island and help guard it.
Demon Wind admired this kind of self-sacrificing loyalty the most.

It was one of his favorite stories about the island.
How could he not be excited to see the legendary Master Phoenix in the flesh?

It was just that Demon Wind hadn’t thought that maybe the phoenix of his stories had taken a mate and gone out to play, unscrupulously leaving his offspring behind to guard things in his place.

Little Seven understood the misunderstanding but she was too lazy to correct him.

“Demon Wind, let me ask you.
Just now, did you see a loathsome woman cut through here?” Little Seven still remembered how Zi Cheng had tried to force a blood contract on her.
Her dignity as a holy beast wasn’t something to be trampled on by a mere human.
If she didn’t let that hateful woman pay, then her name wasn’t Little Seven!

“Loathsome woman?” Demon Wind was confused only for a moment before understanding who Master Phoenix was referring to.

“There was a woman here.
She had wanted to pull out the Demon Suppression sword that Master Longze personally placed here and release the demon commander.
She must have been a spy who managed to infiltrate our world,” said Demon Wind with certainty.
Why else would she try to pull out the sword unless she was a traitor?

The sword was precious, but removing it would turn the seas into a blood bath.

It wasn’t like they had another Master Longze to come and seal the demon away again.
If the seal broke, the first to suffer would be the population on Demon Wind island.
From how resolutely the woman had tried to pull out the sword, it was safe to assume she must have felt she was immune to any after effects.
Otherwise, as the person closest to the seal, she would have been attacked by the demon immediately.

There was no way she’d be that certain unless she was in cahoots with the Demon realm, otherwise why would the imprisoned ancient demon general spare her?

That man, for him it would be considered merciful if he didn’t kill all of humanity.

“Where is that woman? I have to personally teach her a lesson!” Little Seven didn’t bother paying attention to the rest of what Demon Wind said.
She was only interested in dragging the wretched woman out and beating her up.

Demon Wind pointed to the black pond.
“I shot at her too hard and killed her.
She’s in the pond.” Had he known Master Phoenix wanted to personally teach her a lesson, he wouldn’t have tried so hard.
He ended up killing her so now the master probably hated him.

Demon Wind was upset over this.
He wasn’t sure how Master Phoenix would react.

“This is where the ancient demon commander is sealed?” Ming Xi pointed to the pond.
Little Seven had already told him about the secret behind the island and the temple.

He would never have thought a pirate den would have anything to do with the deified Longze-Jiamoer.
There was even an ancient demon commander, the number one demon master, sealed underneath the island.
He would never have believed it if Little Seven hadn’t told him.

“Yes, he was sealed by Lord Longze long ago.
You can tell by looking at the water that there is an ancient demon commander under there.
His demonic spiritual energy has suffused into the pond and made it magical.
That’s why there are so many Hell Black lotuses growing.”

Such pure demonic miasma could only come from the first demons.

“Did the woman surface?” Ming Xi had his doubts.

“No, she didn’t even flop over, just sank straight down.” Demon Wind replied to Ming Xi because he knew Ming Xi came together with Master Phoenix.

Ming Xi narrowed his eyes and thought about that.
He didn’t believe Zi Cheng would die that easily.
He hadn’t spent much time with her, but he knew there was something unusual about her.
She always had unusual items in her possession – like that strange poison she used on Little Seven . . .

There were certainly all kinds of unusual items that could be used on all monsters and beasts, but a girl like her, someone from such a minor family, they weren’t things she should have been able to obtain.

He had sent someone to investigate her background so he knew everything about her life experiences from infancy to now.
The most unusual thing he discovered was the strange charm Zi Cheng had on her body that attracted all manner of people to her.
It made them ignore their own personal and family interests for her best interests.

Aristocratic children were given all kinds of benefits, but the most important was education.
That they would disregard their family for a woman, was highly unusual.
That there were multiple aristocratic children under her spell was a problem.

No matter how he looked at it, Zi Cheng would be difficult to deal with.

Another problematic woman was Ai Lin.
She had come out the victor in the tomb[notes] despite competing against the odds.
She defeated so many masters to get the treasure, evaded the final holy beast, and evaded all those who hunted her after escaping the tomb.
All these things made her a person of interest.

The past few years had seen an influx of other realms coming into the human world.
The four major empires along with Star Marshall hall had been sending people to investigate yearly.

Zi Cheng and Ai Lin didn’t know it, but Ming Xi had been suspicious of them for some time.

His investigations failed to show any signs they were influenced by outside forces, Ming Xi couldn’t relax and kept them under constant surveillance.
In particular, Zi Cheng’s ability to influence people’s hearts made him very nervous.
Because of all these factors, he doubted Demon Wind had managed to kill Zi Cheng.
He wouldn’t believe it without a corpse.
There was no way she would die so easily.

In fact, Ming Xi was correct.
Zi Cheng had used a magic orb the moment she fell into the pond.