Tang Dynasty Demon Suppression Division

"Senior Brother Li has gone to the island to investigate, and told us to wait here."

Ji Fanghua did not inquire about Leng Ningshuang's unusual behavior. She didn't care about such things; the other party was her companion, and that was enough.

Just then, Li Yuan sent a message. After listening, Ji Fanghua said to Leng Ningshuang, "Senior Brother Li wants us to go over there. There are people on the island."

"it is good."

Leng Ning Shuang felt heavy-hearted. However, her secret had already been exposed while she was unconscious, and there was no point in saying anything more now, since her two companions hadn't abandoned her at the bottom of the sea.

This alone is enough to explain their attitude.

Following the information left by Li Yuan, the two found the desolate village and a group of people were gathered around Li Yuan, whispering amongst themselves.

Upon hearing their words, Ji Fanghua's expression changed slightly. She stopped and listened carefully for a while before walking out.

Upon seeing the arrival of two more young women, the villagers were in an uproar. Ji Fanghua began to speak with the old man in a somewhat awkward tone. The two communicated slowly, and it took her a long time to stop.

"How does Junior Sister Ji know the language here?"

Leng Ning Shuang couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

Ji Fanghua turned to Li Yuan: "Senior brother, do you still remember Locked Dragon City?"

Upon hearing this, Leng Ning Shuang was somewhat confused, but Li Yuan immediately understood: "You mean they speak an ancient language?"

"Yes, back then I stayed at an inn in Lock Dragon City, and I learned some of the local language in my spare time."

The matter of Locking Dragon City was a secret of their Divine Martial Squad, and Leng Ning Shuang was unaware of it.

"However, their language was slightly different from that of Lock Dragon City, but they were generally similar."

Ji Fanghua recounted what they had just discussed. It turned out that this place was called Dragon Spirit Island, isolated from the world, and they knew nothing about other places.

Ji Fanghua claimed that she drifted here by boat at sea, and the old man suggested that they go to the holy city on the island to inquire about the situation.

It seems this place is indeed not a sacred land for the demon race.

The group bid farewell to the old man and headed towards the central area of ​​the island, following his directions.

Leng Ning Shuang remained unusually silent throughout the journey. After what had happened, she didn't know how to communicate with Li Yuan.

Li Yuan also noticed her embarrassment. On their journey to the sacred land of the demon race, the three of them would form a complete team and must work together as one. They couldn't afford to have any disagreements over this matter.

So he took the initiative to speak.

"Senior Sister Leng, you don't need to worry about it. Actually, I guessed it a long time ago, but I just didn't plan to say it."

Leng Ning Shuang was startled: "When did you guess that?"

"I discovered it a long time ago, back when we were still in the secret realm, but I didn't confirm it at the time. Later, when I met you in Anxi, I was certain."

Li Yuan looked at her calmly.

Leng Ning Shuang never imagined that Li Yuan had discovered the secret she had tried so hard to hide so long ago, and she couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Yes, I am not purely human. I am a half-demon. My mother is a demon, and her original form was an Ice Soul Dragon. My father is an instructor at Taixu Academy, but I did not know about my background when I was a child."

She, who was always aloof and proud, now had tears in her eyes.

"You can imagine that I have been proud since I was a child, and I took it upon myself to slay demons and monsters. It wasn't until after the Four Colleges League that I was injured on a mission and discovered the demonic energy within me for the first time."

She was devastated. She realized that she was actually the demon race she hated the most, or even a half-demon.

From then on, she carefully kept this secret in her heart, afraid that it would be discovered and she would be seen as an oddball.

Over the years, she has hidden it with great difficulty. As her cultivation level has increased, the demonic energy within her body has become more and more obvious, and the demonic energy and spiritual power also repel each other.

Because of this, her internal energy was unstable. If it weren't for the cultivation technique given to her by the Demon Emperor Chen Su, she would have been exposed much earlier.

"Now that you know who I am, don't you think I'm a monster?"

She finally asked the question that had been weighing on her mind, lowering her head and not daring to look at the two of them, afraid of seeing their disdainful gazes.

"No matter what your identity is, you are still our Senior Sister Leng. There is no absolute distinction between races in the world. Every race has good people and bad people. A race cannot be defined by simple good and evil."

Li Yuan comes from the 21st century, an era of information and stream of consciousness explosion, so he doesn't have such strong racial concepts.

"Are you telling the truth?"

Leng Ning Shuang suddenly looked up, staring at him in disbelief.

"Of course it's true. If I cared, I would have reported you long ago. Why would I still consider you a friend?"

Leng Ning Shuang was stunned. Indeed, Li Yuan had already guessed her identity, but had never made any unusual moves.

At this moment, Ji Fanghua, who had been listening silently, finally spoke up: "Senior Sister Leng, you are you. We won't stop considering you a friend just because your status has changed."

"you……"

Leng Ning Shuang looked at the two of them with emotion. After a long while, she smiled sweetly and nodded: "Okay, we're friends."

At that moment, she felt completely relaxed, as if the mountain that had been weighing on her heart had finally been lifted, and she felt clear and transparent.

In an instant, she had an epiphany, and the aura around her changed, faintly reaching the peak of the Condensation Realm. The next step would be the Dao Entry Realm.

"Congratulations, Senior Sister Leng."

Li Yuan saw through it at a glance, cupped his hands and smiled.

The three put aside their reservations and quickened their pace, soon arriving at the central area of ​​the island, where there was a small city.

The city's buildings are all very old, built of stone. Looking at the city's layout, Li Yuan immediately felt a sense of familiarity. Isn't this a miniature version of Lock Dragon City?

Li Yuan and Ji Fanghua exchanged a glance and walked tacitly towards the center of the small town, where there was indeed a circular square. At the end of the square was a temple, which enshrined the goddess Nuwa.

The three offered incense before the statue of Nuwa. Li Yuan then found the temple keeper of the Nuwa Temple, intending to have Ji Fanghua inquire about the situation from him.

The temple keeper was a middle-aged man who clearly possessed spiritual energy and had a high level of cultivation, approximately at the mid-stage of the Qi Condensation Realm.

Upon seeing the three people, the temple keeper sized them up; their clothing was noticeably different from that of the island's residents.

Ji Fanghua spoke to him in ancient Chinese: "Hello, we are strangers who have drifted here."

"An outsider?"

The temple keeper was terrified. "We haven't had any outsiders here for thousands of years! How did you get here?"

"To be honest, we can't really explain it ourselves. We fell into the glacial sea and were swept here by the underwater currents."

"You look like cultivators; no wonder you were able to get here."

The temple keeper sighed, "So you've come to ask how to get back, right? I'm sorry, I don't know either."

After some conversation, it was learned that during the ancient war between gods and demons, some cultivators and refugees fled westward and, after many hardships, ended up on this island by chance.

From then on, they settled here and have never left the island for thousands of years, unaware of what the outside world is like.

Hearing them mention the ancient war between gods and demons touched Li Yuan deeply; perhaps they knew something he didn't.

"The outside world knows very little about the war between gods and demons. It only knows that the human race and the demon race broke out into war, and it seems that it was also related to the monster race. The specific details are no longer known."