I am Guhuoniao, not an umbrella demon, please do not disturb me.

She was only nervous for a short while about the Demon Book.

If any powerful ferocious beasts were to appear, it would be Tianyang Palace that would intervene, and it wouldn't have much to do with her.

·

Life returned to normal. For the next few days, Bai Qingyu spent her mornings taking care of the children and her afternoons attending classes at the private school. Her days were simple yet fulfilling, and she was happy to be able to face so many adorable children.

After bringing Tamamo-no-Mae back, she didn't need to trouble herself with anything.

Since she was a demon king in her previous life, Bai Qingyu didn't need to put in too much effort or energy for Tamamo-no-Mae; he only needed to provide her with delicious food every day.

The main reason is that Tamamo-no-Mae cannot transform into human form; she can only appear as a four-tailed fox spirit.

However, Bai Qingyu could sense that the day Tamamo-no-Mae would take human form was not far off.

In the past few days, Bai Qingyu also noticed something else: there were significantly more monsters around Tongzhou, of all kinds of strength. Most of the monsters chose to go to Nanshan to seek refuge with Shuten-dōji, while a small number of the bolder ones went directly into the city.

In their words, the Divine Phoenix Goddess is in the city, so why can't our demon race enter?

Bai Qingyu's location was exposed thanks to Shuten-dōji.

Everyone knows that the Lord of Nanshan is the child of the Divine Phoenix Goddess. After following the news to the Nanshan area, a little inquiry reveals that the Goddess has a temple in the city and even runs a private school there to teach some human children.

Some monsters were not entirely satisfied with this.

The Divine Phoenix Queen should be a queen of the demon race, how could she entrust the children of the human race with such an obligation?

Even if they were to actually teach them, they should include some young demons.

As a result, Bai Qingyu noticed that there were significantly more eyes on the area around the private school these past few days.

They're all those little monsters.

She was quite helpless; these demons were just watching and hadn't done anything outrageous, and they weren't demons with any karmic burdens.

Then she learned from the students' parents that her "Niangniang Temple" had been forcibly occupied by a group of little monsters. Although they did not reject people who came to offer incense, they had set many rules, such as that people must be devout and not talk or laugh when entering the temple, and that each person could not stay in the temple for more than a certain period of time.

Then, one must not be disrespectful to the goddess, and priority should be given to those with children, mothers with children, and expectant mothers.

Such rules transformed a small temple into a large, strictly regulated one.

The monsters even voluntarily contributed money to help Bai Qingyu expand the temple, turning a small temple into a large one.

At first, people were indeed afraid and didn't even dare to approach the street, after all, it was a group of menacing monsters.

Immediately after the Prince's Mansion sent people to communicate with the monsters in the temple, they began to secretly spread the news the next day, saying that the monsters in the temple were all benevolent and that as believers of the Divine Phoenix Goddess, how could they be evil monsters?

Gradually, people discovered that these monsters were indeed real.

They may look a bit scary, but they are indeed very kind. As long as you follow their rules and don't cause trouble, you won't be harmed by them.

Furthermore, as long as they are loyal followers of the Divine Phoenix Lady, these demons will even help them solve some minor problems.

On one occasion, a lady came to offer incense and pray for blessings, but she was targeted by a local bully.

On the street, before the bully could even make a move, a group of little monsters rushed out and beat him up.

Since that incident, more and more people have come to Bai Qingyu's Divine Phoenix Temple to offer incense.

"Why don't you go take a look, sister? Those little monsters are quite nice." In the courtyard, Zhen Tian hesitated before speaking.

After she finished speaking, the peach blossom fairy beside her nodded vigorously, agreeing wholeheartedly with Zhen Tian's opinion, "Yes, Mother, let's go take a look!"

Just yesterday, Xiao Yao and her sister Zhen went to the market to buy delicious food and fun things. They happened to pass by Bai Qingyu's temple, and out of curiosity, they went inside with Zhen.

As soon as she walked in, she pointed at Bai Qingyu's statue and the poisonous bird while holding a skewer of candied hawthorns and casually said something.

"Sister Zhen, isn't that Mother? They're offering sacrifices to her."

As soon as she said this, she was almost instantly surrounded by the little monsters in the temple. The envious looks in their eyes made Xiao Yao feel uneasy. She was asked all sorts of questions for a long time before being rescued by Zhen. In the end, she didn't get to buy any delicious food or fun things, and was blocked by a group of strange monsters for a long time.

Xiao Yao was already shy, and this group of demons almost drove her to the brink of withdrawal.

Bai Qingyu was completely confused. She roughly knew what had happened, but it seemed like she didn't really know what had happened either.

She thought the small temple wouldn't be open for long, because normally, a temple built for a deity must have something special about it. After all, deities have different official positions, and at the very least, they should be able to protect people's safety.

But he himself was neither a god nor did he hold any messy official position.

Ordinary people who come to offer incense don't know what to say. They can't exactly say, "May his child get a perfect score on his final exam," can they?

So if even ordinary people don't know what to believe in, why did this temple grow so large and become unstoppable?

What Bai Qingyu didn't know was that her small temple was originally frequented by students' parents who went to burn incense, and most of the time there were hardly any people there. However, it suddenly became popular recently, and there was another major reason besides those monsters.

That is, the people believe that the greatest purpose of this temple is to pray for children.

Yes, beg for a child.

Eight out of ten people who come to the temple are there to ask Bai Qingyu to bless them with a healthy and chubby baby.

The remaining people weren't asking for children; they were there to thank Bai Qingyu for her "efficacy" in getting them pregnant, or to pray for the safety of their own children.

As they were chatting, the door was suddenly pushed open, and a wild red-haired Shuten-dōji strode in.

"aunt!"

I haven't been back for days, and I'm about to burst with boredom. There's no food to eat and no wine to drink.

It wasn't that he didn't want to come back during this time, but for some reason, many monsters appeared in Nanshan. Large numbers of monsters from outside came to seek refuge, all using Bai Qingyu's name.

Because there were so many demons coming to seek refuge, Shuten-dōji was almost overwhelmed with work.

For the first time, I realized that having too many subordinates wasn't a good thing.

After the group of demons arrived, they began to spread the word about Bai Qingyu's rampage in the capital for the sake of her child. They described it in great detail, and some demons even recorded it with a recording stone.

Gradually, the demons of Nanshan were all led astray, until Shuten-dōji also witnessed this scene.

"Auntie, what happened recently? Why didn't you tell me?"

As soon as he entered, Shuten started complaining.

Instead of complaining that Bai Qingyu went to the capital for the sake of the little snake, he complained that Bai Qingyu didn't take him with him.

"About the capital?" Bai Qingyu turned around.

"Yes, I heard you went to the capital by yourself."

"That's true, but the situation was urgent at the time, and I didn't have time to inform you. Besides, I'm back now."

Next, Shuten gave Bai Qingyu a brief account of the situation at Xia Nanshan.

Nanshan is not in complete chaos, but it is indeed difficult to control the influx of hundreds of monsters in just a few days.

Upon hearing this, Bai Qingyu thought for a long time but still didn't know what to say.

It was just a disturbance in the capital. For the demon race, this might feel very satisfying, and it was something that made them proud after the Demon King fell in the Immortal Tower State.

But no matter what, they wouldn't be crazy enough to travel thousands of miles to find it, right?

Bai Qingyu patted Shuten-dōji on the shoulder, giving him a helpless look.

Shuten-dōji really wanted to become the Demon King, so in a sense, this matter was very beneficial to him.

"I believe in you, Shuten-dōji. Those demons are in your hands now. Good luck!"

Shuten opened his mouth halfway, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping himself.

He's practically a demon king now, but compared to that, he still longs to get into that demon's heart.

"There's food in the kitchen. Go grab something to eat to tide you over before we start cooking."

Bai Qingyu pointed to the kitchen, and sure enough, Shuten's eyes lit up. He stopped talking about the demon and dashed into the kitchen.

Bai Qingyu exchanged a glance with Zhen Tian and then shrugged.

She truly hadn't expected things to turn out this way.

Just as she was feeling helpless, Bai Qingyu noticed a maple leaf swirling in. She reached out and caught it, feeling a familiar scent on it.

"Red leaves?"

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Volume 1: Chapter 147 Kiyohime

Seeing the maple leaf in his hand, Bai Qingyu thought of the female demon in the red leaf forest.

She didn't have any particular opinion about this female demon; she had simply saved her life by chance from a disciple of the Fate Cult in the Red Leaf Forest that day, and never thought she would have any further involvement with her. Unexpectedly, Shuten-dōji became entangled with her.

Bai Qingyu couldn't understand why a demon with such a personality as Shuten-dōji would fall in love with a woman, especially in such an absurd way as love at first sight.

Perhaps it was fate, but in any case, she didn't want to get too involved in this matter.

Stepping to the door, Bai Qingyu seemed to catch a glimpse of the ghost girl Hongye at the corner, but she vanished in the blink of an eye.

Actually, you can still sense her presence; she's right here nearby.

After closing the door, Bai Qingyu did not chase after them.

Let her and Shuten-dōji handle their own affairs.

Bai Qingyu turned around and walked over to continue chatting with Zhen Tian and the children, unaware that a beautiful figure outside the courtyard was gazing intently at the courtyard gate.

The demon girl, Momiji, lowered her eyes.

She was also holding a maple leaf in her hand, but no matter what, she couldn't bring herself to throw it out so that Bai Qingyu would see it.

Perhaps she should have bravely stepped forward instead of hiding the moment Bai Qingyu opened the door, but she just couldn't do it. Many times, she wondered what exactly her feelings for Bai Qingyu were.

This time, she came with Shuten-dōji, and she knew that Shuten-dōji was Bai Qingyu's child.

Unfortunately, I still didn't have the courage when I got to the door.

"Drunkards are really annoying."

The image of Shuten-dōji inexplicably appeared in her mind, and Momiji frowned, muttering something under her breath.

"It must be because I'm not beautiful enough. If I were more beautiful, maybe..."

·

In the small courtyard, Bai Qingyu had a rare moment of free time. After chatting, he sat on a recliner, took out the Demon Book, and casually flipped through it to Qingji's page.

Looking at the monster in the demon register, and recalling the beautiful dance of the girl I saw under that cherry blossom tree, I couldn't connect the two for a moment. I couldn't help but wonder how sad and heartbroken the girl would be if her feet really turned into snake tails.