Holy Son, Run! The Demon Empress Wants You as Her Consort! - Chapter 2:

Chapter 2: Dad, I Found You a Good Daughter-in-Law

“Use them all! Use every single one!”

“Hahahaha…” Lin Ze laughed with delight. How was this any different from winning the jackpot?

[Ding! Activating Breathing Strength Enhancement Card…]

[Detected that the host is currently breathing…]

[Host’s power +1 +1 +1 +1 +1…]

One minute later—

[Host’s cultivation has reached 100. Successfully advanced to 1st stage Martial Disciple!]

[Next threshold: 2nd stage Martial Disciple requires 200 cultivation points.]

As he stepped into the martial path, Lin Ze immediately felt strength surging through his entire body. The soreness in his waist and knees vanished completely. At this moment, Lin Ze was filled with confidence. If he were to go three hundred rounds with You Yiran again, he definitely wouldn’t surrender so soon!

Just as he was lost in thought—

[Ding! Host’s cultivation has reached 200. Successfully advanced to 2nd stage Martial Disciple!]

[Next threshold: 3rd stage Martial Disciple requires 300 cultivation points.]

[Host’s strength +1 +1 +1 +1…]

Lin Ze exhaled and released the Divine Beast Fire Phoenix at the same time.

Boom!

A stream of red light erupted from the cave, soaring into the sky and covering several thousand kilometers. In the sky above, a bird’s head appeared first, letting out a loud cry!

Then, the phantom of massive wings spread across the heavens. With one gentle flap, waves of fiery red light surged upward like a blazing sun—dazzling and blinding!

Boom!!

At that moment, anyone within a thousand-kilometer radius who looked up could clearly see the red spectacle in the sky.

In an instant, Azure Cloud Continent was shaken!

“This is the aura of a phoenix!”

“It’s so pure… could it be the reincarnation of a great phoenix demon beast?”

“Quick! Go and see what’s going on!”

…

Countless people began heading toward the source of the red light.

At the same time, far away in the distant Demon Origin Continent—the land of the demon race—

Inside a palace filled with powerful demon beasts, a fox demon elder who had been in seclusion for 300 years suddenly opened his eyes.

“Hmm? Emperor’s aura rising in the south?”

The fox demon elder flashed out of the palace. His sharp eyes gazed into the southern distance. In the faint distance, he could see the phoenix phantom above Lin Ze’s head!

“Emperor!”

His appearance alarmed many powerful demon beasts in the palace, who hurried to gather.

“Quick! Send people to Azure Cloud Continent immediately. Our demon race’s Holy Son has appeared!”

“What? Our Holy Son?!”

All the demon beasts were shocked.

The Holy Son of the demon race—that was someone they had been searching for years without success!

Even in the Demon Origin Continent, there were only two suspected Holy Sons, still unconfirmed. Yet now the fox elder was saying their Holy Son had been born in Azure Cloud Continent, among the humans?

How could that be possible?

But no one dared to question the elder’s words. Because this fox demon elder was the most powerful and revered being in the entire Demon Origin Continent!

His words were law. No one dared doubt him.

Immediately, Demon Origin Continent dispatched their forces, rushing toward Azure Cloud Continent.

Not just them—many other forces also sent their people to investigate the mysterious Fire Phoenix light.

Meanwhile, Lin Ze, the one who caused it all, had no idea that summoning a chubby little bird had caused such a huge stir across the continent.

“All thunder, no rain! I’ve been scammed!” Lin Ze held a ball-shaped fat bird in his hands, almost in tears. This was the so-called Divine Beast Fire Phoenix?

“Chirp?” The chubby little bird tilted its head, seemingly offended, as if to ask, “You looking down on me?”

Just then, bodyguard Er Hu rushed over with a large group of people.

“Holy Son! Apologies for the delay—are you alright?” Er Hu knelt on one knee before him, his face full of concern.

Lin Ze placed the little bird on his shoulder, turned and spun around, grinning, “Do I look like someone who’s not alright?”

Er Hu nodded seriously, “Holy Son, you look exactly like a newlywed wife who just got ravaged by mountain bandits!”

“That vile woman didn’t do anything too excessive to you, did she?”

Lin Ze tilted his head, “Excessive? She stripped my pants, kept pressing me underneath—does that count?”

Er Hu roared in fury, drawing his broadsword from his waist, “Where is that woman? I’ll chop her up!”

Lin Ze kicked him, “Stop yelling. Let’s head back to the Holy Land first. I’ve got important matters to discuss with my dad!”

…

Azure River Holy Land—

“Dad! Your dearest son is back!” Lin Ze couldn’t hold back his excitement the moment he stepped through the gates, shouting at the top of his lungs.

“If my son’s dead, how will I face his mother and our ancestors in the afterlife?” came a grumbling voice.

Hearing that familiar sound, the Azure Spirit Holy Land’s Holy Lord, Lin Ruhai, paused his muttering, his face lighting up with joy.

“Hahaha! My precious son has returned!”

Bang!

Lin Ze kicked open the study door. Inside, the room was in chaos—exquisite pearwood furniture shattered, priceless porcelain smashed—clearly, his father had just thrown a fit.

Lin Ruhai rushed over and embraced him tightly, tears streaming down his face, “Son! It’s all my fault for letting you suffer so much…”

“No, Dad. I didn’t suffer at all.”

Staring at his only heir, Lin Ruhai gritted his teeth, “Don’t worry, son! Your dad will avenge you!”

“Tell me who that woman is! She dared bully my son? I’ll pluck her clean, even if she’s born without hair!”

Lin Ze’s mouth twitched.

“Dad, didn’t you notice anything different about me?”

Hearing that, Lin Ruhai gave him a quick once-over. His eyes lit up.

“Son, you got more handsome!”

“Hahahaha! As expected of my bloodline! Back in my day, I was the most dashing young man in ten towns…”

Black lines appeared on Lin Ze’s forehead.

“Look at my cultivation!” He was already at the 8th stage Martial Disciple on the way back.

[Host’s strength +1 +1 +1…]

Lin Ruhai’s face filled with confusion, “You were born with crippled meridians… Wait—what the hell! Son, you’re already 8th stage Martial Disciple?”

“No! 9th stage! You just broke through again?!”

Lin Ruhai shouted in shock, his eyes nearly bulging out.

He left the house a mere mortal… came back in the evening a 9th stage Martial Disciple?

My son is a genius!

Lin Ruhai was overwhelmed with emotion. Without a word, he dragged Lin Ze over to kneel before the ancestral shrine and kowtowed four times.

“Ancestors, bless you! Ze’er can cultivate again! And in one day, he broke through nine realms—heaven truly favors my Lin family!”

Seeing how happy his father was, Lin Ze was also deeply moved. He wiped a tear from the corner of his eye.

Though his father never said it, he knew the man had been mocked behind his back countless times because of his son’s inability to cultivate.

But now, everything had changed.

Seizing the moment, Lin Ze said, “Dad, not only can I cultivate now—I also found you a great daughter-in-law!”

“What? Double blessings? Whose daughter is it? I’ll visit her family right away!”

“The Female Emperor of Netherveil—You Yiran!”

“…???”

“I’m your son!!”