C2 The Holy Son
When Ao Satian woke up, he found himself in a large room with gorgeous decorations. As the Demon King, he had a palace in his previous; even that wasn't this luxurious.
The room was adorned with abundant pink plum blossoms, looking peaceful and full of life. It had to be said that the person who set up this room was very skilled in art and also very powerful.
"You're awake."
A woman wearing a white veil appeared beside Ao Satian. Her voice was gentle, and it seemingly had the ability to calm people down. However, Ao Satian went on full alert after hearing her voice.
The woman seemed to have sensed something special. She held Ao Satian up and said, "You are very special. Did you make Tengyun faint?"
The woman frowned and said with a smile, "How stupid! I'm actually questioning a baby."
While the white-veiled woman was cradling Ao Satian, a spiritual fluctuation appeared in the room, and another woman dressed in blue appeared. The woman in blue half knelt down and said, "Holy Emperor, what orders do you have for me?"
The Holy Emperor, the white-veiled woman, gently raised her hand to signal the woman to get up. "I will leave this child to you. You should take good care of him. He was not ordinary. He could actually make my Tengyun faint and ignore my bewitchment."
A look of surprise flashed across the blue-clothed woman's eyes.
The Holy Emperor nodded lightly and continued, "I want to adopt this child. Perhaps this will be the opportunity for our Holy Church to rise. I have checked his talent. His constitution is the best one I have seen so far; there isn't a single impurity in his body. Although the energy within his body is thin, it's very pure."
"Furthermore, according to Tengyun, this child's eyes have a magical ability. After Tengyun met his eyes, it fainted. If this child were a little stronger, Tengyun would've surely lost its life."
The blue-clothed woman took the baby carefully. "Holy Emperor, how are you going to explain this adoption?"
The Holy Emperor frowned when she heard that. "Just spread that I gave birth to him. Anyway, this child is still young, so he will not remember anything. From now on, I will be the mother of this child."
When the blue-clothed woman heard that, the corner of her mouth twitched violently. There was a clear loophole in this excuse. However, now that the Holy Emperor had ordained so, no one would dare to refute her. "What are you going to name him?"
The Holy Emperor did not seem to have thought about it. "He will decide one for himself after growing up. We can just call him Holy Son for now."
After saying that, the Holy Emperor disappeared from the gorgeously and luxuriously decorated room.
Meanwhile, Lan, the blue-clothed woman, was just glad that the Holy Emperor didn't give Ao Satian some ridiculous permanent name.
Lan quietly carried Ao Satian away and arranged for someone to take care of him. It was only after Ao Satian wailed like crazy that Lan remembered she also had to feed him. And since the Holy Son was a baby, he needed milk. So, three days later, Ao Satian, the Holy Son, had a wet nurse.
Ao Satian's appearance stirred a commotion in the Holy Church. When the Holy Emperor introduced Ao Satian to the church elders, they all suddenly went silent. Then, seconds later, they were all quarrelling with each other for Ao Satian. They all wanted him for themselves. Despite their quarrel, they all agreed on one thing: the Holy Emperor shouldn't be allowed to raise the Holy Son alone.
In the end, this heavy responsibility fell on Ao Satian. In the future, Satian would've to choose his teacher according to his attributes and his liking. Also, no one was allowed to coerce him in the meantime. Especially the Holy Emperor—she was barred from teaching him privately.
With that, Satian's future was set. After eating and drinking his fill, Satian fell asleep comfortably. Meanwhile, he had no idea that outside, his "mother" and the elders had come to a decision that was bound to make his life miserable.
In the cultivator world, a piece of news was spreading like wildfire. The eldest son of Lingyun Villa, who was born three months ago, was kidnapped during the bandits' invasion. No one had any news about him. His mother had fallen ill because of this matter and was currently seeking treatment from the four seas.
The criminal who dared to kidnap the only son of the Lingyun Villa's patriarch was the legendary number one assassin, Su Ziran. However, no one in the cultivation world knew why Su Ziran did such a foolish thing.
At this point, the conflict in the cultivation world had just started.