"Okay, Mother," said Mei Ling with an obedient look on her face as she ran out of the house.
"Do you know Zheng Jiu Zhe?" asked Ronin.
"Yes, sir, Demon Lord. I know about him. He is the reason my life became miserable, forcing me and other demons to live in the shadows of humans," said Xin Ling, anger flashing in her eyes.
Ronin closed his eyes to calm the anger rising within him and took a deep breath before saying, "He currently resides in a mansion where he recruits both humans and demons as servants. Given your years of experience as a servant, you will surely pass their house chores tests and become a servant in his mansion. You have to tell me where he keeps his sword when we meet next time."
Xin Ling hesitated.
Seeing the hesitation on Xin Ling's face, Ronin said, "If you don't want to do it, it's okay; I won't force you. Relax and continue with your daily life."
"No... no... I will do it. It's just that I don't want to keep my daughter with me. It's not safe for her to stay while I do what you asked," said Xin Ling while looking at Ronin.
"I will take care of your daughter, and I won't let anything happen to you either," said Ronin with a stern look on his face.
Xin Ling released a long sigh of relief upon hearing Ronin's words and expressed her gratitude while kowtowing in front of him.
Ronin hurriedly moved forward and reached out his hand to hold Xin Ling's shoulder, gently lifting her up. "You don't have to kneel; everyone is equal in my eyes," said Ronin with a helpless look on his face.
They walked out of the house, and as Mei Ling saw her mother, she hurriedly ran towards her with a beaming smile, reaching out her little hands to hold Xin Ling's gentle and warm hands.
Xin Ling bent slightly and caressed her daughter's hair, asking, "Mei Ling, Mother has to go away from home to do an important work. You will stay with Sir Ronin until I get back, okay?"
"Where are you going? I want to come with you," said Mei Ling, her face filled with anxiety.
"Mei, are you a good girl?" asked Xin Ling, looking at her daughter.
"Hmm," Mei Ling nodded her head like a chicken pecking at rice grains on the ground.
"Good. Then listen to Mother and stay with Sir Ronin, and I will soon come back home, okay?" asked Xin Ling, gently caressing her daughter's cheeks.
"Okay," Mei Ling reluctantly agreed to her mother's words.
"That's my girl," said Xin Ling, pulling her daughter into a tender embrace and planting a kiss on her cheeks.
Ronin once again covered his body and face before embarking on a journey with a mother and daughter pair. After a few hours, he reached the place where selections for servants for Jin Zhao's mansion were taking place. "I will meet you exactly after four hours at this spot," said Ronin, glancing at the sun in the sky.
Xin Ling nodded her head, turned to look at the sun, and then proceeded to join the line.
As Ronin had anticipated, Xin Ling was selected to be a servant in Jin Zhao's mansion. Ronin departed from the place with Mei Ling.
"Why did Mother go to work in that mansion?" asked Mei Ling, observing Ronin, who had his face completely covered with clothes.
"It's to save our demon kin," Ronin replied, bending his knees and gesturing for Mei Ling to hop onto his back.
If the demons in the demon continent were to hear that the demon lord had bent his knees to piggyback a low-level little demon girl, it would cause a big uproar.
"Jin Zhao, your days are numbered," Ronin murmured inwardly as he moved away from that place.
Inside the dungeon under the mansion...
"I killed your demon lord. You will all soon become my sex slaves if you continue to resist," declared Jin Zhao, addressing the demon girls who hailed from various regions of the demon continent, all of them exceptionally beautiful.
"Do you think we will believe your lies?" shouted a girl with sharp facial features, wiping the blood from the corners of her mouth.
"I never said you have to believe what I said, but you will soon see the dead body of your demon lord," remarked Jin Zhao with a mocking smile, shrugging his shoulders.
All the demon girls furrowed their brows and kept staring at Jin Zhao's back as he walked away.
"No way, how can this fool kill our demon lord?" said one of the demon girls, displaying a skeptical expression.
"Yeah, it's impossible. The demon lord is the strongest demon in the demon continent. How can this guy, whose mind is filled with nothing but lust for any girl, regardless of her race, kill our demon lord?" remarked another demon girl beside her.
"He just wants to intimidate us and turn us into sex slaves by using fear," said another girl, gnashing her teeth.
"I agree with you. We are not going to fall for his pitiful and pathetic tricks," added another girl, looking annoyed.
"Yeah, we are not going to fall for his pathetic tricks," echoed all the demon girls simultaneously.
Upon returning to the mansion, Jin Zhao was greeted by an anxious-looking Fai Gu. Observing Fai Gu's hesitation, Jin Zhao inquired, "What happened, Fai Gu? Is everything okay?"
After a brief moment of fear evident on his face, Fai Gu replied, "Zheng Jiu Zhe, we can't find the demon lord's body in that place."
Boom!
Fai Gu was sent flying, crashing into the wall, causing cracks to spread all over it, before falling to the ground. He reached out to hold his stomach and coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood, then raised his head to look at Jin Zhao with a fearful expression.
"I gave you one simple task, and you can't even complete it," Jin Zhao glared at him, his face contorted with anger.