Chapter 127: Daily Life of the Demon King

Again, he dreamt of that world once more.

'My body is made out of swords.'

Of fire and death. Of magic and tragedy.

'My blood is of iron and my heart of glass.'

A path, destined to break him further and his ideals. A world where he drew blood of others, whether they be innocent or not.

'I have overcome countless battlefields.'

'Not even once retreating, not even once being understood.'

A life of slavery and loneliness. Where he forsaken everything; his friends, his family, his emotions and in the end, his life, for a dream that was never his.

'He was always alone, intoxicated with victory in a hill of swords.'

'Thus, his life has no meaning.'

To be a hero of justice....to which he succeeded as the guardian of humanity.

He had saved many, tried to save everyone. Yet, he was never remembered in history except for one name, although he didn't know how it even happen, as the Wrought Iron Hero.

For his soul, his world, was an armory of iron and steel.

'That body was certainly made out of swords.'

His name, no, my name was–

"Wake up."

Xiu Ye snapped his eyes open. His normally golden pair of eyes that glimmered like real gold changed into a steel silver for a moment before he blinked and his eyes changed back.

"Hmm...." He groaned and rubbed his eyes with his fingers. Shaking his head he raised himself up from his bed, moved the bedsheet covering his body, he sat at the bedframe, revealing his lean and muscular body.

Although he was only fourteen years old, his chiseled, well-defined, slim, v-shaped bronze colored body looked as if it was modeled after the Greek gods; with his eight rock hard abs, stone slab pecs and his ripped biceps. If it weren't for the remaining baby fat on his face, everyone would have thought he was at his twenties. What was most eyecatching was his mismatched hair; some part of his short spiky hair bangs was white while the rest was his natural born darkish red hair.

"These dreams are getting more frequent." He mumbled absentmindedly.

Letting out a sigh, he looked up to his wall clock as the sun's ray hit his face from the window.

His room was but a simple one. Big enough to accommodate his bed fit for three people, a couple bookshelves placed together at the corner left of his bed, a coffee table and a small flat screen soul tv at the same side but near his door. While the right side of his room was where his wardrobe, study desk, and the door to his bathroom was.

This was the normal dorm room for inner court students in the Sea God Island. Since there was a small number of inner court students compared to the outer court, it was decided by the Sea God Pavilion elders that everyone should get a room of their own.

Xiu Ye was thankful for that. As much as he liked for his friends company, he'd like some alone time.

He was supposed to be sleeping in his own house, built anywhere in the island and possibly even in one of the tree's branches, but he didn't like acting as a hermit like most of the teachers and elders in the island.

"6:35? Shit. I'm gonna miss breakfast and my shift." Cursing out loud, Xiu Ye quickly stood up and went to the bathroom to take a bath. After ten minutes of bathing and then a couple minutes of changing his clothes, he went out of his room.

As he walked out of the dorm building, now sporting a simple white long sleeve t-shirt and green hoodie over it and a blue slim straight jeans.

He walked leisurely, his hands in his pockets as he pondered on what he was doing for the last three years.

Unsurprising, during the reward ceremony, Yun Ming and Ya Li had told Xiu Ye's friends that they had shown enough talent and potential to be inner court students. If they wished, they can be admitted into the inner court.

Of course, all of them accepted.

After it was over, he and his five friends, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan and Mu Xi, temporarily went back to Eastsea Academy to get their stuff and settle some other things they had going there.

Since Gu Yue didn't have any family or other acquaintances in Eastsea City, she was the first to head back to Shrek Academy.

Second was Mu Xi. Since her father, who survived the Unholy Genocide, was already in Shrek City in order to accompany his daughter, she only had to get some of her stuff and her mom.

The ones that came next were Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan and Tang Wulin. first two only had to talk to their respective families, had a small party that lasted for a couple of days and then get their stuff. While Tang Wulin only had to deal with a few things and said goodbye to a few people he was acquainted with.

Unexpectedly, Xiu Ye was the last to go to Shrek Academy.

Why? Because he once more met up with Yu Fei.

Thinking about his big sister, Xiu Ye let out a sigh as he went into the inner court canteen.

In his eyes, the image of Yu Fei and another young woman who extremely resembled the former, but looked much younger, appeared.

'Why does she look like her...' A pained expression flashed through his eyes for a moment. But a familiar voice snapped him back to reality.

"Hm? Hey, bro!" A much older, taller and handsomer Tang Wulin, now wearing the iconic green jersey uniform of Shrek Academy, waved his arm towards him. He grinned as Xiu Ye waved back at him.

When returning to Shrek Academy after he got his stuff, Tang Wulin had been chosen by Yun Ming to be his second disciple and adopted son.

Xiu Ye didn't know how that happened or why, probably because he saw Tang Wulin's talent in the spear and that he was already Na'er's brother, nonetheless, becoming the Atlas Douluo's disciple has done wonders for him.

Yun Ming didn't hold back in teaching Tang Wulin and giving him lots of resources. At fourteen years old, his soul power was now at rank 35, soul elder. His spiritual power had increased to Spirit Sea Realm as well. He had also just unlocked five of his bloodline soul rings and was on the way of unlocking the sixth, probably at the end of the year. His Tang Sect techniques had progressed well. His blacksmithing too, he was now a rank 6 blacksmith when he was taken in as a student by the rank 8 blacksmith, Feng Wuyu.

All of his abilities and skills had grown in leaps and bounds.

Xie Xie as well, who was standing by Tang Wulin's side. A small smile on his face and similarly, he showed to have grown up as well.

He was rank 41, soul ancestor. His speed, power, strength, and overall assassination abilities has grown tremendously as he was promoted in the Tang Sect into a mysterious Hall of the sect when the vice sect master, Zang Xin, took him in as his disciple.

Most of his friends didn't know just how dangerous he was.

"Took you long enough." Xiu Ye raised an eyebrow and turned to his left to see Mu Xi, now eighteen years old; becoming more beautiful and taller compared to before. Even in the inner court, where most of the young ladies were beautiful to topple cities, she ranked within the top five. How puberty had done great wonders to her body.

Though she still couldn't surpass Xiu Ye, being a head shorter than her despite their four year age gap.

Mu Xi was taken in as the disciple of the War God, Ao Rui, and would sometimes go to Shrek Academy to teach her since she was adamant about staying together with her friends.

He had taken her in as his student because he had noticed their similar martial souls.

Mu Xi was now a Soul King, specifically at rank 52, the first and only one in their circle of friends to become one. From Ao Rui, her control over her martial soul had grown immensely. She had also increased her blacksmithing rank to 6, under the tutelage of a rank 8 blacksmith in the War God Temple.

"Late again? Never thought our great leader, the Demon King, who had singlehandedly led the charge against those cultists and killed their leader, would become so lazy." Mu Xi teased as she smirked while poking the side of Xiu Ye, who promptly slapped her fingers away.

Xiu Ye rolled his eyes. "Cut me some slack. Cultivating and polishing our combat abilities is great and all, but doing it all the time would lead to an obsession and then into a heart demon in our cultivation. Sometimes, we got to relax our minds and bodies so we can ascend further into the way of the soul master. Also, would you please stop calling me of that title? That's a dark past of mine that I wouldn't want to remember, ever."

"....You stayed all night reading those books again, huh."

"It's for knowledge!" Mu Xi rolled her eyes. She never really understood why he was so into reading so much books in the great library.

Sure there were some interesting studies there; like lost cultivation methods in soul power, spiritual power and body strengthening, but it wasn't to the point of continuing to be a librarian and reading those books for three years.

She and the others have talked about this issue of Xiu Ye for a couple years now, and even asked him why he was so into it straight to his face, but they never got a straight answer. In the end, they just leave it be.

Xiu Ye twitched his lips. He somewhat knew what she was thinking about and honestly, he'd do the same if one of them was suddenly into reading ancient books and texts. Although he felt touched by their concern, but what he was researching for was too good to pass.

Thankfully, most of the projects he'd been thinking on in the past was already underway and some being worked on by a certain trustworthy person he became acquainted with. So he wasn't overworked much to the point that they'd push their concerns forcibly.

"Senior sister, leave Xiu Ye be. Everyone has their own hobbies after all." Gu Yue, now fourteen years old, appeared on the other side of Mu Xi and smiled at Xiu Ye.

Gu Yue was also taken in by a powerful master in Spirit Pagoda. Most of them didn't know how strong she was but they knew that she was rank 42.

"No matter how weird they are! Hehehe." Na'er proclaimed, suddenly clinging into Xiu Ye's back like a monkey.

Na'er, taught by Yun Ming first and most, was the more powerful in spearmanship than Tang Wulin. Her soul rank is 44.

The two girls had also aged well. While Na'er grew into a beautiful young lady that can easily take any man's heart just by a looking at them, Gu Yue grew into a pretty yet average looking young lady.

"Hey! That's not nice, telling your older brother that his hobby is weird! Also, get off!" Xiu Ye yelled in complaint at Na'er, who just stuck her tongue out and lowered her lower left eyelid down.

"Nope~ This is punishment for getting up so late."

"Good morning everyone." Coming up behind them were Ye Xinglan, Xu Xiaoyan and Xu Lizhi. While the two girls grew into beautiful ladies, with Xu Xiaoyan looking like what certain pedophile's wet dream, Xu Lizhi had grown bigger, surpassing Xiu Ye, and was fatter than ever! It was all due to some medical herb that he ate which would help increase his cultivation and strength but would also make his body permanently become plump.

Ye Xinglan was rank 41, Xu Xiaoyan was rank 36, and Xu Lizhi was rank 38.

Seeing his potbelly that wouldn't go slim, no matter how much he trained, Xiu Ye had offhandedly asked him about if he wanted such a side effect gone, which Xu Lizhi immediately begged him in his knees to get rid of it if he could. Seeing him like, he agreed to find a solution.

Unfortunately however, there was no weapon in his inner world that can get rid off body fat. So he had tried finding the solution in the Tang Sect website and other online platform for help, while also searching it in the library. Till now, the search was still ongoing.

"Ahhhhh....Boss, when are you going to cook food for us. I'm so hungry." Xu Lizhi whimpered with tears in his eyes towards Xiu Ye.

Xiu Ye smiled wryly. "Later. One of the lunch ladies in the outer court couldn't come today because of personal issues, so teacher Shen Yi asked me if I could take her place....which I agreed to."

'Only because she'd let me take total control of the kitchen. Mine, all mine!'

"Hell yeah!" Xu Lizhi wasn't the only one who raised his arms in joy, everyone else did.

Xiu Ye smiled.

Although a lot of things changed, some remains the same.

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