Middle Demon

Xie Qing smiled brightly when he saw the power of the demon in front of him. Compared to the other demons, this one was stronger.

The demon, seeing Xie Qing's smile, snorted and disappeared again. This time Xie Qing could not sense its presence.

Xie Qing turned his head to the right and to the left, trying to find the demon, but there was no result.

Suddenly!

"Kha!" Xie Qing spit out blood and turned his head. A demon knife pierced his back, leaving a deep cut.

Suddenly black smoke appeared from behind Xie Qing and began to float toward the demon, but the latter noticed it.

The middle demon jumped back and looked at Xie Qing in surprise. He was puzzled, as he didn't know what this ability was.

However, the demon instinctively sensed danger, so it managed to jump back.

Xie Qing narrowed his eyes and healed the wound. Black smoke appeared at the site of the cut and disappeared after two seconds.

There was now unharmed flesh in the place of the wound, as if nothing had happened. Xie Qing crunched his neck.

"This is the first time I can't dominate a battle." Xie Qing grinned and swung his huge sword.

The demon snorted contemptuously and replied, "Naturally, you are a weak."

Xie Qing only smiled. He swung his sword again and disappeared from his place as the demon.

There was a clanking and clashing sound in the air. Aria looked anxiously at the battle.

If not for Xie Qing's request, she would have joined the battle long ago. Aria suppressedly clenched the hilt of her sword.

Xie Qing and the demon separated and reappeared. The first had serious wounds all over his body, while the second had only minor cuts.However, if a soul expert were here, he would see that the demon's soul was filled with holes.

The demon frowned when he saw the damage on his soul and looked piercingly at Xie Qing.

"Human, how you damage my soul?"

"Who knows." Xie Qing shrugged and smiled.

The demon fell silent, then disappeared again a second later. Xie Qing grinned and disappeared as well.

There was another clang. Xie Qing swung his huge sword and aimed a blow at the demon's neck, but he counterattacked with his knife.

Xie Qing frowned deeply as he realized that he could not surpass it with his own strength.

So he pushed aside his warrior pride.

Suddenly, Xie Qing's eyes glowed purple and the demon froze. His eyes began to lose their luster until the demon was stunned in place.

Dreamworld (High Magic Illusion).

Xie Qing sighed sorrowfully as he realized that he could not win with physical strength and devouring power.

However, he was not going to let the demon go, for it was too useful. Xie Qing reached out his hand and enveloped the demon in black smoke.

The smoke completely covered the demon's body and after a second, Xie Qing felt a sense of amplification come over him. His physical strength, magic, dexterity... all of his characteristics increased by an order of magnitude.

The demon never realized that he was dead. Even when his soul was absorbed, the demon never realized anything.

[Ability detected: Mana Explosion.]

[Name of ability: Mana Explosion

Description: Accumulates magical power in your hand and compresses it. When encountered, produces an explosion of 300 points.]

[Start imitation?]

Xie Qing was surprised, but confirmed. Soon the system window disappeared and reappeared a minute later.

[Mana Explosion ability successfully passed through the imitation.]

Xie Qing nodded and stopped paying attention. He turned to Aria and was stunned.

She was looking at him with an annoyed look, and her hands were at her sides. Xie Qing swallowed hard and smiled nervously.

"Hey, it's okay, right? See, I won." He smiled and jumped up slightly, as if to show that he was okay.

In fact, his wounds hurt terribly. The demon had inflicted many deep wounds on him in a second, so it wasn't easy for Xie Qing to heal them.

He was about to continue on his way when he suddenly felt a warm feeling and turned his head.

Aria directed a healing light at him and stood with her head down, so Xie Qing couldn't see the expression on her face.

He could sense, however, that she was angry.

Xie Qing awkwardly scratched the back of his head and sighed. He enclosed Aria in his arms. After a few seconds, he heard sobs.

Xie Qing smiled softly and stroked Aria's back and kissed the top of her head.

"It's okay. See? I'm fine."

He repeated this several times and comforted her. After a few minutes, Aria stepped away from him.

Xie Qing squatted down and looked at Aria's weeping face. He felt guilty.

Of course, Aria was crying. After all, her husband had been hurt so badly and brutally by a demon. And given her angelic personality, she couldn't bear to see such a sight.

Xie Qing suddenly stood up and lifted Aria's chin, and then kissed her.

It was their first kiss.

Aria was surprised at first, but then she closed her eyes and enjoyed the moment.Xie Qing wiped away Aria's tears and smiled softly.

"I cannot promise you that this will be the last time I will suffer like this. However..."

Xie Qing smiled brightly and hugged Aria.

"I will never leave you alone. I promise."

He looked at her tenderly and stroked her cheek, and then their lips merged again in a kiss.

As for the demons around them, they didn't really know what to do in such a situation.

The demon turned to his fellow and asked: "Gee-hee? (Is that... we're going to attack?)"

"Gee-hua. (I feel like we'll die right away if we interfere with them)." His fellow demon turned around with a complicated expression on his ugly face.

The other demons sighed heavily.

"Gee... (I wish I had a girlfriend, too...)"

()

Ralph was walking ahead with his group and suddenly stopped. He raised his hand and the angels behind him stopped.

"There's something wrong here." The man frowned and looked around carefully, but found nothing.

Ralph turned to give the command, but found that the angels under his command were gone!

"What..." He sensed danger and drew his blade.

Hee-hee...

Ha-ha...

There were sounds of laughter and giggles all around. Ralph frowned.

"Your sweetheart was stolen right under your nose. How pathetic."

"You're left at the broken trough. Ahaha!"

"An angel lost to a man? How funny."

Ralph frowned as he heard the provocative remarks.

"Who are you?!" He turned his head, but there was no one nearby.

"We?" A woman's voice hummed.

Ralph felt four presences behind him and he turned around. And then his eyes went wide.

"Aren't you..."

()

Xie Qing sat in the lotus pose and absorbed the miasmas around him. However, his magical power did not increase.

In fact, he was transmitting the recycled energy to his Soul Star. And it worked.

With each ebb, the star increased in size and shone brighter. Xie Qing saw that it was comparable in size to the planet Earth.

However, when he saw that there were bigger stars in space, he only snorted. The meditation took one day, and the whole time Aria was sitting next to him, leaning against his shoulder.

Xie Qing opened his eyes and exhaled, then shifted his gaze to the sleeping Aria. He grinned.

Who would have thought a fighting girl like Aria would be acting so nice to him right now?

However, Xie Qing wasn't complaining. He was happy, realizing that Aria had fully accepted her role as his wife.

His every day was filled with warmth and love. Compared to those dull days in a human's life, he liked this life better.

Yes, indeed, the Supernatural World is dangerous, but does Xie Qing care? Of course not.

One could say that despite the danger, the benefits were greater. Xie Qing felt that his life was gaining meaning.

He kissed Aria on the forehead and took her in his arms like a princess. Xie Qing stepped forward and disappeared from his seat.