Chapter 154 I had expected him to be a Demon but appears not.

154 I had expected him to be a Demon but appears not.

Yue Li was inside the underground cavern, Little Ruo calmly sleeping on her lap. She gently combed the girl's white hair with her hand, her motherly instincts overflowing her. While on the other hand, she was worried about Han Li, too.

'Only about ten or twenty minutes before sunset...' she thought, 'and then, I should be teleported to the place where the trials will happen. Xiao Li told me not to stand out among the crowd when I reached there, so there must be many people there.'

She closed her eyes slightly. 'Xiao Li will be there, what have I got to worry about? I wonder how Liyue and Li Yao are doing...'

In the darkness of the cave, her mind kept wandering. There were many children whom her Xiao Li, or she herself, could have probably saved, but they didn't... she wondered how many children died here today. She took a deep breath.

In her mind, Han Li was beside her, gently comforting her. That made her heart calm down; as long as her son was there, everything would be fine, one way or the other; nothing could go wrong. Suddenly, she heard the sound of footsteps. Her mind woke up from the grogginess. Did Xiao Li return?

Even though the cavern was dark, she could see rather well with her eyesight, and in the distance, she saw a figure. The person appeared rather blurry, but she focused, and her heart skipped a beat; it was not Xiao Li. But he said we should be safe here...

Her heart started to thud as the image of the person grew clear. It was a wide man; he appeared almost like a mountain, and soon, he was close to them. The old man had a bald head and long white beard. He wore the clothes of a monk. In his hand was a prayer bead, and in his gaze was something unfathomable. As he reached near them, he looked down at them, especially at Ruo.

They were about three meters apart. The monk squatted down in the distance to Yue Li's eye level. His gaze was calmly on Ruo, who was sleeping on Yue Li's lap.

"What do... you want?" Yue Li questioned.

"Just answer this monk's curiosity," The Monk suddenly paused. "Ah, I am Hen Shin, Monk Hen Shin of the Demon Restraining Temple. I had forgotten to introduce myself."

A silence hung for a second.

"My...My son is not a Demon like you said," she said, "And he killed only the people who attacked him!"

Monk Hen Shin was briefly surprised and closed his eyes. Remembering what he had seen from a distance in hiding, indeed, as far as he had seen, that youth had only killed those who attacked him. As far as he had seen, that is.

"Do not worry, mother of a son who is not a demon," The Monk smiled. "I am not here to trouble him either way. If I wanted to kill him, he would have already been dead. I am here for the child currently sleeping in your lap, as she is someone I had vowed to save from the grasp of evil, and what better chance than now?"

Yue Li frowned. But deep down, she was scheming something. There were barely about ten minutes more till sunset, old man. You jabber on like this, and we'll be teleported in a second. Hahaha, you, sonavabich!

"I cannot give you the girl, Monk. I just adopted her as my child some time ago..." she replied, her throat slightly dry from the earlier scare. She didn't want to talk about her son's unknown connection with the girl since that didn't seem like something she should discuss with a stranger.

Monk Hen Shin grew thoughtful. "But there is no way you could bring her out of here. If she comes with you, she will just be teleported back to her abusive family. If you really care for her as her mother, you should let her come with me since I have a way to take her away with me."