27: Chapter 27 If it weren't for my wife, Huo Ling'er, I could have devoured the Fire Emperor whole.

"Hehe!"

The Nine-Nether Ao's eyes were filled with the arrogance and wildness characteristic of the Ten Fiends, a cold gaze that viewed its prey as nothing more than meat.

It sent a chill from the depths of the soul even through the Fire Emperor, who was a monarch of a kingdom.

The air seemed to freeze at that moment.

Wang Teng's massive body slowly lowered, its giant shadow completely enveloping the Fire Emperor's precarious spiritual avatar.

Nine hideous dragon heads circled around the Fire Emperor, spitting out corrosive nether-mist.

It felt as if they were ready to swarm at any moment and tear this imperial spiritual avatar into pieces.

"Gulp..." A clear swallowing sound echoed from Wang Teng's throat, which resembled a bottomless abyss.

This was not a metaphor, but the most primitive, instinctive desire to feed from the Nine-Nether Ao.

In his eyes, the spiritual avatar before him, which radiated enticing Imperial Dragon Qi and pure fire elements, was simply a walking, top-tier tonic!

"Old thing, do you know?"

Wang Teng's voice was low and hoarse, carrying a hair-raising sense of oppression that slowly echoed between heaven and earth.

"The firepower of that little bird just now wasn't even enough to fill the gaps between my teeth.

My stomach is very hungry right now..."

The Fire Emperor's expression was ugly to the extreme; he had seen every kind of storm and wave in his life.

But being stared at as food by an underage beast was definitely a first!

That was naked contempt, a trampling upon the dignity of a Human Emperor!

"You evil beast! How dare you! Even if this spiritual avatar of mine is destroyed here, my true body will certainly..."

"Certainly will what? Level Baiduan Mountain? Hunt me to the ends of the earth?"

Wang Teng interrupted the Fire Emperor's bluster with extreme disdain, his massive wolf head lunging forward, almost touching the Fire Emperor's blurry nose.

In those three double-pupils, a frenzied blood-red color surged, as if it would completely lose control in the next second.

"Do you think I don't dare to swallow you?"

Wang Teng opened his large mouth, revealing two rows of fangs as sharp as heavenly blades, and smiled grimly: "If it weren't for that silly girl crying so sadly..."

He tilted his head slightly, glancing out of the corner of his eye at Princess Huo Linger, who was sitting slumped on the ground and had long since cried into a tear-stained mess.

Seeing her terrified expression, fearing that he would truly kill her "father-in-law."

The violent killing intent about to explode in Wang Teng's eyes paused with extreme difficulty.

"If it weren't because she is my woman, the wife I have chosen..."

Wang Teng snapped his head back, staring fixedly at the Fire Emperor, his voice suddenly rising an octave, filled with endless ferocity: "Believe it or not, I will open my mouth right now, chew your spiritual avatar skin and bones, and swallow it as a dessert after my meal!?!"

"Roar————!!!" Accompanying this threat, the nine dragon heads on the nine tails let out a heaven-shaking roar simultaneously.

Thick saliva mixed with black mist dripped down, corroding the ground into deep, bottomless pits.

That was the truest killing intent of the Ten Primordial Evils!

It was also the monstrous ferocity ingrained in the bones of the Nine-Nether Ao clan, who dared to feast on gods and demons!

Everyone present, including the Fire Emperor, did not doubt the truth of this statement.

This mad beast was truly capable of eating a Human Emperor!

If not for the connection with Princess Huo Linger, he would absolutely do it!

The Fire Emperor's spiritual avatar trembled violently, both from anger and shock.

As a dignified Human Emperor, he was actually being threatened by a junior son-in-law to be swallowed alive; this humiliation was even worse than being killed.

Yet, in this Baiduan Mountain where rules were suppressed, facing this Nine-Nether Ao cub in its peak state, his spiritual avatar was indeed no match!

The atmosphere was deadlocked to the extreme, as if it only needed a spark to explode completely.

"Husband! Don't! Please, don't hurt my father!" Princess Huo Linger's tearful cry broke the dead silence.

Hearing this voice, Wang Teng's massive body stiffened slightly.

He took a deep breath, as if trying to forcibly suppress the monstrous ferocity in his chest.

After a long while.

"Hmph!" A cold snort, like a thunderclap.

Wang Teng's nine tails, which were circling the Fire Emperor and ready to launch a fatal strike at any time, finally slowly retracted.

"Consider yourself lucky to have raised a good daughter."

Wang Teng's giant wolf head lifted high, recovering that coldness and arrogance of looking down on all living beings.

"Today, for Linger's sake, I won't haggle with you.

Take your imperial might and roll back to your Fire Kingdom palace to calm down! Stop meddling in young people's business!"

Having said that, his massive body erupted with rolling black mist again, and under the gaze of everyone, it rapidly shrank.

He transformed back into that black-haired, unruly youth.

He didn't even glance at the Fire Emperor in the sky, who was about to explode with anger, and landed directly on the ground.

He pulled Princess Huo Linger, who was still wiping away tears, into his arms, wiping away her tears with an overbearing yet gentle motion, while muttering discontentedly:

"Why are you crying? I didn't actually eat him. I really owe you father and daughter..."

This scene, falling into the eyes of the Fire Emperor who was suspended high in the sky and should have been furious, caused his second wave of attacks, which was about to erupt, to stiffen at his fingertips.

The sea of fire filling the sky fell eerily silent at this moment.

The Fire Emperor's eyes, burning with divine flames, stared fixedly below.

He watched the ferocious youth who had just wanted to swallow him alive, now clumsily wiping his precious daughter's tears with his sleeve; he watched the usually proud and willful little Linger, shrinking in the youth's arms like a wronged kitten.

Although she was still sobbing, her hands were gripping the youth's clothes tightly, as if afraid he would run away.

As someone who had been through it, as a father, if the Fire Emperor still couldn't see the affair between these two, then he had wasted his hundreds of years on the throne.

"Sigh..." A long sigh, as if it came from the ages of antiquity.

Carrying endless complexity and helplessness, it gently blew away the remaining murderous aura between heaven and earth.

The giant flame palm that covered the sky slowly dissipated, and the suffocating killing intent on the Fire Emperor's phantom also receded like a tide.

He looked at Wang Teng; although his gaze remained dignified, the ruthlessness that wished to grind him to dust had disappeared.

Replacing it was a sense of scrutiny, a sense that carried a bit of pickiness, a bit of shock, and a bit of forced resignation—the look of a father-in-law eyeing his son-in-law.

"Ten Heavenly Passages... Nine-Nether Ao..." The Fire Emperor's voice no longer boomed like thunder, but became low and deep, revealing the vicissitudes of an emperor.

"I didn't expect that such a monster would appear in this Baiduan Mountain.

You not only revived the glory of the Ten Primordial Evils but also broke through the human limit, cultivating the legendary Ten Heavenly Passages."

Speaking to this point, the Fire Emperor paused, his tone unexpectedly carrying a rare softness belonging to an elder: "Kid, you... really held back just now."

The Fire Emperor was clear-headed.

Although the collision just now seemed evenly matched, he could feel that this Nine-Nether Ao had restrained the most lethal death energy in that instant, only resisting with physical strength.

If it were a real life-and-death struggle, if he had really used that forbidden divine ability to devour gods...

The Fire Emperor glanced at his own spiritual avatar, which was already somewhat illusory, and smiled bitterly in his heart.

I am afraid that, just as this arrogant kid said, his spiritual avatar would really become food in his belly.

A man who possessed the power to slay gods, yet was willing to endure damage for his daughter, and could even forcibly hold back while on the verge of rage for her sake.

This, perhaps, was the real reason for the Fire Emperor's softening attitude.

"Hmph, consider that you still have a conscience, kid."

The Fire Emperor snorted coldly; although his tone had softened, he couldn't lose face.

He put his hands behind his back, striking a high and mighty pose: "Although your background is extraordinary and your talent is rare throughout the ages, if you want to be my son-in-law, this alone is not enough!

A princess of my Fire Kingdom, is she that easy to marry?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Teng raised an eyebrow and was about to retort, but felt Princess Huo Linger in his arms pinch him hard.

He rolled his eyes helplessly and cupped his hands in a perfunctory manner: "What do you mean, Father-in-law?"

"Very simple! After you come out, come to my Fire Kingdom to propose marriage!"