Of course. Foolish of anyone to doubt it.

Of course. This one is a demon king, after all - cannot have anyone thinking they can ruin me and get away with it.

Tsk. Of course not. I ripped his heart out the first chance I got.

...
PREPOSTREOUS
THIS KING WAS SIMPLY WEAKENED

ME? SUBMISSIVE?!?!?!

Why, are the humanborns even more rejecting of demons? Never could have guessed...

So pushy~ I'm just looking around. Maybe I wanted to know if demons could ascend, and it seems like my suspicions were correct.

*What is he, a rattlesnake? Tsk.*

Finally found someone not suspectible of murdering their own kin, did you? You gods are laughable, thinking yourselves so high and mighty yet engaging in petty squabbles.

*...damn, this lizard has more sense than most people. Out of everyone, this king had to run into the only intelligent one?!

He slithers out of Xie Lian's grasp, transforming into his humanoid form - look at him, he has legs now. So civilised.*

You gods change Emperors so often, how was I to know?

'Twas an idiotic human who kept manhandling this king, calling him his pet and getting in the way! I should have killed him as soon as he appeared in front of me... >:[

*Wuxin tilted his head, the end of his tail sneaking around Jian's calf.*

Do I not scare you?

*Tf?!?!? He tenses, twisting up to glare at the god. Just who does he think he is, grabbing this king like so?!?!?*

A human courtesan, huh...
This King could be persuaded. Are you talented, little mortal?

*That shameless idiot's?!? This King doesn't belong to anyone, how dare this overgrown lizard assume such a thing!!!*

*Outwardly, the snake just sniffs the air innocently, sliding closer.*

You have a strange definition of fun, human...

I just find it tiring. Being stuck in my snake form, subject to the craziness of my captor... eughe.

a white snake is curled up on a pile of straw ALT: a white snake is curled up on a pile of straw

*just a little snake, sliding alongside the streets of the heavens, nothing to see here*

You do that.

*He watches Pei Xiu, never taking his eyes off this curious intruder.*

Conquering the jianghu is tiring work...
Especially when idiots capture you.

She controls snakes. In my homeland, that would her a snake charmer. *He shrugs.*

Well. The only monsters hear are my people.

Your beloved is a snake charmer?

*He huffs, the end of his tail uncurling from the thich branch.*

So that's why you smell of snakes. Interesting.
I do have to admit - a snake charmer's partner "accidentally" wandering into a snake's territory - quite an unlikely story, isn't it?

Not another heavenly idiot... *he mutters to himself, on guard.*

Favour serpents? How so?

I can relate to that...

*He tilts his head, serpentine tongue flicking out for a moment, then his gaze hardens.*

You don't smell like a demon. You're not one of my men - I suggest you scuttle back to whatever hole you crawled out from. This King doesn't appreciate snake hunters in his territory.

*Wuxin watches the intruder from atop a tree, tail curled around the branch, glowing green eyes narrowed as he regards the man.*

Bold little human, for your own sake I hope you're just lost.

Oh, this King is certainly on a different skill level than you are, but it gets dreadfully boring only meeting low-level snakes for decades. Such primitive creatures.

A heavenly demon... *he shudders, face disgusted.* Whatever is a demon doing with the heavens?

// are you judging his fashion choices 😔

A fellow snake demon, huh. Haven't seen one of our kind in a long while.

...tell me, who exactly is that junshang of yours?

...wait, did I accidentally encroach into another demon's territory? Damn that human for weakening this King, what am I supposed to do if one of my adversaries shows up now?!

It does stink of cultivators. Eughe.

...finally, no righteous daozhangs around here to molest this King. 😔