In the dim light of night, there was a faint sound of blood flowing.
Shi Binghen loosened the grip of his hand and threw the crushed skull into a pile of flesh and blood, which then melted into bone powder, a phosphorus flame appeared and then completely extinguished and everything disappeared without a trace.
He wiped his fingers clean, and then turned his head to look at the snow-white horizon, staring at it for a moment, and then said to the female devil next to him: “I will have to join our Devil Lord from now on so I cannot guard this mountain. The barrier has been put up, I’ll leave the rest to you.”
The female devil next to him was about 1.75 meters tall, she was tall and slender with her hair tied up into a high ponytail, and she was wearing a white eagle mask obliquely over her face. Her name was Gongyi Yan. At this moment, she was wiping the blood from a long knife in her hand, she replied: “En.”
The surnames of the devils were relatively rare in the Cultivation World, whilst the most common surnames in the Cultivation World were very rarely seen in the Devil Realm1. Gongyi was one of the most common surnames in the Devil Realm, but it was also the family with the fewest numbers in the Devil Realm, most of the descendants were female Generals.
“Any living thing can be blocked by the barrier.” Shi Binghen said, “Even if someone tries to forcefully break the barrier like this group of people in front of you, you will definitely be alarmed before the devil queen is aware. You must remember not to let them see Jiang Xianzun. No matter how many people from the Cultivation World come to seek help, you must do everything to stop them.”
Gongyi Yan’s dark blue eyes glanced at him: “En.”
Shi Binghen couldn’t talk to these people who were of few words. After almost finishing to give the instructions, he put his sword back into its scabbard, retracted his blood-red wings, and transformed completely back into his human form.
He was still a little worried, but he didn’t know what he was actually worried about. He could only turn his head and glance towards Zhongnan Mountain, and saw the snow floating around at the peak.
Later that night, the floating snow fell and covered his head. Shi Binghen shook the snowflakes off his shoulders. Before leaving, he suddenly stopped and said, “Do you think… Jiang Xianzun will forgive us?”
Gongyi Yan looked at him coldly with her arms folded: “No.”
“Why not? The four great Immortal Sects that he protected didn’t bring him any benefit. For so many years, if it hadn’t been for Jiang Xianzun, the old Devil Lord would have already…”
“He won’t.”
The great female devil whose mask was tied around her head with a silk ribbon retracted her long saber, and put it back into its scabbard, and then put it behind her back with one hand.
She leaned against the pine tree and looked into the distance: “Even if it is a rotten dish, he worked hard to make it. But we must flip the table over to take it.”
She made Shi Binghen so angry that he was silent and spun in his place, before suddenly stopping and asking, “How long do you…… think he has?”
Gongyi Yan’s gaze stopped on his face.
The two brave and skilled fighting devils looked at each other for a long time without speaking.
The snowfall began to become slightly heavier and covered the icy scabbard. The woman grabbed at the newly fallen snow on the scabbard, and her voice was heard softly.
“It won’t be longer than this battle across all the realms.”
Doesn’t that mean concealing it for a lifetime then?
Shi Binghen took a breath in and said: “We will end as soon as possible……”
Gongyi Yan looked at him and said: “Once men get to the same age as you and the Devil Lord, they become naive because of the inconsistency between their strength and the setbacks they have suffered.”
She rubbed the scabbard: “The dumb bird who learn to fly last will be the most stable. Because they consider everything including the worst outcome… I guess the Devil Queen is the bird who has suffered the most, he won’t think that he will be able to see this day, but he… probably won’t blame the Devil Lord either.”
If there is no blame, then there is no need to talk about forgiveness.
Shi Binghen didn’t know why she said that, but suddenly he was stuck in place.
“You are saving the Devil race, you are heroes.” Gongyi Yan twitched her lips coldly. “Heroes always have a flaw, like a prison that is isolated internally and externally.”
Shi Binghen no longer felt that she was someone who didn’t talk much, her venomous tongue was like a knife, she could accurately pick every fragile bleeding spot and dig it out with one knife.
“Go.” Gongyi Yan stretched out her hand to pull off the eagle mask on her head, covering only half of her face, “I am the villain, what are you afraid of.”
————
Two days later, the little devil left Zhongnan Mountain. It seemed that he had something very important he had to attend to. He was very clingy before he left, and repeatedly confirmed with Jiang Zheliu whether he loved him or not.
Jiang Xianzun spoke some sweet words that he had never uttered in his life before, and finally coaxed the great Devil Lord to leave.
He looked at the landscape of snow outside the decoratively carved window.
There would probably be no springtime in the mountains, as it had been snowing the entire time. Fortunately, when the landscape was white and clean, Jiang Zheliu loved looking at it.
He held the hard warmer that was covered with a layer of white soft velvety fur, and sat on his beloved little chair to look at the snow. The wooden window was open, and some cold wind blew in quietly mixed in with fine snowflakes.
The Ling Xiao Sword beside his knee stood beside him, hanging silently on the sword stand, as if it was a silent guardian.
Jiang Zheliu watched for a long time, but didn’t even see a bird. His eyes hurt from staring, so he slowly retracted his gaze and glanced from side to side.
Sitting next to him was Xiao Yu’s youth, everyday Xiao Yu would yell “little mute”, making it difficult to remember his real name.
Wang Moxuan was ordered to come over to play Go with Jiang Xianzun to relieve his boredom, however, Wang Moxuan himself was like a mere mortal due to the problems caused by removing the Fate Seal, and he also couldn’t talk, whilst Jiang Xianzun was like a fragile glass that would break if touched. The two people very rarely interacted, exchanging only a few scattered words here and there.
If it hadn’t been for two little demons also being present, they would probably have suffocated to death.
The injuries on his body had almost healed, only the love bite that Wenren Ye had left before leaving was yet to vanish. It was clearly branded on the neck, and his collar barely covered it, exposing one side of it slightly.
Jiang Zheliu was stuck in the house all the time so he didn’t notice any oddities on the mountain. He put the Ling Xiao Sword on his knees again, tracing the lines on the scabbard with his fingers.
The sound of the curtain being lifted up was heard, and Yu Jinnian headed upstairs, preparing to lead his little mute back home, and then he heard Jiang Zheliu mutter indifferently.
“The Ling Xiao Sword is just sitting here…”
Yu Jinnian secretly chuckled, his footstops paused, he felt he had evidently overstepped what was proper. He turned his head and looked at Jiang Zheliu, trying to speak as naturally as possible: “Maybe those people have no face2 to see you, hey, why are you thinking about this anyway? Isn’t this great, you didn’t want to give it back anyway.”
Jiang Zheliu raised his eyes and looked at him. He noticed something odd about his reaction, but he didn’t show it. Instead, he followed Yu Jinnian’s words and said, “They haven’t done anything wrong, so why wouldn’t they dare to face me.”
“Come on, you’re thinking too highly of them.” Yu Jinnian poured himself a cup of tea, and felt that Jiang Zheliu’s tastebuds were gradually getting better as the tea was not so bitter. “Are you still using the Immortal Jade Cultivation Pill?”
Jiang Zheliu said, “Because of physical discomfort these past few days, I haven’t used it for two days.”
The two words “physical discomfort” were tastefully selected. It included the days when the Heavenly Spirit Body was feverish, and the couple of days that he was unable to get out of bed because of the little devil.
“Keep on using it. I haven’t found any other medicines that can replace the treasures of the Devil Realm, the Immortal Jade Cultivation Pill is the best. Although the Devil Realm is barren and crude, it seems to be able to easily produce all of the exotic delicacies and miracle cures and medicines, especially those that cannot be found in the Cultivation World, oddly.”
After saying all that Yu Jinnian was reminded that the third Xuan Tonju Gate under the Devil Realm should be almost completely open. After thinking for a moment, he tried to smooth things over: “It is not easy for the Devil Lord, the Devil Realm is a territory that has very sparse living space. He’s so young, but must shoulder the weight of his species.”
Jiang Zheliu looked at him pensively, then narrowed his gaze, and asked calmly: “It turns out that you have a good-heart, and you are even worried about the safety of the Devil Realm. You are no longer the Divine Sage of Medicine who had prerequisites for saving people’s lives.”
“That’s inevitable, this doctor has the heart of a parent.” Yu Jinnian casually murmured, not really wanting to expose more information in front of Jiang Qianbei, so he pulled up the little mute and went back downstairs and left.
The bamboo curtain was lifted, bringing in the breeze mixed with snow.
Jiang Zheliu watched the two of them leave, his fingers resting on the icy scabbard of the Ling Xiao Sword. His hands were very cold. This kind of cold made people with warm bodies feel very comfortable, but the ice sheath was also cold, and the chill was permeating outwards. When his fingers had been in contact with this layer of ice for too long, his transparent and pale finger became red from the frost.
He curled up his fingers and smiled as if he was laughing at himself, his smile was faint and fleeting.
In any case, this sword that once belonged to him, that he now wanted to play with had actually become more of an irreversible joke.
He put the Ling Xiao Sword back and took out the Immortal Jade Cultivation Pill from the medicine box. At this time, the little deer Ah-Chu had run up to deliver the medicine. His face was filled with a happy smile of someone “blissfully in-love”, he was seemingly very vivacious.
Jiang Zheliu took the medicine bowl and grabbed Ah-Chu’s hand.
The little deer’s entire body suddenly stiffened, feeling that the hand holding him was cold and icy, but the scent was soft and sweet, his soul was hooked. He swallowed hard, and with great self-control, HE let go of the hoe that wanted to dig at the bottom of the wall3 in his heart, and whispered: “Gege.”
“Ah-Chu.” Jiang Zheliu looked at him and said, “When you and Chang Qian go out to collect medicine, if you meet any other little demons, ask them if anything has happened in the past two days.”
Ah-Chu was stunned for a while, staring at Jiang Zheliu with his eyes wide open, and almost getting lost in the other’s dark and cold eyes, before he said after a while: “…Hey, hey, beauty… No wait, Okay no problem!”
He had exposed his own obsessive nature with beauty and he shook his antlers with annoyance.
Jiang Zheliu nodded and said, “En, off you go.”
He didn’t think too much of it, at most he just felt that the little devil might have made the person from Ling Xiao Sect who wanted to retrieve the Ling Xiao Sword to leave empty handed, or, according to his temperament, he might have had murderous intent……
Jiang Zheliu slowly knocked on the medicine bottle of the Immortal Jade Cultivation Pill., calmed himself down whilst he went deep into thought. But he suffered a terrible headache and could only stop his thoughts and slowly calm himself down.
Another night passed in a blink of an eye, and Ah-Chu and Chang Qian didn’t manage to find anything out.
When the little deer and the little snake talked, their facial expressions were a little weird. On their way, they didn’t even encounter one little demon who had cultivated enough spiritual energy to be able to talk, as if all of the demon races had been threatened and disappeared without a trace.
When Jiang Zheliu heard this, he scalded himself with the freshly made tea.
Previously, he had never felt the hot and the cold, so he was not particularly familiar with temperature. But after his cultivation base was exhausted, it was easy to forget the temperature difference especially when he was lost in thought, and he was scalded by the hot tea set.
The thin and slender fingertips were burning red, the skin was too thin, the burns were obvious and it was very painful
He didn’t speak, but was silent for a long time, looking at the snow that had stopped falling outside the window.
After a long while, Ah-Chu heard his gege sigh.
“If you can’t ask, then forget it.” He said, “Thank you anyway.”
Jiang Zheliu lowered his head, his fingers curled up into his sleeves, it was not clear what he was thinking.
————
Not only did Ah-Chu and Chang Qian want to know what Jiang Xianzun was thinking about, but Gongyi Yan who guarded the mountain also wanted to know.
The number of devils who stayed behind in the mountain were considered quite numerous. Since the invisible barrier had been erected, they didn’t have to stay in one place. They only needed to rush over when they were alerted by the barrier.
This became a large-scale sightseeing group to see the Devil Queen.
Although they all knew this barrier probably couldn’t be concealed from Jiang Zheliu for long and Xianzun was probably more sensitive and smarter than all of them combined. But the devils still didn’t dare to get too close, only observing the small pinehouse from afar.
There was a hot spring behind the small pinehouse, it had been cleaned and repaired by the great Devil Lord, and had been fashioned very much in the style of the Devil Realm. The Immortal Jade Cultivation Pill. melted into the spring water, and its scent gradually spread.
Gongyi Yan sat up in the tree, pressing down her knee with one hand, and carrying a long saber behind her back, looking through the layers of pine needles towards the spring not too far away.
…….The snow-white pill slowly dispersed in the water.
She sniffed, and smelled a faint fragrance of the Heavenly Spirit Body in the air.
So fragrant.
This scent evaporated with the water vapour from the hot spring, making the dauntless and valiant but one track-minded great devil’s heart feel ticklish. Gongyi Yan, who was still wearing a mask on her face, changed seating positions.
She is a little bipolar.
With the eyes of the great devil, she could clearly see the neatly folded robes placed by the Devil Queen, and the half-demon little snake who accompanied the Devil Queen who was sleeping there in a daze.
There are two pieces of clothing, the outer part was light creamy white, and the inner part was lined with gold thread. It was of high-quality.
As Gongyi Yan was present, none of the other devils approached. They are very familiar with their da-jie’s fighting ability and strength, they knew that she was the cruelest General under the Devil Lord’s command, and she beat people up harder than Shi Binghen.
Her gaze stopped for a while on the golden thread lining, and then looked at the figure lying on the side of the spring. The thin layer of clothing was soaked in warm water, and the outline of his back was covered by the vapour, making it difficult to see clearly.
His hair was snow-white, immersed in the water, slowly spreading and fluttering with the waves.
Gongyi Yan stared with fascination, before looking away from the fluttering hair in the water. The original contingency plan was abruptly overthrown, she didn’t know what would happen when Jiang Xianzun found out, and how she would explain it to the Devil Lord.
He didn’t look like… the rumours, like he could put all of the old ferocious devils in their place.
Not so fierce at all, he seemed very fragile, but his former prestigious reputation did indeed prove that he had once been that fierce.
In fact, none of the new Generals of the Devil Realm had ever fought against Jiang Xianzun.
She looked at him for a long time, wondering if the Devil Queen was asleep. Until she discovered that his fingers on the side of the spring had spots of red burn marks. Gongyi Yan stared for a while, and then decided to jump down off the pine tree.
Landing very softly, like some kind of swift cat.
The masked female devil walked to the side of the hot spring without making a sound. Her gaze glided across from Jiang Xianzun’s wet hair to pausing for a while on the side of his cheek, and then glanced at the love bite on his pale neck, before squatting down and touching him very lightly.
……
The water in the spring was very hot, but it was often only like this after the snow stopped. The snow around him had already melted, and a cluster of stubborn orchid buds emerged from the crystal stone spring.
The night breeze began to blow a little.
When Jiang Zheliu re-opened his eyes, the effect of the Immortal Jade Cultivation Pill had just been fully exerted. He glanced at the slight burns that had medicine applied and then had been bandaged up with superb technique, not knowing what to say about this group of people.
There should be more than one devil staying in Zhongnan Mountain at this moment.
As soon as he woke up, Chang Qian, who was being warmed by the hot spring temperature next to him, also woke up. He immediately stood up vigilantly, and reached out his hand to support Jiang Zheliu, before consciously putting a heavy cloak on him with due diligence. He dried his clothes, and then gave him the small hand warmer that he prepared, but then when he saw his hands he finally reacted: “? What is this, gege, did you hurt your hand?”
“There was a maiden who passed by.” Jiang Zheliu said concisely, “Respect the old and cherish the young4.”
Chang Qian nodded his head as he understood but didn’t, and then suddenly he was taken aback, and asked using his wise knowledge of the past, “…It’s not another one here lusting after swan flesh5…Ouch…”
He covered his forehead where he had been flicked by Jiang Zheliu, and looked at him in an aggrieved manner. He saw Jiang Zheliu withdraw his hand and heard him say indifferently: “Here to follow orders but why has it turned into theft6.”
His words paused, his mind was absent, as his fingers tapped lightly on the hand warmer, his thoughts gradually became clearer.
……Such combat readiness.
Little Devil, what exactly are you up to?
In the dim light of night, there was a faint sound of blood flowing.
Shi Binghen loosened the grip of his hand and threw the crushed skull into a pile of flesh and blood, which then melted into bone powder, a phosphorus flame appeared and then completely extinguished and everything disappeared without a trace.
He wiped his fingers clean, and then turned his head to look at the snow-white horizon, staring at it for a moment, and then said to the female devil next to him: “I will have to join our Devil Lord from now on so I cannot guard this mountain. The barrier has been put up, I’ll leave the rest to you.”
The female devil next to him was about 1.75 meters tall, she was tall and slender with her hair tied up into a high ponytail, and she was wearing a white eagle mask obliquely over her face. Her name was Gongyi Yan. At this moment, she was wiping the blood from a long knife in her hand, she replied: “En.”
The surnames of the devils were relatively rare in the Cultivation World, whilst the most common surnames in the Cultivation World were very rarely seen in the Devil Realm1. Gongyi was one of the most common surnames in the Devil Realm, but it was also the family with the fewest numbers in the Devil Realm, most of the descendants were female Generals.
“Any living thing can be blocked by the barrier.” Shi Binghen said, “Even if someone tries to forcefully break the barrier like this group of people in front of you, you will definitely be alarmed before the devil queen is aware. You must remember not to let them see Jiang Xianzun. No matter how many people from the Cultivation World come to seek help, you must do everything to stop them.”
Gongyi Yan’s dark blue eyes glanced at him: “En.”
Shi Binghen couldn’t talk to these people who were of few words. After almost finishing to give the instructions, he put his sword back into its scabbard, retracted his blood-red wings, and transformed completely back into his human form.
He was still a little worried, but he didn’t know what he was actually worried about. He could only turn his head and glance towards Zhongnan Mountain, and saw the snow floating around at the peak.
Later that night, the floating snow fell and covered his head. Shi Binghen shook the snowflakes off his shoulders. Before leaving, he suddenly stopped and said, “Do you think… Jiang Xianzun will forgive us?”
Gongyi Yan looked at him coldly with her arms folded: “No.”
“Why not? The four great Immortal Sects that he protected didn’t bring him any benefit. For so many years, if it hadn’t been for Jiang Xianzun, the old Devil Lord would have already…”
“He won’t.”
The great female devil whose mask was tied around her head with a silk ribbon retracted her long saber, and put it back into its scabbard, and then put it behind her back with one hand.
She leaned against the pine tree and looked into the distance: “Even if it is a rotten dish, he worked hard to make it. But we must flip the table over to take it.”
She made Shi Binghen so angry that he was silent and spun in his place, before suddenly stopping and asking, “How long do you…… think he has?”
Gongyi Yan’s gaze stopped on his face.
The two brave and skilled fighting devils looked at each other for a long time without speaking.
The snowfall began to become slightly heavier and covered the icy scabbard. The woman grabbed at the newly fallen snow on the scabbard, and her voice was heard softly.
“It won’t be longer than this battle across all the realms.”
Doesn’t that mean concealing it for a lifetime then?
Shi Binghen took a breath in and said: “We will end as soon as possible……”
Gongyi Yan looked at him and said: “Once men get to the same age as you and the Devil Lord, they become naive because of the inconsistency between their strength and the setbacks they have suffered.”
She rubbed the scabbard: “The dumb bird who learn to fly last will be the most stable. Because they consider everything including the worst outcome… I guess the Devil Queen is the bird who has suffered the most, he won’t think that he will be able to see this day, but he… probably won’t blame the Devil Lord either.”
If there is no blame, then there is no need to talk about forgiveness.
Shi Binghen didn’t know why she said that, but suddenly he was stuck in place.
“You are saving the Devil race, you are heroes.” Gongyi Yan twitched her lips coldly. “Heroes always have a flaw, like a prison that is isolated internally and externally.”
Shi Binghen no longer felt that she was someone who didn’t talk much, her venomous tongue was like a knife, she could accurately pick every fragile bleeding spot and dig it out with one knife.
“Go.” Gongyi Yan stretched out her hand to pull off the eagle mask on her head, covering only half of her face, “I am the villain, what are you afraid of.”
————
Two days later, the little devil left Zhongnan Mountain. It seemed that he had something very important he had to attend to. He was very clingy before he left, and repeatedly confirmed with Jiang Zheliu whether he loved him or not.
Jiang Xianzun spoke some sweet words that he had never uttered in his life before, and finally coaxed the great Devil Lord to leave.
He looked at the landscape of snow outside the decoratively carved window.
There would probably be no springtime in the mountains, as it had been snowing the entire time. Fortunately, when the landscape was white and clean, Jiang Zheliu loved looking at it.
He held the hard warmer that was covered with a layer of white soft velvety fur, and sat on his beloved little chair to look at the snow. The wooden window was open, and some cold wind blew in quietly mixed in with fine snowflakes.
The Ling Xiao Sword beside his knee stood beside him, hanging silently on the sword stand, as if it was a silent guardian.
Jiang Zheliu watched for a long time, but didn’t even see a bird. His eyes hurt from staring, so he slowly retracted his gaze and glanced from side to side.
Sitting next to him was Xiao Yu’s youth, everyday Xiao Yu would yell “little mute”, making it difficult to remember his real name.
Wang Moxuan was ordered to come over to play Go with Jiang Xianzun to relieve his boredom, however, Wang Moxuan himself was like a mere mortal due to the problems caused by removing the Fate Seal, and he also couldn’t talk, whilst Jiang Xianzun was like a fragile glass that would break if touched. The two people very rarely interacted, exchanging only a few scattered words here and there.
If it hadn’t been for two little demons also being present, they would probably have suffocated to death.
The injuries on his body had almost healed, only the love bite that Wenren Ye had left before leaving was yet to vanish. It was clearly branded on the neck, and his collar barely covered it, exposing one side of it slightly.
Jiang Zheliu was stuck in the house all the time so he didn’t notice any oddities on the mountain. He put the Ling Xiao Sword on his knees again, tracing the lines on the scabbard with his fingers.
The sound of the curtain being lifted up was heard, and Yu Jinnian headed upstairs, preparing to lead his little mute back home, and then he heard Jiang Zheliu mutter indifferently.
“The Ling Xiao Sword is just sitting here…”
Yu Jinnian secretly chuckled, his footstops paused, he felt he had evidently overstepped what was proper. He turned his head and looked at Jiang Zheliu, trying to speak as naturally as possible: “Maybe those people have no face2 to see you, hey, why are you thinking about this anyway? Isn’t this great, you didn’t want to give it back anyway.”
Jiang Zheliu raised his eyes and looked at him. He noticed something odd about his reaction, but he didn’t show it. Instead, he followed Yu Jinnian’s words and said, “They haven’t done anything wrong, so why wouldn’t they dare to face me.”
“Come on, you’re thinking too highly of them.” Yu Jinnian poured himself a cup of tea, and felt that Jiang Zheliu’s tastebuds were gradually getting better as the tea was not so bitter. “Are you still using the Immortal Jade Cultivation Pill?”
Jiang Zheliu said, “Because of physical discomfort these past few days, I haven’t used it for two days.”
The two words “physical discomfort” were tastefully selected. It included the days when the Heavenly Spirit Body was feverish, and the couple of days that he was unable to get out of bed because of the little devil.
“Keep on using it. I haven’t found any other medicines that can replace the treasures of the Devil Realm, the Immortal Jade Cultivation Pill is the best. Although the Devil Realm is barren and crude, it seems to be able to easily produce all of the exotic delicacies and miracle cures and medicines, especially those that cannot be found in the Cultivation World, oddly.”
After saying all that Yu Jinnian was reminded that the third Xuan Tonju Gate under the Devil Realm should be almost completely open. After thinking for a moment, he tried to smooth things over: “It is not easy for the Devil Lord, the Devil Realm is a territory that has very sparse living space. He’s so young, but must shoulder the weight of his species.”
Jiang Zheliu looked at him pensively, then narrowed his gaze, and asked calmly: “It turns out that you have a good-heart, and you are even worried about the safety of the Devil Realm. You are no longer the Divine Sage of Medicine who had prerequisites for saving people’s lives.”
“That’s inevitable, this doctor has the heart of a parent.” Yu Jinnian casually murmured, not really wanting to expose more information in front of Jiang Qianbei, so he pulled up the little mute and went back downstairs and left.
The bamboo curtain was lifted, bringing in the breeze mixed with snow.
Jiang Zheliu watched the two of them leave, his fingers resting on the icy scabbard of the Ling Xiao Sword. His hands were very cold. This kind of cold made people with warm bodies feel very comfortable, but the ice sheath was also cold, and the chill was permeating outwards. When his fingers had been in contact with this layer of ice for too long, his transparent and pale finger became red from the frost.
He curled up his fingers and smiled as if he was laughing at himself, his smile was faint and fleeting.
In any case, this sword that once belonged to him, that he now wanted to play with had actually become more of an irreversible joke.
He put the Ling Xiao Sword back and took out the Immortal Jade Cultivation Pill from the medicine box. At this time, the little deer Ah-Chu had run up to deliver the medicine. His face was filled with a happy smile of someone “blissfully in-love”, he was seemingly very vivacious.
Jiang Zheliu took the medicine bowl and grabbed Ah-Chu’s hand.
The little deer’s entire body suddenly stiffened, feeling that the hand holding him was cold and icy, but the scent was soft and sweet, his soul was hooked. He swallowed hard, and with great self-control, HE let go of the hoe that wanted to dig at the bottom of the wall3 in his heart, and whispered: “Gege.”
“Ah-Chu.” Jiang Zheliu looked at him and said, “When you and Chang Qian go out to collect medicine, if you meet any other little demons, ask them if anything has happened in the past two days.”
Ah-Chu was stunned for a while, staring at Jiang Zheliu with his eyes wide open, and almost getting lost in the other’s dark and cold eyes, before he said after a while: “…Hey, hey, beauty… No wait, Okay no problem!”
He had exposed his own obsessive nature with beauty and he shook his antlers with annoyance.
Jiang Zheliu nodded and said, “En, off you go.”
He didn’t think too much of it, at most he just felt that the little devil might have made the person from Ling Xiao Sect who wanted to retrieve the Ling Xiao Sword to leave empty handed, or, according to his temperament, he might have had murderous intent……
Jiang Zheliu slowly knocked on the medicine bottle of the Immortal Jade Cultivation Pill., calmed himself down whilst he went deep into thought. But he suffered a terrible headache and could only stop his thoughts and slowly calm himself down.
Another night passed in a blink of an eye, and Ah-Chu and Chang Qian didn’t manage to find anything out.
When the little deer and the little snake talked, their facial expressions were a little weird. On their way, they didn’t even encounter one little demon who had cultivated enough spiritual energy to be able to talk, as if all of the demon races had been threatened and disappeared without a trace.
When Jiang Zheliu heard this, he scalded himself with the freshly made tea.
Previously, he had never felt the hot and the cold, so he was not particularly familiar with temperature. But after his cultivation base was exhausted, it was easy to forget the temperature difference especially when he was lost in thought, and he was scalded by the hot tea set.
The thin and slender fingertips were burning red, the skin was too thin, the burns were obvious and it was very painful
He didn’t speak, but was silent for a long time, looking at the snow that had stopped falling outside the window.
After a long while, Ah-Chu heard his gege sigh.
“If you can’t ask, then forget it.” He said, “Thank you anyway.”
Jiang Zheliu lowered his head, his fingers curled up into his sleeves, it was not clear what he was thinking.
————
Not only did Ah-Chu and Chang Qian want to know what Jiang Xianzun was thinking about, but Gongyi Yan who guarded the mountain also wanted to know.
The number of devils who stayed behind in the mountain were considered quite numerous. Since the invisible barrier had been erected, they didn’t have to stay in one place. They only needed to rush over when they were alerted by the barrier.
This became a large-scale sightseeing group to see the Devil Queen.
Although they all knew this barrier probably couldn’t be concealed from Jiang Zheliu for long and Xianzun was probably more sensitive and smarter than all of them combined. But the devils still didn’t dare to get too close, only observing the small pinehouse from afar.
There was a hot spring behind the small pinehouse, it had been cleaned and repaired by the great Devil Lord, and had been fashioned very much in the style of the Devil Realm. The Immortal Jade Cultivation Pill. melted into the spring water, and its scent gradually spread.
Gongyi Yan sat up in the tree, pressing down her knee with one hand, and carrying a long saber behind her back, looking through the layers of pine needles towards the spring not too far away.
…….The snow-white pill slowly dispersed in the water.
She sniffed, and smelled a faint fragrance of the Heavenly Spirit Body in the air.
So fragrant.
This scent evaporated with the water vapour from the hot spring, making the dauntless and valiant but one track-minded great devil’s heart feel ticklish. Gongyi Yan, who was still wearing a mask on her face, changed seating positions.
She is a little bipolar.
With the eyes of the great devil, she could clearly see the neatly folded robes placed by the Devil Queen, and the half-demon little snake who accompanied the Devil Queen who was sleeping there in a daze.
There are two pieces of clothing, the outer part was light creamy white, and the inner part was lined with gold thread. It was of high-quality.
As Gongyi Yan was present, none of the other devils approached. They are very familiar with their da-jie’s fighting ability and strength, they knew that she was the cruelest General under the Devil Lord’s command, and she beat people up harder than Shi Binghen.
Her gaze stopped for a while on the golden thread lining, and then looked at the figure lying on the side of the spring. The thin layer of clothing was soaked in warm water, and the outline of his back was covered by the vapour, making it difficult to see clearly.
His hair was snow-white, immersed in the water, slowly spreading and fluttering with the waves.
Gongyi Yan stared with fascination, before looking away from the fluttering hair in the water. The original contingency plan was abruptly overthrown, she didn’t know what would happen when Jiang Xianzun found out, and how she would explain it to the Devil Lord.
He didn’t look like… the rumours, like he could put all of the old ferocious devils in their place.
Not so fierce at all, he seemed very fragile, but his former prestigious reputation did indeed prove that he had once been that fierce.
In fact, none of the new Generals of the Devil Realm had ever fought against Jiang Xianzun.
She looked at him for a long time, wondering if the Devil Queen was asleep. Until she discovered that his fingers on the side of the spring had spots of red burn marks. Gongyi Yan stared for a while, and then decided to jump down off the pine tree.
Landing very softly, like some kind of swift cat.
The masked female devil walked to the side of the hot spring without making a sound. Her gaze glided across from Jiang Xianzun’s wet hair to pausing for a while on the side of his cheek, and then glanced at the love bite on his pale neck, before squatting down and touching him very lightly.
……
The water in the spring was very hot, but it was often only like this after the snow stopped. The snow around him had already melted, and a cluster of stubborn orchid buds emerged from the crystal stone spring.
The night breeze began to blow a little.
When Jiang Zheliu re-opened his eyes, the effect of the Immortal Jade Cultivation Pill had just been fully exerted. He glanced at the slight burns that had medicine applied and then had been bandaged up with superb technique, not knowing what to say about this group of people.
There should be more than one devil staying in Zhongnan Mountain at this moment.
As soon as he woke up, Chang Qian, who was being warmed by the hot spring temperature next to him, also woke up. He immediately stood up vigilantly, and reached out his hand to support Jiang Zheliu, before consciously putting a heavy cloak on him with due diligence. He dried his clothes, and then gave him the small hand warmer that he prepared, but then when he saw his hands he finally reacted: “? What is this, gege, did you hurt your hand?”
“There was a maiden who passed by.” Jiang Zheliu said concisely, “Respect the old and cherish the young4.”
Chang Qian nodded his head as he understood but didn’t, and then suddenly he was taken aback, and asked using his wise knowledge of the past, “…It’s not another one here lusting after swan flesh5…Ouch…”
He covered his forehead where he had been flicked by Jiang Zheliu, and looked at him in an aggrieved manner. He saw Jiang Zheliu withdraw his hand and heard him say indifferently: “Here to follow orders but why has it turned into theft6.”
His words paused, his mind was absent, as his fingers tapped lightly on the hand warmer, his thoughts gradually became clearer.
……Such combat readiness.
Little Devil, what exactly are you up to?
