Upon hearing Ya Zi's words, Yue Jiuling quickly emerged from the body she was 'borrowing'. She appeared in the barrier in her soul form and then went to look at the rotting 'body' on the ground.

"Oh my god, what happened? How did it suddenly break down when it was working perfectly fine?"

Seeing the 'body' on the ground already in a state of severe decay, Yue Jiuling covered her mouth, suppressing her nausea, and said, "How could this be?"

"I don't know either, Jiuling. How long have you been using this body? Have you encountered anything similar before?"

Ya Zi also moved away from the corpse on the ground. He looked at Yue Jiu Ling in her soul form and said, "Could it be because this human body is not used to being in the Demon Realm?"

"How would I know? I've been to the Demon Realm before, and I've never experienced anything like this. I've been using this body for two or three years, and it's always been fine. How come something like this happened today?"

Yue Jiuling's soul form is dressed in a bright red ancient costume dress, with long black hair that reaches her buttocks. When she is quiet, she has the air of a classical beauty, but as soon as she speaks, this beauty's aura is greatly diminished.

"Damn it, could it be a problem with this barrier? The body I painstakingly found is gone just like that! If the inner demon doesn't give me back my true form, I'll be without a physical body!"

Yue Jiuling, hands on her hips and striking a shrewish pose, pointed at the barrier and began to yell: "Heart Demon, you bastard, you damned idiot! Quickly open the barrier and give me back my true body! Have you lost your mind? What are you doing taking my body, a girl's body? Do you want to be a woman? If you want to be a woman, go get surgery! Why did you steal my body for no reason?!"

"Ahem~ Jiuling, actually I've wanted to ask you this for a long time: why do you call yourself 'Laozi' (Old Man)? Shouldn't you be calling yourself 'Laoniang' (Old Woman)?"

Ya Zi, who had been listening to Yue Jiuling's cursing, asked Yue Jiuling a question out of curiosity after the cursing ended.

"Hey, don't you think calling yourself 'Laozi' sounds more domineering?"

Yue Jiuling explained to Ya Zi why she liked to call herself "Laozi" (老子, meaning "I" or "me"), and then continued with her hands on her hips, "Come on, let me tell you, I feel like calling myself 'Laozi' is like calling myself your father, and I always feel it's much more domineering than calling myself 'Lao Niang' (老娘, meaning "I'm the old lady")!"

"Um, okay, it seems to be a little bit..."

When Ya Zi learned of Yue Jiuling's answer, he found it somewhat amusing, and also thought Yue Jiuling's idea was rather cute. However, he didn't say anything, but just looked at the rotting corpse on the ground and said, "Hey, Jiuling, you probably won't come out even if you curse your inner demon like this. Why don't we bury this body first?"

Yue Jiuling had just cursed the inner demon, but still hadn't seen it appear. She guessed that the inner demon wouldn't show up, so she nodded and said, "Alright, let's bury this corpse first. Sigh, I don't know what happened, it just rotted away. What a pity. I borrowed it for so long, and I was planning to return it to its owner's family once I found its true form, or at least send it to the human realm. Now it's just buried in the demon realm, what a waste."

"Yeah, that's really strange~"

As Ya Zi dug a hole with a stick he'd found, he looked at the corpse on the ground and said, "And it decomposed very quickly, it was completely rotten in less than a minute, how strange~"

"Yes, and luckily I can still survive even if I'm just a soul, otherwise I would be finished."

Yue Jiuling was also digging a pit. After the pit was dug, the two of them buried the highly decomposed corpse in the soil.

"Tsk, this is so annoying. Why haven't my fragmented souls come looking for me yet?"

Yue Jiuling chose a spot a little away from the 'cemetery' and sat down. Then she took out her phone and said, "Great, as expected, there's still no signal. We've been out of contact with Yinni and the others for almost a day now. I wonder if they'll even try to find us."

"I think they should have guessed that we've come to the Demon Realm, but they can't come here themselves. If they want to find us, they can only go to the Demon Realm and ask the Demon King for help."

Ya Zi thought for a moment and, concealing their modus operandi, said, "Hopefully the Demon King can come to save us, but even if they do, they might not be able to defeat the inner demon..."

"If we can't win, then I'd rather not come at all, since there's no point in coming anyway."

Yue Jiuling smiled and said.