Demon Realm School District Housing 4
Attacked, brutal sorcery attack
She instinctively ducked to the ground.
As a modern human, Xie Guijin couldn't even think of using demonic magic to resist when faced with a life-or-death situation.
She dodged the attack and quickly got up to escape towards the cave entrance, but the sharp willow-leaf blade followed her relentlessly.
Xie Guijin scrambled and crawled with all her might, but she was still pierced by most of the sharp willow-leaf blades.
A sharp pain swept through her body, and hot blood gushed out. Her heart pounded uncontrollably. Xie Guijin thought that her death was imminent and muttered to herself, "I'm so unwilling."
The next instant, all the willow-leaf blades that had been inserted into Xie Guijin's body were pulled out on their own, turning around and rushing straight at the demon slave who was attacking her.
The mindless demon slave stood upright, neither dodging nor flinching. The willow-leaf-shaped blade pierced into the demon slave's body, almost turning him into a bloody hole. The demon slave, bleeding profusely, collapsed to the ground with a thud.
Xie Guijin's wounds healed miraculously, and the pain disappeared.
It turned out that the master-servant contract automatically defended itself the moment Xie Guijin was hit, and then backfired on the demon slave who attacked.
The commotion of the demon slave falling to the ground attracted the attention of the other mindless demon slaves, who instinctively attacked Xie Guijin, the weakest among them.
In an instant, vines entwined, pollen caused hallucinations, and underground thorns sprang up, creating a variety of phenomena.
Xie Guijin had not yet recovered from her near-death experience. She felt sharp thorns under her feet and saw vines attacking her. She instinctively ran backward.
She had barely taken half a step when vines hooked around her waist, and sharp thorns pierced the soles of her feet. The sweet fragrance of flowers filled her nostrils, and Xie Guijin drifted off to sleep with a smile on her face.
The master-servant contract had not yet taken effect, and the crystal-clear lotus dew covered Xie Guijin's entire body.
She woke up from a dream with a start, her feet aching and numb, and she felt tightness in her chest, shortness of breath, and difficulty breathing.
The demon slaves outside the cave lay on the barrier, desperately calling out, "Master, Master..." their voices shrill and each word filled with blood.
The barrier was set up by Bai Mudan, and only Bi Luoji, who is connected to her by blood, can open it.
All the demon slaves who entered before were put in by Xie Guijin.
At this moment, she could only escape on her own.
The master-servant contract finally took effect, and all the demon slaves who attacked suffered a backlash, but Xie Guijin's injuries did not fully heal.
Small things accumulate into big ones. The master-servant contract can only reduce damage to the greatest extent possible. However, if the damage accumulates to a certain level, it cannot completely heal the master.
Seeing that the demon slaves had temporarily lost their ability to attack due to the backlash, Xie Guijin seized the opportunity and stumbled to the cave entrance barrier, placing her right hand on it.
The bloody handprint touched the barrier, and the barrier opened.
Xie Guijin felt her legs go weak and her body involuntarily fall downwards, almost rolling out of the cave. Fortunately, the demon servant at the cave entrance caught her in time.
Xie Guijin's mind went blank as she collapsed onto the demon slave, unable to stand up. Her upper body was outside the cave, while her lower body was inside.
The demon servants, some helping and some supporting, quickly led Xie Guijin a few steps away from the cave entrance and closed the barrier.
Their eyes were red, and they choked back tears, begging the doctor to come quickly.
The doctor stepped forward and examined him carefully, saying, "His Majesty is fine; he was just frightened. He'll be alright after a while."
Then, the doctor produced a porcelain bottle, poured out a golden pill, and said, "Dissolve it in warm water and feed it to Your Majesty. It will calm your mind."
Xie Guijin closed her eyes, feeling a deafening ringing in her ears. She wanted to move but couldn't, and felt terrified.
The demon slave transformed into a pill and carefully fed it to her.
A moment later, Xie Guijin blinked, moved her fingers, and realized that she had regained control of her body, so she let out a long sigh of relief.
She recalled what had just happened and sighed to the system, "With control, attack, and healing, this demon palace is quite powerful. Luckily, they were not in their right minds and did not gang up on me."
Xie Guijin patted her chest, still feeling lingering fear.
The system chided, "Host, you still have the nerve to joke around? You scared me to death."
"It's alright, I was just not used to being a demon just now," Xie Guijin said, leaning against the soft, fragrant demon slave's embrace as if she had no bones.
She pushed away the spiritual fruit offered to her by the demon servant, closed her eyes, and silently practiced the few demonic arts that Biluoji knew. Then she made up her mind.
After resting for a while, Xie Guijin entered the library cave again, but this time she cautiously did not go forward.
Instead, he pressed his back against the barrier, placed his hand near his mouth, and gently blew on it.
A dark green peony petal floated lightly down onto the nose of the nearest demon servant. The demon servant, who had already stood up, reached out to grab it but failed to remove it and instead sneezed loudly.
Xie Guijin hooked her finger, causing the petals to move slowly. The demon slave was lured forward. When it saw Xie Guijin about to attack, Xie Guijin raised her left hand and wrapped a large peony petal around the demon slave's neck.
The petals that had been near the tip of the demon slave's nose shattered, emitting a hallucinogenic peony fragrance.
The demon slaves stopped attacking, and Xie Guijin yanked them hard, pulling them out of the barrier and throwing them backward into the array formed by the demon slaves outside the cave.
The demon slaves outside the cave were not as powerful as the mad demon slaves, but by working together, they managed to make the hallucinations disappear and temporarily trap the mad demon slaves inside the formation.
Xie Guijin seized the opportunity to activate the master-servant contract to suppress the demon slave, finally restoring his consciousness.
"How are you? What happened?" Xie Guijin asked hurriedly.
But the demon servant only managed to utter "My lord" before fainting.
Xie Guijin grabbed a doctor from the side and said urgently, "Quickly, take a look at it."
The doctor reached out to examine the patient, sweat dripping from his temples. He wiped the sweat with his sleeve and replied, "This is a sign of qi deviation. Fortunately, it was interrupted shortly after it started. You must not forcibly awaken it, otherwise you will interrupt its self-repair process and be seriously injured, if not killed."
"You mean we don't need treatment?" Xie Guijin asked, her face ashen.
The doctor bowed and said, "No need, Your Majesty, rest assured. This is equivalent to seclusion for healing, which is the best course of action. We'll wait for it to wake up."
"Won't he be completely fine after waking up? And his cultivation will be undamaged?" Xie Guijin was skeptical and stared intently at the doctor.
“No, that’s not it,” the doctor said sincerely. “You may make some progress, you may stagnate, or you may regress slightly, but you can make up for it by practicing after you wake up. It all depends on fate.”
Seeing that the doctor spoke with certainty, his breathing was steady, and his behavior was natural, Xie Guijin felt that he was not lying. She turned her head and pointed to the demon slaves in the cave who had been attracted earlier and were now lying on the barrier, waving their arms and legs and howling wildly, and said, "Where are they? If we rescue them quickly and restore their senses, there won't be any problems, right?"
“The Lord is right.”
Upon hearing this, Xie Guijin waited until the demon slaves inside the cave dispersed a bit before entering the cave and repeating the same method. He then brought the crazed demon slaves out of the cave and used a master-servant contract to bring them back to their senses.
As the number of times increased, Xie Guijin became more and more proficient in using demonic magic, and the number of demon slaves she brought out increased from one to two, then three, until she finally rescued all the mindless demon slaves.
Only then did he take the doctor to see the meditating demon servant.
After examination by the doctor, it was confirmed that these demon servants had indeed entered a meditative state and did not need to be moved. They could simply wait for their seclusion to end.
In this way, no demon could tell Xie Guijin and the others what had caused this dramatic change. Neither of the two demons in their different states could answer Xie Guijin.
Xie Guijin dragged her weary body around the library cave, feeling a burning fire in her heart that she couldn't suppress.
The other demon servants watched Xie Guijin wander around like a headless fly, and could only offer a few words of advice, unable to come up with any solutions, their words appearing so pale and powerless.
In the end, these demon servants realized that Xie Guijin was becoming increasingly impatient under their persuasion, so they gradually shut up and silently tidied up the messy cave.
Xie Guijin was completely baffled. She silently repeated to herself, "Relax, relax." Forcing herself to calm down, she felt her clenched skin relax and her shrugged shoulders relax.
She looked around and, seeing that things were almost done, said, "Leave a few to protect them, and the rest can go about their business."
The demon servants bowed and agreed.
Xie Guijin returned to the exploration site and continued scanning with her magical artifact.
The system asked in surprise, "You're not going to do anything about it? What about the teaching materials?"
"Haven't you heard the saying, 'Nothing is impossible if you're willing to give up'?" Xie Guijin said as she walked. "I'm human, not a demon, so I can't think like them. When Biluoji comes back, she should know what happened. I just can't figure it out."
She stopped and hesitated, saying, "As for teaching materials, it's fine if we don't have any. As long as we have a teacher, that's enough."
"Aren't you afraid that finding a wandering demon as a teacher will cause problems?" The system hesitated for a long time, but finally swallowed its words. It thought, "I am a product of a higher civilization. I don't bother with lower races. She looks rather pitiful. I'll let her off this time."
Xie Guijin felt uneasy, but she also thought that teachers have always been one of the most respected professions. It shouldn't be disrespectful to ask a scattered demon with limited resources to be a teacher, especially since the reward she promised was very high.
This isn't Xie Guijin making empty promises. The Demon Mansion could definitely afford it before, and although it can't afford it now, it will be fine once the tuition is collected.
Moreover, she sent several groups of demon slaves to find scattered demons. Even if some demons had strange personalities and were unwilling to take up their posts, she could still bring back one or two demons who were willing to bow down for five pecks of rice, right?
Lost in thought, Xie Guijin scanned the entire demon palace, only managing to figure out the placement of the magic arrays; she found nothing about the areas containing spiritual energy.
As the sun set, Xie Guijin, exhausted from a long day, lay sprawled on a recliner in the courtyard, her mind filled with a myriad of thoughts and a deep sense of unease.
The demon servant presented Xie Guijin with a white jade cup filled with fragrant dew, inviting her to have dinner.
Xie Guijin drank it all in one gulp without even looking at it, without even tasting it.
The demon servant accepted the white jade cup with both hands and withdrew.
Xie Guijin, oblivious to everything, gazed at the horizon as the last rays of sunlight faded, night fell, and the sky was filled with countless stars.
A brilliant shooting star streaked across the sky, bringing Xie Guijin back to her senses. She asked, "Have they returned?"
There were no demon slaves in the courtyard, so the system naturally replied, "Who are you asking about? Which ones were sent out? None of them have returned. How could they be back so quickly?"
"Even if they can't come back," Xie Guijin said, gripping the armrest of the recliner, her voice trembling with impatience, "didn't they even send a message?"
"No, don't worry, it's only the first day," the system comforted Xie Guijin, seeing that she was in a really bad state. "Why don't you take a nap first? Maybe when you wake up, you'll have both the teacher and the students."
Upon hearing this, Xie Guijin let go of the armrest of the recliner that she had gripped so tightly, got up and went back to the room. As she entered, she took off her clothes and walked towards the bed in the inner room. When she got there, she threw her clothes down haphazardly, and her jewelry clattered all over the floor. She didn't care and pretended not to hear anything.
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