Demon Realm School District Housing 5
He collapsed onto the bed, pulled the covers over his head, and closed his eyes.
Outside the courtyard, a demon servant whispered to the demon servant beside him in surprise, "Why did Master go to see Young Master Xuan today and go to rest?"
"Shh," another demon servant put a finger to his lips, "How dare we discuss our master? Just keep watch and don't cause trouble."
Inside the courtyard, Xie Guijin, with her eyes closed, tossed and turned on the bed, unable to find a comfortable position.
She kept telling herself, "If you can't sleep, you can't sleep. Closing your eyes and resting is also a form of rest."
I tossed and turned all night and still couldn't fall asleep.
Finally, dawn broke. Xie Guijin stared with bloodshot eyes, full of anticipation, and asked the demon servant who came to serve her, "Have any of the little demons returned?"
"No," the demon servant quickly tidied up the mess on the ground and said with a light smile, "My lord, please don't be impatient. It will take some time for this back and forth."
"Did anyone send a message back?" Xie Guijin exclaimed as she saw the demon servant shake his head slightly. "Not even a single message came back?"
"My lord, you didn't instruct them to deliver the message beforehand," the demon servant said cautiously, startled.
Seeing the demon slave's helpless expression, Xie Guijin took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, saying, "I was just anxious and scared you. Don't be afraid, it's alright."
As they were talking, a demon servant presented Xie Guijin with a rainbow-colored feather robe and asked her to put it on.
Xie Guijin reached out and touched the clothes, seeing that the clothes were layered and stacked, with six layers of gauze embroidered with peony patterns in gold thread. As the clothes were stacked, the peony flowers gradually bloomed, which was very beautiful. There were also colorful glass pendants on the cuffs. She threw the clothes aside and ordered, "Don't wear such fussy clothes. Change into something simple."
Bai Mudan loves gorgeous clothes, and Biluoji, influenced by what she sees and hears, also likes them very much.
The demon servant searched for a long time before finding a plain white dress for Xie Guijin to change into, and styled her hair into a simple snake-like bun.
After having breakfast, Xie Guijin took the magical artifact she had used the day before and went to Biluoji's weapon-refining room. While fiddling with the artifact's head, she wrote and drew some pictures.
She was so engrossed in her work that the whole morning passed by without her noticing.
Xie Guijin wrote the last word, stretched, and planned to go back to catch up on sleep.
She yawned and walked towards the bedroom in a daze when she suddenly heard a loud bang.
"What's that noise? Where did it come from?" Xie Guijin asked, startled, looking around.
The demon servants looked at each other in bewilderment. A little demon girl whose true form was a peach tree pointed tremblingly to the east and said, "It seems to be outside the mansion."
Xie Guijin took off running, and on the way, she inadvertently looked back and saw a group of demon servants floating behind her.
Before she could see their expressions clearly or figure out their thoughts, Xie Guijin hurriedly used her magic, trying hard to recall how Biluoji had used it, and forced herself not to show any fear as she floated outside the mansion.
There was a large pit on the originally flat grass outside the demon mansion gate. Ignoring the obstruction of the demon servants, Xie Guijin insisted on getting closer to look down. At the bottom of the pit, he saw a demon servant with a bruised and swollen face, lying on his back, looking extremely disheveled.
After rescuing the demon slave, Xie Guijin didn't rush to ask questions. She first took him back to the manor to have a doctor examine him and apply medicine before asking, "What happened? Who did this?"
The demon servant wept and sobbed, explaining in fits and starts.
It turned out that it was ordered to invite a famous Xiao from the east, but this angered Xiao so much that he punched it back.
"How could this be?" Xie Guijin asked, "Did you speak disrespectfully to Mr. Xiao?"
"No, my lord, how could I dare offend a powerful demon with such profound cultivation?" The demon servant sniffed and recounted in detail everything that had happened since he met Mr. Xiao.
Upon hearing this, Xie Guijin felt that the demon servant had done nothing wrong; on the contrary, he was extremely humble.
“It’s probably because Mr. Xiao has an eccentric personality,” Xie Guijin said softly, pulling Yao Nu’s hand. “No, it’s not your fault. Don’t cry. Take good care of your injuries. This month, your monthly salary will be doubled.”
The demon servant wiped away her tears and said timidly, "I failed in my mission, but my lord is merciful and will not punish me. I am already extremely grateful, how dare I ask for a reward?"
"You didn't ask for it," Xie Guijin said, patting the demon slave's head with pity. "It's a gift from me, so just accept it."
Xie Guijin comforted the demon slave, and now that she was no longer sleepy, she asked the system, "What's going on here? Do you know?"
"You know, host," the system said helplessly, "you need to explore this information on your own, based on the original owner's memories. I can't help you against the rules."
“If what Biluoji has in her head were useful, I wouldn’t need to ask you,” Xie Guijin rolled her eyes. “She’s a tech geek. Apart from going out to learn skills, she spends the rest of her time under the wings of Bai Mudan and Xuan Tangjin. She only knows some people or things that are widely known among demons.”
"Speaking of which," the system changed the subject, "Host, would you like to go see Xuan Tang Jin?"
"No way, what's so interesting about other people's men?" Xie Guijin said irritably.
"But he might be Xue Linchuan now, don't you want to meet him?"
"I don't want to. I'm not a magic pill. Even if I go, he won't wake up," Xie Guijin refused decisively. "The most urgent thing now is how the recruitment of teachers and the enrollment of demon slaves are progressing."
“I’m so stupid,” Xie Guijin said, slapping her forehead. “They won’t send me messages, but I have a master-servant contract, so I can send them messages.”
Without hesitation, Xie Guijin used her magic to send a message, exclaiming in surprise, "Wow, it works really well, and it can even send messages to multiple people, hehe."
Xie Guijin, who had delivered the message, was restless and paced back and forth.
The system was so dizzy from her presence that it thought, "Thank goodness this is paved with white jade bricks. If it were grass, the grass would be trampled all over by now."
Despite the complaints, the system was also hoping for good news, since it and Xie Guijin were mutually beneficial.
It is said that one person's sincerity in unifying the world moved Heaven.
Soon, Xie Guijin received her first reply, delivered by one of the demon servants in charge of recruitment.
Adhering to the principle of valuing quality over quantity, and in order to alleviate the financial pressure on the Demon Mansion as soon as possible, Xie Guijin sent out demon slaves with clear target customers.
It targets wealthy and generous individuals who, for various reasons, have relatively low cultivation levels and are capable of giving birth to second-generation demons.
After all, this is the demon realm, where cultivation is the primary focus, and wealth is merely an external possession.
After much deliberation, Xie Guijin realized there were too few target customers, so she relaxed her criteria and included both the wealthy and the stingy.
The target customer of the letter-writing demon slave was one of the most greedy among them.
The day before yesterday, Xie Guijin, considering that the chances were slim, sent out a demon servant who was relatively the least clever, unable to read between the lines, and eloquent. Unexpectedly, it was this demon servant who brought the first good news.
The demon servant said that the legendary stingy goldfish monster was very happy after hearing its purpose and immediately agreed to send its child to school.
Upon learning that there was only one spot available per family, they expressed strong dissatisfaction and insisted on sending all three of their children to school. The couple wanted to personally plead with Xie Guijin on their behalf.
We have already set off.
Finally, the demon servant thoughtfully explained that because he and the goldfish monster family were not powerful enough to teleport to the demon's palace, and were reluctant to spend money, they were slowly making their way there, and asked Xie Guijin not to worry.
Xie Guijin was overjoyed when she first heard the news.
But soon, she punched her left palm with her right fist and muttered to herself, "There are at least three students, but the school address hasn't been chosen yet, there are no textbooks, no teachers, and the only one with high cultivation, Xuan Tangjin, is seriously ill and unconscious. The entire Demon Palace is full of low-cultivation plants and trees, how can we teach goldfish? The species have crossed the boundaries of land and water."
Xie Guijin's eyes lit up, and she muttered to herself, "Right, I remember that one of the demon servants I sent out to hire a teacher went to invite the Dragon Fish Master. Ask it if it went smoothly."
Before Xie Guijin could send a message, a series of "thump, thump, thump" sounds came from outside the mansion.
Upon hearing this, Xie Guijin felt unsteady on her feet, but she still managed to float over.
Outside the mansion, on the grass, there were pits of varying sizes and depths, and inside the pits were the demon slaves, covered in wounds.
One after another, they kept saying, "Ouch, ouch."
If Xie Guijin hadn't recognized that these demon slaves were all teachers they had sent out to hire, she would have almost thought they were attacking.
They took the demon slaves back, had the doctor examine them one by one, and applied medicine to them.
Xie Guijin took out paper and pen and asked questions one by one.
They finally figured out what was going on. Although most demons cultivate on their own, some demons also learn from masters.
However, compared to humans who choose disciples when cultivating immortality, demons are much more demanding when it comes to accepting disciples.
First, they must be compatible at first glance, then their aptitude and potential must be assessed. They must also be young, their cultivation attributes must be aligned, and their destinies must not conflict. Once the master-disciple relationship is established, they will be subject to the constraints of the Heavenly Dao, and their fates will be intertwined.
Xie Guijin's idea of establishing a school and hiring teachers to instruct students is a complete desecration of the master-disciple relationship in the demon realm.
If it weren't for the fact that Xuan Tang Jin possessed profound demonic power and that the late Bai Mudan had cultivated many good relationships, these lesser demons probably wouldn't have been able to return alive.
But this time, the last blessings of the White Peony have been exhausted.
If these demons find out in the future that Xuan Tang Jin has no fighting power, and Xie Gui Jin angers them again, they will surely unleash a massacre.
After asking the questions, Xie Guijin remained expressionless. He comforted each of the injured demon slaves before getting up and leaving.
She lay sprawled on a recliner in the courtyard, the few pieces of paper she had just been holding covering her face, motionless for a long time.
After careful consideration, the system asked in a tense voice, "Host, did you cry?"
"I made a terrible mistake. It's all my fault for not changing my identity in time." Xie Guijin crumpled the paper on her face into a ball, straightened up, and said with a solemn expression.
"It's good that you didn't cry," the system chuckled. "It's not a big deal. Everyone makes mistakes. You've been a human for decades, and you're a modern person. You've only been a monster for a few days, so of course you can't think like a monster. Don't take it to heart."
“But,” Xie Guijin crumpled the paper ball and said dejectedly, “the Demon Palace doesn’t have much money left. Whether Xuan Tangjin’s medicine is effective or not, we can’t stop now. The things that were damaged by the mindless demon slaves in the Library Cave, the demons that were injured, and these demons that were injured by the scattered demons all need money.”
Xie Guijin threw away the crumpled paper, snapped it off one by one on her fingers, and said with a furrowed brow, "Even if we don't care about the broken things for now, we can't ignore the medical expenses for so many injured demons. In just a few days, we'll be out of supplies."
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