Chapter 21
According to Ishikawa Nishi, Tianyu Palace took over an inn near the outskirts of the city in Yongshu Township, which is located in the east of the city.
The owner of the inn had not been back to Yongshu Township for many years and only came back with his family a few months ago.
But not long after the boss and his family returned, her parents died of old age.
Now the boss is the only one running the inn.
This boss is a very nice person. Since Yongshu Township is closed to people who can only enter but not leave, many low-level cultivators who come here to play have been imprisoned and their lives are in a difficult situation. Thanks to the help of this boss, not only does he give them some paid work, but he also occasionally helps to repair the "story".
He will also tell newcomers about the various situations here. Therefore, the boss has a good relationship with people and often organizes various activities with people on the street.
Several little demons whose bodies turned transparent to the point of becoming flower fertilizer were pulled back from the brink of death by the owner of this store.
While maintaining normal life with the local people, she paid the monks to find a way out of the situation.
According to Ishikawa Nishi's reliable sources, Tianyu Palace and this boss should have known each other for a long time, and the two have had a lot of private interactions.
But as for what the boss did, he turned a blind eye and pretended not to know or see it.
Originally, Jiang Wan planned to sneak in by herself, but Lin Xubai was not confident in Jiang Wan's ability to find the way, and the disciples of Tianyu Palace had a cultivation level of at least the Perfect Foundation Establishment stage.
Jiang Wan was no match for them at all when she first started building her foundation. If she was caught, no one would save her. Besides, Jiang Wan was also afraid that Lin Xubai would be left alone.
Since the sneaking route is blocked, then why not change your identity and get in openly? Isn't the owner of this inn the best breakthrough point?
It just so happens that they can borrow Ishikawa Nishi's external identity, "a poor and insignificant cultivator" to find a job here. Isn't this quite natural?
“Squeak—”
The two of them pushed open the door of the inn and walked in.
"Ding, Dingling——"
The breeze brought by the open door rang the red gilt-edged fox bells hanging on the eaves.
In the hall, a faded sandalwood stove was burning with wisps of incense. The sweet aroma of love mixed with the fragrance of flowers was so intoxicating that it made people's bones and muscles soften.
Looking around, there was only a woman in a red dress leaning against the stove, plucking the strings of a musical instrument with her slender hands.
Jiang Wan tilted his head slightly and recognized her as the female cultivator who was good at using a whip during the day.
He is an 'acquaintance' of Tianyu Palace.
This is a bit troublesome.
"Oh my, I don't know where you two are~" the red-dressed woman said as she lazily stood up. Suddenly, she flipped her red sleeves, and the soft silk instantly became as sharp as a blade and turned into a whip rope, swung at the two people, "What brings you to my Tianyu Palace~"
Jiang Wanshou quickly grabbed Lin Xubai's waist and dodged quickly. The sharp whip blade slashed across his cheek, missing his eyes by a few millimeters.
Lin Xubai turned around and swiftly jumped behind Jiang Wan. "That was a close call."
Jiang Wan was a little unhappy: "There is no sign of Tianyu Palace at the door, I..."
Lin Xubai grabbed Jiang Wan, shook his head, and took over the conversation.
"I've seen the power of your whip in the daytime, but I didn't expect you to be so skilled at turning silk into a sharp blade. After all, we've seen it in the daytime, so we're considered semi-acquaintances. Why did you treat us brothers and sisters so cruelly? We haven't offended you."
Lin Xubai wiped the non-existent cold sweat from his forehead, looking relieved as if he had survived a disaster. He looked around and said, "I heard they're hiring here. Isn't the boss lady here?"
The woman retracted her shawl and leaned back. Her eyes lingered on Jiang Wan's face for a moment before she carefully examined the two of them. A smile played on her lips. "Sword cultivator? Why, didn't the people from your sect tell you that this is the Tianyu Palace and you shouldn't approach unless necessary?"
One is in the foundation building stage? The other is in the Qi refining stage? They're so brave to come here.
"Hey, hey, hey, I'm not worthy of being called a sword cultivator, senior." Lin Xubai waved his hands hurriedly, and laughed at himself. "We are brothers and sisters who depend on each other for survival, but we don't have any sect."
Lin Xubai changed his usual elegant temperament, and looked like a little white flower that had suffered a lot but remained tenacious.
"Oh?" The woman frowned frivolously.
Seeing this, Lin Xubai started to make up stories to deceive people. He changed the original nameless poem into "a lowly cultivator with a miserable life who was harmed by the disciples of the immortal sect and was forced to defect". He heard about the innkeeper's story and came here to seek refuge.
Lin Xubai's ability to evoke emotions when narrating stories is very good. His tone is slow, and sometimes every word is as sharp as a blunt knife and sometimes every sentence is like thunder. He tells the story of the difficulties that these young disciples of humble origins face in surviving in a large sect.
He has poor qualifications and an extremely slow cultivation speed. Even the most basic cultivation resources are difficult to obtain. He usually relies on doing odd jobs in exchange for meager spirit stones. He is looked down upon by high-ranking and prestigious disciples in the sect, and even bullied at will.
There is not a single word of misery in the words, but every word behind the words is difficult.
During this time, Jiang Wan just listened silently without saying a word.
Her attention had long since drifted off to other places. Her peripheral vision had swept over the entire inn as she entered. Following Lin Xubai's impromptu script changes, her mind was a bit unsettled, but...
Before coming——
"If anything unexpected happens, you must catch me. I have spiritual weapons given by my senior sisters. If we can't defeat them, we can just run away! Oh, and how should I act then? Tell me, I'm going to figure it out now."
"Well... no need. If something does happen, just act like yourself. Keep your current expression and don't speak unless absolutely necessary."
Recalling Lin Xubai's instructions before he came, Jiang Wan suppressed the urge to complain.
There must be a barrier spell set up in the place where Bai Qingqing and Tu Changxing were imprisoned. As long as we find the relevant spiritual power fluctuations, we can find them.
But she's not very good at sensing spiritual fluctuations...
It would be great if we could open a [Skeleton Feast] area coverage. Jiang Wan is eager to switch to a larger size.
"Listen, how pitiful~" The woman's eyes showed sympathy, and her expression was moved. She took the initiative to reveal her identity, "I am the Joy Envoy of the Heavenly Desire Palace. How about you follow me, young man? I guarantee that your path to cultivation will be smooth and your life will be safe~"
Yun Manman, the messenger of joy under the command of the Lord of the Cassia Flower in Tianyu Palace, is a cultivator in the Golden Core Stage.
"Senior, you're joking. My brother and I risked everything to defect from our sect. Even if we wanted to join the Demon Sect, the only place we could go was the Xueyang Temple, which accepts all those who have defected from our sect."
As everyone knows, the Xueyang Temple in the Demon Realm was founded by a Nascent Soul cultivator who had rebelled against the righteous sect in his early years and fled to the Demon Realm. Later, this cultivator who abandoned the immortal sect to cultivate the demon realm saw his cultivation level increase rapidly, and he quickly cultivated from the Nascent Soul to the Tribulation Crossing stage. From then on, he announced that he would accept all those who had rebelled against the immortal sect in the world.
"Brother and sister? Ha~" Yun Manman sneered, a cold light flashing out of her sheath, "Brother and sister who are not related by blood?"
Suddenly, blood splashed from the ground upwards and turned into a cage, trapping the two people inside.
After Yun Manman rudely exposed their fake brother-sister relationship and then attacked again, Jiang Wan couldn't help it. He took out a time-forbidden talisman and stuck it on the blood flower to interrupt its formation.
"Isn't it okay for half-siblings to be like this?" Jiang Wan violently broke the situation and jumped out of the encirclement with Lin Xubai. "We're here to do business with the boss, not to find you!"
Lin Xubai wanted to say something, but Jiang Wan grabbed his wrist and dragged him behind him.
She had a feeling that Lin Xubai's script was scrapped and she had to start a new one now.
"Huh! A casual cultivator using a spiritual sword forged with Millennium Moon Essence Stone and Red Water Pearl? While Millennium Moon Essence Stone isn't a particularly precious forging material, it's definitely not something an ordinary cultivator can possess." Yun Manman watched the two escape and didn't rush to attack again. She slowly sat back down, "From the Guiyuan Sect, right? I suppose so. Those two upstairs are also like that."
really.
Since her plan was seen through, Jiang Wan simply summoned out her Qingzhou Sword, but she did not use it herself. Instead, she gave the Qingzhou Sword to Lin Xubai for self-defense.
She can't act respectful at all.
Isn’t it just giving herself an identity? She had done this before in Guiyuan Sect and was very familiar with it!
"You're the Joy Envoy of the Heavenly Desire Palace, right? Do you recognize what this is?"
Jiang Wan took out his magic wand on the spot. It was an ice crystal-shaped undead staff. From the wand body to the top, it was inlaid with many gems containing various energy auras. The slender wand was like a sword blade, and the cold light spread like frost.
An extremely cold and gloomy chill continuously emanated from the staff, and the entire space was suddenly filled with this oppressive atmosphere.
Of course, in Jiang Wan's view, this is an orange legendary weapon that can only be equipped by Sanctuary Mages and above, but in the eyes of local natives like Yun Manman.
This is a fancy big ice crystal inlaid with a bunch of spirit stones of messy attributes. The crystal body is carved with complicated and strange patterns. It looks like a stick or a sword, and it looks weird.
No one says that a magic wand must look like a magic wand, as long as its attribute values and appearance are maxed out.
Jiang Wan's unconventional move left Yun Manman stunned, and she couldn't help but show fear of this strange "magic weapon" in her eyes.
"What what?"
"Demon Lord's order!"
"ha?"
If you want to show off, show off the big stuff!
Seeing this familiar prelude, Lin Xu opened his lips slightly and subconsciously wanted to hold his forehead, but thinking of the occasion, he forced himself to hold it back.
He saw what Jiang Wan was trying to do.
"Your Majesty has unified the Demon Realm. Could it be that you, the disciples of the Heavenly Desire Palace, don't know about this?"
"Yes, I am the Demon Lord—"
Yun Manman:???
Lin Xubai:!!!
Without caring about anything else, he quickly grabbed Jiang Wan's hand with his backhand, and used his sleeve to cover the palm of Jiang Wan's hand and quickly pasted a talisman paper, which was actually a silencing spell.
But his face remained calm, and he immediately made up for Jiang Wan's words.
"That's right, the guardian envoy under the Demon Lord."
I knew you wanted to pretend, but I didn't expect you to be so pretentious!
The Demon Lord, if he hadn't reacted quickly, would you have given him the name of the Heavenly Demon Lord Yan Yan?
Jiang Wan: ???
Yun Manman:!!!
"The Demon Lord's guardian? Ha! What did you think? You come to me to trick me." Yun Manman sneered, her charming eyes were now full of murderous intent, "One is building the foundation and the other is refining Qi?" Do you really think she is a fool?
Yun Manman didn't believe it and wanted to kill the two of them. She narrowed her eyes and released the full aura of a Jindan cultivator.
"Don't worry, Envoy Huanqing. I haven't finished speaking yet." Lin Xubai smiled gently, as if he couldn't sense the malicious pressure at all. The hand under his sleeve even pinched Jiang Wan's fingers soothingly. "This is the signal that the Demon Lord sent to the Lord Protector to command the Demon Sect after he unified the Demon Realm. Seeing this is like seeing the Demon Lord. We are the internal spies sent by the Lord Protector to the major sects."
Lin Xubai began to talk incessantly about the new script he had just made up based on a sentence Jiang Wan blurted out.
He and Jiang Wan were indeed the guardians under the Demon Lord, and what he said before was not entirely false. It was just that their identities made their love unacceptable to the secular world, so they accidentally became the guardians' subordinates and sought news about the immortal sect for him.
You can accept new tasks temporarily.
It turned out that after the Demon Realm unified the eight gates and made them submit, the Tianyu Palace in the Demon Realm had no news of Huanqingshi and Huazhu Yehehuan, and suspected that these people were unwilling to surrender and wanted to defect.
That's why they were sent to investigate.
This magic weapon not only provides them with self-defense but also serves as a token of their identity.
After all, who among the demons in the Demon Realm would not recognize this unique magic weapon?
Yun Manman remained silent, her gaze cutting across Lin Xubai's face like a sharp blade, trying to cut off a trace of guilt and tension from that calm and indifferent face.
But there was no panic in those gentle eyes, and his voice was steady and elegant.
His eyes were calm, his posture was naturally relaxed, even a little nonchalant, as if he really had something to rely on.
Calm and fearless.
Most importantly, Yun Manman saw something familiar in Lin Xubai.
That was the most common and familiar thing that Yun Manman saw in the Demon Realm: the contempt of the superiors towards the inferiors.
While Lin Xubai was frantically fabricating his identity, he did not forget to secretly pass a signal to Jiang Wan while Yun Manman was distracted.
Jiang Wan nodded imperceptibly, stuck Lin Xubai's homemade explosive talisman on the small branch, and then used her teleportation talisman.
"Bang——"
There was a loud noise from somewhere.
"Manman, you go and take a look, I'll take care of this." At some point, a woman in purple appeared in the hall.
She is dressed in plain clothes, with a headband of the same color tying up her hair on both sides, nothing else.
"I think you need some time too. Besides, they came here to find me, didn't they?"
What he said was true. Yun Manman thought about it again and again. She needed time to sort out the truth and also needed to find Ban Meng to reveal this matter to her and discuss it with her.
After the others left, the woman approached the two with a sad face and said, "I am the owner of the inn you are looking for. My surname is Zhe and my given name is Qingzhu."
"Just call me Qingzhu."
After Yun Manman left, Lin Xubai let go of Jiang Wan's hand and lifted the curse.
But Jiang Wan was suffocated to death.
"My name is Chaosheng, he..." Jiang Wan thought for a moment and gave the name of an acquaintance.
"My name is Ishikawa Kita." Lin Xubai introduced himself before Jiang Wan could give him a name.
Qing Zhu returned Ping Li's greeting, and looked between the two of them for a long time: "You two, this isn't the kind of relationship you two have, right?"
"Love cannot be faked."
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