It was all thanks to the fact that the maids and guards didn't take Ji Mo Fanzheng seriously.
He pretended not to see her as she passed by and continued to do her work diligently.
In just one day, Ji Mofan figured out the guards' shift rules, knew the layout of all the buildings in the Demon Palace by heart, and even knew exactly when and where the maids would go.
So when Xiao Wangyan still did not appear on the second day, Ji Mofan took action.
He couldn't open the Qiankun Bag and couldn't use most of his personal belongings, but the mother Gu of the Zhongqing Gu was kept outside because it was a living creature.
Li Geyue quickly came to him because of the pain in her chest.
This kid actually managed to fool the guards of the Demon Palace, but when he appeared in front of Ji Mofan covered in dirt, his clothes were stained in several places.
Although this person wasn't as picky as Li Jinchu, at least they wouldn't tolerate being so dirty and wandering around like that.
"I...I crawled in through the dog hole..." Li Geyue tugged at his clothes, but the stains on them were stubborn and showed almost no sign of fading.
Moreover, he was somewhat afraid to look up at his senior brother at this moment.
One reason is that I felt I looked too shabby.
On the other hand...
The senior brother's outfit is way too revealing!
A section of her waist was cut out, and part of her legs were exposed. The back seemed to be completely open. It was only because Ji Mo Fan wore a short jacket that the outfit didn't seem so excessive.
But you can still see a tiny bit of skin color whenever you move.
What shouldn't be exposed is indeed covered up completely, but what should be exposed is completely covered up.
In the past, as the senior disciple of the Yuncang Sword Sect, he was very particular about self-discipline and propriety. For a considerable period of time, apart from his disciple's robes, Li Geyue had hardly ever seen Ji Mofan wear any other clothes.
The disciple's robe was designed for easy training and field experience, so it naturally covered the person completely to ensure that the defensive effect could cover more areas.
Even though Ji Mofan later acquired more clothes, he never wore such tattered clothes.
So what exactly did the Demon Lord do to the eldest brother?
Li Geyue had no doubt that Ji Mofan had willingly chosen to wear this outfit, which was clearly out of character for him.
Although Xiao Wangyan was indeed partly to blame, if he hadn't refused to help Ji Mofan unlock the Immortal Lock Chain no matter how much he pleaded, he wouldn't have been unable to even produce a piece of clothing.
He was forced to replace the "props" he had placed in the room.
"Take your eyes away." Ji Mofan didn't care much about what he wore. In the past, he would buy several sets of clothes for himself just because he didn't want to keep wearing that old disciple's robe.
When he goes to the clothing store, he doesn't even carefully select the pattern. As long as it looks good at first glance and the price is within his budget, he will ask the store to wrap it up for him.
It's fair to say that his tendency to prioritize convenience prevented him from becoming a walking clothes hanger, thanks entirely to his good looks and well-maintained physique.
But this doesn't mean he can accept being looked at by others with clearly inappropriate intentions.
Li Geyue obediently closed her eyes and lowered her head completely, so that she could only see the black boot tips of Ji Mofan at the edge of her vision.
"Uh... is there anything I need to do?" he asked cautiously, afraid that he might offend Ji Mofan again with those words.
"I want you to inquire in the main city and the surrounding cities about what the Demon Lord has been up to recently." His fingertips unconsciously rested on the hilt of the Embracing Snow Sword and tapped it. Ji Mofan could feel the remaining traces of spiritual energy within it responding positively to his touch.
He patted it a couple more times as a gesture of reassurance, then looked at Li Geyue again, "I want to know everything, down to the smallest detail."
Xiao Wangyan clearly has many flaws.
Moreover, these changes must have occurred recently.
Without finding out why, it's impossible to prevent the relationship between the cultivation world and the demon world from evolving into something like it did in the previous life.
"I remember." Li Geyue nodded obediently. "What about the others?"
Ji Mo Fan considered it for a while.
"While I'm at it, let me inquire whether there have been any demonic cultivators at the Void Refinement Realm or even higher levels who have recently disappeared or perished," he said.
It's almost certain that Wang Shu of Qianhe Tower is a demonic cultivator who possessed someone Yu Wen originally knew, and hid in the cultivation world in place of that person.
Ji Mofan later consulted other ancient books related to the knowledge of possession. Although all the records about him were vague because this was a forbidden technique, at least one thing was clear.
To use the technique of possession, one must inevitably lose a significant amount of one's cultivation.
Therefore, Wang Shu must have been a cultivator far more powerful than a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator during his lifetime.
Such powerful individuals are extremely rare even in the Demon Realm; you can find them to some extent if you want to.
After all, unlike the cultivation of immortality which requires "preserving heavenly principles and eliminating human desires", the cultivation of the demonic path cannot be achieved by sitting in a cave with a manual, but by constantly engaging with things related to one's desires in order to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Therefore, it's easier to find out his purpose by starting with the demon realm.
If we know who he is, we can naturally deduce what motivates him to take certain actions.
Even demonic cultivators are not without logic in their actions.
Of course, this is on the premise that the demonic cultivator's desire is not to isolate the whole world.
After briefly explaining things to Li Geyue, Ji Mofan made another request before he left.
“Change your clothes,” he said.
Li Geyue was clearly taken aback for a moment. "Huh?"
"Do you want your senior brother to keep wandering around the Demon Palace in this outfit?" Ji Mofan narrowed his eyes.
It took Li Ge several seconds to react before she came to her senses. "I... Senior Brother, I have some brand new ones here..."
“I want the one you’re wearing.” Ji Mofan pointed at him. “Also, where’s the dog hole you came in through? Take me there with you.”
Li Geyue was completely baffled by his two requests, but she still obediently led the way.
The two avoided the guards and finally found the gap.
It looks really jarring. The surrounding walls are painted in a way that makes them look quite unaffordable, but the area near the base of the wall is covered with a large patch of moss.
The brickwork inside was exposed, and a small hole, barely big enough for one person to pass through, appeared quite abruptly.
Ji Mo Fan squatted down and watched from a distance for a while.
Then he stood up and said, "Alright, go out the way you came."
“After you go out, hand this piece of clothing back to me through the gap.”
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