Chapter 35: Si Xiang City (Part 7) “Break tea, listen to the rain, and calm your mind.”…
"According to your theory, the demon has taken over Yan Chengyun's body, so the demon's soul is now in his body?"
Zhou Mingran shuddered, goose bumps forming on his arms. "Yingying, you've been in and out of the City Lord's Mansion so many times, dealing with him... Given your cultivation level and aptitude, I'm afraid he's already set his sights on you."
"It's too dangerous, Yingying." She couldn't bear to see her junior sister jump into the fire pit. "Listen to my senior sister, you stay in Taoyuan Residence and don't contact Yan Chengyun anymore. If necessary, let me handle it."
Zhu Ciying rejected her suggestion: "Senior Sister, if you do that, he'll immediately become suspicious."
Zhou Mingran grabbed the Ji Feibai puppet again: "We can't alert the enemy, so what should we do now? Continue to play with him?"
"Maybe we can find some clues from the big monster." Zhu Ciying said.
Zhou Mingran thought for a moment: "That's a method. Leave it to me."
The big demon was locked in an iron cage by Yan Chengyun and sent to the Demon Suppression Division, a prison in the city specifically for guarding demons.
"Demon Suppression Division." Zhou Mingran looked up at the tower-like building, over ten meters tall. "How impressive!"
"Ladies, please show your tokens." The male cultivator guarding the gate said with a firm attitude.
Zhou Mingran had nothing in her hands, so where was the token? She was just thinking about how to get away with it when she caught a glimpse of light blue in her peripheral vision.
Zhu Ciying calmly took out a token and handed it over: "City Lord Yan's warrant, please verify it."
The male cultivator examined it carefully, then said to his companion, "It is indeed the City Lord's Mansion's token. Let them in."
The companion removed the barrier at the door and said kindly, "Ladies, you only have one stick of incense to wait. Please come in."
Zhu Ciying put away the token and went in with Zhou Mingran.
The big demon was imprisoned on the eighteenth underground floor.
"Yingying, come here. There is a spirit ladder here."
Zhou Mingran pressed the down button, the ladder door opened with a swish, and Zhu Ciying walked in quickly.
She pressed the button marked with the number "18" and the ladder door closed automatically.
The feeling of weightlessness followed closely behind.
Zhou Mingran: "Yingying, where did you get the token?"
"Yao Taotao gave it to me. Yan Chengyun's token allows us to freely enter and exit various restricted areas in the city, making our movements more convenient."
"When did she start to trust us so much?" Zhou Mingran wondered. She had just taken a nap in the devil's cave, and the situation outside had changed.
Zhu Ciying explained, "Yao Taotao was born with a Glazed Heart. She has an innate ability to sense good and evil, comparable to the Pure Heart Formation."
Liuli Heart is extremely rare in this world. Zhou Mingran suddenly realized: "No wonder."
"Besides that, I think this is her last resort. She is naturally weak, and her own abilities alone are not enough to fight against Yan Chengyun in his current state." The spiritual ladder landed steadily, and Zhu Ciying pressed the button to open the door. "Senior Sister, we're here."
After stepping off the spirit ladder, he entered a dark room. Zhou Mingran pulled out a fluorescent stone from his storage bag, which instantly illuminated a large area of the open space.
The big demon was still trapped in the iron cage, and she used a strand of her spiritual power to wake him up.
"Who are you? Let me out," the demon said hoarsely and weakly. The back of his head, where Xie Rangchen had hit him with the stick, still ached.
He grabbed the iron rod with both hands and tried to pry it apart, but after trying several times, he gave up. It seemed as if the strength in his body was sealed by some force.
"I can let you out, but not now." Zhu Ciying said.
When the demon saw that it was her who was speaking, a chill ran down his spine. He didn't believe Zhu Ciying.
"Becoming a prisoner doesn't mean you have any choice." Zhu Ciying reminded him of the facts. "My conditions are simple. You just need to answer a few questions."
The demon struggled internally for a moment, feeling powerless. "Ask me, I'll tell you everything I know."
Zhu Ciying: "Who are you? What's your name? Where are you from?"
The demon was stunned for a moment. He thought Zhu Ciying would ask him something confidential and profound, but unexpectedly, it was all about himself. But even if her questions were simple, he would not know the answers to these questions.
"I don't know, I don't know, I don't know." He said three "I don't know" in a row.
Zhu Ciying felt a bad feeling in her heart.
Zhou Mingran: "You lost your memory too?" It was strange, why did she keep meeting people with amnesia this year?
"What I said is true. Please ask another question."
Zhu Ciying: "Do you remember Yao Taotao?"
"Yao...Taotao?" The big demon kept thinking about the name and felt it was familiar for some reason, but his mind was blank and he couldn't remember anything.
"I don't remember." He shook his head.
Zhu Ciying lowered her eyes to hide her disappointment.
Zhou Mingran stood beside her with a worried look on his face.
Suddenly, an idea struck him: "Junior Sister, besides the token, what other personal belongings did Yao Taotao give you that Yan Chengyun possessed?"
Zhu Ciying took out the black and white Pisces jade pendant.
Zhou Mingran looked at it again and again in his palm, winked at her, and said mysteriously: "It's up to me next."
A few years ago, when she went down the mountain to make her living, she learned a tracing spell from a friend. It only takes one of the other person's commonly used personal items to trace him back to him, even if he changed his appearance.
Zhou Mingran's fingers were filled with spiritual power. He wrote talismans in the air while chanting the spells in a low voice.
The golden talisman sank into the jade pendant, and was then slowly lifted up by spiritual power.
Zhu Ciying stared at the Pisces jade pendant without blinking.
The demon was confused and watched Zhou Mingran cast the spell in a daze. As he stared in amazement, the jade pendant moved towards him and unexpectedly landed in his arms.
"It flew here on its own. It's none of my business." He picked up the jade pendant helplessly. The moment he touched it, his heart trembled uncontrollably. It was just like his reaction when Zhu Ciying mentioned Yao Taotao.
He subconsciously clenched the jade pendant, and a picture quickly flashed through his mind:
A stunningly beautiful girl sat on a stone bench in the yard, carefully holding a black and white jade pendant in her hands, her eyes filled with a smile of sweet happiness.
He covered his head in pain.
Zhu Ciying and Zhou Mingran looked at each other and understood what was going on.
Zhu Ciying beckoned and took back the Pisces jade pendant.
The demon, still immersed in pain, noticed the object in his hand disappear. He suddenly raised his head, gripped the iron rod tightly with both hands, and shouted fiercely, "Give it back to me!"
"Give me a reason, like someone or something you remembered?"
"No..." He couldn't remember anything, but he vaguely felt that the jade pendant was a very important thing, more important than his life.
"Yingying, the time for one stick of incense is almost up." Zhou Mingran reminded.
"Well, let's go."
Before stepping onto the spiritual ladder, Zhu Ciying set up a formation around the iron cage. The reason for this was to prevent Yan Chengyun from making any moves and to be prepared in advance.
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The winter in Sixiang City lasted for three days, and it rained for two consecutive days.
Taoyuan Residence.
A group of people gathered together to discuss the clues they had.
Zhou Mingran summarized the situation according to the timeline: "A year ago, Yan Chengyun went to the west of the city to eliminate the great demon. He was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and was possessed by the great demon."
"According to the information I've found, the forbidden technique of possession takes a lot of time to perform. However, the time it took for the great demon to possess Yan Chengyun was relatively fast, taking only half a year. Currently, the souls of the man and the demon have been exchanged."
When Qu Wanqing heard the theory of possession for the first time, she covered her mouth in surprise.
Xu Feihuai didn't say anything.
Xie Rangchen shifted his hand to support his chin. Actually, possessing a body depended on the opponent's strength. The stronger the strength, the shorter the time required. For example, he only took a moment.
However, what surprised him was that he had never used the technique of possessing another body. He still hadn't figured out how to enter the original owner's body.
Zhou Mingran: "Our main problem now is to figure out what the big demon's purpose is and how to help Yan Chengyun recover his memory."
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Zhu Ciying opened the window with a heavy heart to let in fresh air.
They discussed it for half an hour without reaching a conclusion. If there was a way to restore memory, she would have given it to Xie Rangchen long ago. And the demon's purpose? Besides being involved with Yao Qin, the fake Yan Chengyun was completely flawless. They couldn't find any evidence against him for a while.
Raindrops pattered on the roof tiles, and the teapot on the stove gurgled with steam.
Xie Rangchen heated the tea set and poured two cups of hot tea.
He called out to the worried-looking girl, "Be careful not to get wet in the rain, Junior Sister, come and sit down."
Zhu Ciying had no desire to drink tea. Although she wasn't afraid of bitterness, she didn't want to taste anything bitter. Bitterness would remind her of past events she didn't want to recall.
"Brew tea, listened to the rain, and calmed my mind." Xie Rangchen's fingers stroked the rim of the cup.
Zhu Ciying rested her hands on her chin, staring at the tea leaves in the cup. After her close encounter with Xie Rangchen at the City Lord's Mansion, she hadn't dared to look at his face for several days.
"Brother, the demon became very close to Yao Qin after possessing Yan Chengyun. The three of them were childhood sweethearts, growing up together in close proximity. Excluding Liulixin's influence, since Yao Taotao could recognize that Yan Chengyun had a new heart, Yao Qin should be able to do the same, right?"
Xie Rangchen was silent for a moment and said, "According to common sense, I should be able to recognize it."
"If she could recognize him, why would Yao Qin not care about Yao Taotao's face and collude with him to steal her own sister's husband?" Zhu Ciying has never been able to understand this matter.
"This shows that there is something very wrong with Yao Qin."
"Perhaps, she has been eyeing Yan Chengyun for a long time and has feelings for him."
There was silence in the room for a moment.
Xie Rangchen took a sip of Moonlight Golden Branch and squinted his eyes slightly. The two red moles always gave off a hint of charm. "You mean to say that she might not be a good person and is in cahoots with the big demon."
Sometimes one has to admit that they have a tacit understanding. Xie Rangchen always manages to grasp the key points hidden deep within her.
Zhu Ciying: "It's just a guess."
She tilted her head, her eyes looking through the window at the busy street, and frowned slightly.
Behind Taoyuan Residence was a bustling commercial street, bustling with merchants daily. This was a common occurrence, but what puzzled her was that the flow of people here was constant. Rain or shine, they would always appear at the same time, visit the same stalls, and buy the same batches of goods.
Obviously something is wrong.
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