Chapter Ninety-Six p3
Miao Nu didn’t beat around the bush anymore, and said readily: “I refined a twin Gu a while ago, divided into a child Gu and a mother Gu. The person who takes the child Gu will become a dog of the mother Gu’s owner, and has to do whatever the mother Gu’s owner asks.“
“Of course, I’m not a cruel person, and won’t deliberately use the child Gu for fun.” Miao Nu curled her lips: “I only want a guard, a sufficiently powerful guard. Although you are very strong, and have enough potential, you only have half demonic blood. In the human race, you’re innately deficient. But your romantic old man is different. Although his potential is not as good as yours, he’s more than enough to be a guard. If you want to avenge your mother, you might as well choose to join forces with me.“
“After the matter is settled, I can give him to you, and let you do whatever you want to him.” Before the cooperation was even settled, Miao Nu had already started to draw a big cake for Yu Zhao and Bo Chi. After finishing, she didn’t forget to add: “As long as you don’t kill him.“
Yu Zhao silently looked up at Bo Chi.
Bo Chi received her thoughts, and said indifferently: “This is your family matter, no matter what you choose, I will support you.“
Yu Zhao’s eyes flickered slightly, she pursed her lips and smiled, and then said to Miao Nu: “Okay, I agree to join forces, what do you want to do?“
“Well,” Miao Nu said leisurely, “I’ll tell you in detail after I arrive at the Demon Palace.“
Drunken Dream Island was very far from the demon realm. Bo Chi originally thought that it would take Miao Nu ten days or half a month to arrive, but unexpectedly, the next morning, she saw Miao Nu appear in the Demon Palace.
It was conceivable that the other party had planned this long ago, and had already set off before contacting them.
The Demon Lord wasn’t there, and Miao Nu appeared openly. Bo Chi originally wanted to eavesdrop on their plan, but Yu Zhao took her out of the palace.
“This is a grudge between Xuan Long and me,” Yu Zhao said softly, “I don’t want to involve Master. Master is the moon in my sky, the snow on the mountain, I don’t want to dirty Master’s hands and eyes.“
Bo Chi: “…Honey, there’s no need to add so many filters.“
Although she didn’t mind these things, Yu Zhao’s attitude was unexpectedly firm, so Bo Chi didn’t insist on staying, but instead went to the back of the palace to admire the flowers.
The flowers in the demon realm were all filled with an ominous aura, and at first glance, they looked like white skeletons everywhere. Only when she looked closer did she realize that the white flowers were growing from the empty eye sockets of the skeletons.
Hmm, demons, as expected of you.
Bo Chi instantly lost the desire to admire the flowers, turned around and wanted to go somewhere else, but when she turned back, she bumped into a human girl.
The girl was wearing a white dress, her posture delicate, her face full of a pitiful charm, and she also happened to see Bo Chi.
Their eyes met, and the girl exclaimed: “Elder You Mei? Why are you here?“
Bo Chi looked at her for a long time, and finally dug out her identity from her memory: “You’re the female lead, cough, Bai Lian?“
Bai Lian nodded, walked to Bo Chi with swaying steps, and bowed softly: “Greetings, Elder You Mei, are you also here to find that big bad guy Gu Heng?“
Bo Chi: “…Big bad guy?“
“Yes.” Bai Lian pouted, raised her clenched pink fist, and said: “That big bad guy killed the villagers in our village. After my cultivation succeeded in the sect, I immediately came to find him to settle the score, but this bad guy, not only did he not change his ways, but he also…“
As she spoke, Bai Lian’s face turned completely red, and she even stamped her foot in shame and anger.
Bo Chi’s heart trembled from her stomping, and she subconsciously took two steps back, afraid of being infected by the silly female lead.
The female lead didn’t understand, and said coquettishly: “Elder, why are you hiding? Do I smell bad? No way… That big bad guy even hugged Lian’er yesterday and said that Lian’er smelled very good.“
Bo Chi’s head hurt, and she didn’t really want to interact with the female lead, so she said perfunctorily: “You smell good, you smell very good, none of the pig trotters I’ve eaten before smell as good as you.“
Bai Lian’s eyes widened: “Elder! You and I are both cultivators, we shouldn’t eat grains, how can you eat pork?“
Bo Chi: “…If cultivating immortality can’t even give you the freedom to eat pork, then what’s the point of cultivating immortality!“
Bai Lian’s eyes turned red, and she covered her heart with her hand: “Y-You, Elder, this disciple is talking to you nicely, why are you being so mean to me?“
A question mark appeared above Bo Chi’s head. Just as she was about to speak, a hearty voice came: “Who dares to bully my woman in this Demon Palace?“
The person strode over, casually put his arm around the pitiful Bai Lian, looked up and saw Bo Chi’s dumbfounded expression, and then froze: “It’s you? Why aren’t you with your little black dragon, but arguing with my concubine?“
“Concubine?” Bo Chi leaned back tactically: “She’s a disciple of our Starry Constellation Sect, you took her as your concubine, is she willing? Is her master willing? Are her deceased parents and relatives willing?“
Hearing the words ‘parents and relatives’, Bai Lian covered her face and started crying, pushed Gu Heng away, and said tearfully: “You killed my mother, and you still want me to be your concubine? You’re dreaming!“
The Demon Lord hummed, and said casually: “The cultivation world is a place where the strong prey on the weak. Your parents are just mortals, if they don’t die at my hands today, they will die at the hands of others tomorrow. The lives of the weak are not in their own control, what’s the difference between dying at my hands and dying at the hands of others?“
Bai Lian cried, and threw herself at him: “I’ll kill you!“
The Demon Lord easily grabbed her arm, licked his lips with a wicked smile, and said: “What a wild little cat, you want to kill me? Good, then slowly kill me in bed!“
He laughed loudly, picked Bai Lian up, turned around, and was about to leave.
Bo Chi saw Bai Lian struggling, frowned, and was about to stop them, when Bai Lian saw her.
Bai Lian immediately glared at her, and said angrily: “I don’t need your fake kindness. Compared to a vicious person like you who harms animals, I’d rather be with this big bad guy!“
Bo Chi slowly retracted her foot, and watched them leave with an expressionless face, and by the way, asked the system: {Why is there such a stupid protagonist? When Nuwa was creating her, did she only focus on her face and forget about her brain?}
{?} The system was surprised: {Isn’t Bai Lian quite normal?}
Bo Chi: {You call this normal??}
System: {Yes, compared to Lan Zi Xue Jin Meng Li Thomas Q Mei Xian, isn’t Bai Lian normal enough?}
Bo Chi was speechless: {If you’re comparing her to that… okay, you win.}
Bo Chi, who had nothing to say, stood outside for a while, washed her mind by admiring the skeleton flowers, and then slowly returned to the palace.
Yu Zhao and Miao Nu had already discussed their plan, and at this time, she was talking to a palace maid in front of the hall. Seeing Bo Chi come back, she waved her hand at the palace maid.
The palace maid bowed and left. Yu Zhao walked to Bo Chi, and said softly: “Where did you go to play?“
Bo Chi: “To observe the diversity of human species.“
Yu Zhao: “?”
Bo Chi shook her head faintly, and changed the subject: “Do you still remember Bai Lian?“
Yu Zhao thought for a while, and nodded: “She was a villager from Zhao Family Village with me. After the village was destroyed, she and I were taken to the Starry Constellation Sect together. After I became Master’s disciple, I don’t know where she went. Why did Master mention her? Could it be that Master… wants to take her in as a disciple of the Twenty-Second Peak too?“
As she spoke, Yu Zhao clearly became jealous, her eyes fixed on Bo Chi, as if she would angrily transform into a wolf and pounce on her if Bo Chi dared to say ‘yes’.
The beastly nature of the dragon blood still had a great influence on Yu Zhao. She herself might not have noticed it, but Bo Chi, the victim, could see it clearly. In addition, she didn’t intend to take the female lead as her disciple at all, so she hurriedly denied: “No, I just saw her behind the palace just now, so I asked casually.“
“You saw Bai Lian here?” Yu Zhao grasped the key point: “This is the Demon Palace, she’s a disciple of the immortal sect, why would she be here?“
The words ‘in love’ rolled around in Bo Chi’s throat, and in the end, she still changed them to: “I don’t know either.“
Yu Zhao nodded thoughtfully, thought for a while, narrowed her eyes, smiled at Bo Chi, and said with a smile that looked like an old fox: “Master, go inside and rest first, I’ll walk around the Demon Palace.“
Bo Chi just happened to not want to wander around anymore, and entered the palace.
Not long after, the Demon Palace suddenly wanted to hold a flower viewing banquet. Not only would the four demon generals be present, but the Demon Lord’s new favorite would also perform a dance.
When Bo Chi heard this news from Yu Zhao, her pupils shook: “Wait, flower viewing? What flowers? It’s not those white flowers growing from the big eyeballs, is it?“
Yu Zhao had been busy with things these past few days, and hadn’t paid attention to the flowers in the Demon Palace at all. Now seeing Bo Chi’s subtle expression, she couldn’t help but be stunned: “It shouldn’t be… right? Maybe it’s normal flowers.“
Bo Chi: “Are there normal flowers in the demon realm?“
Yu Zhao thought for a while, slightly tilted her head, and a pair of shiny white dragon horns suddenly appeared on her head.
She pointed at the red gold lotuses on the tips of her dragon horns, her eyes smiling, and hinted: “Is this flower normal? Does Master like it?“
Bo Chi blinked: “I like it.“
Just as Yu Zhao’s smile deepened, she heard Bo Chi add: “After all, I gave it to you.“
…
Okay, her master really only had eyes for flowers.
Yu Zhao sighed inwardly, and at the same time felt a little emotional.
The more she interacted with her master, the stranger she felt. Judging from her master’s occasional cluelessness, just how lucky was she to have tricked her master?
Yu Zhao couldn’t figure this out.
And Bo Chi had already shifted her attention: “The Demon Lord’s new favorite is performing a dance? Is it Bai Lian?“
Yu Zhao came back to her senses, and nodded: “Yes, she will be performing a dance called ‘Swallow in the Clouds’. If Master is interested…“
Bo Chi thought she would say ‘Then let’s go and watch‘, but Yu Zhao changed her words: “Then I’ll learn it and perform it for Master in private, how about that?“
Bo Chi hesitated for a moment, and finally honestly said what was in her heart: “…Actually, I prefer musical instruments to dancing.“
Yu Zhao became interested: “What musical instrument does Master like? Guzheng? Pipa?“
Bo Chi shook her head, and said seriously: “Suona.“