Chapter 406: Senior brother, drive away the fox and swallow the wolf
The next day, early in the morning, a rooster crow broke through the night. The waiter of Yusha Pavilion yawned and pulled down the wooden board that sealed the door, preparing to welcome the guests of the next day.
In the hut at the back, Ye Anping had already changed into a robe to protect against wind and sand, cleaned up the dark alley left by Xiao Yunluo on the haystack of the hut, and came to the lobby. When he stayed at the hotel last night, the shopkeeper of Yusha Pavilion thought that in the immortal city occupied by the demon clan, there were several human cultivators with Xuanxing Sect badges coming, so he did not find out the identity of Ye Anping and others, or even their faces. He didn’t even see them and let them stay.
But Ye Anping was not wearing a hat at this moment. When he walked past the counter, the shopkeeper stared at him twice. The more he looked, the more he felt that something was wrong. After thinking for a while, he remembered that he had seen this person before.
Just a few days before the monster clan captured Yu Guan, a handsome young master in the foundation-building stage came to him and bought a green spiritual sword. The shopkeeper vaguely remembered that the young master was only in the middle stage of foundation-building at that time.
He counted his fingers and stopped at the fourth finger. After not seeing each other for just four years, this young master formed a core in one fell swoop from the middle stage of foundation-building. Judging from the aura, this core was probably at least a first-grade golden elixir.
There was a monster born in the Immortal family with unparalleled qualifications. Why hadn’t he heard any news about it?
Ye Anping lazily walked to a square table in the corner of the lobby and sat down. He noticed that the shopkeeper had been staring at him for a long time, but he did not take the initiative to talk to him. Instead, he pretended not to see it and took a seat. He took out a few spiritual stones from his bag and shouted to the shop assistant at the door:
“Boy, here are four bowls of herbal tea… Kill some chickens for me by the way, and I will take them away after they are bled.”
After hearing the sound, the man from Yusha Pavilion ran over and took the spirit stone from Ye Anping’s hand:
“Okay~~. Master, please wait a moment, I’ll just…”
However, just when the spirit stone was about to fall into his hands, the shopkeeper suddenly walked out from the counter, stepped forward and bowed his hands:
“My eyes were too slow to recognize you yesterday. I didn’t expect that after just a few years, you would have already formed a golden core when I saw you again. Please accept my belated congratulations on your mastery of the golden core.”
“Shopkeeper, do you still remember me?”
The shopkeeper felt a little ashamed and replied respectfully, “Young Master Liang was wearing a hood yesterday, and even this junior didn’t see it. But you have a handsome face that few people in the four domains can match. How could I forget it?”
“Really.”
Ye Anping didn’t want to hear these flattery words from him anymore. He came to Yusha Pavilion to take a rest, and also to find out some information, so he directly added the secret message:
“Shopkeeper, please bring me a bowl of Yusha’s second-best tea.”
The shopkeeper nodded in understanding and immediately used his eyes to urge the boy next to him to kill the chicken. He sat down at the table and lowered his voice:
“What does Mr. Liang want to inquire about this time?”
“Eastern Domain.”
“Demon cultivator…” The shopkeeper stroked his beard lightly and nodded to express his understanding, “There are some rumors that since the fall of the Emperor of the Central Domain, although the monster clan has occupied most of the immortal cities in the Central Domain, except for the high-level monster clan, the remaining most monsters are savage earth spirits, and you should have heard the cat meowing in the alley last night…”
Ye Anping understood what he meant. In the eyes of human cultivators, most low-level monsters were similar to uncivilized ape men, and they had no moral code at all.
Although there were monsters like Hu Mu who were fully human, they were in the minority after all. In other words, it was almost impossible for the demon clan to manage the hundreds of immortal cities in the central domain by themselves.
“In other words, the shopkeeper thinks that the Demon King is going to give away some of the immortal cities?”
“It’s very possible.” The shopkeeper stroked his beard and said solemnly, “Previously in Yuelong Town, the black market thugs saw a group of Ghost Spirit Sect disciples led by a late-stage Nascent Soul demon cultivator, carrying a large bag. The small bag of things is heading toward Tian’an City, probably to please the Demon Emperor…”
“How many days ago did you say before?”
“The news came about three days ago. It must have been four or five days since they passed through Yuelong Town.”
“That’s it, thank you…”
After knowing what he wanted to know, Ye Anping was not stingy. He took out a large bag of about fifty or sixty thousand spiritual stones from his storage bag and wanted to hand it over.
However, the shopkeeper quickly pushed it back and said, “Just think of it as an acquaintance. If Mr. Liang has anything inconvenient for him to take action in the future, please think about our Yusha Pavilion…”
Ye Anping didn’t refuse, he held his hands and said with a smile, “Then Liang will remember it.”
When the two of them talked about this, the waiter also brought herbal tea and killed live chickens. Ye Anping nodded in greeting, lowered his eyes, and thought to himself. In addition to confirming the discrepancy between the Donghuang Great Wall incident and the game, he asked the shopkeeper about these things, and most importantly, he wanted to find out where the person who went to Tian’an City to give gifts to the Demon Emperor was.
The late Nascent Soul demon cultivator who was sent to Tian’an City by the leader of the Ghost Spirit Sect was the first pawn in his plan.
And now it seemed that the time was just right…
Ye Anping didn’t leave the shopkeeper to chat. After taking away the roast chicken, he sat alone at the table, watching the monsters coming and going outside the restaurant door, waiting for Feng Yudie and his junior sister to come down.
As far as he knew, the demon cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage was a poison cultivator who was originally sent as an envoy to negotiate peace with the Demon Emperor, hoping that the Demon Emperor would ignore Donghuang. But what if, at the same time that the messenger of the demon cultivator arrived in Tian’an City, Hu Mu’s most precious disciple happened to be abducted by a demon cultivator who used poison…
This is called driving “foxes” to swallow wolves.
Ye Anping was thinking his plan in his mind, and soon he heard the chatter of his junior sister and others upstairs:
“Yunluo, you didn’t rest last night, okay? You can’t walk straight no matter what.”
“Well…”
“I know! Junior Sister Pei and Young Master Ye practiced leg training with Senior Sister Xiao last night. I saw her staggering when she came out of Young Master Ye’s room…”
“?”
“Ouch – Lianxue, I… I was wrong… I’ll ask you to go with me next time…”
“Huh? Junior sister Pei also wants to practice her legs. I also…”
“No!!” “You can’t!”
“Oh…”
…
Ye Anping felt a little confused as he listened. He turned around and saw that his junior sister and others had also put on simple dresses and walked down from the second floor.
Feng Yudie saw that he seemed to have been waiting for a long time. She thought he had prepared breakfast chicken for her, so she ran to the table, but the next moment she turned her head slightly, put the tip of her nose next to Ye Anping’s shoulder, and nodded, asking doubtfully:
“Young Master Ye, have you been poisoned?”
“Is your nose a dog’s?”
Ye Anping quickly pushed her face away, then turned up his sleeve and exposed his left arm. He saw that the white arm was now wrapped around an insect that looked like a centipede and a scorpion, with the mouthparts of a poisonous insect. Pricking directly under the skin, sucking blood into the belly as if eating.
Pei Lianxue and Xiao Yunluo were so frightened that they immediately wanted to tear off the poisonous insect, but Ye Anping raised his hand to avoid it.
“Ah? Senior brother…”
“It’s okay, it’s just raising intent, just like when I was a child.” Ye Anping raised his hand and grabbed Pei Lianxue’s face, “Junior sister, where do you think I found so many poisonous insects to feed you?”
Pei Lianxue also realized that this was probably part of her senior brother’s plan, and she twisted her eyebrows and replied:
“But… Senior brother, shall I do it?”
“Senior brother is not willing to let you raise him… Besides, your blood can’t support him.”
Seeing that both Feng Yudie and Xiao Yunluo had worried expressions on their faces, he twisted the poisonous bug off his hand and put it back into the cup in his storage bag. He pulled down his long sleeves, took out the bamboo hat, and put it on his head:
“It’s getting late, drink herbal tea quickly, we have to continue on our way…”
Then, he stood up and walked out of the restaurant door. After Feng Yudie and the others came out, they walked out of the inner door of Yu Guan City, stepped on the flying sword, and headed toward the depths of the desert in the east of Yu Guan.
…
The seven days passed by in a blink of an eye.
The four of them moved their swords across thousands of miles of yellow sand, passed through mountains that stretched for hundreds of miles, and finally arrived in front of Tian’an City, which was hung by countless chains between the mountains.
At dusk, the sun sets the sky red.
Ye Anping took Pei Lianxue and others to a nearby mountain peak and looked down from top to bottom at the former capital city of the Imperial Sect. However, the ever-lit lanterns of the last time they came there were nowhere to be seen. fire. It was probably a coincidence that just when the four of them had just landed on the ground, a cloud suddenly floated over the top of the mountain to the east of Tian’an City. Even from such a long distance, they could feel the sound mixed in the cloud. The spirit of evil spirits.
“It seems we just happened to meet it. Originally, we thought we would have to wait outside the city for two days.”
Ye Anping murmured, then turned to the people behind him and said, “Junior sister, just wait for me here. I can go alone, and you can take care of me here…”
“Well, senior brother, be careful.”
…
Boom~~Boom——
The spiritual bell sounded from the Drum Tower and spread to the streets and alleys of Tian’an City. On the streets of the Western District, countless half-human monsters were walking and stopping, and the aroma of delicacies from the shops filled the entire street.
A small fox demon with a pair of pointed ears, accompanied by two or three fox tribe maids, was jumping in the middle of the street, swinging two candied haws in her hand.
Seeing that it was almost nightfall, one of the fox-eared maids beside her came forward and reminded her softly, “Miss, it’s getting late, let’s go back early, shall we? If your Majesty sees you not staying in the house at night, he will get angry again…”
“He gets angry while I walk around my street, and I can let Master play hide and seek with me later~~.”
Xue Tianqiao pursed her lips and snickered, looking around the street to find her hiding place today.
After hearing this, the fox clan maid next to her was full of panic for a moment and quickly advised, “Ah… Miss, you still…”
But before she finished speaking, Xue Tianqiao was surrounded by a snow-white aura, and her figure, which was originally like a little human girl, shrank into a ball in an instant.
The clothes she wore that were made in the style of a human immortal cultivator also lost their support in an instant and fell in the middle of the street.
Several fox maids surrounding her couldn’t react for a long time, and suddenly heard several fox calls coming from the dark alley on one side of the street:
“Ah Ah Ah~~.”
Turning around, he saw Xue Tianqiao, who had transformed into a little white fox, standing in front of the dark alley. She called to them a few times, then turned around and rushed into the depths of the alley.
From what they heard, she wanted them to play hide and seek with her…
The fox clan maids all showed a little helplessness on their faces, but they also understood that this was the temperament of the young lady they were serving.
Xue Tianqiao had a restless temper. Ever since the Demon King brought her to Tian’an City, she had been wandering around the city almost every day. At first, Hu Mu didn’t pay much attention to her. As long as she didn’t leave the city, she would not encounter anything dangerous. But one time while playing this little game of “Hide the fox”, Xue Tian happened to hide for four days without coming out. Hu Mu thought she had been kidnapped and mobilized dozens of Nascent Soul stage demon cultivators to search for her. They searched for hundreds of miles around Tian’an City, but finally found her hiding in the well behind the Tian’an City Palace…
That time, Hu Mu scolded her for several hours, and then confined her to the back hall of the Tian’an City Palace, but finally gave her an hour of lookout time.
The head maid sighed and quickly made arrangements:
“Go to the palace and inform your Majesty that the lady is hiding again… Let’s go find her…”
“Yes…”
Then, several people turned into foxes at the same time and chased toward the dark alley.
…
At the same time, inside the main hall of the palace, Hu Mu was wearing a jet black robe embroidered with gold patterns, sitting sideways on the golden dragon chair, holding his cheek slightly with his left fist, ebony-like black vertical pupils, staring intently at the man who was now on one knee in the main hall with several bird-headed roc demons.
Those roc demons, as if they were ministers from the previous dynasty, spoke the demon clan’s language:
“Chi chi chi… chi chi chi—”
Hu Mu narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard this and asked in an extremely cold tone, “People from the Eastern Domain?”
“Jiji…jiji——”
“What’s your purpose?”
“Chirp…”
“So…”
Fox Mu nodded faintly, and the dark plush tail behind him swayed slightly, wrapped around his thigh, and was gently smoothed by his hands. These roc demons were now the city guards of Tian’an City. It was said that several human monks from the Eastern Domain came to the north gate of Tian’an City just now, saying that they had important matters and wanted to see him.
He was silent for a long time, then turned to look at a fox half-demon in civilian robes standing beside him, gesturing for it to speak with his eyes.
The fox demon in uniform immediately fell to the ground on one knee, clutched his chest, lowered his head, and said, “Your Majesty, my current demon tribe doesn’t have much energy to manage the large territory of the Central Domain. It’s not a bad idea to hand over the Donghuang Great Wall and several surrounding immortal cities to them. Those immortal cities now belong to the remnants of the former Emperor Sect’s jurisdiction… There is no need for us to intervene in the internal fighting between their cultivators.”
“Um…”
Hu Mu closed his eyes after hearing this. He also knew this truth. After he took over the territory of the Central Domain’s Emperor Sect, the remaining four sects of the Immortal family, except for the Xuanxing sect, Taibai sect, Wu Nian sect, and Han Tian Kingdom were all watching with eager eyes to attack their monster clan.
Although the old woman of Xuanxing Sect said that she would help their monster clan gain a foothold in the Central Domain it was just delaying the time for Taibai Sect and other immortal sects to invade the Central Domain.
If the monster clan now, for the sake of several immortal cities in Donghuang, becomes an enemy of the human cultivators called “demon cultivators” in the Eastern Domain, they will be attacked from both sides…
What’s more, the monster clan didn’t need such a vast territory now, and it was useless to hold it in their hands. In other words, it would be beneficial to the entire monster clan if he ignored the demon cultivators’ siege on Donghuang.
But…
Hu Mu couldn’t help but think of what the handsome boy who was protected by Mrs. Si said that day when he spent a spirit bead to buy back his fox fur. His Daoist companion, Hu Yulan, died at the hands of the Heavenly Demon Sect.
After a moment of silence, Hu Mu opened his eyes again and looked at Peng Yao below:
“Where do those people from the Eastern Domain belong?”
“Chi chi chi…”
“Ghost Spirit Sect…” Hu Mu frowned slightly, his ebony eyes narrowed slightly, “Then let them come in.”
“Haw!”
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