Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 155 - 53 Freaks [Looking for monthly votes!]_1

Chapter 155: Chapter 53 Freaks [Looking for monthly votes!]_1

Running away from home?

Chu Liang turned his head back, looking at the clear four characters on the plaque of Xuanyuan Villa, which was less than a hundred feet away...

He then looked back at Ji Lingyu, who was standing beside him, and couldn’t help but comment, "You must be really tired from running so far."

"Hehe..." Ji Lingyu gave an embarrassed laugh and replied, "You don’t understand, it’s not like I’m trying to get very far. Our family is very strict with family members leaving. I’ve tried to run away many times before, but every time my elders would predict my whereabouts using the Search Heaven and Earth technique. So this time, I decided to do the opposite and just stay on the outskirts of Xuanyuan Villa. The Emperor Hong Valley has a shield that blocks divine foresights so no one can foresee my location, this way I am safe from search."

"Miss Ji is indeed clever," Chu Liang praised, he then asked, "But then you can’t really leave home if you can’t get far away, and if you go too far away, you are easy to be caught, so what’s the point of running away?"

"..." Ji Lingyu paused for a moment, then said, "Well, anyway, I just need to remain hidden for a few days this time, and I don’t feel like explaining more to you."

"Alright." Chu Liang wasn’t intrusive about her personal affairs, and he stood and wished, "May you have a smooth journey, Miss Ji."

Since Ji Lingyu didn’t know the whereabouts of Thirteenth Auntie and more conversations with her would prove pointless, he decided to return to Shu Mountain right away.

As he was leaving, he could still hear Ji Lingyu murmuring to herself, "This time I will surely beat my eighth brother..."

After bidding farewell to Ji Lingyu, he mounted his Golden Fur Beast furiously and left Emperor Hong Valley.

Though sitting on the Golden Fur Beast and flying did not particularly hasten his journey, he still felt a sense of prestige. He wished to fly lower so that people on the ground could see him.

Using a Fifth Realm Spiritual Beast as a mount, this was not something an ordinary cultivator could afford! It was an evident sign of his importance.

Ordinary cultivators could barely catch such a beast, let alone afford or feed them.

It was said that in places where cultivators gathered, such as the Penglai Three Islands, Taotie City, or Yu Capital City, there were dedicated high-level mount rental businesses. Many people were willing to pay to experience it.

There were even people who hired Fifth or Sixth Realm mounts to pose as children of aristocratic families or second-generation Immortal Sect members to deceive female cultivators. There was no shortage of successful tricksters.

However, not long after he flew away, Chu Liang noticed something was wrong.

Sitting on the back of the Golden Fur Beast, he always felt like there was a thorn in his back... this was a feeling of being watched, a sensation you would only experience after reaching a certain level in divine sense cultivation. It seemed like he was being watched by someone?

This feeling made Chu Liang uneasy.

In this vast sky with no hint of a figure in sight, who could have been following him?

After a brief thought, he could no longer bear it, he drew his Dustless Sword and used the Hundred Sword Technique to surround himself.

With the circle of sword glow guarding his body, he felt slightly relieved. Then, he summoned the Treasure Leaf Lantern and kindled the Red Lotus Divine Fire, lighting up all around him.

In the light of the divine fire, a spectral figure finally appeared.

It was sitting at the tail of the Golden Fur Beast, not far behind Chu Liang!

"Who’s there?" Chu Liang called out, aiming all the sword lights at the spectral figure.

"Please don’t attack, fellow cultivator, I mean no harm."

A voice rang out, and the spectral figure gradually took form, transforming into a young man with a fair complexion.

The young man was dressed in a pale yellow robe, he had slim eyes, neat brows, and white skin. He looked somewhat similar to Ji Lingyu, whom Chu Liang had just met.

However, his pupils were blue.

Chu Liang guessed that he was probably from the Ji Family as well. He didn’t let down his guard, but only said, "Identify yourself."

"I’m Ji Lingfeng, the eighth in the line of the Ji family." The young man greeted with a bow, then smiled, "I saw you chatting with my younger sister, Ji Lingyu."

"So it’s the Eighth Young Master of the Ji family." Chu Liang nodded and continued to ask, "Why did you follow me on this Golden Fur Beast?"

"Well, it’s like this..." Ji Lingfeng was very cooperative with Chu Liang’s wariness, maintaining a hands-up posture and patiently explaining, "I had a little bet with my younger sister as to who could stay away from home longer. Although I used my invisibility skill to sneak out, as soon as I use Wind Control Flight, I will leave a trace of my Qi, which may be traced by the elders in my family. That’s why I wanted to hitch a ride on your mount and cover some distance. If you hadn’t noticed, I would have quietly hopped off after a while. I apologize for startling you."

"But isn’t there the Search Heaven and Earth that can predict the secrets of heaven, won’t you be found that way?" Chu Liang looked puzzled.

"Well, I have this," Ji Lingfeng held up three old brass coins, "which can help me hide my secrets from heaven for three days. Even if I get caught and sent back after three days, I should still be able to beat my younger sister."

"Doesn’t your invisibility divine skill also leak True Qi fluctuations?" Chu Liang asked again.

Actually, he already felt that Ji Lingfeng was not lying, but the latter’s arrival was indeed strange, so he was still carefully scrutinizing all the oddities in his words.

"This is a natural gift of the Xuanyuan Pupil, not a sort of divine skill." Ji Lingfeng explained, "You may not understand, but each color of our Ji family’s Xuanyuan Pupil possesses a different extraordinary ability, and what I possess is invisibility."

"I see..." Chu Liang finally nodded with relief.

About the different extraordinary abilities of the Xuanyuan Pupil with various colors, he had also heard, but he had never been fully familiar with them. It seemed that the blue Xuanyuan Pupil of Ji Lingfeng corresponded to the concealment of his form.

An invisibility spell that doesn’t leak True Qi fluctuations... thinking about it, it was rather terrifying.

"Alright, now that I’ve explained it to you, I’ll be leaving first." Ji Lingfeng waved his hand, "Brother, we shall meet again if we are destined to."

As his voice was still echoing, his body tilted back and he drifted away into the high sky. In a moment, he disappeared into the clouds and his whereabouts became unknown.

"Hey..."

Chu Liang tried to speak, but before he could, Ji Lingfeng had already disappeared.

"Riding the Golden Fur Beast was free, eh?"

He weakly added, then sat down again. The sense of being spied on disappeared at this point and peace finally returned to his mind.

However, thinking about the Ji siblings he had just met, he still felt a little amused.

These two were far from being ordinary children of aristocratic families. They could be called the top cultivator-legacies in the Mortal Realm, not playing with anything else, competing in running away from home.

They were indeed strange.

...

Whew.

In the dark hall, a high platform with more than a hundred black candlesticks lay in the distance, some burning, some extinguished.

Just now, another had been snuffed out. The candlesticks placed in the south and southwest directions had been almost entirely wiped out, leaving only three with flickering flames still persisting.

"Marquis, it seems that the South Route Guide and Southwest Route Guide have both died in Zhennan Region’s Mountain, and almost all of the Earth Slaying Envoys and Soul Envoys under their command were wiped out." A man in black stood beneath the hall, calmly reporting.

On the chair in the hall sat an intimidating figure.

This was a middle-aged man in an ornate robe and high hat. Although he should have cut a dashing figure, he was curled up in the seat, his face contorted in pain. If you took a closer look, you’d see that the majority of his left torso was completely vacant!

That’s right, the entirety of this man’s left torso was missing, leaving a semicircular gap. Despite this, he was still alive! The remaining flesh of his body was continuously trying to spread and grow, but every time it extended some buds, a force like golden flames would appear and completely grind away the new flesh buds.

This process made a horrifying sizzling sound.

"Ah―" The process was clearly extremely painful. The middle-aged man groaned in anguish, gritting his teeth, "They were dutiful subordinates to me, now they’re all dead. Seems that once I get out, there will be few people left who can serve me."

"Marquis, be assured, your influence within the sect is still strong, as long as you recuperate and return, responses will flood in." The man in black bowed his head and said.

"Difficult also." The middle-aged man let out a sigh, "In the past, the Silver King and I could barely hold our own against the Four Halls. Now the Silver King is dead, and I, the sole remaining protector, am all alone. How can I restore my former status?"

The man in black stayed silent.

After a while, the middle-aged man cast a glance at the flickering flames on the high platform, "Three little ones are still left. Being able to escape from Zhennan Region’s Mountain, they are quite lucky."

"There are also hidden talents among Soul Envoys." The man in black said.

"Didn’t you say earlier that you were going to take the chance to insert people into the Four Halls? Send these few over as well, otherwise these few remaining candles are useless." The middle aged man casually said.

"Yes." The man in black bowed and took the order.

"Ah..."

A gust of flesh buds was annihilated again, causing the middle-aged man to let out another painful roar. The calm expression in his eyes seemed to imply that he had become numb to this extreme pain.

"I have now witnessed the power of the Mirror Sky Eight Diagrams. He gazed up at the sky, and said bitterly, "Jiu Yi! If the day comes when I, the Purple Gold Marquis, return, I will make you pay a hundredfold for this pain!"

"Ah..."