Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 322 - 6 Wake Up, Time to Work [Seeking monthly tickets!] _1

Chapter 322: Chapter 6 Wake Up, Time to Work [Seeking monthly tickets!] _1

Chu Liang used a puppet to lead the way, the four of them advancing together soon passed through the courtyard. In the blink of an eye, they saw a fork in the road surrounded by landscape corridors.

"Which way should we go?"

This question suddenly stumped everyone.

Splitting up was absolutely out of the question, and if they chose the wrong path, they could potentially miss their target. But there was no guidance, are they supposed to rely on luck?

Chu Liang pondered for a moment and said to Jiang Yuebai: "Senior Sister Jiang, let the girl ghost out."

"Let her out?" Jiang Yuebai, though unsure of Chu Liang’s intentions, flipped her palm and pulled the ghost out.

"So you’ve captured her!" Chen Luo, who was on Ling Ao’s back, exclaimed in surprise.

He was severely injured by this ghost dressed in white.

The girl ghost in white said nothing.

Both had past grievances, but now one was on Ling Ao’s back and the other under Jiang Yuebai’s control, neither had the mood to make a fuss.

Chu Liang asked the ghost girl: "You said you would lead us to the treasure, so the treasure you spoke of should be around here, right? Show us the way."

The girl ghost glanced around. She didn’t seem to expect that they would come to the Shen family’s deserted garden on their own. After pondering for a moment, she pointed to a path, saying, "This way."

"Let’s follow her." Chu Liang says.

As they moved, Jiang Yuebai asked uneasily, "Can we trust her?"

"Of course not." Chu Liang says confidently, "Everyone else says there are resentful spirits and evil objects here, while she says there are treasures. If we believed such nonsense, we’d be fools. She’s most likely trying to trap us."

"However..." he turned his words, "Because she wants to deceive us, she will definitely take us to the most dangerous place. If Senior Brother Xu and Miss Mu Xi encountered danger, they’re likely to be there. Even if we know it’s dangerous, we still have to go and check."

Upon hearing him, Jiang Yuebai slightly nodded.

However, the ghost girl leading the way stiffened.

Shouldn’t you guys sneak a word behind my back... Does this not make me seem stupid?

She immediately turned back and said: "Young heroes, I assure you that there’s not a single lie in what I have said, everything is..."

"All of it is true, right?" Chu Liang interrupted: "The wish-fulfilling treasure you spoke of might not be just a lie, but I guess there will also be a heavy price to pay for achieving the wish. There is no free lunch in the world, and I understand this principle. We’re short on time, so hurry up and help us find that treasure or evil object you’re talking about. Let’s see what mystery it holds. Otherwise, do you know that I’ve got another ghost called Fei in my possession? If you keep talking, I’m going to throw you in to cohabit with it for months."

The girl ghost dressed in white stared at Chu Liang blankly. Did he really see through everything she said from the very first word?

But she could only comply and turned around to continue leading the way.

The path was quite smooth, and they soon came to a wall. The middle section of the wall had collapsed, leaving a dark hole that seemed to lead to another world.

Chen Luo suddenly shouted: "Mu Xi is here!"

He held a severely wilted laurel petal in his hand, which was flashing a weak light. Since they entered the deserted garden, he lost contact with Mu Xi through the petal. Now he sensed the signal again, which indicated that she was very close!

Looking at the hole, Chu Liang said: "It seems we have to go and see."

Whoosh-

Chu Liang sent one of his puppets to explore the darkness first, but as soon as it entered, he lost contact with it.

"A secret realm?" He murmured to himself.

The sudden disconnection was not due to encountering an attack, but rather as if the two were no longer in the same world. Chu Liang’s puppet technique still lacked the ability to cross realms.

"Never mind, I’ll go in and have a look myself." Chu Liang firmly stated.

Both Senior Brother Xu and the flower demon might be in danger inside. Although the situation was unclear, he still decided to give it a shot. The place might be dangerous, but with the life-saving jade charm given to him by the Sect Leader, his courage was somewhat emboldened.

"I’ll go with you." Jiang Yuebai said immediately.

"I have a way to protect myself, don’t worry." Chu Liang said.

"I won’t be at ease if you go down alone..." Jiang Yuebai shook her head: "Besides, as the chief, I should be at the forefront."

Chu Liang looked at the concern in her eyes and was about to speak.

Ling Ao interjected: "Whoever goes down, the people left above will undoubtedly worry. We should all go together and just leave me to guard him."

"..." As he said so candidly, Chu Liang and Jiang Yuebai’s faces instantly turned red.

Jiang Yuebai turned around and said: "I would be worried about any of the Shu Mountain disciples."

Without looking back again, she quickly plunged herself into the darkness.

Chu Liang also hurriedly said: "Precisely, precisely."

After saying that, he also jumped into the hole.

After the two of them went down, Ling Ao smirked: "If you’re not guilty, why the guilty conscience?"

Chen Luo put on a knowing smile and nodded: "Indeed."

...

Red candles, wedding characters, and colorful ribbons hung high.

This was an old storage room, a maid dressed in yellow was dusting inside. But her gaze was distant, as if she was thinking about something?

When Chu Liang and Jiang Yuebai landed, what they saw was a scene like this.

Images seemed to play in front of them, blurring the lines between reality and illusion.

"Why can the young lady be born so beautiful, why was I born as a plain-looking maid, while she can be adored by thousands... Even Brother Su Qian wants to pin flowers for her... If she wasn’t already married, wouldn’t she have taken Brother Su Qian away?"

"Our childhood bond is not even compared to just one glance at her?"

"Men..."

She dusted absent-mindedly, and all of a sudden, a box on the shelf slipped from her hand. The long case fell to the ground with a thud, startling her.

She looked down to see a pure white, long-necked porcelain vase roll out, spinning a few rounds on the ground, thankfully without shattering.

Just as the maid in yellow was about to put the vase back, she heard an old voice coming from within, "Do you have a wish?"

"I..." The maid in yellow was taken aback, yet as if beguiled by some force, she wasn’t initially frightened, but rather started pondering her wish, "I want to become a young mistress..."

"I can fulfill your wish, I just need a drop of your blood. Drip your blood into this, and your wish will be granted..." The voice was filled with temptation.

"Really?" The maid in yellow was dumbstruck. After hesitating for a moment, she actually bit her finger and dropped a droplet of blood into the vase.

Whoosh--

In an instant, dazzling black light surged from the mouth of the vase, converging into the figure of a hunched old man.

The old man gently placed his hand on the maid’s head. The black light swallowed her up and only dissipated after a while. Following this, the maid in yellow had turned into a beautiful woman wearing white!

She was a spitting image of the white-clad female ghost they saw just now!

So...

She had similarly been through this.

The scene abruptly changed, transforming into a young man dressed in magnificent attire. He looked at the vase with a face full of shock that soon morphed into bewilderment.

"I... I want to serve in the court..." He said slowly, "The Shen family’s business is already quite large, but without holding office, we’re like rootless duckweed."

"Is it just holding an office that you want?" The old man in a black robe lowered his voice, tempting him, "Don’t you want to dream bigger? I can fulfill anything, including... what your ancestors once aspired to, overthrow this dynasty and let you sit on the emperor’s throne..."

"Huh?" The well-dressed young man’s mouth gaped open. After a long pause, he finally said, "I dare not dream so much, I would be satisfied with taking on the position of Prime Minister."

The scene changed yet again.

This time, a plainly-dressed man appeared. Looking at the Treasure Vase, he made a wish: "I hope to have a great industry like the Shen family! To become a wealthy tycoon!"

The scene kept changing like this, each person in the Shen family had come here to make a wish, and each dropped a droplet of blood into the vase.

As they watched, the black light in the vase grew brighter and brighter, like the gleam on a soap bubble, and finally burst with a pop!

Everything in sight disappeared in an instant.

Only the figure of the black-robed old man remained. He suddenly turned around and looked at Chu Liang and Jiang Yuebai.

"What are your wishes?" He asked in a hoarse, deep voice.

Jiang Yuebai shook her head.

Chu Liang looked at him and suddenly laughed, "I do have a wish."

"Oh?" The black-robed old man looked at him, "Tell me, I can fulfill any wish."

Chu Liang said, "My wish is for you to grant me three wishes."

"Hm?" The black-robed old man stiffened one. Black light flickered in his eyes and after a long pause, it turned into anger, "If you don’t want to wish to me, then you will never be able to leave here! Think on that!"

With that said, his figure whizzed away and disappeared.

Immediately, they were plunged into darkness.

Chu Liang lifted his hand to cast the Fierce Light Technique, instantly illuminating the space.

They could see that this space was the size of a room, with white porcelain lining the arched walls and flooring.

"It seems like we are inside the Treasure Vase?" Jiang Yuebai said.

"It looks that way." Chu Liang tried to slash the porcelain wall with his sword.

Clang--

The sword aura hit it, but didn’t leave a single mark; only producing a dull sound.

"It’s pretty hard." He murmured.

Jiang Yuebai levitated her sword and skillfully cast the Heavenly Sword Technique. A huge sword aura exploded!

Boom—

In the exploding sound, sword aura splashed around, but the porcelain wall remained unscathed.

"It looks like it’s an artifact that we cannot break at our current levels." She also said.

Chu Liang looked up, the top was pitch black, he couldn’t see any exit.

"It seems we’re stuck. But why is it that this old man doesn’t just kill us outright, instead insisting that we make wishes? I guess..." He paused for moment, "he is not coming from a place of good intentions, right?"

"This reminds me of a legend from the Southern Region," Jiang Yuebai suddenly said. "In ancient times, there was a Witch God who created many evil spirits. Among them was one called the ’Wish Spirit’, it drew power from the desires of people’s wishes. The Witch God had his Wish Spirit roam the Mortal Realm, granting the wishes of his followers."

"Really?" Chu Liang pondered. "But looking at what happened to those who made wishes, there seems to be a price to pay, right?"

Indeed, the thought of having any wish granted was enticing. But considering the fates of those who made wishes in the shadow just now, none of them seemed to have a good outcome, right?

Something was amiss.

"I don’t know." Jiang Yuebai shook her head. "Even if he can’t do anything to us, we’re still stuck here."

"Yeah, we’re not going to die together here, are we?" said Chu Liang.

Jiang Yuebai remained silent.

"If that’s the case, I’ll make a wish to let you out and to keep you safe and happy for the rest of your life." Chu Liang spoke tenderly.

Jiang Yuebai looked at him, hesitated a moment, and finally said, "Stop pretending, I know you have a plan."

"Heh, heh..." Chu Liang’s ruse was spoiled. He scratched his head, "How come you have so much faith in me?"

"You’re not the type to give up easily." Jiang Yuebai smiled as well.

Chuckling, Chu Liang reached out and took out a sleeping fat butterfly, whispering, "Wake up, it’s time to work."