Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 324 - 8 They Really Are Nice People (Asking for Monthly Votes!) _1

Chapter 324: Chapter 8 They Really Are Nice People (Asking for Monthly Votes!) _1

As the sunlight cast upon everyone’s faces, the abandoned garden of the Shen family had changed its appearance.

All the gloomy winds and demonic aura had been swept away, leaving behind only the ruins that recorded the vicissitudes of over a decade. The previous prosperity seemed like a dream.

At the moment the Treasure Vase shattered, the Wish Spirit disappeared along with all its derivative malevolent beings. The white-clothed female ghost captured by Chu Liang and others, and the yellow-clothed woman captured by Xu Ziyang, all shrieked and crumbled away.

After the white-clothed woman disappeared, half a jade pendant was left behind, falling from the air.

Chu Liang caught it and found that there should be a "Shen" character engraved on it, but it had been broken into two. It seemed to still have a faint spirituality, but it was unclear what it was for.

Considering it was of little monetary value, Chu Liang didn’t bother sharing it with everyone and simply tucked it away.

It wasn’t the first or second time that he had obtained incomplete items like this. He kept it in case it might come in handy in the future. A half-piece iron tag from the Black Dragon Secret Realm had once saved his life.

However, the floating blood in front couldn’t be kept by him alone.

Not just him, none of the people present could dispose of this droplet of blood.

Jiang Yuebai stepped forward, intending to collect the droplet of blood, but as soon as his True Qi touched it, it immediately triggered a boiling reaction, and his True Qi was instantly dissolved.

"Can’t collect it?" Xu Ziyang pondered for a moment, took out a magic artifact jade box used for storing spiritual medicine, took out the herbs inside, and tried to slowly catch the droplet of blood with the jade box from below.

Sizzle——

The jade box instantly corroded into a large hole.

It’s conceivable that if their physical bodies made contact, they would likely suffer a similar fate.

Furthermore, this droplet of blood was filled with negative emotions of evil, fear, anger, cruelty, greed... If they got slightly closer, they could immediately feel the impact.

Fortunately they were cultivators, with a more sensitive awareness of their mental state changes, and they promptly chose to distance themselves from this droplet of Witch God Essence Blood.

"No wonder the Wish Spirit was so evil. With this thing as its source of power, it would have been strange if it wasn’t evil." said Chu Liang.

"This droplet of blood could devour people’s desires. So every time someone made a wish to the Wish Spirit and merged a drop of blood filled with desire into it, it could provide power to the Wish Spirit." Xu Ziyang continued, "It had just woken up in the Shen family at the time and was quickly fed a great deal of power by their desires."

In the previous process, he had roughly understood the Shen family’s situation from the yellow-clothed woman’s words.

The yellow-clothed maid was the first to encounter the Wish Spirit, using the first wish to exchange bodies with the white-clothed lady, which triggered the subsequent nightmare for the Shen family.

After she became the lady, she told her previous lover about this. That’s why the man outside the house had the opportunity to come into contact with the Wish Spirit. He later went to The Government Office to report the situation.

Then disaster struck.

What they didn’t know was that as long as the Wish Spirit fulfilled their wishes, it’s equivalent to completing the transaction, and then they would become the slaves of the Wish Spirit. That drop of blood was the contract. When the people from the Regent Residence came to take the Treasure Vase away, the Wish Spirit sacrificed all the people of the Shen Mansion, turning them into Resentful Spirits, with their power killing the two skilled people from the Regent Residence.

Then there was a passersby who was a powerful cultivator, who, though he could not handle the treasure vase, managed to take away a drop of Witch God Essence Blood. He planned to seal off this area and come back to take this whole Treasure Vase after twenty years or so, when the desire power absorbed by the Wish Spirit was gone completely.

According to what Chen Luo added, this powerful expert should be the Nanyin Square Master.

Nanyin Square Master Yan Yingluo was a famous beauty of the Nine States many years ago, so much so that it was said that half of the Yu Dynasty were her fans.

But she withdrew at the peak of her career, announcing that she would no longer tour and causing quite a stir. Not long after, she took over as the Nanyin Square Master, and everyone realized that she had made a major breakthrough in both cultivation and status.

"But recently, a second person also took away a drop of Witch God Essence Blood. It was a person who lifted the ban here made the white-clad Resentful Spirit able to escape and kill at the Flower Festival." Xu Ziyang also said.

As for who the one who took the second drop of Witch God Essence Blood is, it remains unknown.

There were still some doubts about the Shen family’s story for Chu Liang.

For example, the Wish Spirit could only turn the ones who had their wishes fulfilled into its slaves, and the Shen family’s young master had wished to become the Prime Minister in the Illusion Field.

If his wish was not fulfilled, he shouldn’t have become a Resentful Spirit; if it was fulfilled, there hadn’t been any Prime Ministers from the Shen family throughout the Yu Dynasty in the past decade or so.

Furthermore, if the Shen family was being investigated by the Imperial Court due to their affiliation with the former royal household, and two experts from the Regent Residence also died, then didn’t the Imperial Court have any subsequent action? The Nanyin Square Master could take away a drop of Witch God Essence Blood, and there are many powerful people in the Regent Residence, so there surely were people capable of handling this situation. Why left this place sealed for twenty years?

However, so many years had passed, and they were outsiders who had by chance intercepted some fragments, so it was impossible and unnecessary to try to uncover the whole truth.

...

In the end, everyone stayed here while Chu Liang went back alone to inform the Shu Mountain elders. Elder Chuan Jian came with a special magic artifact and collected this droplet of Witch God Essence Blood.

The top brass of Shu Mountain attached great importance to this.

A drop of True Dragon blood from the Seventh Realm had enabled Ling Ao to gain enough power to rank among the Shu Mountain Top Four at the Third Realm. A drop of Witch God Essence Blood from the Ninth Realm contained not just spirituality but divinity. If it fell into the hands of those with evil intent, it might possibly lead to another disaster.

Logically, the Shu Mountain should have reported the situation to the Regent Residence, and officials from there might come to contest it. In such contest over important items, conflicts between the Imperial Court and Immortal Sect were frequent.

However, Chen Luo and his lover were both saved in Shen family’s abandoned garden, naturally they felt embarrassed to argue with the disciples of Shu Mountain Sect. Therefore, he included in the report that when he arrived, the Witch God Essence Blood had already been seized by the Shu Mountain Sect.

Miss Mu Xi woke up later.

She said she was concerned about Chen Luo’s injuries, so she ventured out of the Laurel Forest to check on him. Suddenly she was hit from behind. She was naturally timid, and the sudden attack scared her. Without looking back, she fled in a hurry.

At that time, the four disciples of Shu Mountain Sect were standing guard, alert and waiting for any evil threats. When a demonic aura suddenly erupted, it was no wonder that Xu Ziyang would chase after it...

From Miss Mu Xi’s perspective, the more she ran, the more the person chased; the more the person chased, the more she ran... In panic, she ran into the deserted Shen family garden where the enchantments had disappeared, and was later tricked by another Resentful Spirit into the Treasure Vase.

The elderly man in black robes appeared immediately, asking her to make a wish. Before she could answer, timid Miss Mu Xi passed out from fear.

Perhaps for this reason, when Chu Liang and Jiang Yuebai entered later, the old man in black robes performed an illusion. Maybe it was to forewarn them of what was happening here, so they wouldn’t be too scared...

As for who was the evildoer that chased Miss Mu Xi into the Shen family’s deserted garden?

Chen Luo was filled with righteous indignation when it came up.

The disciples of the Shu Mountain Sect all turned their heads away.

"I just remembered that I left clothes hanging on the mountain. Brother Chen, I’ll go first," Chu Liang respectfully excused himself.

"I have urgent matters at home," Ling Ao said succinctly.

"Now that this matter is over, we have many things to report to the Sect. We won’t return to the residence," Jiang Yuebai said solemnly.

Xu Ziyang didn’t say a word and was already flying away on his sword.

Chen Luo, holding Miss Mu Xi, looked into the distance and sighed, "Why are they leaving in such a hurry? I wanted to thank them with a grand banquet! My dear, we really owe a lot to these disciples of Shu Mountain Sect; without them, we probably would have never seen each other again."

Miss Mu Xi added, "They are really good people."

...

Outside Shaonan Town, a luxurious boat floated on the Osmanthus River.

On the deck of the boat, several lightly dressed dancers swayed to music. Guests clapped and appreciated their performance, exchanging sips of wine, creating a lively banquet scene.

Separated by a wall in the cabin, the atmosphere was gloomy.

A tall man with red hair and beard, wearing a black robe revealing his chest, sat cross-legged at a table, his eyebrows furrowed, "The drop of Witch God Essence Blood was taken away by a member of Shu Mountain Sect? It really irritated me."

A good-looking young man with a silver scale on his forehead and skin as light as jade sat across from him, looking like a sculpture.

Golden pupils were reflected in the eyes of the young man.

Filling up his cup with wine, he smiled and said, "You broke the seal, so it’s not strange that outsiders took notice of the Shen family’s deserted garden and took away the Witch God’s Essence Blood."

"And you only let me take one drop?" The red-haired man complained, "Isn’t it better to kill that Wish Spirit and take two drops? Do you know how much a drop of Witch God Essence Blood benefits me?"

"Could you have killed that evil spirit? If you could have, would you have held back?" the handsome youth sneered.

"If you help me, I can kill it." The red-haired man glared.

"Why should I help you? It’s useless to me." the handsome youth fluttered his eyelashes, "Be sure you keep in mind, I’m here to keep an eye on you from above and prevent you from causing any more trouble, not to lend a hand."

"You..." The red-haired man was speechless with anger.

"The foolish Lu Chengyou couldn’t help starting up, now there’s only a shred of his soul left, hardly alive. Young Master Xunyang pitied him for a moment and ended up being implicated, being sought after in the Nine States, having to run to the Far West Land just to keep alive." The handsome youth’s tone was cold, "I won’t pay for any of your foolish actions. Once you make a mistake, I’ll be the first one to leave."

His words left the red-haired man at a loss for words. After a long pause, he said, "Can you not always have this attitude? Since we both entered Mars, we’re considered sect mates..."

"Hey—" The handsome youth interrupted him while raising his cup, "Understand this, we’re not sect mates, but partners in crime."

"We fight side by side..." said the red-haired man.

"We’re in collusion." The handsome youth retorted mercilessly, coldly adding, "You’re not going to talk about comradeship with me, are you? That would be ridiculous."

"Hmph!"

Unable to out-talk the handsome youth and feeling like he’d suffered a huge loss, the red-haired man got so angry that he smacked the table, knocking over the food and wine on it.

With a light flick of his fingers, the handsome youth made all the spilled items hang in the air before falling back into their dishes and cups as if by magic.

He continued, "Just like now, if you had the ability to kill me, would you not do it?"

Upon hearing this, the red-haired man’s heaving chest abruptly calmed down. He thought for a moment, then nodded and admitted, "Indeed."