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Ti flew by, and half a month had passed.
Li Xuan beca a frequent guest at the Governor’s Mansion.
Previously, Zhou Changye, who had troubled him, along with that wastrel from the Wang family, were assigned tasks by their families and sent away.
Li Xuan, on the other hand, moved back into the Green Willow Pavilion.
The manager of the pavilion was exceedingly attentive, and every al was a feast. Even Rose enjoyed the delightful food and drink, feeling quite pleased.
Cyan Wood Province is different from Hundred Flowers Mansion; its proximity to the sea ans an abundance of fish and seafood.
One day, at dusk...
Heavy rain poured from the sky.
In the distance, a few staff from the Green Willow Pavilion, carrying umbrellas, hurriedly ran with food boxes.
Don’t say there’s no "takeout" in this otherworld, as even the Green Willow Pavilion offers such services, whatever the weather.
A staff mber placed the food box in Li Xuan’s room, opened it, and said, "Young Master Li, these are fresh shellfish caught this morning, roasted with garlic paste. The manager asked us to bring them for you to try, and... there’s no charge."
Li Xuan smiled and had Rose tuck so silver into the staff mber’s pocket.
The staff mber refused the money, so Li Xuan wouldn’t take the box.
Reluctantly, the staff mber accepted the money and left.
Only then did Li Xuan begin enjoying the delicacies.
The free stuff is always the most expensive, unnecessary.
Rain dripped from the eaves, falling with a drip-drop sound.
With white walls and black tiles, in front of the wooden threshold, the young master and the maid held the food box and began eating the shellfish.
Rose licked her fingers that had shellfish’s milky white juice and said, "Oh, I rembered, there’s a pot of monkey wine in the room, made by Xinci Temple. Do you want to drink it, Young Master?"
Li Xuan nodded.
After a while, Rose returned and handed the wine pot to Li Xuan.
Li Xuan took a wild gulp from the pot, feeling satisfied.
Taking a big sip, he handed it to the side.
Surprisingly, Rose also drank from the pot, her cheeks flushed. Suddenly, she covered her red lips with a hand, her eyes wide as she said, "Young Master, if you’re drinking from the sa pot as , does that an we’re kissing?"
Li Xuan ignored her.
Rose leaned close to his ear, teasingly saying, "If we kissed, would that make a baby? Young Master..."
Li Xuan looked at the playful little devil, picked up a shellfish with his fingers, and popped it into her mouth.
Rose chewed and sat back down beside Li Xuan.
Lowering his voice, Li Xuan asked, "How’s your god-worshipping technique coming along?"
Rose kept nothing from him.
So, she told him everything about the Purple-tailed Flood Dragon Monarch, one of the four Dharma Protectors of the Yu Sect, and the god-worshipping technique.
Suddenly, Rose put on a mournful face and said, "I feel like I’m going to die."
"If you feel like you’re going to die, stop practicing," Li Xuan lifted a shell and drank the fresh soup inside, then added, "Later, teach ."
Rose’s flower-like face turned pale. With a hand over her lips, she said, "Young Master, do you want to join our Holy Sect? But... if you join, I, being the high-ranking Saintess, will still be bossed around by you every day."
Li Xuan: ...
"What do you want?"
Rose lifted her white neck, with a hint of ambition in her beautiful eyes, "I too want to be high and mighty."
Li Xuan: ...
"Alright, I promise you.
You just have to teach ."
Truth be told, he found it hard to feel secure.
So, no matter what power it was, he would accept it with an "any power is welco" mindset, at least to try it first.
If this were an ordinary low-martial world, his current situation would be excellent.
This thod of his, where he could convert the evil spirits of those he killed into his own, would be enough to dominate the world.
Sohow, Liu Yingyi, Qu Er, and Guan Wu, those causing chaos outside, might raise a massive rebel army on their own to overthrow the Great Yin and robe him in imperial garnts.
But this is not a low-martial world.
This is a terrifying world where a bite from the Red Cloud Demon Fiend can cause a great epidemic, a world riddled with demons and mystery.
Survival is uncertain, impermanence is the norm, one mont you’re calculating how to rise through the Prefect, the next... the Prefect and the entire city "explode."
And the "Little Demon" and "First Realm" on his panel stood out starkly.
What does that an?
The cloud-shattering demonic blood power he possesses is still the lowest tier among demons, belonging to the "Little Demon" level.
His realm has just barely left the lowest tier, at the First Realm.
What’s called powerful is rely the naive knowledge gained before seeing true terror, like a "frog in the well."
Therefore, besides the self-preserving strategy of "concealing seven-tenths and revealing three-tenths," Li Xuan prepared a second self-preservation thod ———— "withdrawing early."
Hence, after learning that there are people who can see through Liu Yingyi, he imdiately dropped his original plan to "harbor enemies for strategic importance," as well as the plan to keep Zhou Eli and Wang Fengyang as evil spirits in Cyan Wood Province to help him.
Withdraw early!
Enjoy the benefits, then cut the deal imdiately. No greed, no lingering, no letting anyone suspect him!
Many thoughts flashed by.
The sound of rain "drip-drop" returned.
Suddenly, Rose’s little nose twitched.
Li Xuan furrowed his brows, as he too slled sothing strange.
"There’s a fishy sll,"
Rose said.
She lay on Li Xuan’s shoulder, sticking her head out to the left and right, looking everywhere, muttering, "Where did it co from? Where is it?"
The sudden fishy scent also made Li Xuan sowhat dazed. He scanned the surroundings with his eyes and suddenly looked up, and as he did, his pupils involuntarily contracted.
Rose followed his gaze and opened her small mouth in astonishnt.
The rain reflected in their eyes, at so point... had turned blood red.
Blood rain.
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