Demon King's Repayment - chapter 75

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Yuan Xiang said goodbye to everyone at home. Under Zhou Deyun’s careful arrangements, she first took a carriage to Chenzhou, where Queqiu Town belonged and then diverted from Chenzhou to the waterway. She took a merchant ship and traveled eastward along the Yuan river. It took two days and nights to reach the Yanbo coast of Dongting Lake.

Dingzhou City, where Zhou Deyun lived, was located at an important waterway transportation hub. The town was lively and the market was prosperous.

Yuan Xiang was sitting in the soft sedan, only to see the roads were crowded with people, carts and horses running side by side; the houses on both sides were row upon row, the rich Pavilion was verdant; the inner flower street willow alley, the brothels Hall cheers and laughs, the singing and dancing and the flowers blooming.

“Oh, what does that store sell? It looks delicious. They are playing tricks there, let’s have a look at it later, alright?” Wu Yuan pulled at the sedan chair window, poked his head out and was overwhelmed by the lively scene, “Hahaha, fortunately I’m here. I will go back and tell Li Yu and Nan He about it. They will be so jealous.”

“Ah Xiang, have you seen it? When we left, Nan He was so angry that he couldn’t speak.”

“Nonsense.” Yuan Xiang pulled back the kitten that was about to fall out, “Li Yu doesn’t like strangers and wants to stay at home. If Nan He wanted to come, he would have naturally spoken, but he didn’t say anything. He is reluctant. After all, he is still in the skeletal stage and needs to hunt down demon cores.”

“Humph.” Wu Yuan licked his little paw and whispered, “Father is right. Only children who can be cute can eat sweets. The cold faced Nan He can only get to eat soil.”

The sedan chair moved for more than half an hour and arrived at Zhou Mansion.

The Zhou family deserved to be home to many years of heritage. The exterior of the house was magnificent and the interior was unique and elegant, with terraces and pavilions, strange flowers and plants. There were even maids walking around in an orderly manner.

Zhou Deyun was very considerate and polite to Yuan Xiang and respectfully led her to the main hall along the way.

There were many people in the hall at this moment, monks, priests, witches and Taoists and a lot of people, wearing their own robes, all sitting in the hall and drinking tea. Because of the differences in the sects, they were not convinced by each other and they were sneering at each other.

These people were all mages that Zhou Deyun hired during this period. After a lot of tossing for a long time, none of them could solve the problem.

Some people stayed in Zhou’s house for a while. Looking at the host’s generous family who entertained them with good wine and meat, they cheekily stayed to watch the excitement. Some were unwilling and wanted to try to solve the matter, so as to become famous among their peers.

At the moment, seeing Zhou Deyun respectfully greet a person entering the house, they craned their necks to see what kind of expert it was.

It was a young girl with light makeup, delicate hands, embroidered cloth on her face, fair cheeks and a little cute cat on her shoulders. She was like the ladies who sneak out to play.

The big fat monk sitting in the front held up the clinking Zen stick in his hand, frowned and said, “Are you so anxious, so confused. When you were leaving, I thought you were going to search for the treasures of the mountains or a Master of Taoism. But you brought back a little girl, such a charming little girl…”

He spoke with a grin and happened to see the kitten on the girl’s shoulders turn his face. A red mark flashed across the kitten’s eyes and his smoky eyes glanced at him with dissatisfaction.

The fat monk closed his mouth abruptly and stopped speaking.

The people behind him were about to scream, but he was uncharacteristically shut up. A tall and thin Taoist beside the monk patted his shoulder and said, “Fat monk, you used to be prideful in the past. Why are you dumb today? “

The monk just glared at him, but still refused to speak.

It was not until Zhou Deyun greeted everyone and led Yuan Xiang to the backyard that he replied angrily, “Hmph, don’t always try to push me to offend people. The one who seems to be young is not necessarily young. The cat on her shoulder, have you seen it? It is a contracted apostle.”

“Apostle?”

“Is the cat demon an apostle?”

“Did she get an apostle at a young age?”

The word ‘apostle’, like a stone thrown into the water, caused waves in the crowd.

“Presumably, everyone knows that now there are fewer demons in the world and it is even rarer to be able to successfully contract an apostle.” The fat monk looked at Yuan Xiang’s back, with a bit of jealousy in his tone, “Even if she did not make a contract by herself, she must be from a famous school. The elders in the clan have the ability to prepare it carefully for her. Why should I offend such a young girl with such a big background?”

“At such a young age, you are really jealous.” The thin Taoist also stretched his neck and looked at Yuan Xiang’s back, “Who wouldn’t want to get an ‘apostle’ for themselves? I have tried many times in my life without any success. Look at Cripple Wu, he has an apostle too, wherever he goes, he has someone who could help him.”

Not far from him was a man with a broken leg. The man snorted disdainfully and tightened a thin chain in his hand. The other end of the chain full of red runes was held around the pale skin and hairless neck of the demon. The demon, who laid listlessly on the ground at his feet, lifted his eyelids and looked in the direction Yuan Xiang had left from.