TBOUMTBDK Chapter 26

Yun Xia first asked Wei Ying to take him to familiarize himself with the route. The Mixed Shadow Pavilion was located in a rather remote area, and the building was quite large, with three floors in total.

After arriving, he let Wei Ying return. It was better to do this kind of thing alone, so as not to implicate others if something happened.

However, he still inquired about the necessary information from Wei Ying.

For example, the Mixed Shadow Pavilion could be entered, but generally speaking, it was off-limits to ordinary demon servants.

Usually, only demon guards came here. When they had important tasks, they would occasionally come here to retrieve handy weapons or other items for use. They had to register before taking anything and specify the return time, and they had to return the items on time.

There would be punishment for not returning them.

Most of the items here were auxiliary ordinary items, and no one wanted to risk punishment for them. Truly important items could only be collected by the captain of the demon guard team.

Since this was the case, there should be room for maneuver.

Yun Xia thought for a while, and a plan came to mind.

Things started smoothly. With the Demon Lord’s prestige, the guard easily let him in, but that was it. If he really wanted to take something out, he probably couldn’t do it without registering.

There were indeed many things in the Mixed Shadow Pavilion, a dazzling array of items that made Yun Xia’s eyes blur for a moment.

However, upon closer inspection, they were not very valuable. A small pagoda that could trap people or demon beasts below the Core Formation stage for a quarter of an hour, a small storage bag that could only hold a little bit of things, a sword that was only slightly better than ordinary swords…

When Yun Xia reached the middle of the second floor, he finally saw the jade pendant that Xiao Nanli wanted him to retrieve.

It was a very delicate and beautiful jade pendant, roughly circular in shape, as if two phoenix wings were surrounding each other, with red tassels hanging below. The words “Phoenix Rainbow” were engraved in the middle of the jade pendant.

The label next to it read: Jade pendant, of no use.

Yun Xia: “Pfft—”

Who wrote this?

If it’s of no use, why keep it? Is it just to fill up the Mixed Shadow Pavilion?

You could have at least written “Not yet identified.”

The Phoenix Rainbow Immortal Sword was a famous sword, and its ability to disguise itself was indeed strong, making people feel it was a pity to discard it, but useless to keep.

After all, there was still some residual Spirit Qi on it, which could probably be used to block a few attacks.

Oh no, it still had some value. Its appearance was high enough.

Yun Xia liked beautiful things.

Now that he had found the item, the next step was to figure out how to take it out.

For the next few days, Yun Xia came every day. Besides wandering around inside, he also tried to get close to the guards, using two barbecue meals and a clever tongue to turn them into “friends” who could talk about anything.

Finally, on the afternoon of the fourth day, when he appeared again, the head guard led him in, found a place for him to sit, and said, “Lord Yun Xia, don’t mind my bluntness, but have you taken a fancy to something?”

Yun Xia applauded him: “Amazing, amazing, you saw through it.”

The guard chuckled twice: “I know you didn’t come here just to chat with me. To be honest, if you really want something, just tell me. Actually, we can do some tricks. After you take it away, I’ll report it as lost and ask a demon guard brother to help me out.”

Yun Xia looked at him in surprise: “Do you often do this?” He was just thinking that the other party would help him cover it up, but he didn’t expect that they could directly solve the problem.

The guard shook his head repeatedly: “Of course not. How dare we? This has only happened two or three times in all these years, really, each time for a special reason. Just like today with you, hehe.”

He wanted to please Yun Xia, and the things here were indeed not very valuable, displayed as if on a street stall, probably just to give him some face.

Yun Xia could understand. He could only say that no matter where you were, as time went on, places got bigger, and there were more people, there were always some loopholes to exploit.

“But there are still some things I have to ask. What do you want and what are you going to do with it?”

He still had some principles, not much, just a little.

Yun Xia thought for a while: “Isn’t it the Netherflower Festival tomorrow? I want to find something to give as a gift.”

The guard immediately started gossiping: “I didn’t expect Brother Yun Xia to have someone he likes. Congratulations, congratulations. You can go down the mountain with them for a few days tomorrow.”

Yun Xia said with a smile: “Yeah, you understand, right? We demon servants are different from you demon guards. We’re stuck in the Demon Palace every day, where would we have the chance to find treasures? I heard you can find good things here, so I wanted to come and take a look.”

The guard was surprised: “Really? You’ve been by the Demon Lord’s side for so long, hasn’t the Demon Lord rewarded you with anything?”

Yun Xia thought about it, and he really hadn’t, but he clicked his tongue and shook his head: “You wouldn’t understand. The Demon Lord has given me care and love. As a subordinate, how can I ask the Demon Lord for rewards? Only what the Demon Lordinitiative gives is the most precious.”

The guard was stunned and laughed: “Brother Yun Xia, you’re really too funny, so good at talking.”

He didn’t take it seriously. What care and love? It sounded like a joke.

The two joked and laughed as they went up to the second floor. Yun Xia pointed to the jade pendant: “I searched the entire Mixed Shadow Pavilion and took a fancy to this one at a glance from countless things. What do you think? Good eye, right?”

The guard secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that it was indeed a gift, just a jade pendant with a bit of Spiritual Qi. Many demons liked delicate and beautiful small ornaments from the Immortal Realm.

He picked up the jade pendant and handed it to Yun Xia: “Okay, okay, don’t worry. But you have to take good care of me in the future.”

Yun Xia took the jade pendant and looked at it with joy, liking it more and more as he looked at it.

The phoenix wings on it were so beautiful, all orange-red, like condensed real wings. Yun Xia suddenly didn’t want to return this jade pendant, oh no, this Phoenix Rainbow Immortal Sword to Xiao Nanli.

He had worked so hard for several days to get it.

Seeing that Yun Xia was very satisfied, the guard thought that their relationship had reached a new level and led Yun Xia out.

“Brother Yun Xia, beautiful jade matches a beautiful woman. That one must also be a beauty, right?”

Yun Xia was happy in his heart, and his mouth began to run wild, laughing: “Yeah, it’s for the Demon Lord, do you think she’s beautiful?”

As soon as the guard heard this, his body suddenly stiffened in fright, and he couldn’t say a word, staring at Yun Xia’s back.

Yun Xia didn’t hear his footsteps and turned back in confusion: “What’s wrong?”

“How, how can you say the Demon Lord… the Demon Lord…” He wouldn’t dare to say the word “beautiful” even if he was beaten to death. “We people in the Demon Palace have been placed under a Prohibition Art, and we can’t leak the Demon Lord’s appearance to the outside world, not even discuss it with each other!”

“Uh, okay, it was my fault for saying too much.” Yun Xia often exaggerated the Demon Lord’s appearance in his heart, and had directly stared at him countless times in reality, so he didn’t realize this at all.

Only now did the guard truly realize Yun Xia’s status. A person who dared to say such things casually must have received a lot of indulgence from the Demon Lord.

But he still patted his chest in lingering fear, worried that Yun Xia had only been here for a few months and didn’t know enough about the Demon Lord, and said earnestly: “My brother, you must never talk nonsense in the Demon Palace. Do you know how… how strong the Demon Lord is? What if he’s nearby.”

“He’s busy, how could he come and eavesdrop on us talking about these things.” Yun Xia didn’t take it to heart.

Seeing him like this, the guard could only smile and said cautiously: “Okay, but you said this is for the Demon Lord, you’re joking, right?”

Yun Xia put the jade pendant into his arms and smiled: “How is that possible, did you really believe it? Even if I wanted to give it, I wouldn’t give this. Do you think this broken jade pendant is worthy of the Demon Lord?”

As soon as he finished speaking, a pleasant, low, laughing voice sounded behind him: “Why isn’t it worthy?”

Both Yun Xia and the guard were startled, but compared to the guard’s reaction, Yun Xia could be said to have hardly been frightened.

Because the guard had already recognized the person when he saw a figure, even before he could see the person’s face clearly, and was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a “thump,” trembling all over. As an ordinary guard who had just broken the rules, he remembered the feeling of being crushed to the ground by the Demon Lord’s terrifying aura from a long distance away.

He was almost scared to death.

“Lo, Lord, Lord…”

The Demon Lord ignored him. He lowered his eyes, looked at Yun Xia, who was staring with wide eyes, and glanced at his arms: “What? Didn’t you say you were going to give it to Esteemed One?”

Yun Xia: “…”

His heart rate only slowly returned to normal, and he said with a guilty conscience: “Why are you eavesdropping on us?”

The guard trembled even more violently. He now knew that this person was simply not afraid of death, not a normal person at all!

Who would counterattack and blame the Demon Lord for eavesdropping? That was the Demon Lord!

Just as he was thinking about how the Demon Lord would kill them both in this way or that way, or throw them into the Ghostly Array for ten or eight years, he heard that great Demon King, who was always high above and whose word was law, say: “Eavesdropping? If I couldn’t tell what you wanted to do from your performance these past few days, how could Esteemed One have led the Demon Realm for so many years?”

Yun Xia gave a thumbs up and said sincerely: “As expected of you, those who can become the Demon Realm Supreme are indeed very powerful. I’m still too inexperienced, I can’t hide anything from you.”

Indeed, what could be hidden from the Demon Lord in this Demon Palace? Yun Xia ran to the same place every day, and anyone who paid attention would know. But it wasn’t Yun Xia’s fault either. Xiao Nanli didn’t give him much time, and he had to seize every opportunity to become familiar with the guard.

The Demon Lord raised his eyebrows slightly: “Do you know many powerful people?”

Yun Xia quickly said: “Of course not, the only powerful person I know in the world is you. I have little experience, but I’ve read a lot of novels, hehe Demon Lord, well, please forgive us. I believe he will never dare to do this kind of thing again, right.”

He even kindly helped the guard.

The guard lay on the ground, completely disheartened. Just kill him quickly, don’t torture him!

Demon Lord: “What about you.”

Yun Xia’s eyes rolled, and he suddenly lowered his head, leaving only a small crown of hair for the Demon Lord, and said in a low voice: “I didn’t know before that I could go down the mountain to Holy City just by telling the steward, so I made this wish to you, and I feel like it’s a waste. You didn’t remind me either. But I know that you’re busy with everything and definitely don’t know all the rules of the Demon Palace, so it’s still my own problem.

“You are magnanimous and have the world in your heart, so you definitely won’t bother with a small demon servant like me for this small wish. So I’ll make a new wish, which is that you don’t blame me for this rashness. I just wanted to give you a gift.”

He said a lot of words without stopping, and the guard tried very hard to listen in order to judge his own fate, but he still didn’t understand most of it.

He only understood the last sentence.

He really came to find a gift for the Demon Lord?? Didn’t he say that the broken jade pendant wasn’t worthy of the Demon Lord?

No, no, why did he want to give a gift to the Demon Lord, and on a holiday like the Netherflower Festival?

Yun Xia had already reached into his arms to take out the jade pendant. He wasn’t too disappointed, because he didn’t really want to give this jade pendant to Xiao Nanli. Since the Demon Lord had already discovered it, there was nothing he could do. He could deal with Xiao Nanli, it would just be a bit more troublesome.

The Demon Lord stopped him: “Then let’s give it tomorrow.”

After saying that, he lifted his foot and walked out. Yun Xia was stunned for a moment and hurried to follow: “Ah? Why?” He didn’t react for a moment.

With this rush, he didn’t know why, but he bumped into the Demon Lord. He rubbed his nose and looked up, and the two of them had already left the Mixed Shadow Pavilion and appeared in the Demon Lord’s bedroom.

Yun Xia was stunned again. What was he doing bringing him here?

Before he could ask, the Demon Lord walked to the big bed and sat down: “Giving gifts on the Netherflower Festival, don’t you know?”

Yun Xia immediately forgot where he was: “Giving gifts on the Netherflower Festival… I know…”

He knew, he really knew, but that was too much. The Netherflower Festival lasted a total of seven days, and the young men and women of the Demon Race would gather together to hold many activities. The first night was the most lively, which was giving gifts, and everyone gave gifts together.

At that time, all the young men and women who wanted to give gifts had to dance around the person they liked in public until the other person was happy and satisfied, and then the other person would accept the gift.

That was a passionate and unrestrained festival.

The Demon Race was much more open than the Immortal Race and the Human Race. There were even occasions when more than one young man danced and gave gifts to a girl at the same time. Multiple people fighting over one, how exciting would that be.

It wasn’t that Yun Xia didn’t dare to go, and he wasn’t shy about dancing. His skin could be very thick.

But the problem was, after dancing this dance, giving the gift, and the other person accepting it, it meant that the two of them were a couple.

That was too much.

Yun Xia licked his lips: “This, wouldn’t this be a little inappropriate.”

The tips of his ears were a little red, his eyes were slightly erratic, and his lips were glistening from being licked by himself.

Like a newborn little beast who had strayed into a beast’s den, completely unaware that he had gone deep into the nest and would not be able to leave without the owner’s permission.

The man sitting on the edge of the bed looked up at him, softened his voice, and the red eyes that Yun Xia liked the most, under the dim light, concealed most of his emotions, making him seem not strong at all, more like coaxing softly: “It’s okay, I need to do something, I need you to pretend to be a couple with me.”

He didn’t even use “Esteemed One.”