CFRSIO Chapter 27

Lin Yunliang didn’t need to worry about how difficult things were for Shi Ren Chu Shi.

He just wanted to leave Qingyun Mountain.

But… were these subordinates so powerful?

Lin Yunliang found a clean spot and sat down to rest, his eyes calmly sweeping over the obvious tail behind him.

“Actually, this demon king was killed by his subordinates, wasn’t he?”

Siamese calmly testified: [No, my dear. Quite the opposite, he is the only mountain demon from Qingyun Mountain who survived.]

Lin Yunliang was silent. Alright, foolish people have their blessings, not entirely useless, at least they could discover the demon king was gone, so that could be considered a skill. It’s just that this tail-following skill really needed more practice.

With a snap of his fingers, the original hiding spot was gone.

The Demon King appeared in front of him with a cold expression. Before the Demon King could say anything, Cang Shu had already cowered. His legs went soft, and he knelt down without any backbone.

“Your Majesty!” Cang Shu didn’t even dare to look at the Demon King’s expression. “Cang Shu didn’t mean to! Cang Shu was just too worried about Your Majesty.” Especially worried you would go looking for Chu Shi again.

He had heard that Chu Shi had escaped using some unknown trick, but although it was said he escaped, the demon was also seriously injured. Now, many demon hunters and many demons were looking for Chu Shi’s whereabouts.

He was very worried that the Demon King would go to find him after learning this, so he paid special attention. When he saw that the person had indeed run out, he became even more worried.

Then he followed, but he didn’t expect to be discovered so easily.

Lin Yunliang could understand what Cang Shu didn’t finish saying. However, he still felt a bit of a headache. It should have been a good thing that his subordinates cared so much about him, but for Lin Yunliang, it wasn’t a good thing.

“Qingyun Mountain is closed now,” Cang Shu said. What he actually wanted to say was that he couldn’t go back now and could only follow Lin Yunliang.

Looking at the person in front of him, he thought, so he wasn’t entirely foolish. Although his trace had been exposed.

“Follow me,” Lin Yunliang said. Having one more person would mean one more helper, so it wasn’t a bad thing.

Besides, it was better for Siamese to hide.

After sizing up Cang Shu for a while, he finally spoke, “You, turn back to your original form, and then shrink.”

Cang Shu was stunned, looking at himself doubtfully. Wasn’t he handsome like this? The little demons in the mountains all said he was very handsome.

“Then I…”

“No,” Lin Yunliang said with a frosty expression.

“Okay,” Cang Shu said, though he felt wronged, he still reverted to his original form as instructed.

Then he shrank.

Although wolves and dogs were different, Cang Shu didn’t know if it was because he grew up with the mountain demons of Qingyun Mountain and had little contact with humans, so he appeared to have very little aggression. At first glance, he looked like a small puppy.

“Woof woof.” Cang Shu whimpered softly a few times. Perhaps it was the first time he used this appearance, Cang Shu was clearly not very used to it.

His whimpers sounded like a puppy, lacking any wolf-like majesty. Even his reactions were a little dazed, then he started to shake his head and wag his tail, chasing his own tail in circles.

He played with great enjoyment.

[He… doesn’t seem very smart.] Siamese was actually lying on Lin Yunliang’s head.

He had also shrunk several times, looking like a cute cotton doll only twenty centimeters in size. But now, only Lin Yunliang could see him. Lin Yunliang was contemplating revealing Siamese, as there were demons who could use magic in this world.

Having another little black cat with strange abilities wouldn’t be a problem.

He also knew that Siamese could, to some extent, change the thoughts of the original inhabitants of this world. He had discovered this in the previous world, even though Siamese had never spoken about it.

But he had noticed it.

Lin Yunliang had some thoughts but didn’t voice them, saving face for the other person.

“Follow me,” Lin Yunliang instructed.

“After we leave Qingyun Mountain, honestly follow me as instructed, don’t do anything rashly.”

“Woof woof.” He whimpered in response, indicating he understood.

Although Cang Shu had little contact with humans, he still knew that he couldn’t easily reveal his identity in front of humans. Moreover, many mountain demons in Qingyun Mountain had told him what to do if he left Qingyun Mountain.

“Woof woof.” He whimpered a few more times.

Lin Yunliang unexpectedly discovered that he could understand what Cang Shu was saying.

Cang Shu was asking where they were going.

“Just follow me honestly, don’t talk too much or meddle. Understand?”

Cang Shu whimpered softly a few times, indicating he understood, but Cang Shu was still very interested in the outside world. He hopped and skipped all the way.

Looking at the unguarded Cang Shu, Lin Yunliang felt a bit speechless. Did Qingyun Mountain not provide any basic education for these little demons?

The people of this world feared them, and the demon hunters coveted them. Under such circumstances, they could raise a naive and innocent little demon like Cang Shu. It was truly surprising.

Lin Yunliang thought, should he arrange some educational courses for the little demons in the mountain later, so that they wouldn’t expose themselves at least when they went out.

[Your idea is not appropriate.] Siamese spoke, yawning. [Demons also need some wildness.]

[Besides, I don’t think you have the patience to educate them.] After all, you can’t even speak properly to me. Siamese said what he said, but he wouldn’t reveal all his secrets.

Lin Yunliang was silent, which was indeed true, he didn’t have the patience. His patience was only for one person. It was just a pity that this person hadn’t appeared yet. But once that person appeared, they would see Lin Yunliang’s double standards.

“You’re right,” Lin Yunliang didn’t deny it. “Then, I’ll leave this task to you.”

“You must remember to teach them well later. They are all my subordinates after all.”

Then he unilaterally cut off contact with him, ignoring how Siamese above his head cried out. Lin Yunliang knew that Siamese would definitely not mess around on his head. He wasn’t worried about this at all.

He just needed to cut off contact with Siamese, then he wouldn’t be disturbed.

[What? No! Host! Contractor! What are you doing?]

[No! This isn’t my job!]

[Hey!]

Siamese fussed for a while. He was supposed to grab the person’s hair, but he didn’t dare. He clearly knew that Lin Yunliang allowing him to stay on his head was already very kind. If he acted, then he would suffer greatly.

Soon the cat got tired of fussing and collapsed weakly on Lin Yunliang’s head.

Forget it, forget it, it doesn’t matter, Lin Yunliang wouldn’t care.

Qingyun Mountain was still a long way from the Jiangnan water towns. Even for those with some magical abilities, it would take some time to get there.

The scenery along the way was nice, but it was a pity that he was alone.

Sitting on the ferry, Lin Yunliang looked at the calm lake surface, wondering what he was thinking.

Cang Shu had gradually gotten used to living in his original form during this period. And because of his cute appearance, many people along the way wanted to feed him when they saw him.

He had become much fatter than when he was in Qingyun Mountain. He ate happily, but this good life was recently forbidden by the Demon King.

The dog was very wronged, and the dog also wanted to eat, because the Demon King only prohibited him from eating the humans’ offerings, but not that cat.

That cat was a new subordinate that the Demon King had taken in nearby. It was said to be a recently born kitten from the nearby demon cat clan. It had gained the favor of the Demon King and became the Demon King’s new subordinate, a little black-faced cat. This little cat was even better at acting spoiled than him. Easily snatching away all the offerings for the proud wolf king from those humans.

Later, even the Demon King sided with the black-faced cat demon and cut off his food supply.

Cang Shu felt that he couldn’t understand the Demon King more and more, but he was just a cute little creature who wanted to eat delicious food. How could he understand what a big shot like the Demon King was thinking?

Siamese unceremoniously rested his head on Cang Shu’s belly. Although Cang Shu was an obedient subordinate, Siamese’s relationship with Lin Yunliang was closer. Therefore, Siamese had more confidence in front of Cang Shu.

So now, he unceremoniously rested his head on Cang Shu’s belly.

“You say, what is the Demon King thinking? Why does he look so world-weary?” Cang Shu asked the kitten lying on him.

After all, the kitten seemed to understand humans.

After spending some time together recently, Cang Shu felt that the Demon King was too much like a human, never thinking that this Demon King was actually a human.

Your Demon King is lovesick. Of course, Siamese wouldn’t dare to say this. If he said it, Lin Yunliang would throw him into the lake. He was absolutely sure of this.

“What’s the point of thinking about so much?” After yawning, he changed his position and continued to rest on Cang Shu’s fleshy belly, “You should eat more later. It’s uncomfortable for me to rest on you.”

“I want to too…” Cang Shu was very wronged, he also wanted to eat more, but the Demon King didn’t allow it.

Especially… the last time… he accidentally broke the boat. The Demon King had strictly controlled him from eating too much.

Siamese paused, clearly remembering that day. Lin Yunliang had just arrived, and although he could use the magic of this world, he was not proficient. In addition, to avoid their identities being discovered, and at that time Lin Yunliang had not paid attention to Cang Shu’s situation.

He only knew that the little dog and the little cat were very popular and didn’t need him to prepare food separately.

It had really solved a troublesome matter for him.

Then one day, when they were preparing to leave, the overweight and completely unaware Cang Shu pounced directly.

The situation that day could be summarized in two words: chaotic. Very chaotic. Extremely chaotic.

After that, Lin Yunliang began to forbid Cang Shu from eating too much. If he ate too much again, Lin Yunliang would directly seal his mouth.

In fact, demons did not have high demands for food, but the soul in the Demon King’s body was authentically human. Therefore, it led Cang Shu to start eating and drinking greedily.

“Siamese, tell the Demon King to give me more, I’m really not full.”

“Don’t even think about it, you should just stay put.”

A handsome young man traveling with a cat and a dog was actually quite eye-catching. There were other passengers on the boat.

“Little brother, where are you going?” said a beautiful woman. She wore several shiny hairpins on her head, one of which glittered.

“Going south, to seek refuge with relatives.” Lin Yunliang thought he was going to find his wife on this trip, so wasn’t that seeking refuge with relatives?

“What a coincidence, this young lady is also going south.” The woman said, her eyes like flowing light flickered, and she moved a little closer to Lin Yunliang. “Since little brother has fate to travel together, why not go together?”

“No need, it’s inconvenient for me with my pets.”

“Meow meow.”

“Woof woof!”

The two little ones actually whimpered appropriately.

The woman was not bothered by the direct refusal. Her eyes flickered to Siamese and Cang Shu. The smile on her lips deepened, “Little brother, these two pets of yours are raised well.”

“They are so glossy and smooth, it’s clear you’ve put effort into them.”

“Actually, this young lady also…”

Lin Yunliang didn’t want to know so much, nor was he interested. Moreover, he had discovered something that made him even less inclined to listen.

“They need to eat, so I’ll take my leave first. Excuse me.”

He turned and entered the cabin. Cang Shu, the loyal dog, immediately followed. As for Siamese, he got up slowly, stretched, and then leisurely followed.

“That woman is not a good person.” Lin Yunliang had already seen the woman’s true nature.

If the woman had targeted an ordinary person, it would have been fine, but she targeted the Demon King.

The woman was not embarrassed by Lin Yunliang’s behavior. On the contrary, she still smiled happily at the man, cat, and dog who were leaving. Her eyes held a meaning that no one could understand.

Night fell.

The door was pushed open, and the person on the bed showed no reaction. A familiar person appeared at the door, it was the woman from the morning.

She slowly approached the bed and looked carefully at the shadow on the ground, which had already changed.

“So fragrant, so fragrant.”

She had been watching this person since before boarding. She didn’t know why, but a human actually had such a charming fragrance. Her hands were not as slender and fair as seen during the day, but had become withered and terrifying, her nails had also grown much longer.

She was slowly approaching the person on the bed.

“Little brother, are you still awake?”

“I mean no harm, I’m just too hungry.”

“Don’t worry, I definitely won’t hurt you.”

Lin Yunliang was indeed not asleep. Hearing this string of words, he found it very funny. Just do it, why talk so much? But now, demons were already acting so brazenly to harm people?

This still made him curious.

“Cang Shu, why aren’t you acting yet?” Lin Yunliang instructed.

“What?”

“Woof!” Cang Shu whimpered and suddenly appeared in the room, then directly pinned the person to the ground.

Sitting on top of him, Cang Shu happily wagged his tail. His strong tail slapped the wooden floor, making the person pinned by Cang Shu miserable.

The expression on that person’s face contorted, knowing that he had encountered a difficult opponent this time, and immediately began to beg for mercy.

“Please, sir, be merciful! This humble woman only admired you, which is why I came! I have no ill intentions!”

No ill intentions? What were you saying just now? And you still dare to say you admire me?? This is even more like seeking death.

Siamese sat on the side, leisurely wagging his tail and licking his paws, as if all this had nothing to do with him, in a peaceful manner.

Lin Yunliang, upon hearing these words, indeed darkened his handsome face. “Since that’s the case, there’s no need to keep you.”

“Woof?” Cang Shu whimpered softly. He didn’t quite understand the relationship between “since that’s the case.” Moreover, he thought the little mouse demon looked quite good-looking, and he didn’t understand why the Demon King was angry.

He could easily keep it as a friend for the dog.

How could he know that Lin Yunliang couldn’t stand those words? After all, if Zhang Qing’an heard these words, what if he angered the person?

“Lord Qingyun, please show mercy.”

Lin Yunliang’s attack was blocked by a flash of white light. The attack dispersed, and quite a bit still landed on the woman.

She was also shocked. Didn’t this person just attack when they said they would? Was he this heartless? The person who was already considering escaping, upon hearing the voice and having part of the attack dispersed, prepared to revert to her original form and escape.

Mice were quite accomplished at escaping.

How could she know that there was no reaction at all? She then remembered the title used for this person just now. The entire mouse stood frozen in place.

Lord Qingyun? In this world, only the Demon King of Qingyun Mountain could be referred to this way.

The demon kings of this world each occupied a region to live in. Over time, the name of that region became the epithet of the Demon King. Therefore, subordinates of other demon kings would address the Demon King of Qingyun Mountain as Lord Qingyun.

Suddenly, her face turned ashen. She never imagined that she would be so unlucky as to encounter Lord Qingyun. She… she only smelled a sweet scent and thought it was some heavenly treasure, wanting to swallow it all herself, which is why she sprayed mist on the person in the room.

She had also anticipated that this handsome man was unusual, but she never expected that this person was actually Lord Qingyun.

“Lord Qingyun.” A man in black robes appeared in the cabin and respectfully cupped his hands towards the person sitting on the couch. “This humble demon is a subordinate of Lord Bosui.”

“Please forgive me for the intrusion, Lord Qingyun.”

Lin Yunliang waved his hand, indicating it was alright. Bosui? Yes, there was a river demon king in the river they had crossed. It was no wonder that a subordinate of Bosui would come.

His eyes shifted to the person being pinned by Cang Shu. That little demon probably hadn’t seen any important figures. Now her demonic power was dissipating severely, her ears and mouse tail were also exposed. She was trembling violently.

“Lord Qingyun,” the man continued, “this little demon is a little rat spirit from a nearby village.”

“However, she only became a demon for less than a century, and did not intend to offend Lord Qingyun.”

After all, it was on someone else’s territory. Their demon kings had already reached an agreement not to act rashly. Lin Yunliang had no intention of truly acting. Otherwise, how could his attack have been so easily stopped?

“Cang Shu.”

Cang Shu immediately understood and got up.

The mountain on his body disappeared. The little mouse immediately became weak and reverted to its original form. It moved forward with an observant look and squeaked a few times. It was nothing more than begging for mercy.

Seeing that Lin Yunliang had ordered his subordinate to get up, the little demon who appeared later breathed a sigh of relief. He then gave the little rat spirit a look, signaling her to disappear immediately.

The little rat spirit looked at the person in front of her with some hesitation, but ultimately cowered and ran away first.

Seeing the little rat spirit disappear, the subordinate of King Bosui Demon King truly breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, it was just a little rat spirit, not worth this guy personally coming here. Moreover, the little rat spirit had offended the Demon King due to her lack of foresight, and it was not a problem for the Demon King to administer a minor punishment.

However, Lin Yunliang was not in the mood to care. Instead, he had other things that mattered to him.

“You…”

“This humble demon is Boming.”

“I found something interesting on the road,” Siamese’s long tail swept over Lin Yunliang’s palm. The interesting thing he mentioned also appeared in Lin Yunliang’s palm.

Boming’s expression indeed changed when he looked at it.

“Where did Your Lord get this from?”

“From a small stall by the roadside.”

Boming’s words were stuck in his throat, unable to be spoken. What kind of thing was this, to casually find this thing by the roadside?

Boming was shocked because it was a curse stone. Legend had it that hundreds of years ago, a reckless demon king annihilated the family of a renowned demon hunter, leaving no one alive, not even the infant in the cradle.

That demon hunter, filled with grief and indignation, used all his cultivation to forge it. It was a magical artifact imbued with endless curses and resentment. After the demon hunter died, a group of so-called fellow disciples began to fight over the ownership of this artifact.

Who knew that once the artifact was close, within a few days, resentment would fill the body, and reason would be completely lost. Many demon hunter families suffered disaster in that incident. Many famous demon hunters died.

Therefore, that stone was named the Curse Stone. And some malicious people deliberately placed the Curse Stone in the demon king’s stronghold, causing the demon king to go berserk and slaughter countless of his kin and humans. Demon kings were already difficult to deal with, let alone berserk demon kings.

It was only with the combined strength of a group of demon hunters that they could barely seal him.

However, all the demon hunters who participated in the sealing gained great fame and increased their strength. It could only be said that one’s poison was another’s honey.

When they were preparing to repeat this move, they were counter-attacked by the demons who had already discovered them, causing the power of the demon hunter lineage to decline even further.

Furthermore, humans were complex, and once all desires were amplified, they would bring severe consequences.

Therefore, after sacrificing several powerful demon hunters, the Curse Stone also disappeared. It was no longer seen. Some said it was hidden by a family among the demon hunters, while others said it was secretly kept by a demon king. Even more said that the Curse Stone had developed intelligence and, not bearing to see constant conflict in the world, had self-destructed.

There were always various theories. And as time passed, the once powerful Curse Stone gradually disappeared from sight, and fewer and fewer people mentioned it.

Boming recognized it because he followed Bosui. Bosui was one of the few thousand-year-old demon kings in this world. But this demon king had always kept to himself. It was said that he had lived among humans for a period and had seen the good and evil of humans. Therefore, the entire demon was particularly open-minded.

Because of this, when the incident occurred, he was the fastest to hide. Although his reputation was not good, he was a demon king who had experienced that period.

Boming never expected that this thing would reappear.

“Lord Qingyun, this matter is too important. Why don’t you come with me to see Lord Bosui?”

“No,” Lin Yunliang flatly refused, and then threw the Curse Stone to Boming.

Boming was dazed by the clean and decisive “No” from front to back, and then saw Lord Qingyun throw the Curse Stone to him as if it were trash, scaring him into a flurry, almost making him kneel.

It was a joke, he didn’t care about these things at all. If the Curse Stone were to reappear in the future and cause any damage, he could take Zhang Qing’an back to Qingyun Mountain before then. To avoid these troubles.

Why would he get involved in this mess? He would buy it. When the little rat spirit appeared, he deliberately made the demon smell something wrong, just to attract the person in charge… no, the demon in charge.

You say humans? Demon hunters? Lin Yunliang himself was human and knew the inherent flaws of humans. Rather than hoping humans would be kind-hearted, it was better to find someone who had witnessed how powerful this thing was to deal with it.

Having witnessed it, he would not want to see everything that happened before, and would surely handle it properly.

This was actually an event in the original plotline, but it appeared much earlier than expected.

Now, the plot had already progressed to the point where Shi Ren, who had taken the demon core of the Demon King of Qingyun Mountain, had greatly increased his power and was resisting his family and the demon hunter circle because of Chu Shi Yi.

This Curse Stone would be bought by an ignorant person, and then discarded.

And this family was unfortunately implicated in the struggle between the demon hunters. All ten members of the family died, and the Curse Stone, re-nourished by blood, would reappear.

Finally, the problem would be solved by Shi Ren, who had greatly increased his power, and Chu Shi, who voluntarily went undercover among the demons.

It was also on this matter that Chu Shi’s already awkward identity led many demon hunters to trust him. Wasn’t Chu Shi’s act of righteousness in killing his relatives a sign of returning from the wrong path?

But now it was different. Shi Ren, without Lin Yunliang’s demon core, could not reach the height of the plotline, and the Curse Stone fell into Lin Yunliang’s hands. Naturally, everything would change.

Shi Ren should not dream of becoming the number one demon hunter in the world.

Originally, Lin Yunliang had not noticed this, it was Siamese who first discovered it. He told Lin Yunliang these things, and Lin Yunliang then discovered the Curse Stone and bought it.

The boss didn’t find anything strange about Lin Yunliang. His stall was full of strange things, besides this stone, there were also broken porcelain and wooden objects. It could be seen that it was a treasure stall. There were many customers like Lin Yunliang.

It was a bargain for Lin Yunliang, who only spent a few taels of silver to buy it. But the boss probably wouldn’t feel that he had lost money.

Each had their own advantage.

“But…” Boming still wanted to say something, but Lin Yunliang didn’t care.

“I’m tired.”

This was him telling him to leave. Although Boming was a subordinate of King Bosui Demon, but since Lord Qingyun had spoken, what status did he have to argue?

“Yes,” Boming replied.

After putting away the Curse Stone, he respectfully retreated. The seriousness of this matter was not trivial, so Boming naturally had to report it to King Bosui Demon immediately.

He soared into the sky, transformed into a little red-headed bird, and flew away.

Birds and cats are natural enemies. Fortunately, it left. Siamese looked at the flying little bird with some regret, but he also knew that this guy was not someone he could mess with.

Lin Yunliang looked at the feigning-wronged Siamese, feeling both amused and exasperated. This guy had been spoiled in the last world. He patted his head, “When we get to land, I’ll buy you a few more birds to play with.”

These things restored his vitality.

He was once again a lively little kitten.

Cang Shu squatted quietly to the side. If the two paid him some attention, they would notice that Cang Shu’s eyes looking at Lin Yunliang held a strange light.

Indeed, if he didn’t have some skills, how could he have survived as the only demon out of several elders who died in the great battle of the original plotline?

It was also because the two of them were too complacent. Cang Shu had been in Qingyun Mountain for many years and knew the temper of the Demon King of Qingyun Mountain quite well.

However, after looking a few times, Cang Shu withdrew his gaze and appeared to be the same dazed little wolf demon.