TBOUMTBDK Chapter 10

Chapter 10 Demon Palace A hand covered his eyes…

He didn’t know how long he had been unconscious. Yun Xia rubbed his eyes and woke up to a very soft and comfortable big bed.

He blinked, and it took him a while to recall everything that had happened before.

The heart demon self-destructed, the small world collapsed, and he was brought out by Esteemed Lord. So, this is the Demon Palace?

Yun Xia glanced around, his mouth widening as he looked.

He was in a very grand and huge palace, several times larger and more luxurious than the one in the small world. The ceiling was fully twenty meters high, and around him were placed various extremely large demon beast statues, each with a ferocious appearance and different shapes. Some of them couldn’t even be understood with ordinary animal concepts.

Not only that, but there were also layers of curtains blocking the light, so even during the day, it was unusually dark inside.

He didn’t know where the wind came from, but the curtains swayed faintly, as if someone had passed by, causing a disturbance, which seemed eerie, gloomy, and terrifying.

Yun Xia was very impressed. How did they combine atmosphere and gloom so well?

Such a domineering and gloomy bedroom could only belong to the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon.

Unexpected, unexpected, the beauty’s aesthetic is actually like this?

Sleeping in this kind of place every day, it would be strange not to become a pervert!

Yun Xia very consciously tiptoed outwards—he always felt that these lifelike demon beasts were watching him, and he didn’t dare to make a sound, for fear that these statues would come to life.

After leaving the huge bedroom, Yun Xia very realistically patted his chest, and then looked around curiously like a country bumpkin walking into a palace.

The Nether Realm/Underworld and the Immortal Realm are completely different. They can be easily distinguished from the environment. The Immortal Realm is surrounded by Spirit Qi, a pure and cold fairyland, with cranes chirping and colorful lights in the sky.

The Nether Realm/Underworld is gloomy and oppressive, without sunlight even during the day. Although it doesn’t require lighting, it looks lacking in vitality.

However, this Holy City Demon Palace is built very magnificently, with buildings layered upon layers, and the details are exquisite, not at all rough.

To be honest, Yun Xia still admired it very much.

It’s just that this place, as the most noble and unyielding place in the Nether Realm/Underworld, naturally has a deterrent force. Being in these buildings makes one feel its sharp momentum even more, domineering and aggressive, while he himself seems extremely small.

An eye-opening experience!

Yun Xia walked and watched, clicking his tongue in admiration.

Then, as he walked, he got lost…

The Demon Palace was heavily guarded. As Yun Xia walked along, he could occasionally see teams of demon guards patrolling.

When those demon guards saw Yun Xia, they didn’t come up to question him. They just looked at him and then continued their patrol with a very responsible, cold, and solemn expression. Wherever they went, it was like a cold wind passing through, and their footsteps were uniform, shaking the ground.

Invisible Demonic Energy emanated from them, like a black tornado sweeping through.

They look so powerful…

Yun Xia couldn’t help but think that Esteemed Lord’s rule was really strict, and the entire Demon Palace was like a heavily guarded fortress.

It didn’t quite match him.

No, he was wrong. This was actually very much in line with the image of the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon. In the outside world, he was rumored to be like this, cold and strict.

It was just that the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon he saw was very different.

The contrast was too great. Yun Xia couldn’t connect this kind of Demon Lord/Venerable Demon with the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon he knew for a moment.

Now, he had something to do.

Speaking of which, he was a little cowardly. Yun Xia didn’t dare to strike up a conversation with those patrolling demon guards, so he walked around, looking to see if he could find anyone who was alone.

He walked farther and farther, and even the patrolling demon guards were fewer. It seemed that he had reached a more peripheral area.

This seems to be the area where the demon servants stay? He saw some people wearing his previous clothes walking around.

Just as he was about to find someone to ask, he suddenly heard someone chatting in a low voice not far away.

“Have you heard? The three Border Kings attacked Esteemed Lord, and they are all dead, and they died without a complete corpse!”

“Who doesn’t know now? The whole Nether Realm/Underworld has been spreading the news these past few days. Those are Border Kings, and there were three of them, but none of them escaped.”

“Tch, what are you kidding me? They were dealing with Esteemed Lord. With Esteemed Lord’s temperament, it would be strange if he didn’t flay them alive.”

“I know Esteemed Lord is powerful, but I didn’t know he was so… Those three kings must have planned carefully before they dared to assassinate him, but I didn’t expect it, I didn’t expect it.”

Yun Xia stopped in his tracks. So, they were three kings from the border regions of the Nether Realm/Underworld. The Immortal Realm’s reach is quite long. They were even able to collude with the Border Kings.

He lightened his steps and approached the corner, wanting to hear more and see if there was any other information.

“…Indeed, yesterday in the Ten Thousand Demon Hall, General Xiu Wu pleaded guilty on the spot, saying that he had failed to discover the betrayal of the Border Kings in advance. Esteemed Lord directly punished him to stay in the Yougui Formation for ten days.”

“Ten days! Will he even come out alive? It’s not entirely his fault, is it? He’s Esteemed Lord’s close demon general, and the Border Kings are so far away…”

“Stupid, the Border Kings need to know Esteemed Lord’s schedule to formulate an assassination plan. Doesn’t this mean that there are spies in Holy City, even in the Demon Palace, maybe even in our demon servant dormitory?”

“No way, don’t scare me.”

Yun Xia was amused as he listened. Isn’t there one right here?

“What are you doing here?”

The voice came from behind him, and Yun Xia was startled and quickly turned around.

He saw a youth wearing a demon guard uniform standing behind him. The youth had a young, upright face, delicate but very calm. Seeing him turn around, he said seriously, “Recently, the Demon Palace does not allow aimless wandering. You…”

After seeing clearly the clothes on Yun Xia’s body, he suddenly shut his mouth and looked at him in surprise.

Yun Xia: “?”

The demon guard suddenly knelt down on one knee without warning and said respectfully, “This subordinate was ignorant. Please forgive me, my lord.”

Yun Xia: “???”

He had never been knelt to in his two lifetimes. He was confused for a moment and could only kneel down on one knee as well, saying helplessly, “Can you give me a heads-up before kneeling? Okay, we’re even. Can you tell me why you’re kneeling to me, my lord? Could it be that I’ve been appointed as some great general by Esteemed Lord?”

The only thing he could guess was that the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon recognized that he had some merit, such as not betraying him on the spot in the small world, but using rhetoric to delay the Border Kings for a while. After coming out, he recognized that he had protected his lord and conferred some title on him.

No wonder those patrolling guards didn’t care that he was wandering around.

When the demon guard saw him like this, he didn’t know whether to stand up or continue kneeling. In the end, he could only bend over even lower, burying his head and saying, “No, Esteemed Lord personally carried you back to the bedroom.”

Yun Xia blinked twice. Carried back to the bedroom?

He extracted two pieces of information: many people saw it; he wasn’t appointed as a great general, but everyone misunderstood that he was some important person.

Yun Xia was silent. He could imagine the scene. The usually brutal and ruthless Demon Lord/Venerable Demon suddenly carried someone back and placed him in his own bedroom. It was indeed strange.

Putting himself in the shoes of Esteemed Lord’s subordinates, he really didn’t know how to treat him. Even if Esteemed Lord carried a woman back, it was estimated that no one would think that it was someone that Esteemed Lord had taken a fancy to.

Was this a good thing or a bad thing?

Many people in the Demon Palace knew him, and as an undercover agent, becoming so high-profile was really a dereliction of duty. But then again, he didn’t plan to be an undercover agent anymore, so being high-profile was fine. It wasn’t something he could control anyway.

Thinking of this, Yun Xia helped the person up with both hands and asked with a smile, “Can I ask you for a favor?”

The young demon guard, who looked very honest, was stunned when he met his smiling eyes, and quickly lowered his head: “Please give your orders.”

“I’m looking for my dog. Uh… when Esteemed Lord carried me back, I also had a dog in my arms, right? It was injured. Where might it be?”

The demon guard thought for a while: “If it was injured, it should have been sent to the Star Demon Pavilion. There is a healing formation there. Generally, if a demon guard is injured, going there for treatment can help them recover faster.”

Yun Xia’s eyes lit up, and he patted the demon guard’s shoulder happily: “Thank you, brother! Please help me lead the way.”

The demon guard agreed and led him in a certain direction.

Yun Xia liked this demon guard very much. He was different from other demon guards. He didn’t have the sharpness of a cold sword, and he looked easy to talk to and very easy to fool.

As he walked, he chatted with the demon guard to get information, and soon learned that he had indeed been transferred to the Demon Palace not long ago.

He also got the demon guard’s Spirit Transmission Seal. This was unique to everyone. After it was made and his own spiritual mark was entered, it could be given to others. After others ignited the Spirit Transmission Seal, they could communicate, and if they were close, they could also know their approximate location.

Getting excited, Yun Xia simply walked backwards facing the demon guard, chatting with him while walking, stealing the Spirit Transmission Seal’s production and usage methods. He was very satisfied with this reliable new friend.

The demon guard was completely led by his words. Because he trusted Esteemed Lord very much, he also completely trusted this person he had just met.

“This place is really too big. I have a feeling that I’ll definitely get lost in the future. Remember when that happens…”

Before he could finish speaking, he saw the demon guard suddenly stop, looking at his back, his entire person solemn and upright, turning into a spear. He wanted to give Yun Xia a wink, but he didn’t know how to signal him, so he could only anxiously watch Yun Xia bump into that person.

Yun Xia: “Oh, I’m sorry… Esteemed Lord?”

A large group of people appeared behind him at some point. The one at the head was very familiar. Looking at his hair and figure, it was obvious that it was the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon, but the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon was wearing a black mask on his face, so his face could not be seen.

So the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon doesn’t show his true face on weekdays.

Huh? This mask is a bit strange, like a thin cloud of black Demonic Chi, the edges are not very regular, as if it were alive.

As he looked, Yun Xia’s vision began to blur, and he couldn’t see clearly, so he stared at the mask even more carefully. As a result, the more he looked, the more dizzy he became, and his consciousness also blurred rapidly.

Just as his body swayed, a hand covered his eyes.

A gentle voice sounded: “You can’t stare at it.”

Yun Xia’s brain suddenly regained consciousness as if a large basin of ice water had been poured on it.

“Uh…”

Esteemed Lord’s mask has this kind of function, which means you are not allowed to look directly at the true face, right.

Yun Xia pulled down the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon’s hand and had to look at the position of his collarbone: “Okay, I know.”

Those who followed the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon were all top figures in the Demon Realm. The deacons were not even ranked here, following at the very end. At the front were the demon generals, and even a Demon King of a territory.

No matter what their personalities were like, or how deep their thoughts were, they couldn’t help but be dumbfounded at this moment.

They had followed the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon for so long, so they naturally knew the temperament of Esteemed Lord very well. No one had ever dared to be so careless, so casual, so… free in front of the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon.

Many people had personally seen the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon carry someone back that day, and even let that person sleep in Esteemed Lord’s bedroom for several days. It was already very incredible. Now that they actually saw that person, they were both shocked and horrified.

They thought that Esteemed Lord would dig out that person’s eyeballs.

Those with slightly weaker cultivation, after staring at Esteemed Lord’s mask a few more times, had to recover for half a day to eliminate the dizziness and pain. Someone like Yun Xia, who had stared at it so carefully for so long, was actually fine on the spot. It could only be that Esteemed Lord had protected him.

Yun Xia rubbed his eyes, dispersing the last bit of discomfort, and out of the corner of his eye saw that the large group of people behind the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon were all looking at him as if they had seen a ghost.

Wow, these are all Esteemed Lord’s right-hand men, confidants!

Yun Xia immediately showed a standard smile with eight teeth and waved to them to say hello: “Hello, everyone, what do you say… Nice to meet you, I’m just a small demon servant, not someone important.”

Everyone looked from his face to his claws that were still grabbing the Demon Lord/Venerable Demon’s hand, and didn’t know what expression to make with their faces.