TBOUMTBDK Chapter 39

Chapter 39: What Awaits You Is Hell…

Yun Xia desperately controlled his facial features, not allowing himself to reveal any shocked or surprised expressions. He only paused subtly before smiling and saying, “Well said, you’ve made me impatient.”

Huai Ying exchanged a meaningful glance with him, smiling knowingly, “That’s excellent. It’s just that I invited you before, but didn’t receive a reply, and another one of my companions also invited you, and you didn’t respond either. Alas, I was quite heartbroken at the time, thinking I was going to miss out on this connection with you, brother.”

Yun Xia: “?”

Yun Xia could understand him saying he ignored the previous invitation—that was when the clothing store invited him to the Drunken Inscription Tower. But when did another spy invite him?

He hadn’t been in contact with anyone else, and no one had approached him.

Could it be that the spy gave some subtle signal that he didn’t notice? Yun Xia immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

Damn it, if they find out that he doesn’t understand anything, doesn’t know how to contact them or accept messages, wouldn’t that be a disaster!

Yun Xia’s brain raced, how was he going to smooth this over?!

Instead of answering immediately, he gave Huai Ying a meaningful smile, picked up his teacup leisurely, and tapped it against Huai Ying’s in the air.

Huai Ying naturally didn’t suspect anything and cooperated by sipping his tea.

Yun Xia used this moment of drinking tea to desperately think of a solution.

In his anxiety, time stretched into a long line. The first floor of the inn was bustling with people, a normal and lively day. No one knew that at this moment, two spies from the Immortal Realm were communicating secretly while drinking tea.

One of them was a fake spy, and was constantly racking his brains to avoid being exposed.

Information flashed through his mind. He was a spy personally placed by the Male Lead, Xiao Nanli, and after the Three Kings incident, during the city-wide sweep, many spies left Holy City to temporarily avoid the limelight, leaving only him.

Only recently, because of the Netherflower Festival, did other spies have the opportunity to enter the city one after another.

And he, Yun Xia, was the most deeply embedded spy, so deep that he was even by the Demon Lord’s side, and even had the opportunity to leave the Demon Palace to carry out missions.

That’s right, in the eyes of other spies, he should be the most powerful existence, the most unfathomable, the one who could lie low the best! The fact that the Demon Lord hadn’t discovered him yet was enough to prove that.

Thinking of this, Yun Xia calmed down slightly.

That’s right, the persona he had to maintain was not a small spy or a minor character, but a senior amongst the Immortal Realm spies!

Imagine how capable one would have to be to avoid detection under that person’s nose.

Yun Xia slightly raised his eyes and glanced at the person across from him, his gaze deep and indifferent. As expected, he found that Huai Ying wasn’t urging him or showing any signs of blame, but waiting with a smile, his eyes filled with trust and respect for him.

Just as he expected.

So Yun Xia imitated the Demon Lord’s posture, leaning back slightly against the backrest, looking relaxed and casually glancing around.

This made him look like he was in control of everything.

“Brother Huai Ying, you invited me so suddenly the other day, naturally I couldn’t agree immediately. I’ve been in this Holy City for so long, many things are entangled and I can’t just leave. If I were to go, I would need to handle things here, and then re-plan and allocate my time to make a good plan, don’t you think that makes sense?”

Huai Ying paused. To him, Yun Xia’s meaning was that there were people from the Demon Palace around, so it wasn’t convenient for him to use the previously agreed upon method of contact. He needed to wait for him to make other arrangements?

That definitely made sense. After all, after the Three Kings incident, who knew how much the Demon Palace was investigating in this area, and whether they were still secretly investigating.

And according to Yun Xia’s meaning, the Demon Palace still hadn’t relaxed its vigilance?

No wonder he didn’t respond last time. As expected of someone who could lie low for so long, truly cautious.

Huai Ying was even more respectful, nodding repeatedly and saying, “You’re right, you’re right, we were too anxious. Haha, after all, the beautiful scenery is there, it won’t grow legs and run away. Then Yun Xia, you can plan it out carefully and then tell me?”

Yun Xia said approvingly, “Of course.”

So the two continued to drink tea and chat, tacitly not mentioning what happened just now, like two like-minded friends who regretted meeting so late.

Yun Xia appeared calm on the surface, but in reality he hadn’t relaxed for a moment. The Immortal Realm was the ultimate winner in this book, and the big bosses behind it weren’t just the Male Lead, Xiao Nanli. So he didn’t dare to underestimate this spy at all.

After all, he suspected that Huai Ying was even stronger than him.

Strength, strength! He had to make more time to cultivate!! This feeling of being constrained by others was truly unpleasant!

After cultivating for the past few months, he was already much better than when he first transmigrated, but it wasn’t enough.

However, after fixing the furniture last time, Yun Xia felt that his control over the Demon Nucleus had directly increased by a level. But because he didn’t have time, he still hadn’t properly experienced it.

After the Netherflower Festival is over, he must cultivate properly!

While thinking two things at once, his peripheral vision suddenly caught a familiar figure walking into the inn.

Yun Xia immediately looked over, and sure enough, the Demon Lord was back!

The Demon Lord was in the appearance of Saint Ruler at this time, not wearing the Saint Ruler’s robes, just like an ordinary, but unusually handsome guest.

As soon as he stepped into the inn, he looked in Yun Xia’s direction, and their eyes met.

Yun Xia’s heart skipped a beat, inexplicably a little guilty, but then he thought that he didn’t want to do anything with these Immortal Realm spies, so he calmed down a bit and stood up.

The Huai Ying next to him stiffened imperceptibly, but only for a moment, glanced at Yun Xia, and stood up with him.

The Demon Lord walked over elegantly and preciously, his face young and handsome. Standing next to Yun Xia, he intimately but not excessively affectionately straightened his collar that was askew, and said in a friendly tone, “What are you doing here? Who is this?”

Because Huai Ying was there, Yun Xia’s face was a little hot. He grabbed the Demon Lord’s hand and put it down by his side, saying, “Let me introduce you. Esteemed Lord, this is a new friend I made, named Huai Ying, he came to Holy City to see the sights. Huai Ying, this is the person I like, we’re a couple.”

He glanced at the Demon Lord, wondering if he should directly say that he was the Saint Ruler.

But the Demon Lord naturally took over the conversation, and said friendly to Huai Ying, “Nice to meet you, I’m Li Yu.”

Huai Ying pretended to be stunned in surprise, looking at him, then at Yun Xia, and said in great surprise and shock, “You, you’re the legendary Li Yu Saint…”

Yun Xia winked at him, “Shhh, don’t shout that title, or we’ll be surrounded wherever we go.”

Huai Ying immediately said, “Okay, okay, I understand, I didn’t expect it to be such a coincidence, greetings, Your Venerable!”

The Demon Lord nodded gently, and asked curiously, “What were you talking about just now?”

Huai Ying enthusiastically and with some flattered shock told him about the previous topic, without any trace of his behavior at the clothing store.

Yun Xia looked at his performance and thought that this spy’s acting skills were not bad.

While he was secretly pondering, he suddenly felt the Demon Lord pinch his hand, then hook his fingers in his palm.

Yun Xia’s arm trembled, and he inevitably thought of what happened last night at the Purple Mist Pavilion, when this person played with his hand, which reminded him of more things before and after.

The Demon Lord relied on the fact that his movements were hidden under his sleeves, becoming even more unscrupulous, wrapping around the base of his fingers and rubbing gently.

Yun Xia fiercely pinched his fingers to stop him from moving. After a few entanglements, the Demon Lord indeed stopped moving, but Yun Xia was forced to stick closer to him.

Huai Ying’s eyes flashed, pretending not to see anything, and continued to talk. The Demon Lord finally smiled faintly, “Quite interesting.”

Afterwards, he said he had something to do and went upstairs first. Yun Xia knew that Huai Ying still had something to say to him, so he stayed here and continued to drink tea with Huai Ying.

When the Demon Lord disappeared at the top of the stairs, Huai Ying’s respectful gaze slowly returned, turning to Yun Xia.

Yun Xia calmly took a pastry and put it in his mouth to chew slowly, waiting for Huai Ying to speak.

Unexpectedly, Huai Ying only glanced at him cryptically, and didn’t ask anything. But when he withdrew his gaze, Yun Xia clearly saw him nod approvingly and respectfully at him.

“…”

Huai Ying definitely thought that he personally seduced the Saint Ruler in order to leave the Demon Palace, thinking that he had paid a lot…

And Yun Xia could only accept it in order to maintain his persona.

Well, this is also good.

The two chatted for a while, and finally, Huai Ying suggested that he go to his room to continue talking. Yun Xia knew that this was where they would get down to business.

He agreed and followed Huai Ying away.

But Huai Ying didn’t take him upstairs, but took him to another inn some distance away, probably to avoid being discovered by the people of the Saint Ruler who lived here.

Yun Xia followed all the way, feeling uneasy, with a feeling of about to enter the wolf’s den. He even wanted to find an excuse to find Gray Eyes and let it secretly follow to protect him, and immediately notify the Demon Lord to save him in case of any special circumstances.

But in the end he refrained from taking any action, and with extremely high quality, followed Huai Ying into a room in another inn.

He still had the Phoenix Rainbow Jade Pendant on him, which could be used as a talisman to block for a while.

After entering the room, Yun Xia calmly observed the two people in the room. One was the girl he had seen with Huai Ying that day, and the other was a young man he had never seen before.

The two stood up to greet them when they pushed the door open. When the young man saw Yun Xia, his eyes lit up, “I finally meet you, Senior Brother Yun Xia. Last time I sent you a message on the street, but I waited for you all night and you didn’t show up. Was something holding you back?”

This should be the other companion Huai Ying mentioned. Yun Xia didn’t answer immediately, but nodded and smiled, pretending to be profound and saying, “Finally met, everyone.”

The young man took two steps forward quickly, saying very eagerly, “Yes, yes, when I was in the Immortal Sect, I often heard Elder Nanli mention you. Meeting you today is indeed extraordinary. It’s really impossible to tell that you’re a spy!”

Yun Xia: “?”

He asked with a smile, “How? What do you think of me?”

“You just look very cute and innocent. Seeing you and that Saint Ruler playing lovers the other day was really realistic and natural! If I hadn’t seen Senior Brother’s portrait beforehand, I wouldn’t have been able to tell just by looking at the surface!”

Yun Xia: “………..”

Are you praising me or mocking me?

Yun Xia slightly clenched his back teeth, and smiled, “Senior Brother will give you a meeting gift.”

The young man was overjoyed, “I have a meeting gift too! Thank you, Senior Brother!”

Yun Xia said very kindly, “You look and actually are very innocent. You should get more training before coming to Holy City, otherwise you will easily be seen through.”

The young man was stunned, scratching his head embarrassedly, “How did Senior Brother know? I really… I really took some shortcuts to get here.”

You can take shortcuts to be a spy??

The girl who hadn’t spoken all along rolled her eyes at the young man.

Yun Xia looked at Huai Ying.

Huai Ying quickly said, “It’s like this, Yun Xia. He was actually able to come here because of a special reason. He has a very good talent in Spirit Consciousness cultivation, and is considered a leader of the younger generation, so we sent him to contact you. We wouldn’t send him to do any important tasks. But who knew that he wouldn’t succeed even in such a small task that day. You didn’t show up that night, probably because you sensed something, right?”

Yun Xia had already thought of his excuse, saying, “Well, this is Holy City, and the Demon Lord is the only one who controls the Black Lotus. You are very good at Spirit Consciousness cultivation, but can you be better than him? If he hasn’t relaxed his vigilance against Holy City, and secretly arranged something, wouldn’t I be discovered if I contacted you?”

Everyone in the room was shocked. That’s right, Spirit Consciousness is the most difficult to cultivate, but the Demon Lord’s attainment in this area is probably the deepest in the Three Realms. Didn’t he cultivate the Black Lotus from his Sea of Consciousness?

The few people looked at each other, and were all a little scared. Huai Ying’s last bit of doubt about Yun Xia completely disappeared, and he sighed, “We overlooked that, and didn’t even realize it. The Three Kings incident was so big, and Holy City was only opened several months later at the Netherflower Festival. The Demon Lord really could have personally made arrangements, using this to catch us. Fortunately Yun Xia, you didn’t respond, and didn’t come.”

Yun Xia frowned and nodded seriously, “Don’t use your method to contact me in the future. Speak directly face to face. If you have anything, come to me directly. Anyway, you know where I live. If you can’t find me, wait for me to come back and then tell me.”

Huai Ying agreed.

“Then wouldn’t I be useless at all? I came here to be a liaison. I’ve been cultivating for so long…” The young man muttered in disappointment.

Yun Xia thought, heh, that’s exactly what I want, eliminating this biggest bug for him!

Huai Ying patted him on the shoulder, saying, “Oh right, I forgot to introduce you. This is Junior Brother Gong Qiu, and this is Junior Sister Zhu Wan’er. They are both disciples of our Phoenix Cry Immortal Mountain, and they have both formed their Inner Core.”

Zhu Wan’er curtsied to Yun Xia, Yun Xia: “You don’t have to be polite, you can just call me Yun Xia. Be careful not to say the wrong thing when you’re outside.”

This sentence was mainly aimed at Gong Qiu, Gong Qiu said aggrievedly, “I know, I won’t be so bad at even such a small thing.”

Yun Xia smiled and comforted him, “Okay, I believe you. Don’t be too sad because of this, there’s always something you can do.”

Gong Qiu cheered up again, nodding vigorously, looking at him with admiration.

The corner of Yun Xia’s mouth twitched. This person looked even more unreliable than him.

“By the way, what’s your mission this time? It shouldn’t be as simple as taking back the Phoenix Rainbow Jade Pendant, right?”

The few people sat down on the chairs, all of them lowering their faces and becoming serious. Huai Ying said, “Yes, originally we planned to settle down in Holy City first and then slowly talk about the mission, but on the first day of the Netherflower Festival, we received news that Saint Ruler Li Yu has appeared, so our mission has changed accordingly. The most important mission is Saint Ruler Li Yu. Yun Xia, we must have your help, otherwise the chances of success are very small.”

Yun Xia was stunned. Oh ho, you guys really know how to pick missions, coming here and targeting the most top-notch man in the Demon Realm.

Friends, what awaits you is hell!

He smiled and said, “Very good, of course I can help. What do you want to do to Saint Ruler Li Yu?”