Attacked by the Female Demon at the Beginning - Chapter 111

Chapter 111: The Sudden Appearance of the Female Demon

Walking back, Jiang Hao occasionally encountered a few people.

In secret, they would all make a comment or two.

Saying he was really lucky.

Not only did they think so, even he thought the same.

The Sect Master, who had been in seclusion, had suddenly taken action.

This made him recall what Elder Bai Zhi had said earlier, mentioning that the reward was given to him by someone.

“So, was it the Sect Master who wanted me to plant the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower?”

Jiang Hao had some guesses in his heart, but he wasn’t certain.

Whether it was or wasn’t, it made no difference to him.

Whether it was Elder Bai Zhi or the Sect Master, it was all the same to him.

Both were beyond his ability to provoke.

After a while, he returned to his own courtyard.

Liu Xingchen had already said that the surveillance on him had been lifted.

Apart from not being able to leave the sect, there were no other restrictions.

Sitting on the wooden chair in the courtyard, Jiang Hao took out the Thousand Li Teleportation Talisman, which he had thought he would use today.

Unexpectedly, it was not needed.

Looking back, he realized that in this tide of events, aside from fleeing, he had no other option.

He was still not strong enough.

Turning to look at the courtyard, Jiang Hao suddenly stood up and began to clean.

Even if it wasn’t dirty, he wanted to clean it.

Not for any particular reason.

He just wanted to calm his heart, as today he had been jumping between life and death and safety.

Now that things had settled down, the anxiety he had been holding onto was slowly dissipating.

He had made many preparations, prepared ways to escape, prepared to face various pursuits.

Although he had been calm these past few days, he had always been on guard.

It was difficult to calm down once he let go.

He stretched out his hand and found it was trembling slightly.

On reflection, apart from advancing quickly, he was quite ordinary in other respects.

In terms of mentality and thought, he was far behind those true powerhouses.

Strength can dazzle the eyes and make one unconsciously overlook one’s own shortcomings.

Suddenly, a fresh fragrance wafted over, not from the courtyard.

This sent a chill through him, and he immediately turned to look.

He saw someone sitting at the wooden table in the courtyard, gazing at the peach tree in front.

Hong Yuye.

Jiang Hao was somewhat surprised.

He hadn’t expected her to come today.

In fact, he had also considered whether she would appear if he started to flee.

Would she come to inquire about the situation or to ask where her flower had gone?

On second thought, she might ask if he enjoyed running away.

But the answer he would never know because the matter had been resolved.

“Looking at you like this, it seems you don’t remember my scent.”

Hong Yuye turned her head to look at Jiang Hao and asked.

“Senior has misunderstood,” Jiang Hao replied respectfully with his head bowed:

“The fragrance from senior is different from before; this time it’s mixed with many kinds of floral scents.”

He was telling the truth, but her appearance made it hard for him to suppress the palpitations of the day.

With the effect of the Tianjue Gu poison gone, he could only rely on his own state of mind to remain calm.

Fortunately, he did not embarrass himself.

Hong Yuye turned her head away from Jiang Hao and sat quietly at the table.

The wind stirred around them, making everything seem exceptionally peaceful.

Jiang Hao also began to calm down slowly.

At that moment, Hong Yuye suddenly spoke,

“Take good care of my flower, and then get ready to go to town with me. Otherwise, you won’t be able to withstand my fury.”

As her words fell, Jiang Hao saw Hong Yuye transform into a red shadow and disappear from the side of the wooden table.

Vanished without a trace.

She left just like that, leaving Jiang Hao feeling strange.

This time, she didn’t even glance at the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower.

At this moment, Jiang Hao looked at his hands and found that they had regained their calm.

He took a deep breath and congratulated himself.

“I’ve survived another calamity.”

He would need to discuss the matter of going to town with Liu Xingchen.

He didn’t know what Hong Yuye’s anger was about.

But it was certainly not easy to bear.

Provoking her was not a wise move.

……

Noon.

The rabbit returned.

“Didn’t you go down the mountain?” Jiang Hao asked, sitting in a wooden chair.

The rabbit stood on the table, fiddling with its collar, and said indifferently.

“I figured I should come back and look after my Master. From now on, Master can just hang out with me, so friends from the road will give the master face.”

Jiang Hao smiled and remained silent.

Why the rabbit went down the mountain and why it returned, he wasn’t quite sure.

But the rabbit was full of lies; whatever it said was mostly false.

Its requests, however, might be genuine.

Like wanting a collar.

“Master, will you eat people in the future?” The rabbit looked scared.

“Today, when I went down the mountain, I passed by a place where a man stripped a woman bare and threatened to eat her. The woman pleaded bitterly, and later when the man decided to spare her, she didn’t seem happy about it.”

Jiang Hao: “…”

He thought of Hong Yuye for no particular reason, just because he only had normal psychological reactions to her.

Other people held no temptation for him.

For a moment, he felt a sense of desolation.

“Don’t sneak a peek at these things in the future, or one day you’ll be gone,” Jiang Hao advised the rabbit.

“I saw it in the woods,” said the rabbit.

Jiang Hao: “…”

The Tianyin Sect wasn’t so open, was it someone from the Tianhuan Pavilion?

That seemed unlikely too.

“Then the man was eaten by the woman, bite by bite, his organs scattered all over the ground, it was too crude,” the rabbit continued, looking at Jiang Hao.

“Master, be careful when you eat women, don’t get eaten yourself.”

Hearing this, Jiang Hao was stunned; what the rabbit saw seemed different from what he had imagined.

“Did she notice you?” he asked the rabbit.

“Everyone in the road gives Lord Rabbit face; they all pretended not to see me,” the rabbit said earnestly.

Jiang Hao nodded slightly.

If what the rabbit said was true, then this woman had killed someone.

If it was a disciple of the Tianyin Sect, it wouldn’t be long before the Hall of Enforcement got involved.

Even if she had eaten the person clean, it would be the same.

But who would dare to kill someone so brazenly within the Tianyin Sect?

Jiang Hao worried that this person, like him, had something to hide.

If the victim was someone important, then he could be implicated by this person’s actions.

After all, Liu Xingchen had mentioned the sect’s treasure, the Tianyuan Shaping Divine Mirror, intentionally or not.

Once this item was called upon, the murderer would almost certainly not escape.

Hesitating for a moment, Jiang Hao decided to look for Liu Xingchen in a few days.

To see if there was any news and to ask about how to leave.

There was no rush for now; his promotion was in the coming days, and the priority was to get stronger first.

……

The next day.

Jiang Hao stood at the entrance of the courtyard and took a deep breath.

Today, he would resume his normal routine and start earning spirit stones.

Currently, he had only a few dozen spirit stones left.

Arriving at the Spiritual Medicine Garden, Jiang Hao found that Cheng Chou had been out for over half a month and didn’t know when he would return.

“Junior Brother Jiang, good morning,” Miao Tinglian greeted Jiang Hao.

She had also been helping out in the Spiritual Medicine Garden recently.

She had transplanted a bunch of spiritual medicines and was busy planting them.

“Senior Sister Miaoting, good morning,” Jiang Hao replied politely.

This Senior Sister was quite friendly, but he wasn’t sure if she had other motives.

“Do you have a moment, Junior Brother? There’s something I’d like to ask you,” Miao Tinglian said amiably.

After a pause, she continued:

“It’s about Senior Brother Mu Qi.”