It stopped snowing.

    “What books?” Chang Qian took a sip of tea.

    “《The overbearing Devil Lord fell in love with me》, 《The Devil Lord’s forceful love for me》, 《The Devil Lord’s pampered wife ran away pregnant》……”

    Chang Qian suddenly choked, and almost spat out the mouthful of tea in his mouth. He really couldn’t understand these adult’s tastes. Shenxian gege liked to read to pass the time, but why do these devils who were born ruthless and scary also like to read these kinds of common fiction books!

    Just as the little snake was shaken by his own thoughts, he heard the little deer beside him say quietly: “And those two have been sitting there all morning studying those books, and even taking notes.”

    Chang Qian: “…..”

    “The more I look at them, the more I feel,” Ah-Chu continued with difficulty, “that there is a massive issue with the education system in the Devil Realm….”

    These two little demons unconsciously became concerned for the country of people of another realm, after that Ah-Chu picked up the cooled bowl of medicine and took it up to the second floor of the little pine house.

    The second floor had a little candle lit, even though it was the light of day it was still lit. Jiang Zheliu was sitting in the corner reading a book, he was wearing a white thin robe, with a silky daoist robe on top, the pankou knots had not been fastened very well.

    The hand that was holding the book was slender and beautiful, the strands of hair that fell by his ears were glossy and sleek as frost. Sitting there quietly, he was so beautiful that it would have made anyone happy and be completely besotted with him.

    Ah-Chu let out another sigh, and thought that the protagonist will always be the protagonist, his destructive force was just too strong. He slowly moved closer but the scent of the Heavenly Spirit Body made him unable to sit or stand still out of nervousness. He swallowed his saliva, settled his mind, and then plopped down beside Jiang Zheliu, and passed him the bitter bowl of medicine.

    Jiang Zheliu finally came back to his senses, he put down the book and took the medicine bowl from Ah-Chu: “Thank you.”

    Ah-Chu’s face started to burn, he felt that Jiang Zheliu’s weird physique was making him become more and more capricious, he couldn’t resist saying: “Zheliu gege, Why do I feel like… you are getting more and more fragrant…..”

    Jiang Zheliu couldn’t smell this scent, he had studied the physique with a focused and serious attitude in the secret book that Yu Jinnian had given him. There was no change in his emotions, he glanced down at himself and asked, “What kind of smell is it?”

    “Well….. It makes me want to throw you down. It’s like….. Like a….”.

    Ah-Chu swallowed down the words “a walking human-shaped aphrodisiac”, in his mind he went through ABO, Sentinel-guide, Therianthrop and all other kinds of weird plotlines and tropes, but did not find one similar to this one……. However, when he read this book it was a no-CP novel with sadistic plot, even though it was a HE. The content was completely sadistic, but because the protagonist had terrible health from the beginning, it didn’t have any plotlines that wasn’t allowed by JJWXC.

    At this moment, the bamboo curtain outside was tapped once and then lifted up.

    Yu Jinnian walked in leading a young man in pale blue robes with one hand, he turned his head to look at the two devils outside the door whilst pulling up the bamboo curtain, and said with surprise: “What is this, is Zhongnan Mountain opening up for scenery tours?”

    Shi Binghen who was outside was hugging his own elbows, he poked at Yan Chuzi who was beside him still taking notes, with a curious face he asked: “How come he can enter the house?”

    “He’s the physician.” The future teacher, Yan Chuzi didn’t even look up.

    The two fierce pair of devils listened in from the outside of the wall everyday. They were exactly like a pair of Threshold Guardians. Ever since they came to Zhongnan Mountain with the Devil Lord to learn how to take what you want by all means possible, the mountain spirits and wild demons here all sighed helplessly. Those little demons were even reluctant to show off in front of Jiang Xianzun and therefore had lost their chance at being adopted.

    Especially when they were half-transformed into their devil forms, it was like Jiang Xianzun had taken in two devil hounds. All devils were incredibly thick-skinned, one more ferocious than the other. Every night the two of them would diligently listen in at the corner of the house, Yan Chuzhi could even be heard reciting everyday: “I don’t want to be alone anymore, I don’t want to be alone anymore……”

    Shi Binghen watched with wide eyes as the other’s standards went from a beautiful and sexy female devil to just a female devil and then fell again to just any devil would do. Recently, it had even dropped to as long as the other person was alive that’ll do it, there was no longer any baseline.

    Although it was the first time that Yu Jinnian had come to the little pinehouse, he was not completely surprised either. He sized up the entire place, noticing that it was completely in the style of the Devil Realm, and admired the Devil Lord’s ability to create a warm nest, until finally finding the most important place in that nest on the second floor.

    He pulled the little mute with him to take a seat.

    Wenren Ye was outside talking to those two devils, but it was not clear what they were discussing. Yu Jinnian took advantage of this opportunity, leaned over and whispered: “That secret dual cultivation manual, have you two tried it yet?”

    Hearing the two words ‘dual cultivation’, Ah-Chu’s eyes immediately opened as wide as a copper bell.

    Jiang Zheliu sighed lightly and said: “Looking at my condition, does it look like we’ve tried?”

    The two of them didn’t bother to hide things from the others, on the side there was Wang Moxuan who was dumb so even if he heard it wasn’t a big deal and on the other, it was Ah-Chu who was probably too young to even understand.

    ————

    There was a bamboo courtyard next to the small pine building, which was built by Wenren Ye when he first arrived, so this was put to use by Yu Jinnian and Wang Moxuan to live in.

    Because of Jiang Zheliu’s health, Yu Jinnian remained in the small pinehouse most of the time. He sat on the side, watching the little mute respectfully playing Go with Jiang Qianbei, the two of them were playing silently, back and forth, criss-crossing around the board, but it was so silent that there was not even a single sound, except for the crisp sound of the game pieces being placed on the board.

    Wang Moxuan couldn’t speak, Jiang Zheliu was cold and reticent, even if they were having a spectacular game, Yu Jinnian didn’t have the culture to understand and he was actually getting a bit bored.

    He was the unorthodox cultivator, watching these two righteous cultivators coming out of one of the Four Great Immortal Sects to play go Aside from the beautiful sight in front of him that was worth bothering about, Yu Jinnian really didn’t know what was going on, and in the end he couldn’t resist opening his chatterbox mouth: “Was it really you that killed Zhu Wuxin?”

    It was truly infuriating, poking at the sore spot that shouldn’t be provoked.

    The fingertips that were holding the go stone paused for a moment, before Jiang Zheliu replied quietly: ‘En.”

    “Decisive beyond my expectations.” Yu Jinnian said, “When Wang Wenyuan was negotiating with me, talking about the death of Zhu Wuxin, he seemed to receive the news a lot quicker than others, he must have secretly been spying on Ling Xiao Sect.”

    Given Wang Wenyuan’s ultimate goal, it was not surprising that he was watching the Ling Xiao Sect.

    Jiang Zheliu gently turned the go piece between his fingers, and suddenly thought that with age and experience of Zhu Wuxin, it was actually very difficult for him to be able to find a way to enter the bottom of the River of the Dead and be able to wake up He Sorshi.

    Wang Wenyuan might have played a role in it. When all the sects came to pay respects to him that day in Dan Xin Monastery, neither of them had come.

    He was distracted, and his game was not as steady as before, so he was blocked by the youth sitting opposite him, and had lost three white stones in the process.

    “That person is cunning and treacherous, brute force will not work.” Yu Jinnian stared at the go board, pretending to understand even though he didn’t understand, “Not to mention that he has a Locking Sound Curse in his hands, I have to think of another way…”

    “He has already achieved his goal.” Jiang Zheliu said, “My shidi is dead, Ling Xiao Sect……”

    “Don’t worry about this.” Yu Jinnian frowned, “You can’t think too much when you are in this situation, your mind is worn out, and you’re wearing out your body. When it comes to this, I want to ask you—”

    His words paused here, he glanced outside to check that there was no one around, and then he heard Jiang Zheliu’s voice.

    “The little devil has gone back with the two devils, as a ruler of a realm, how could he just continue to watch over this wild place, Jiang Zheliu took a sip of tea, “What exactly do you want to say that can’t be heard by others?”

    As soon as Yu Jinnian heard that Wenren Ye was not about, he laughed cheekily, he looked at him up and down and then said: “It’s not a big deal, it’s just that you don’t have any cultivation to suppress your physique, left neglected for so long, you’re about to die from thirst.”

    Jiang Zheliu almost spit out his tea and then he coughed twice, he gripped the teacup firmly, that his fingertips were slightly reddened.

    The little mute opposite him also froze, his gaze was focused on looking at the go board, pretending he hadn’t heard a thing.

    Author Note:

    What good intentions.

    Self-castration was not possible, this would ruin the □□x1 of his next life.