Inner Demons Volume 1 Chapter 19

↑DaJi, the consort of the last king of  Shang Dynasty, one of the most famous fox spirits in the legends.

Not to mention that, his parents had told him that demons liked pigment priests best.

A pigment priest of Materialization Realm, already had the power of creating real things. For those demons which already cultivated to become a spiritual form but didn’t have a real body, and could only find somewhere to attach their souls, receiving a body from a kind priest would be a great fortune.

That’s why at first Li YunXin thought that the demon sensed the unusual spiritual power of the painting array, and followed its instinct to help him.

It created the illusion of a female ghost, and did the trick of “ghost building walls”. It could be seen from these that it did have some powers. Although its tricks may seem worthless before the disciples of the talisman sect or the sword sect, they were enough to be used against ordinary people - even those swordsmen who took strong pills to trade their vitality for powerful inner strength.

However…

How did the demon know about pigment priests?

The disciples of the talisman sect and the sword sect couldn’t be kind enough to tell it about this. After the painting saint’s fall 2,000 years ago, even the term “pigment priest” almost disappeared from the secular world.

There must be a story behind this demon.

Judging by its awkward speech, it should know something about the human world, but didn’t fully understand the proper manners.

What are the three sacrifices? A cow, a sheep and a pig, which was the highest level of a royal sacrifice, also called a “great stable” - and this stupid demon was asking him if he had brought it the three sacrifices.

As expected, it was a silly demon which only knew a little of the world.

Li YunXin smiled, and touched the clay sculpture with his hand: “What a big stomach this little cat demon has.”

It suddenly became silent in the temple. After a while, Li YunXin heard it saying: “Ah? A cat demon? Aiya, I’m not a cat demon, em? I’m SanHua the G.o.ddess. Ya...G.o.ddess SanHua. How dare you! Eh? How did you know that I’m a cat demon? You tell me? Ah? I’m G.o.ddess SanHua!”

“Your t.i.tle...G.o.ddess SanHua, doesn’t it just mean that you are a tricolor cat? What’s more, you talk like a nut - an entire race of nuts, isn’t that cats?” Li YunXin curled his lips, “You little cat demon, you want meat and incense, it’s not a problem, but you need to deal with that guy out there for me. Did you create that ghost from before? It was not bad, but I can teach you something more fun.”

Li YunXin had walked in for a while, the swordsman should have arrived, too.

In spite of that, he shouldn’t dare to come in. What happened before made him understand that the young man was different from those of the escort team, he needed to be taken very seriously - If the swordsman wanted to kill him, he must make sure to kill him dead.

Li YunXin peeped outside, and found that the swordsman had rushed out of the forest as he expected. However, he seemed surprised and confused about the ruined temple which showed up unexpectedly. After waving his thin sword in front of him, he started to slowly move towards the entry of the temple really carefully - using a kind of mysterious movement that needed internal power.

Which however made him look like a street dancer.

“Em? Fun? Aya, great, great! Humph, no three sacrifices, this G.o.ddess...em? Give me a...emm...a body first? Ee, and then this G.o.ddess would help you, humph...what’s fun? Em?”

Li YunXin suddenly felt a breeze appear beside him. It blew around him, and stirred some dust from the ground.

It should be the spiritual body of the demon.

When a demon cultivated to gain magical power and intelligence, but not having pills or special methods to strengthen its body like humans did, its body would die. When its body died, but its soul didn’t vanish, it became something like a ghost of a dead person, which is called its spiritual body.

This little cat demon did have a big gallbladder[2] - Instead of staying in something that contained enough spiritual power, its spiritual body came out and wandered in the air. If a thunderbolt coincidentally fell nearby, its soul would be completely destroyed.

“Stupid cat. That man wants to kill me. How am I going to help you later if you don’t help me first.” Hiding behind the collapsed door, Li YunXin stared at the swordsman, “This idiot just killed a girl, and I’m not happy about that, I want him to die. You help me kill him, and I’ll draw you a portrait for possessing after that. You can find any temple to to be wors.h.i.+pped, and feed on the incenses and candles there. Whether you could cultivate to reach immortality, would be up to yourself.”

The cat demon murmured: “Ee? Incense? Aya, that’s great. Em? No, humph, firstly, give me a body, humph...”

“You fool!” Li YunXin frowned and shouted in a low voice, “You are only a demon, how dare you bargain with me!? Don’t you know that I’m a pigment priest? A great fortune is right before your eyes, and you don’t even want to catch it? Em?”

The cat demon remained silent for a while: “Aya...Aiya, Ah...then the thing you said ...the fun, emm...”

It sounded so upset, like a kitten which lowered its ears after being slapped. Also like a child who got beaten after asking for candy.

But that’s what demons were like, they were different from human after all.

Li YunXin furrowed his eyebrows again, and asked quietly: “Listen to me. Do you know how to...”

[1]Red sleeves红袖: A beauty.

Editor:Dropped