Inner Demons Volume 1 Chapter 21

Li YunXin knew it was because she was attached to his body. Priests, swordsmen and the pigment priests, they all cultivated in the proper way which was invented by the celestials, and the internal strength of the Taoist sects, so there was a qi of righteousness inside their bodies, which didn’t exist in the ordinary people.

Therefore when the spirits of demons attached to the body of these kinds of people, their spiritual bodies would be rejected and that would make them feel really bad. He stepped back: “Go back. You helped me, and I owe you a debt, but now my sea of qi is sealed, so I can’t make a painting which is comfortable enough for you to attach yourself to. Later, when I find the way to solve this, I’ll come to see you.”

A cold breeze moved around Li YunXin. The cat demon whispered with annoyance: “Ah? Later? How long is that? Hah, there was once a person...Em, humph! Not later, I won’t wait...yee?”

She suddenly became quiet. The tips of the gra.s.s a few steps away lowered. The cold breeze went away.

The cat demon seemed to have found something. Li YunXin didn’t know what plan  the demon was making. He looked at the direction he came from. After a while, he heard something rustling.

Someone was coming from there.

He frowned with alert, but soon became shocked.

A girl staggered out of the forest, jumping around and waving her arms. She staggered and laughed like a silver bell[1], while disordered murmur coming out of her mouth: “Ah? Great, great, great, Hahaha, this is mine, haha, ee, this is mine, hehehehe-”

The girl was good-looking, slim and tall. Bathing in the moonlight, the end of her dress swayed. The scene was supposed to be beautiful, but Li YunXin only felt his scalp tingling when he heard her laughs.

It was because that was Qiao JiaXin.

The cat demon attached itself to the dead body of Qiao JiaXin

It was more than 10 minutes since the girl’s death, Qiao JiaXin’s soul should have been hooked and taken away - If the Black and White Yamas which he had never seen really existed.

There was actually some spiritual qi which remained in the corpse. Maybe the quality of her body and the time were special, so the cat demon managed to take over her body. It not only took her body, but also move freely with it. It almost looked like it was her original body.

“Qiao JiaXin” ran into Li YunXin, staggered, and b.u.t.ted him in the chest. Li YunXin slightly frowned, and steadied her. He wanted to criticize her, but he didn’t know how.

He had only been with Qiao JiaXin for 1 day after all, they were not so close.

After it nuzzled for a while on his chest, the cat demon stood firmly. Li YunXin sighed: “Well.”

“This fortune was meant to happen in your destiny, you didn’t help me in vain. I’ve heard of such things before.”

“Before, there were also some demons which attached themselves to corpses, even some masters of Taoism had done this. The dead bodies would eventually decay anyway, making the best use of things is also the way of heaven. However, there are a few things you need to pay attention to.”

His parents told him about these, and he remembered all of them, but he didn’t expect that they would come into use today. There were rules about such things. They wouldn’t always be obeyed like the laws and rules in the modern society, but they did exist. He didn’t really understand them before, and thought that they were pedantic, but now, after seeing the cat demon and Lord Nine, he thought he understood.

Lord Nine looked almost like a human. He looked like a human, dressed like a human, and talked like a human, but he picked up humans and ate them with no doubt, like how humans picked up and ate chicken legs.

In the eyes of such a powerful demon, the manners of humans were all bulls.h.i.+t. Humans were only food, and there was no possibility to communicate with them - Just like people in the modern era wouldn’t try to communicate with pigs and dogs.

...and the Small Animal Protection a.s.sociation[2] doesn't exist in this world

This cat demon was not as powerful as Lord Nine, so it only attached itself on a statue in a temple. Maybe it didn’t commit many crimes like Lord Nine did, but judging by the way she talked and acted, she didn’t seem to know much about human affairs. They were different from humans after all.

The cultivators always said that “those who are from a different species, also have a different heart from ours”, It made some sense.

Thus there came the rules.

“Since you are a demon, there shouldn’t be people who built a temple for you for no reason. You must have been helped by some master. That master should have told you some rules. I’m afraid it’s been too long, and you have forgotten them, so I’ll tell you again.”

Looking at Qiao JiaXin, who was familiar but also strange, Li YunXin said: “You helped me, because you knew that I could help you. You saved my life, so a relation was built between us. Maybe the one who helped you before was a similar person to me. You were in my body, and you have witnessed my powers. I can help you, but I can also harm you, it all depends on whether you are going to act like a human properly.”

“Now what I’m going to tell you is that, when you are attached to a human body, and enter the human society, you must follow the manners and rules of humans. You are a demon, maybe it would be hard you overcome your wild nature, but when annoying things happen, you must think deeply for a time of 3 breaths before you act.”

“Firstly, don’t kill any human.”

“Secondly, don’t marry any human.”

“Thirdly--”

When he got to this point, “Qiao JiaXin” suddenly knelt before him, and lifted her head to look at him. Her black eyes shone in the moonlight, her face was faithful, serious and even a little nervous.

Li YunXin stopped, and soon realized the cat demon was listening to the rules.

For the animal demons, many things which were common sense for humans, were rules to them.

People thought it was natural to be good to their parents, and not to eat others, but for the demons, these were all rules which came from the humans.

It looked like the cat demon was really inspired by someone before, otherwise it wouldn’t show a face like this.

Li YunXin suddenly felt a little better, so he slightly smiled.

“Thirdly, your Three Views must be proper.”

Qiao JiaXin blinked, and tried to talk like a normal human: “Ah? Three Views? Hah? Is that a big temple?[3] Are you going to build 3 big temples for me?”

Li YunXin laughed: “The Three Views are your views of your life, the world and the values of things. You don’t need to understand this now, just knowing this is enough. You will understand later someday.”

“However, if you want to follow me, we need to go to Wei City. Your body... We can say that you were scared out of your mind. We can settle down there after all, and that means... we need to take care of the others of the escort team. Em, it’s ok if you don’t understand, just follow me. Get into my body when I tell you to. Let’s save them.”

“Confidently said, young man.”

Another voice appeared right after Li YunXin’s voice ended.

This voice probably also belonged to a young man, who was 22 or 23 years old. He sounded beautiful and magnetic. The end of his words always rose, which made him sound like a free man without any restraint.

Then a young man who was wearing a white robe with cloud brocades walked out of the forest.

Li YunXin furrowed his eyebrows, and felt his heart bounce inside.

When that man walked out, it was like there was a gentle power around him, which softly pushed away all the gra.s.s and trees, preventing them from touching his clothes.

His steps were so light, that even the gra.s.s wouldn’t be bent by him. Where he went, even the chirps of the insects became gentler.

Under the moon, his body was covered by light, which made him look like a celestial.

Li YunXin knew that it meant this young man who sounded unfriendly had cultivated through the proper way which was created by the celestials, and had learned the Taoist methods to use his internal power.

Just like his parents.

However, this one should be from the talisman sect or the sword sect.

After considering what had happened tonight, Li YunXin thought he should be the disciple of the leader of Above the Clouds Sword School, which was one of the 72 schools, and that meant he was in the same school with KangCangZi and ChiSongZi.

He was also the one who used a flying swords to tell the Six Ghosts of the River to kill them all.

He should have come before, but he didn’t. Now he came.

Li YunXin took a deep breath, and smiled: “Good night. Sorry for troubling you, and making you come in person. Where are those people? Oh, right - How should I call you?”

That man walked up to the place which was more than 10 steps away from Li YunXin, peered at the headless corpse of the swordsman on the ground, and slightly shook his head: “Mortals.”

Then he lifted his head to look at Li YunXin, and smiled absently: “My Taoist name is HuaiNanZi. I’ve saw some and killed some on the way here. Now I’m getting bored of this. Pa.s.sing the trials is troublesome after all.”

“You are also a cultivator, right? Oo, and you also cultivate through the proper way of the celestials. Which immortal’s disciple are you? Heh...you can’t be. You had a conflict with my 2 junior brothers, then your snow capped mountain and sea of qi was sealed, with the method of my Above the Clouds Sword School. A few days ago I found my 2 junior brothers dead, but it shouldn’t have been done by you, it should have been some great demon instead.”

“However, since you’re also involved, and I’m too weak to find that great demon and take my revenge, I’ll just kill you. Firstly, it can be a memorial for my junior brothers. Secondly, it’s for pa.s.sing my trial. Don’t take it too hard. Actually, you’re also pa.s.sing a trial, the trial of death.”

“Well, take care on your way.”

[1]Sound of a silver bell银铃: Laughter of a girl.
[2]The Small Animal Protection a.s.sociation小动保: A animal protection organization in China which usually protects dogs and cats.
[3]Guan观: Means "a view" or "a Taoist temple"
A Taoist Temple
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Translator: Rienne
Editor: Dropped