CH 34

C34 – Eight-armed Heavenly Devil

“Phew — Ahem… ahem…”

Liu Yuan hid in the alley, holding his breath. It was not until he sensed that Pi Huanluo had left did he finally take a deep breath and lean against the wall. He forcefully coughed a few times to ease the tension in his lungs.

But his head still throbbing and aching.

That was hell just now.

He had never expected to have met her here!

Now he thought about it, compared with Pi Huanluo, dealing with Ning Xiangrong and Gu Siyin was simply a piece of cake. The two women were quite innocent and easy to please — though sometimes they got jealous, jealousy didn’t kill; most of the time Liu Yuan could get away with it. But —

Pi Huanluo was different. This woman was so devilishly ruthless and evil, and most members of Devil Cult, who were dangerous killers themselves, were afraid of her. Other than the fact that she was the daughter of the Cult Master, she also possessed the supreme strength that ordinary cultivators could hardly match.

At the eighth level of the Qi Integration Stage, she had defeated and brutally killed thousands of people, and she enjoyed torturing people to death.

She was the female Satan herself.

But what was this woman here for?

Was she the “superior” sent by Devil Cult?

If that was the case, didn’t it mean that he had to deal with her again, face to face?!

“Oh my god! What the hell I’m going to do?”

Liu Yuan gritted his teeth, his face twisted. He wished he could go back in time and take back what he had said. Now he started to believe in the power of Karma.

“Okay, I must calm down. I can’t afford to lose my head now… Oh hell! How am I supposed to calm down now?”

Liu Yuan hopelessly squatted down, pulling his hair out trying to think of what he could do. For a moment he felt that he had been abandoned by the whole world.

He muttered, “Wait a minute… That’s not right. Even if she is going to Water Moon Dock on mission regarding Pool Feather Mountain Manor, she wouldn’t have appeared in this town. This place was not on her way from Water Moon Dock to the manor…”

His eyes suddenly lit up as he thought of something, “Eight-armed Heavenly Devil!”

Things were starting to make sense. “How can I be so stupid! That’s right! The only thing here that has Devil Cult can be interested in is the Eight-armed Heavenly Devil.”

“They’ve been trying to track it down for a long time. And now they’ve heard that the Eight-armed Heavenly Devil could be here. That’s why they’ve sent the saintess here!”

“This is no longer part of the main storyline, but something hidden in the sub-storyline, such as cutting off the contact between the spies from Water Moon Dock… So, while most players may not know about it, it is possible that Devil Cult could send someone over on some secret mission.”

Liu Yuan heaved a huge sigh of relief, “That’s good. Thank god this is not some butterfly effect again. After all, she is the saintess of Devil Cult. She wouldn’t come all the way here just for me.”

In this case, his life was no longer at stake. As long as he could get away with it this time, he should be fine, at least for the next few months. And that would be enough for him to improve his strength.

“Ha! I have managed to fool her once. I don’t see why I can’t pull it off again!”

Liu Yuan gave a good laugh at his brilliant idea, but then he stopped. “No, it’s too early to celebrate. I must not let my guard down this time.”

After clearing his head, Liu Yuan looked around and found that he was in the Silver Bottle Lane, which was near where Gu Chang lived, so he decided to go find him.

Even with Pi Huanluo personally here, the Eight-armed Heavenly Devil was quite a difficult target, because, unlike those ordinary devils one would imagine, it did not appear in a physical form, but rather like a mass of black smoke.

Something like Aladdin in the magic lamp.

According to the official description given, the Devil Clan was a clan of spiritual existence. Once they left the clan, they would need to find a host to survive, and usually humans were their best choice.

Although demons and spiritual beasts could also work, they would not be highly compatible with the devils, so these hosts would soon be exhausted and destroyed.

Liu Yuan did not know much about the Devil Clan. All he knew was that the Devil Clan would be the next major villain in the game.

Up until his transmigration, there had not been any official accounts or sub-stories related to the Devil Clan.

Back then, Liu Yuan had been trying to take down the character Misty Flower. The Sea Slashing Tower served as the borderline between the human world and devil world, and the story of the Sea Slashing Tower began as soon as the devils started to invade.

But the map of the devil world had not been released, so players knew little about it.

The world of Upper Central was divided into three realms — the one on top was the Floating City of the Heaven Realm, in the middle was the Human Realm, and at the bottom, down below the Sea of Eternity, was the Lake Prefecture of the Devil Realm.

The Devil Realm was probably full of magma, so the temperature was very high, and thus members of the Devil Clan were all in the form of gas.

Hmm, this actually seemed quite a scientific explanation.

“Anyway, there’s no harm making friends with this kid. And, if my memory serves me right, he seems to have met an old man who wants to suppress the Devil Clan and teach him how to cultivate.”

Liu Yuan noticed that he was still holding that Mirror Moon Jade in his hand.

He had been clenching it so tightly that his hand almost turned numb.

Speaking of how he had been traumatized by that Pi Huanluo…

Liu Yuan put the jade away and relaxed his fingers while grumbling, “Just you wait and see! Once I’ve improved my cultivation level, I’ll teach that witch a lesson properly.”

But it was not like he hadn’t gained anything from this trip — at least he had unlocked a new handbook, and his cultivation level had advanced to the Nascent Infant Stage.

Comforted, Liu Yuan wasn’t in a bad mood anymore. He walked up to the courtyard of Gu Chang’s house and took a peek at it.

He didn’t see Gu Chang; only his mother was there.

The woman seemed to be in her early twenties, with a fair and pretty face, quite skinny, and some of her long hair got stuck on her sweaty cheeks as she was doing the laundry. She seemed a very gentle and virtuous mother.

The woman, named Wanniang, was good at singing and dancing, and she worked as a prostitute in her early years. After she got pregnant, she quitted the job and made a living by doing the laundry for others.

It was such a pity to see such a beautiful woman working hard and suffering…

No, now was not the time to think about such things.

Liu Yuan shook his head. According to the story, Wanniang died later on, but how she died was not mentioned.

Maybe he could save her?

Just as Liu Yuan was about to go in and have a chat with Wanniang —

Suddenly, he saw a short, chubby man walking over from the alley. He seemed to be in a hurry.

Liu Yuan stopped and quickly hid himself.

Ding Liu?

Why did he come here from Creek Town?