He gave a cold snort, stepped forward and flicked his index finger, casting a Finger Sword directly into Great Immortal Huang’s chest. She howled in pain as the Finger Sword dispersed the Primordial Qi she was secretly manipulating. Chen Yan then followed up with a Body-Stabilizing Technique.
Great Immortal Huang let out a startled cry, then finally sighed long and deep. When she looked at Chen Yan again, her gaze, besides anger, now also carried a trace of fear. She said nothing more.
Chen Yan pointed at the Rabbit Spirit: "You speak! You’d better not try any tricks."
The Rabbit Spirit shrank back, her ears trembling in the cold wind. She stammered: "This honorable cultivator seems to have misunderstood something, but I can swear to the Heavenly Dao that I absolutely had no intention of harming Monk Chuyi!
My master and I are merely temporarily residing in these mountains, avoiding the world and cultivating.
The Heavenly Dao is inherently merciless, and for us demon cultivators, it is even more arduous! I have only just cultivated to the point where I can take human form. In three to five years, I will face the Little Celestial Tribulation that comes with the cultivation of the demon race.
With my shallow cultivation and lack of powerful innate divine techniques, I fear I will be unable to withstand the Celestial Tribulation. By that time, I might meet a fate of ashes and smoke.
After much deliberation with my master, we had no choice but to take some shortcuts. When we encountered that monk named Chuyi, it was clear he had an Innate Yang Body, naturally carrying three fires of life! His vigorous Qi and blood far surpass that of ordinary people... I, I had to beguile him to borrow some Yang Qi for cultivating my inner core..."
Chen Yan thought back to the scene tonight—the Rabbit Spirit had crawled into the bed, completely naked.
His expression turned cold as he shouted, "You are of the demon race, preying on humans for their vital energies. Isn’t this still harmful?"
The Rabbit Spirit became even more terrified: "Rest assured, honored one. My cultivation is shallow. Even when borrowing some Yang Qi, I don’t take much. There would be no major harm to him at all.
Moreover... moreover, we live in these mountains. For my inner core cultivation, I need to borrow his Yang Fire over a long period, not just once or twice. How could I dare to drain him dry?
Far from it, I would even protect him if others tried to harm him so that I could continue borrowing his Yang Fire for my cultivation!"
After a moment’s pause, the Rabbit Spirit continued: "And each time I performed the energy extraction, I used an Illusion Technique to confuse him, making him think it was just a dream when he awoke. It didn’t actually bring him much harm. And moreover...
Moreover, Chuyi’s constitution is special. His Yang Fire is much more vigorous than that of ordinary people. I only take a little each time without harming him."
The nearby Weasel Spirit’s eyes glinted. Sighing, he muttered resentfully: "Disciple, it’s useless to say any of this! These human cultivators just want to kill demons and take our inner cores. No matter if we’ve harmed Chuyi or not, they’ll kill us to take our inner cores!"
The Rabbit Spirit’s body trembled, and she shrunk even further: "Don’t kill me! Don’t kill me!! Please, honored one, have mercy! I’ve never harmed anyone!"
She almost sounded like she was crying: "My master and I have been very careful! We only perform energy extraction on Chuyi every few instances. I’ve even been afraid it would harm his body, so I asked my master to increase the interval."
These days, it’s been once every three days for me to extract some of his Yang Qi, and my master does the same every three days..."
Chen Yan was puzzled, his eyes widening in surprise.
Wait, what did you say?
Every three days for you, and every three days for your master?
He realized that this master-disciple pair, one a Weasel Spirit, the other a Rabbit Spirit, both transforming into human shapes he had seen just tonight, were each more bewitching than the other!
Both of you... both of you did it! And you alternated!!??
Poor Wang Chuyi... he’s only eighteen!
Chen Yan was momentarily stunned by what he heard.
Two female demons doing such wicked things to an eighteen-year-old boy, this utterly outrageous act, which they contemplated with envy... ahem, was infuriating! Absolutely outrageous!!
"Then... what about bullying the old monk?" Chen Yan asked in a low voice.
"That old monk..." the Rabbit Spirit shook her head: "He learned some superficial skills from who knows where. Though his skills are shallow, he likes to interfere. We were merely borrowing some of Chuyi’s Yang Fire and never intended to harm him. When he first discovered us, he tried to drive us away. But his skills were inept, so my master and I just toyed with him a few times."
As she spoke, the Rabbit Spirit kowtowed repeatedly: "But we genuinely never had an intention to harm anyone! If we truly wanted to harm people, with the old monk’s basic skills, we would have devoured him long ago."
Chen Yan, having listened to all this, fell silent and began to ponder.
Throughout the Rabbit Spirit’s speech, Chen Yan used his Qi Observation Skill to monitor her. If she had lied, the Qi Observation Skill should have detected some anomalies.
However, by the end of her statement, it seemed the Rabbit Spirit had not spoken any falsehoods.
She said she never intended to harm Wang Chuyi, and this was not considered a lie—Chen Yan had used Qi Observation Skill on Wang Chuyi at the village entrance when they parted and noticed some demonic Qi on him.
However, he saw no ill fortune or evil Qi on him. On the contrary, he even seemed to have some good luck.
Plus, the boy was in good health. Despite being alternately drained by two female demons every three days, his body wasn’t harmed.
Tonight, he had run up and down the mountain, searching through the forest, covering such long distances, yet still remained robust and full of energy, only slightly out of breath.
"Regardless, humans and demons are ultimately on different paths." Chen Yan frowned. "If you continue to interact with him over time, the demonic Qi will still invade him, harming both his body and his fortune. Do you not understand this?"