Heart Protection (Back from the Brink)

CHAPTER 27

"It's said that becoming a cultivator at Guang Han Sect is extremely hard. Because the sisters' parents were always gone, Su Ying had to arrange their entrance into sects herself, but she couldn't get her sister in. That's why Su E had to go to Chen Xing Mountain and enter Zhenren Qing Guang's sect......" Yan Hui continued to talk about Ling Fei. Tian Yao, who was listening without any expression, stiffly cut her off: "How is this related to the fox demon?"

Yan Hui knew Tian Yao didn't want to hear anymore about Su E, so she didn't continue. She went along with Tian Yao's change of topic and talked about the fox demon.

"What you said earlier was actually true. That night, I refused her pleas, but she didn't leave. For the next few nights, she appeared in my dreams. Sometimes she would cry; sometimes she would plead. In the end, she wore me down......"

Tian Yao raised an eyebrow: "You helped her get her daughter back?"

Yan Hui glanced at him: "Do you really think I had that ability?" She continued, "Aside from the bad relations between me and Ling Fei, there was still the matter of the identity of the fox demon's daughter. The reason why she was at Chen Xing Mountain is because the disciples discovered she was a demon and captured her. She was imprisoned in the demon prison. Me, a xian cultivation disciple, asking for a demon from Ling Fei? They would think I'm crazy."

Tian Yao nodded: "Turns out, sometimes you do use your head."

"......"

Yan Hui naturally wasn't as stupid as Tian Yao said.

But that three-tailed fox demon wanted Yan Hui to free her daughter. Before Yan Hui agreed to help, she had already subconsciously started to keep track of when the disciples at Xin Xiu Peak changed shifts. By the time the fox demon wore Yan Hui down, she had already memorized the schedule Ling Xiao Sect had for the demon prison. She knew how many disciples there were per shift and when the shifts changed.

Although Yan Hui was accepted into the sect at a late age, she learned extremely fast. She was the most outstanding disciple in her class.

After learning the shift rotations, Yan Hui was able to sneak into Xin Xiu Peak's demon prison during the shift change with only a minor disguise.

But there was a hiccup when she let the demons loose.

Ling Xiao had captured and brought back demons before. Yan Hui had also kept guard over those demons locked in cages. She assumed the cages in Xin Xiu Peak would be practically the same: one demon per cell, iron bars, an iron lock, and a few seals placed on the cage.

However when Yan Hui walked into Xin Xiu Peak's demon prison, she was stunned. The air inside was extremely bad; it was hot and stuffy. At first, Yan Hui thought the place was naturally like this, but then she saw a narrow cell crammed with twenty demons inside. She realized in a split second why this place was so oppressive.

Because the prison was so small the demons were crammed into a pile. Their faces were abnormally flushed. It was like they couldn't get enough air.

When the demons saw Yan Hui, who was wearing the clothing of Chen Xing Mountain's disciples, the demons all looked at her in fear. They tried their hardest to shrink into the cell's corners. All eyes were fixated on Yan Hui in terror. They were fearful of what might happen next.

All of the demons looked young. Using the demon's way of calculating age, the demons in the cage were around 14 or 15 years old. Yan Hui heard these demons were those that Ling Fei and other Peaks' heads captured.

It looked like when they brought the demons back, they separated the young from the old.

And the strange thing was......all the captured demons were fox demons.