“You’ve picked up an orphan on the street?” Li Mu asked without rhyme or reason as he saw Bai Mochou ushered a girl in.
Bai Mochou snapped, “I did pick her up on the street, so what? You got any problem with that?”
“Not exactly,” Li Mu scratched his chin and said, “it’s just that how come the girl carries such a pungent smell of a demon?” In fact, the smell was so strong that it might have shot to the sky over the Knife Hut.
Bai Mochou said, “Can’t there be orphans in the demon races? Or are you a racist or something?”
Li Mu was speechless.
That girl was really a demon!
She seemed to be around 15 or 16 and exceedingly beautiful. It was not over the top to say she was a peerless beauty. Her long hair took the shade of green algae, which was quite gorgeous. Her delicate facial features conveyed a sense of captivating coquetry that naturally mingled with her innocence. Anyone would feel a strong inclination to hold her in the arms and caress her the moment they saw her.
“How pretty! Is she a Fox Spirit?”
Li Mu wondered.
But on second thought, he banished that doubt. Because Daji, a real Fox Spirit, possessed no such charm at all. “Could that be Daji is still too young to show it?”
Li Mu deliberated it for a moment, then, took on a severe countenance and said, “Whether you picked her up on the street or not, could you get her dressed first?”
The little demon was, indeed, well-proportionate. Her body was curvy, her skin smooth as jade. But the thing was, she was not wearing any piece of clothing. Her thick, long green hair cascaded down her shoulder and covered her nipples and the private part between her legs. The green hair gleamed, making Li Mu light-headed.
Bai Mochou laughed coldly. Then, she goggled at Li Mu and said brusquely, “Well, what’s wrong with that? Men like you, who say things with their tongues in their cheek, all prefer to let women stay nude, don’t they?”
Li Mu was speechless.
He could not help wondering if Bai Mochou had been ditched by her male partners for 10,000 times before. Otherwise, why did she always give him the impression that she had been very experienced with men?
Then, Li Mu had to ask Xu Wan’er to fetch some clothes for the little girl. After the girl was dressed, he asked, “Good girl. Now, tell me what your name is.”
“My name is Long’er,” answered the little girl with a crispy voice. Then, she added, “Thank you, uncle.”
“Uncle?”
Li Mu felt like his heart had just been hammered 10,000 times.
“Have you ever seen a 15-year-old uncle?”
“Come on, we seem to be around the same age!”
Li Mu craned his neck to stare at Bai Mochou and asked again, “Are you sure you just met her at random? You haven’t kidnapped her here, have you?”
Bai Mochou put on her characteristic sneer and said, “Why do I need to lie to you about this?”
“She does have a point.”
Even so, Li Mu was vexed after bickering with the female ghost. So, he snapped, “Why is it always you who control Ting’er’s body? Get Ting’er to talk to me for a change. Is it really that fun taking up another woman’s body?”
Bai Mochou snorted, “I know what you are up to. If Ting’er is taking charge of the body, won’t you take advantage of every part of it? How silly Ting’er is! All she thinks about is you. When she takes over this body, she definitely can’t resist your sugared words. So, for one thing, I have to prevent you from taking advantage of the silly Ting’er; for the other, Ting’er is practicing a secret Spiritual Art and has to shut off her mind, and that takes a long time… Are you satisfied with the two reasons now?”
Li Mu was irked but also amused.
“Screw your protection!”
And you said you are protecting the two of you? Is that even your own body? You are the da*n third wheel! Do you have any self-esteem or not?”
Nevertheless, what was the point of reasoning with a ghost lady?
“You simply picked up a demon in the Camouflage Realm at random? Well, why not fetch me one more?” Li Mu diverted the topic.
Bai Mochou snorted, “Believe it or not.”
Then, Li Mu lowered his head to look at the girl and said, “Long’er, have you truly been picked up from the street by the old lady?”
“Old lady?”
Bai Mochou’s face darkened at once.
“Yes. Uncle, I was truly picked up by this pretty sister.” Long’er, the little demon, raised her face and said. “I was all in a daze. And I don’t exactly know how I wound up here.”
Her appealing face carried an unworldly innocence, which compelled others to believe in her words. But what she just replied was… “Why does she call me ‘uncle’ but call Bai Mochou ‘the beautiful sister’? Has this little demon acted like this on purpose?”
“What happened to your forehead?” Li Mu noticed that Long’er’s forehead bore a cyan wound the size of the little finger. It appeared to be swelling. But it would not show if he was not looking carefully.
“I, I was beaten by a bad guy. That bad guy was so fierce. He almost killed Long’er. Long’er ran for it, and hid in someplace, waiting for the wound to heal. The bad guy never found Long’er again. Then, Long’er found she has been brought here… Uncle, will you protect me?” The poor little demon tugged Li Mu’s sleeves.
At that, Li Mu’s compassion flooded.
“What kind of villain dare bully Long’er? Don’t worry. If he has the nerve to come to Taibai County, your uncle… no, your dear brother will make sure he pays for it!” Li Mu patted his chest and promised.
“If he comes here and stands right before you, uncle, will you kill him for me, please?” Long’er grabbed Li Mu’s arm and swayed it coquettishly, as though saying how pitiable she was.
Li Mu then noted how freezing cold the little girl’s fingers were. They felt like ice! Regardless, he pledged, “Relax. If he truly dares to come here, I will certainly teach him a lesson.” But he could not stop wondering why her fingers were so cold.
“You will kill him for me, uncle!” Long’er corrected.
Li Mu almost blurted out a “yes”. But for no reason, he said, “Violence is not the solution. Our guiding principle is to make the wrongdoer take a lesson from the past and avoid future mistakes.”
“Uncle, you are somewhat two-faced.” Long’er quickly loosened Li Mu’s arm and bounced to Bai Mochou. She rested her head on Bai Mochou’s arm instead and said, “Well then, I just have to ask my beautiful sister to help me deal with that bad guy.”
Bai Mochou stretched out a hand to stroke Long’er’s green hair. The smile on her face had narrowed her eyes into a pair of crescents. She appeared to be enjoying the moment very much. “Haha, Long’er, rest assured. From now on, you can stay in the Knife Hut. I declare that you’ve already become one of us.”
The girl instantly let out a round of whoops.
Then, hand in hand, the two women scampered into the backyard of the Knife Hut.
Li Mu didn’t know what to say.
“Hello, you got this all wrong! I am the master here, remember? So what darned declaration are you making?”
Li Mu stroked his chin. He could tell Long’er’s story was very bizarre.
When it came to the demons in the Camouflage Realm, there were not more than two categories of them.
The first kind applied to those who were not remarkably gifted but were enlightened and gained intelligence after years’ worth of painstaking practice. With intelligence, they obtained more supernatural power and broke free from the shackles constricting all the beasts and monsters before finally took the form of human beings. The second were those born with the blood of the Great Demons. Those demons could easily acquire intelligence after some practice and enter the Camouflage Realm by activating the power in their blood… Relatively, it was the latter that the Creator adored more.
Li Mu had a feeling that the demon called Long’er definitely belonged to the latter. She was blessed to possess the bloodline of the Great Demons. That was perhaps the reason why she had generated a human form at such a young age, though her actual cultivation was merely at the top level of the Natural Realm. If referring to the criteria of the demons, she was a little way from becoming a Demon King.
“So, what could the bloodline the kid carries be?”
Li Mu had not opened his Third Eye to identify it yet.
But his instincts told him that the little demon was not wrenched. Her internal qi was also pure and decent, which implied she was an orthodox demon. A demon that carried no evil qi but unworldly air was a good demon. That was what the old faker had told Li Mu many times on Earth.
The old faker seemed to be fond of the demon races from the start. As he had frequently praised them with polished words, Li Mu found he did not reject the presence of demon races at all.
Even if Long’er had some hidden agenda, she could not make waves in the Knife Hut anyway.
Because by that time, Li Mu had gained a clear view over the Knife Hut, the Taibai County, the Taibai Mountain, and anything within several thousand miles at all hours. If anything happened within the area, he would know it at once. Particularly, the Knife Hut was completely under Li Mu’s control. With a stir of mind, he could seal the place up or manipulate anything there.
That was also the reason why Li Mu dared to let Bai Mochou, the ghost who had occupied Shangguan Yuting’s body, live freely in Taibai County.
But, after that demon named Long’er left, Li Mu gradually registered something fishy.
Then, all of a sudden, it dawned on him that he had been enticed. When he was talking to Long’er, the demon used her voice and expression to guide his reaction. Certainly, in a normal case, he would never react like that.
“Tut, tut… I got hoodwinked by her looks and gestures without even realizing it…”
Li Mu rubbed his chin and sighed. Given that she could even beguile a powerful practitioner like him, Li Mu reckoned the bloodline the little demon carried must be very impressive.
Anyway, that was great news.
Li Mu had been planning on running a joint school with the Taibai Sword Faction to build up a force solely serving Taibai County and nurture some young talents. But curiously, out of the blue, a young demon with amazing demonic bloodline turned up and became one of the Taibai folks. Li Mu intended to train her over the coming years. When she grew up, even if she might not want to be his subordinate, he would certainly have her as a friend.
Now that the Spiritual Qi in Taibai County was incredibly abundant, Li Mu did not worry that it would be exhausted after he took the demon in.
The large fortune he had allowed him to be carefree.
The only one who gave Li Mu headaches was Bai Mochou, the ghost.
“That woman keeps taking up Shangguan Yuting’s body. When can I put an end to that?”
And from what Bai Mochou just said, Li Mu learned that Shangguan Yuting was in the mode of mind-off session for practicing a certain Cultivation Method. He guessed Bai Mochou had told him the truth. Shangguan Yuting did come across some enormous luck in the jade residence of the Everlasting Heaven. If she really achieved something by taking the mind-off session, Li Mu would be more than glad to admire her accomplishment.
Still, there was one problem. Li Mu had a faint feeling that Bai Mochou had been traumatized or something.
And the ghost seemed to be a lesbian.
As an open-minded Earth resident, Li Mu absolutely was not biased against homosexual women.
But what bugged him was, she was still in Shangguan Yuting’s body. If she was truly a lesbian, it would be very convenient for her to please herself every day. Adding that Bai Mochou was also giving martial arts lessons to Xu Wan’er, Lu Shengnan, and other pretty girls in the Knife Hut, she could easily make a pass on them. Although Bai Mochou was indeed a much better teacher than Shangguan Yuting, well… what the heck was all this?
