Chapter 294: The Reason for the Burning Rage

"Oh my~ this young brother is quite handsome, and looks unfamiliar; is this your first time visiting our Liuyunxuan?" A young woman swayed her waist, her face full of smiles, her charming eyes like silk, and with a turn, she sat down beside Long Qi.

Long Qi shuddered instantly, his heart crying out in misery.

Having finally managed to steady Chengxin Zhenren, and before they had even finished a single cup of wine after sitting down, trouble had actually come knocking at their door.

Seeing the look of displeasure on Chengxin Zhenren's face opposite him, Long Qi hurriedly pushed the woman who had leaned in close.

"Young lady, please have some self-respect. We are only here to handle some business for someone else and do not intend to stay long."

But the woman's eyes shifted, and she leaned back in again: "Look at what you're saying. Of the men who come here, which one isn't here to handle business? Once the business is done, naturally you won't stay long, right?" As she spoke, she reached out and teased Long Qi's chin.

This posture was extremely suggestive, and Long Qi was momentarily dazed, feeling a tingling sensation all over his body as if he had fallen into the clouds, but in an instant, he sobered up.

He glanced at Chengxin Zhenren across the table and, seeing his unhappy expression and tightly furrowed brows, he panicked, hurriedly pushing away the woman clinging to him, and stammered: "Young lady, this behavior is offensive to public morals; I ask that you please have some self-respect."

"Public morals?" The woman seemed to have heard some grand joke; while her body shook with laughter, she flicked open her round fan, "Everyone who comes here is looking for romance and moonlight; for you to be talking about public morals, little brother, you really are quite adorable." Having said this, she prepared to lean in again.

Seeing this, Chengxin Zhenren could truly no longer restrain himself and slammed his hand onto the table, causing the wine cups on the table to be shaken off.

However, just as Chengxin Zhenren was burning with rage, Long Qi was looking panicked, and Liu Xia and Banxia were shrinking back in silence, they heard Lingxiang's voice come from the side.

"Well, you little vixen, you even dare to flirt with my man."

As soon as the words fell, Lingxiang was seen stepping one foot onto the table, looking down at the woman from above: "Lvyao, could it be that because I don't come here often, you've started missing the taste of the He-Lu Powder in my hands?"

Hearing this, the woman named Lvyao shuddered, hurriedly standing up and standing respectfully to the side, her mouth repeating the words "I wouldn't dare, I wouldn't dare."

As for why Lvyao was so afraid, it was because she had previously suffered enough at Lingxiang's hands.

Although Liuyunxuan was a business place for Yue Niang, it was also a place where she sheltered many demons; in the entire building, she was the only Great Demon, so the other demons naturally followed her lead.

However, for some reason, Yue Niang was extremely polite to Lingxiang, and no one knew what kind of relationship they had, but how could a group of demons submit to a mere mortal? Although Yue Niang had given such orders, there were always demons who were unconvinced and caused trouble both openly and secretly.

Little did they know that this girl was not someone easy to deal with; although those little tricks of theirs would fail nine times out of ten, whenever she caught someone who offended her, she would definitely seek revenge for the slightest grievance and never show mercy.

Take Lvyao for example; she had only put a few drops of croton juice into the cup Lingxiang was drinking from, and somehow, Lingxiang had found out. This discovery was no small matter; this little troublemaker secretly gave Lvyao a medicine called Lu-He Powder.

You must know that Lvyao was a willow tree spirit and was most unable to go without water, and this Lu-He Powder was exactly the kind of medicine that caused a person to lose water balance, and its potency was far from ordinary.

Lvyao would never forget that day, which felt like a living hell. After taking the Lu-He Powder, her entire demonic body began to feel uncomfortable, as if the moisture in her body had been drained away; she was so thirsty that she didn't leave the ancient well in the backyard for a single moment, wishing she could just crawl inside, but the more she drank, the thirstier she became, and if she didn't drink, she was even thirstier, and the water she drank caused such pain in her abdomen that she nearly revealed her true form.

If not for Yue Niang's intercession, Lingxiang would not have given her the antidote, but ever since then, the entire Liuyunxuan had learned Lingxiang's temperament, and no one dared to offend her again; even upon seeing her, they wished they could hide far away.

Even for demons, life is precious, and they could not withstand such torment from this little mistress.

Long Qi had never seen Lingxiang in such a stance, and it frightened him so much that he hurriedly stood up, rubbing his hands as he approached Lingxiang, smiling apologetically: "Why get angry? It was just a joke by someone else."

"A joke?" Lingxiang sat down with a cold snort, "I think you were enjoying it quite a bit, little brother. It's also true, my own disciple being favored by others, I should be happy instead; what is there to be angry about? Don't you think so, Lvyao?"

Hearing Lingxiang mention her, Lvyao hurriedly waved her hands to deny it, saying only that she was blind and had offended Lingxiang.

But when Long Qi heard this, he was not like Lvyao; instead, he felt a bit smug.

Could it be that Lingxiang was jealous?

"Forget it, forget it," seeing Lvyao's cautious appearance, Lingxiang seemed to have lost interest, and she stood up and said to Chengxin Zhenren: "I suppose Senior Brother is tired, so why don't we head back? It would be better than letting you feel uncomfortable here."

This was a roundabout way of teasing Chengxin Zhenren, but Chengxin Zhenren did not take it to heart, as if he were used to it; he just stood up on his own and walked out without looking back.

Not to mention Liuyunxuan, the entire Linxiang was now brightly lit; men and women, old and young, were either in groups of three or five, or in pairs, on the streets and alleys, in pavilions and by the river—it was incredibly lively.

Chengxin Zhenren walked very fast the whole way, and even though the road was crowded with people, he could weave through them with ease; even if someone blocked his path, he would only lift his hand and wave it, quietly pushing a path open.

Lingxiang and the others, although they possessed cultivation, found it difficult to keep up in the crowded throng. Banxia thought that Chengxin Zhenren was angry, otherwise he wouldn't be so silent, but he just couldn't vent in front of outsiders, which was why he was enduring it until now. She quietly asked Liu Xia if she had done something wrong, and Liu Xia just told her to set her mind at ease.

Liu Xia thought that his master was angry at Lingxiang, but he knew his own master; anger was anger, but he would never vent his fire on unrelated people.

Even so, Banxia was still a bit uneasy; she was timid by nature, and Donghui Zhenren had never been angry, so seeing her own senior uncle looking so furious now, she was truly a bit worried.

But compared to Banxia, Lingxiang's reaction was the exact opposite, as if she didn't care about Chengxin Zhenren at all, with an attitude of "you can be as angry as you like, I am at peace," and she was truly a bit absent-minded.

One was worried incessantly, while the other was calm and composed; in this way, they fell behind Chengxin Zhenren. By the time Chengxin Zhenren returned to the inn and looked back to see that Lingxiang and the others were not there, he was so angry that his face turned red, and he flicked his sleeves and returned to his room.

There was a Great Demon guarding this place, and it had a close relationship with Lingxiang, so he figured she wouldn't be in any danger, which was why Chengxin Zhenren was so at ease.

But since that was the case, what was Chengxin Zhenren angry about?

If asked, Chengxin Zhenren probably couldn't explain it himself, but he just felt his rage burning, especially when he thought of Yue Niang's arrogant appearance just now, and that anger became even harder to suppress.

Along the way, Chengxin Zhenren had already tried his best to endure it, but who knew how many times he had silently recited the Heart-Cleansing Incantation along the way.

Forget it, forget it, why bother with a female demon!