Jade-faced Mad Demon Tie Yanran

“Have you brought the goods?”

“Brought them. They’re legit, you can inspect them.”

In the dim room, a dozen or so people sat around a table. The faint candlelight flickered, illuminating Xiao Yu’s handsome face.

“Brother Xiao, are your goods pure?”

A low voice sounded, the faint candlelight reflecting on the faces of the remaining few people.

Xiao Yu narrowed his eyes, looking at the swaying candlelight, his tone serious.

“Of course. I specialize in this business and have a reputation to uphold. Would I sell you green melons?”

“Good! Then we’ll inspect the goods first.”

“No problem.”

A picture album was placed on the table. The album was opened, revealing a woman.

The picture showed a woman with a curvaceous and well-proportioned figure, dressed in red. She looked extremely mature and glamorous. Her beautiful eyes were deep and profound, and between half-open and half-closed, they revealed a soul-stirring charm that made people fall deeply into them, unable to extricate themselves.

The woman’s clothing was revealing. She wore a hazy, thin gauze garment, half-exposed, as if it were just draped over her body. Under the gauze, a patch of snowy white was dazzling. The white rabbits were large and white, full and ready to burst out. It seemed she was wearing nothing underneath, but the hazy quality made it ambiguous.

The few people in the room stared with wide eyes.

What was even more noteworthy was that the woman’s face was covered by a translucent red veil that concealed more than half of her cheeks. As the breeze blew, the veil lifted, revealing the tantalizingly small, crimson lips beneath, which were partially visible, sparking one’s imagination.

Just as the few people were engrossed, Xiao Yu closed the picture scroll and put it away.

“How is it? This is the photo album of the current star of the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion, Little Phoenix Fairy. Only ten copies are for sale, each priced at fifty mid-grade spirit stones.”

He held up five fingers and said with a smile, looking like a cunning merchant.

Ten picture albums were lined up on the table.

“Fifty spirit stones? And mid-grade at that. You’re asking for too much.”

“Exactly, that wasn’t the price before!”

Someone in the room immediately retorted. Xiao Yu’s gaze swept over them. He knew these were all his old customers, so he explained again:

“This is the last time. I’m planning to quit, to wash my hands of this. These are considered rare copies. In the future, they’ll be out of print on Gathering Demon Island. If I weren’t short on money, I wouldn’t be willing to sell them. It’s not unreasonable for the price to be a little higher.”

It wasn’t that Xiao Yu didn’t want to continue, but he had already faked his death in the outside world. He was a dead man. To freely enter and exit Gathering Demon Island again would be like crazily dancing in front of Dao, clearly telling her, “Your grandpa isn’t dead yet, come and get me! You little brat~”

Once discovered, he would surely be left without a complete corpse.

As soon as Xiao Yu said he was washing his hands of the business, the room fell silent.

?

Xiao Yu sensed something was wrong. He looked up and saw dozens of pairs of eyes staring at him in unison.

“What are you all…?” He took a step back.

The next moment.

A dozen or so people pounced on him. Someone even hugged his thigh tightly and wailed:

“Brother Yu, don’t be so rash! It’s such a good thing, why are you quitting? We brothers have been waiting for your goods!”

“Brother Yu, you are a beacon of light in our brothers’ dreary lives!”

“Exactly! Brother Yu, did someone bully you in the outside world? Go out and report my name, look for the Raging Blood Demonic Cult, they’ll protect you. Who dares to bully our Brother Yu? They must be tired of living!”

“Lust is a man’s nature! Brother Yu, how can I live without you!”

“I’m not dead,” Xiao Yu’s mouth twitched at the wailing.

However, as if remembering something, he turned to the man who had just patted his chest and boasted about protecting him, and said:

“Um… Sect Master Leng, there’s something I forgot to tell you. I hope you can be mentally prepared.”

“I only found out this time when I was outside that your Raging Blood Demonic Cult has gone bankrupt.

The Vice Sect Master ran off with his sister-in-law. On my way back, I even heard disciples of the Raging Blood Demonic Cult loudly selling off the cult’s belongings by the roadside, seemingly because the Vice Sect Master had run off without paying their wages.”

“What! My Raging Blood Demonic Cult that I worked so hard to build…”

Instantly, the man’s body went limp. He hugged his head and wailed. The world had one more withdrawn person.

“Brother Leng, my condolences!”

“Sect Master, don’t be sad. Don’t you still have us brothers with you?”

Everyone offered their comfort.

However, it was all useless. A grown man looked like he was about to cry.

Seeing this, Xiao Yu sighed helplessly. He walked over and patted the man’s shoulder, at the same time handing him the picture album in his hand. “Don’t be sad. Since I brought the bad news, I’ll sell you this Little Phoenix Fairy photo album at a discount, as compensation.”

“Thank you, Brother Yu!”

The atmosphere suddenly changed. The man quickly took the picture album from Xiao Yu’s hand and thanked him with an excited expression, without a trace of the near-tears look from before.

“Holy crap! So you were just pretending to be miserable to get a chance to buy this photo album?”

“Sect Master, to think I almost cried for you just now.”

“Leng Ren, you bastard! Damn it! One less, only nine left!”

Seeing the man’s excited expression, the few people in the room instantly knew what he was up to.

“Hehe… Not bad. A pity it’s not Meiyue Fairy’s. I’m her loyal fan! But it’s better than nothing.”

Leng Ren put the photo album into his storage ring to prevent it from being snatched by the envious people present. After doing all this, he shook his head and sighed, with a look of someone who had gotten a good deal but was still complaining.

The dissolution of the Raging Blood Demonic Cult was within his expectations.

After all, this demonic cult was built on his powerful strength. He was the foundation of the Raging Blood Demonic Cult. Now that he was on Gathering Demon Island, in the eyes of the outside world, he had mysteriously disappeared, his fate unknown.

Without him, the Raging Blood Demonic Cult was a house without its main beam, a castle in the air. It was bound to collapse sooner or later. When he got out, it would only take a few years to establish a second Raging Blood Demonic Cult. He was the core, so the loss of the Raging Blood Demonic Cult was not something to be too sad about.

At least it still had some use, allowing him to snatch one of the few photo albums.

Speaking of Meiyue Fairy, Xiao Yu’s face was filled with pain. He remembered the collection he had to burn, and it was the collector’s edition!

Not only that, but his nest egg for his wife was also destroyed in a fire.

Now, he was very short on money to support Bai Yan and himself.

Fortunately, the spirit stones from selling the photo albums could temporarily alleviate his urgent needs.

This was all part of Xiao Yu’s business. On Gathering Demon Island, where people could only enter but not leave, and only he could come and go as he pleased, he had quickly spotted a huge business opportunity.

That was to resell goods from the outside world here on Gathering Demon Island.

There was no shortage of food and drink on Gathering Demon Island, but some people were still very curious about news from the outside world. So, the goods Xiao Yu brought were mostly landscape gazettes from recent years, or forbidden items like photo albums.

The landscape gazettes were one thing, but the photo albums couldn’t be sold regularly. If he sold too many and was discovered, he would be arrested by the Law Enforcement Hall and thrown in jail.

Just as Xiao Yu was thinking this.

Suddenly.

A knock came from outside.

“Open up, Law Enforcement Hall, routine inspection.”

WC! Speak of the devil and he shall appear.

“The books! Hide the books quickly!”

In the room, Xiao Yu and the others exchanged a glance. Storage rings had spiritual energy fluctuations that could be detected by the person outside at such a close distance.

Time was of the essence. In the end, their gazes fell on a slightly chubby man among them.

Creak~ A few breaths after the knock, the door was opened.

The visitor was a man wearing a ferocious mask. He wore a uniform black and red robe, a waist tag indicating his identity, and carried an iron ruler and rope. He wore a tall black gauze hat, looking like a government bailiff.

Seeing the visitor, the faces of the few people in the room turned bitter. It was the most ruthless Jade-Faced Mad Demon, Tie Yanran.

This one would not be easy to fool! It was said that he was upright and incorruptible, with a woman-like baby face under his mask, but his actions were ruthless and concise. He couldn’t tolerate a single grain of sand in his eyes, and his interrogation methods were even more inhumane. None of the criminals he caught came out with their minds intact, which was why he had the title of Jade-Faced Mad Demon, Tie Yanran.

The man stepped forward, his hawk-like gaze sweeping over the few people present, and said loudly:

“Recently, someone reported that strange sounds, accompanied by cries of pain, have often been heard from below the tavern. I suspect that some people are holding a group orgy here, and have come to investigate.”

“How could that be! We’re all men.”

“Exactly, Senior Brother Tie, we are all good citizens~”

“Spare me the talk.”

His sharp gaze swept over the dim room again. He frowned and said, “It’s pitch black, I can’t see anything. What are you all doing here? Could it be that you’re really up to no good!”

“No… no, we’re just… just…”

“Just having a slumber party!”

In the darkness, someone racked their brains and came up with this sentence.

“…”

Tie Yanran was no fool.

“Who has a slumber party in broad daylight? And with a group of men at that. Tell me the truth, what are you doing here? And what’s with his stomach? Why is it so bloated!”

Under the mask, a cold light flashed in his eyes, as if he had caught some conclusive evidence. Tie Yanran pointed at the chubby man among them with a bloated stomach and said.

“He… he’s pregnant!”

It was the same person who had suggested the slumber party.

Tie Yanran’s eyes under the mask turned cold. “Men can get pregnant too?”

“This… how dare you assume my gender! I just have a rugged appearance, sob sob sob… Sisters, who understands meeting a disgusting man today…”

The chubby man being stared at by Tie Yanran reacted extremely quickly and immediately wailed in a high-pitched voice.

Paired with his fair, chubby, and tender appearance, he could have passed.

Unfortunately… Tie Yanran’s reputation was not so easy to deal with. He quickly found the loophole in their words:

“In that case, if there is a woman, then you are holding a group orgy. And with a pregnant woman at that. Everyone’s crime is compounded.”

“How is it an orgy?”

“So many men and one woman in a dim underground room. You say you didn’t do anything. Do you take me for a fool?” Tie Yanran sneered.

“………………” Everyone was speechless for a moment.

Just then, someone lit all the remaining candles.

The dim room suddenly brightened, and Xiao Yu took the opportunity to get a clear look at this Jade-Faced Mad Demon.

As expected, he wore a ferocious mask on his face. The mask was mainly painted a grim gray, with sorrowful red embellishments. A copper flower was carved on the left side. The overall mask was a beast face that seemed to be both crying and laughing. From its appearance, it seemed to be modeled after the ancient strange beast, the Zheng. Therefore, the mask exuded a bone-chilling coldness.

But upon closer inspection, one would find that the skin exposed outside the mask was moist and delicate, seemingly better than that of women who maintained their skin year-round. His ears were exquisite as jade, as smooth as porcelain. The slightly protruding auricles were a light pink under the sunlight, looking exceptionally tender.

It was not hard to see that the face under the mask would definitely not be ugly.

‘This skin, this smoothness, I would believe it if you told me he was a woman!’

Perhaps Xiao Yu was staring too intently, his eyes fixed on him. This attracted his attention, and his majestic gaze turned to Xiao Yu.

Seeing that it was Xiao Yu, Tie Yanran’s lively eyes under the mask moved slightly:

“Oh? Xiao Yu, it’s you. Long time no see. When did you get back?”

Such a familiar greeting stunned Xiao Yu. The few people behind him saw a glimmer of hope:

“Eh! Brother Yu knows the Jade-Faced Mad Demon? That’s great.”

“Brother Yu, the happiness of us brothers depends on you!”

The few people pushed Xiao Yu in front of Tie Yanran without another word.

“Huh?”

‘No… this big brother, are we familiar?’

Xiao Yu was completely bewildered. Looking at the ferocious mask in front of him, he was very sure that he did not know this decisive and resolute Jade-Faced Mad Demon.