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Chapter 66: If You Dare to Be Unfaithful (Part...)

Fang Chaozhou was momentarily stunned by Du Yunxi's words. Then he lifted his sleeve and sniffed himself but didn't detect any scent.

"Where is the fragrance? You must have smelled it wrong," Fang Chaozhou said, lowering his hand.

"I didn't smell it wrong." Du Yunxi grabbed the hand Fang Chaozhou had just put down and brought it to his own nose. After sniffing it, his expression became more certain. "It's clearly there. I smelled it as soon as I sniffed."

Before he could finish speaking, a voice interrupted them.

"Fifth Senior Brother, I have something to ask you."

Hearing this voice, Du Yunxi immediately let go of Fang Chaozhou's hand and looked towards the source of the sound with a joyful expression. "Junior Brother, what's the matter?"

Xue Danrong had a cold expression. "I want to talk to you, Senior Brother Du, alone."

Fang Chaozhou glanced at Xue Danrong, then at Du Yunxi. Seeing that Xue Danrong took the initiative to find Du Yunxi, he discreetly nudged Du Yunxi's arm. "Fifth brother, you should go."

Xue Danrong glanced at Fang Chaozhou's hand that touched Du Yunxi's arm, then turned and walked in a certain direction. Naturally, Du Yunxi followed.

Not long after they left, Fang Chaozhou felt suffocated in the crowd. He slipped out and found a secluded spot with no one around. Not content with just waiting, he took out an ice silk handkerchief from his storage ring and covered his head, trying to cool down.

After about fifteen minutes, Fang Chaozhou heard footsteps approaching. He turned around and saw Xue Danrong.

Due to his intolerance to heat, Fang Chaozhou had been wearing extremely thin summer clothes these past few days. However, he still found it hot, while Xue Danrong, as always, was impeccably dressed, with a refreshing appearance as if his skin was made of ice and his bones were made of jade.

Fang Chaozhou couldn't help but envy Xue Danrong, but such a physique was something he couldn't attain. Usually, only protagonists had that kind of constitution.

"Senior Brother, the Underground Demon Realm is about to open. Are you going alone or with someone else?" Xue Danrong asked.

Unlike the previous secret realms, the participants would be dispersed upon entering the teleportation barrier. Due to the rare opportunities within the Underground Demon Realm, most people chose to fight alone to avoid encountering valuable items and provoking internal conflicts. However, some people preferred to travel in pairs because they were afraid the Underground Demon Realm would be too dangerous.

If they chose to travel in pairs, the first thing they needed to do upon entering the Underground Demon Realm was to contact their partner.

Fang Chaozhou belonged to the latter category. He didn't covet the treasures in the Underground Demon Realm. He just hoped to come out safely and improve his cultivation. He had originally planned to go with his eldest senior brother, but when he went to find him, he discovered that his sixth junior brother had already found the eldest senior brother.

Upon seeing Fang Chaozhou, the sixth junior brother said, "Second Senior Brother, I've already taken the eldest senior brother. You should find someone else."

Fang Chaozhou wasn't particularly close to the other disciples, except for his eldest senior brother. However, since Du Yunxi had just been called away by Xue Danrong, Fang Chaozhou figured that Du Yunxi was probably going with Xue Danrong. If he were to look for Du Yunxi again, it would be inappropriate.

"I'll go alone so that I won't have to worry about how to divide the treasures," Fang Chaozhou finally said after giving it some thought.

Xue Danrong remained silent for a moment after hearing Fang Chaozhou's words. Fang Chaozhou glanced at him and felt like leaving. Just at that moment, a commotion came from the entrance of the Underground Demon Realm.

It seemed that the barrier had opened, so Fang Chaozhou quickly used it as an excuse. "Junior Brother, the barrier has opened. I'll go in first." He said and started walking. However, as he passed by Xue Danrong, his wrist was grabbed.

"Senior Brother, take this." Xue Danrong placed something into Fang Chaozhou's hand. "If Senior Brother can trust me, crush this item, and I will find you."

*

As the name suggests, the Underground Demon Realm was located underground, seldom seeing any light. However, the inside was filled with dense vegetation, resembling a dense forest. What was even more peculiar was that the upper part of the Underground Demon Realm was covered with numerous fireflies, enough to illuminate the entire realm.

Fang Chaozhou had been inside the Underground Demon Realm for nearly half an hour already, but he had no idea where he had been teleported to. Throughout the journey, he hadn't encountered anyone, let alone a monster or a human.

He felt as if others were doing dungeon runs while he was lost in a maze.

With this thought in mind, Fang Chaozhou couldn't help but glance at the half piece of jade pendant in his hand. Xue Danrong had given it to him before they entered the Underground Demon Realm. It resembled the pair of mandarin duck jade pendants that Zhongli Yueshui gave to Xue Danrong. Once it was crushed, the person possessing the other half would know the other half’s location.

Fang Chaozhou looked at the jade pendant for a moment but decided to keep it without crushing it. Many people had entered the Underground Demon Realm, and many of them admired Xue Danrong. He didn't want to interfere or ruin Xue Danrong's fate.

After walking for another half an hour, Fang Chaozhou finally encountered the first monster—a dense brown chicken.

As soon as the chicken saw Fang Chaozhou turn his head, it started running. It was so fast that by the time Fang Chaozhou snapped out of his daze, it had disappeared from sight. Fang Chaozhou didn't intend to chase after it, but to his surprise, the chicken quickly came back and started speaking in human language.

"Why didn't you chase after me? You cultivators are always chasing after foxes, snakes, and tigers, but what's wrong with us chickens? If you subdue me, I'll allow you to ride on my back, and you won't have to walk anymore."

Fang Chaozhou: "..."

He coughed twice. "It's not that I didn't chase you. It's just that you ran too fast."

The chicken flapped its wings and spoke with a skeptical tone, "Really?"

"Really," Fang Chaozhou confirmed.

"Then I'll run slower this time, and you can catch up." The chicken turned around and started running again. Indeed, as it had claimed, it ran noticeably slower than before.

Fang Chaozhou looked at the direction the chicken had run and decisively chose a different path. Did this chicken not know about the original work? The original work had examples of cultivators being deceived by seemingly ordinary monsters like this.

Most of the monsters in the Underground Demon Realm had their consciousness awakened. Some of them were even smarter than humans and knew how to set traps to lure cultivators in.

In the original work, there was a cultivator who chased after a green deer. Although the green deer wasn't considered a rare beast, the antlers on their heads were good materials for refining medicine. Many alchemy cultivators entering the realm would try to catch the green deer and cut off their antlers.

The cultivator in the story had relentlessly pursued the green deer, and the green deer ran intermittently, leading the cultivator to the vicinity of a powerful monster.

The cultivator who mistakenly entered the powerful monster's domain was killed on the spot.

After taking a different path, Fang Chaozhou encountered other monsters not long after. There were quite a few of them, but they were all relatively low-level monsters. However, fighting them along the way exhausted Fang Chaozhou.

Due to being underground, he couldn't sense the passage of time, and Fang Chaozhou had no idea how long he had been in the Underground Demon Realm. Finally shaking off the monsters that had been relentlessly chasing him, he decided to find a place to rest for a while and also take stock of the things he had obtained.

He had acquired quite a few items along the way.

However, just as he found an open space and was about to sit down, he felt a sharp pain in his neck, as if he had been bitten by some kind of insect. Fang Chaozhou quickly raised his hand to touch his neck. When he lowered his hand, he saw traces of blood on his fingertips.

What kind of insect was this? It was powerful enough to draw blood from him. It wasn't a small insect either, but he hadn't heard the sound of its wings flapping.

Fang Chaozhou wiped his neck and the blood off his hand with a handkerchief. Because he didn't know if the insect was poisonous, he decided to take an antidote pill. However, before he could take it out, his body swayed, and if he hadn't grabbed onto a nearby tree in time, he would have fallen to the ground.

The insect was poisonous.

Fang Chaozhou bit his tongue and trembled as he reached for the antidote pill, but just as he took it out, a spell suddenly appeared and knocked over the bottle in his hand.

At the same time, he heard voices speaking.

"Young Master, he has been bitten. Should we capture him now?"

"Young Master, he's really handsome. If the Young Master gets tired of him, can we have a taste?"

"What about me? Young Master, I also want to taste him."

Laughter filled the air.

"You all better stop. That young cultivator is a disciple of the Tian Shui Sect. Do you think you can indulge yourselves here? If you want to play, only the Young Master can."

Fang Chaozhou closed his eyes and, when he opened them again, he accurately located the source of the voices. However, the place was empty, as if there was no one standing there.

"He's looking over here, hehehe."

"Oh no, he's running away."

*

From those words, Fang Chaozhou already knew who was hiding in the shadows—it was Song Lianyi and his people. Remembering what Song Lianyi had said on the airship earlier, combined with their previous conflicts, Fang Chaozhou couldn't allow himself to fall into their hands.

Perhaps this time, Song Lianyi wanted to kill him within the Underground Demon Realm.

As Fang Chaozhou ran, he didn't forget to pick up the antidote pill. While running, he ate the pill. However, in his focus on evading the pursuers behind him, he didn't notice what was happening in front of him. It wasn't until he ran into someone that he realized he had encountered Li Zhu.

Naturally, Li Zhu also noticed Fang Chaozhou, and his cat-like eyes widened in an instant. He was alone at the moment, with no other demonic cultivators following him.

Upon seeing Li Zhu, Fang Chaozhou couldn't help but stop in his tracks. However, by the time he stopped, it was already too late to change direction. Song Lianyi's people had caught up, and the young girls appeared from all sides, surrounding Fang Chaozhou in the middle. The only direction not surrounded was where Li Zhu stood.

He thought for a moment and then rushed toward Li Zhu. "The people from Fengyue Temple are chasing after me. Help me fend them off."

And so, the bitten Fang Chaozhou and the lower-cultivated Li Zhu were both bound together.

*

Li Zhu looked at himself, tightly bound, and became very angry. "You wicked women dare to bind me? Watch as our Abyssal Soul Gate crushes your Fengyue Temple!"

"Young man, you have quite the temper. Why don't you calm down? Would you like some water? Shall I feed it to you, little brother?"

Faced with Li Zhu's anger, Song Lianyi's maids giggled, not taking him seriously at all and even mocking him.

Li Zhu's face turned red with anger, and he closed his mouth, not saying a word. However, it didn't take long before he couldn't help but speak again. This time, he addressed Song Lianyi.

"You ugly freak, why did you touch my stepmother's face?"

Upon hearing this, Song Lianyi tilted his head and a strange smile appeared on his face. "Stepmother?" He chuckled and then pinched Fang Chaozhou's face, pinching his cheeks little by little, as if he was pinching a bun. "I almost forgot about your ambiguous relationship with Li Yiyue."

Fang Chaozhou was still dizzy at this moment. Faced with Song Lianyi's hand, he didn't react at all, not even making a sound, just lowering his head.

But his calmness displeased Song Lianyi.

Song Lianyi exchanged a glance with one of his maids, and she immediately took out a red cloth. Soon, the maids unfolded the red cloth, forming a circle around the empty space, enclosing Song Lianyi and Fang Chaozhou within.

The red cloth wasn't thick, so those outside could still see the figures inside.

Li Zhu had been asking the maids what they were doing when they raised the red cloth. When the red cloth was set up, and he saw two figures standing closely within it, he almost immediately became furious.

"Fang Chaozhou, if you dare to be unfaithful today, I... I'll go back and tell my father! And you, the ugly freak from Fengyue Temple, if you dare to force yourself on my stepmother, I'll kill you!"