flstandardbreds Chapter 109 The Cat Demon Appears
Chapter 109 The Cat Demon Appears
"Aren't you bored sitting here? You should go back to sleep; it's so cold at night!"
Xiao Han looked at her and said, "If I go back, wouldn't it be even more boring for you to be here all alone?"
Long Chuqing complained, "But you've been sitting here for half a day without saying a word. What's the difference between you and me sitting here alone? It's just that there's one more person staying up all night."
Xiao Han was momentarily embarrassed upon hearing this. He didn't know what to say, and just wanted to stay here with her.
He said gently, "Then you speak, I'm listening."
"If I were to speak all by myself, like I were putting on a monologue, wouldn't that make me look silly?"
After thinking for a while, Long Chuqing continued with a smile, "Why don't you tell me some embarrassing things that happened when you were a child, so we can have a laugh?"
Looking at her gossipy expression, he said helplessly, "I haven't done anything embarrassing."
"Who are you trying to fool!" Long Chuqing pouted and said, "Who hasn't had embarrassing moments as a child?"
As Xiao Han spoke to her, in the candlelight of the night, one could see endless tenderness in his eyes.
He raised the corners of his mouth slightly and said in a gentle voice, "Well... why don't you tell me about some embarrassing things that happened when you were a child?"
Long Chuqing pursed her lips, suppressing a laugh, and looked away: "I didn't have any embarrassing stories from my childhood either."
Xiao Han raised the corners of his mouth: "Then let's not talk about embarrassing things, let's talk about funny things from when we were kids."
"Never mind." Long Chuqing waved his hand. "There's nothing worth talking about when we were kids."
She picked up the bowl of medicine that had just been poured out and drank it.
Seeing her drink medicine, Xiao Han quickly asked, "Are you sick? Why are you taking medicine? Are you feeling unwell?"
"No," Long Chuqing explained, "This is calming tea. Drinking it will help you sleep better tomorrow. Would you like a bowl?"
Xiao Han shook his head upon hearing this: "I won't drink, I can't drink anymore."
He suddenly noticed the bandage on her wrist and quickly pulled her over to check. "Are you injured?"
Long Chuqing quickly pulled back: "It's nothing, just a minor injury, I accidentally brushed against it."
"Let's go back to the pharmacy!" Long Chuqing said after finishing her medicine. "It's drafty here and raining outside, so it's a bit cold."
"Okay," Xiao Han said, standing up.
They extinguished the fire in the stove and went back inside together.
Xiao Hanyin returned home around 11:00 AM, as he had to attend court in the morning.
Time went back to before midnight, around the second watch of the night.
A completely black cat was running swiftly across the eaves of a residential building in the west of the city.
At this moment, a man was chasing after it from behind. This man was none other than Su Jue, the blue-clad man that Long Chuqing had encountered a few days ago.
Previously, Su Jue had tracked the cat demon along the way to the capital. This cat demon was extremely cunning, and its cultivation and demonic power were not low.
It used a special method to conceal its demonic aura in order to evade tracking.
The cat demon knew that Su Jue had been looking for it, so it had been hiding for the past few days, causing Su Jue to temporarily lose track of it.
After hiding for several days, the cat demon came out to commit crimes in the last two days, killing two men and taking their hearts to eat in order to repair its damaged cultivation.
Su Jue had been searching for the cat demon for the past few days and assumed it had left the capital, until a series of murders occurred in the last two days.
Today, while the cat demon was searching for its next target, Su Jue followed the demonic aura and tracked it here.
If we had arrived any later, another tragedy might have occurred tonight.
Su Jue is a celestial master from the Qingyu Sect in Nanyang. He was ordered to capture the cat demon.
The cat demon was captured by the Qingyu Sect's celestial masters because it killed many people and used their hearts for cultivation.
They imprisoned the cat demon in the Qingyu Sect's Demon-Locking Tower, where it had already been severely injured before being imprisoned.
Inside the Demon-Sealing Tower, it was also affected by the magical artifact. In order to resist the damage caused by the artifact, it spent three hundred years of cultivation to defend against it.
It eventually managed to escape after exerting all its strength, but its inner core was damaged when it came out, and it needed to find a way to recover as soon as possible.
Because once the Celestial Master of Qingyu City learns of its escape, he will definitely send people to hunt it down.
The cat demon escaped at night, and it was relieved when it came out, because the chances of being discovered at night were reduced, allowing it to escape smoothly.
What the cat demon didn't expect was that it was discovered by the guards on duty only half an hour after it escaped.
It could only desperately try to escape, as the cat demon's body was still very weak after just coming out of the Demon-Sealing Tower.
While passing through a village, it sneaked into a farmer's house, killed an old man, took his heart and swallowed it, and also ate parts of his body.
After regaining some of its demonic power, it continued its escape towards the capital.
Upon learning of the cat demon's escape, the Qingyu faction quickly dispatched Su Jue to capture it.
The cat demon nimbly dodged several attacks from Su Jue, then flew through the rooftops and fled towards the dense forest outside the city.
Its dark silhouette seemed to blend into the night after it disappeared from the residential area, making it difficult to spot with the naked eye.
Su Jue followed closely behind the cat demon. In the dark, rainy night, his vision was impaired, making it difficult to see the cat demon's figure clearly. He could only rely on his demonic energy and the tracking talisman in his hand to continue the pursuit.
Because Su Jue was holding a tracking talisman, even if the cat demon transformed into demonic energy and flew away, it could not escape his pursuit.
Su Jue quickened his pace. He had finally found the cat demon today, and he couldn't let it get away.
Just as they were about to enter the dense forest, Su Jue caught up with the cat demon. He threw the talisman in his hand forward, and the talisman flew towards the cat demon as if it had come to life.
The talisman emitted a faint glow, surrounding the cat demon, while Su Jue continuously chanted incantations.
The cat demon transformed into human form, dressed in black, with heavy eye makeup and jet-black lips.
After the cat demon transformed into human form, it used its demonic power to resist the power emitted by the talisman, while glaring angrily at Su Jue with its half-cat, half-human eyes.
Its dark lips parted wide, revealing sharp teeth as it bared them at him, while simultaneously letting out an angry, piercing roar.
Under the powerful magic of the talisman, the cat demon quickly became extremely weak. Just as she was about to collapse, a group of wild cats suddenly rushed out of the dense forest.
Some of them pounced on Su Jue, while others leaped high into the air, using their claws to tear at the talismans in mid-air.
Since they were just ordinary stray cats, the talismans posed no threat to them; to them, they were just ordinary pieces of paper, so the talismans were easily destroyed by them.
Only then did Su Jue realize that the cat demon's sharp roar was actually a summoning of wild cats.
Faced with a group of wild cats suddenly attacking him, Su Jue could only fight back with all his might, and had no time to pay attention to the cat demon on the other side.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, the cat demon transformed into demonic energy and flew into the dense forest. After seeing the cat demon escape, Su Jue angrily swung his sword and killed all the wild cats in front of him.
As he was about to continue his pursuit into the dense forest, he suddenly smelled a very dangerous and intense demonic aura. He stopped in his tracks and immediately became alert.
This demonic aura doesn't come from the cat demon. Could there be other demons here? Or perhaps they are the cat demon's accomplices?
It was nighttime and raining. Given the unclear situation and the uncertainty of whether there were any dangerous traps inside, it would not be wise to venture into the dense forest at this time.
Having already severely injured the cat demon, it wouldn't be able to harm anyone tonight. He decided to temporarily abandon the capture and return to the inn to rest, planning to come back another day for a more thorough investigation.
He glanced at the dead stray cat on the ground, then turned and left.
Just after he left, a group of rustling footsteps could be heard walking into the depths of the dense forest from above.