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Wait a minute, this name sounds familiar... Isn't she the female demon of the Western Martial Arts World who killed more than forty people in one night three years ago, and then disappeared overnight?
Where is she? Where is Qiu Hanlian? Fu Hai looked around.
"Innkeeper, what are you looking for?" The waitress, Sister Qiu Ying, dressed in coarse blue clothes, asked softly and respectfully. "Sister Qiu Ying, besides you and me, who else is in this inn right now?"
“No more!” Qiu Ying said slowly. “After Her Majesty the Empress successfully dug the canal in the east, fewer and fewer merchants traveled this route.”
“Only those three merchants stayed overnight; no one else came in.” Fu Hai looked at Sister Qiu Ying and gasped.
Qiu Yingjie was picked up from the snow and ice by him, Lingyue, and Yuelan three years ago.
It was freezing cold at the time, and she collapsed in the snow, barely breathing. If Fu Hai hadn't taken a closer look when he was carrying many New Year's items back to the mountain, he wouldn't have noticed her at all.
Later, Qiu Ying slowly recovered on the mountain, saying that she was homeless.
As the inn happened to need someone to help look after it, she stayed and worked as a waiter, earning a meager salary, working tirelessly and without complaint.
Fu Hai looked at Sister Qiu Ying.
Medium build, average bust, plain blue dress that's so ordinary it's easy to overlook, and simple, unremarkable hairstyle.
Actually, upon closer inspection, her appearance is that of Ruili; Lingyue once said that Sister Qiu Ying was actually very beautiful. However, her expression remained calm.
Looking back carefully, it seems that I've never seen her smile or cry in those three whole years. It's not that she was expressionless, but rather that she remained completely unchanged.
"Shopkeeper, what's wrong?" Qiu Yingqing looked at the young man in front of her calmly. "No, no, nothing! Sister Qiu Ying, please sit down!"
It took Fu Hai a while to react. "Sister Qiu Ying, you've been on guard all night. Go and rest. I'll keep an eye on things here during the day."
"No one came all night. I just slept here and didn't do anything," Qiu Ying said. But she still followed his instructions, leaving the inn from the backyard and going to rest in one of her little wooden cabins on the mountain. Fu Hai watched Qiu Ying's back, which he had become intimately familiar with over the past three years, and suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.
Fu Hai sat behind the counter, looking at his system.
He wanted to bring back his system of "Five Principles, Four Beauties, and Three Loves".
Dominating the human world? Spreading demons across the land? Don't be ridiculous.
Everyone knows that in this world, the righteous have long since risen while the evil has fallen.
The so-called Demonic Sect was utterly defeated in the Great War between the Dao and the Demonic Sect three hundred years ago.
In fact, there didn't seem to be any real demonic sects three hundred years ago. It was just a group of righteous sects following the imperial court, classifying another group of sects as demonic sects, and then exterminating them.
The true Demonic Sect only exists in novels, right? It's precisely because it doesn't exist in reality that novels can write whatever they want about it. Just as Sister Qiu Ying said earlier.
Because the Grand Canal, which the Empress of the East had spent ten years building with all her manpower and resources, was finally opened, fewer and fewer travelers were on this trade route.
The sunlight outside the inn grew increasingly intense, turning the area outside the gate a blinding white, obscuring the view of even a single person. Fu Hai had been working with the system for quite some time.
The six characters “Ultimate Evil Demon Chaos” are particularly eye-catching.
There were also flashing red dots nearby, but he didn't dare touch them.
He felt that if he touched it even slightly, his system of upholding the Five Stresses, Four Beauties, and Three Loves would be gone forever. Finally, he had to admit that the system might really be irreversible.
He desperately wanted to rush up the mountain again, grab his junior sister, pin her to the ground, and spank her hard. This system is faulty too; how could you believe what that little lunatic said?
Accepting reality, he still reached out and tapped the little red dot. [Host: Fu Hai!]
[The leader of the Heavenly Evil Sect, the future Demon Lord, the future Supreme Demon, and the Evil Emperor who will ultimately dominate the mortal realm.] [Martial Arts Level: Ninth Realm!]
[Martial Arts Technique: Dragon Claw Hand (Proficient!)]
Looking at that string of "futures," Fu Hai felt even the invisible red scarf on his chest had turned blacker. This isn't the future I want, you bastard!
Further down, there were even profiles of two junior sisters and "Qiu Hanlian." [Song Lingyue]
[Left Protector of the Heavenly Evil Sect.] [Martial Arts Level: Eighth Realm!]
[Martial Arts Techniques: Shattered Moon Sword (Mastered), Dragon Claw Hand (Mastered)!] [Xia Yuelan]
[Right Protector of the Heavenly Evil Sect.] [Martial Arts Level: Ninth Realm!]
[Martial Arts Technique: Dragon Claw Hand (Proficient)!]
Lingyue was a realm higher than him and Yuelan because she possessed a family heirloom, the "Shattered Moon Sword," which was passed down from her father's side as the "Dragon Claw Hand" of the Xiaodiancang Mountain Dragon Claw Sect. This meant she could only cultivate it to the ninth realm.
It is said that there were once even more profound techniques that could be cultivated to the sixth realm or even higher, but they have been lost.
Then he looked towards "Qiu Hanlian". [Qiu Hanlian]
[A killer from the Demon Cave under the rule of the Heavenly Evil Sect, known by the alias "Qiu Ying" and infamous in the martial arts world as "Flying Erosion Flower."]
[Martial Arts Level: Fourth Realm!]
[Martial Arts Techniques: Flying Blood-Eroding Blade (Perfected), Bone-Crushing Heart-Piercing Technique (Perfected), Minor Soul-Searching Poison Needle (Perfected), Bone-Shattering Evil Claw (Mastered), Thousand Spider Poison Palm (Mastered)...]
Fu Hai hissed. Now he had two choices.
Fire Sister Qiu Ying, tell her the inn doesn't need anyone anymore, and let her go wherever she wants. Or he could take his two junior sisters and run away, abandoning Little Cangshan Mountain, the Dragon Claw Sect, and the inn. That's the Flying Erosion Flower, the Western Martial Arts Demoness who killed dozens of people in one night, her hands covered in blood! And she's at the Fourth Realm; he and his two junior sisters combined wouldn't be a match for her.
Oh dear, I never expected you to be like this, Sister Qiu Ying. Should we report you to the authorities?
However, Fu Hai wasn't quite sure if there were any constables or military officers of the fourth rank or above in the county town... most likely not.
Even if they reported it to the authorities, the constables in the prefectural city would probably panic and could only report it to higher levels, requesting the mobilization of experts. By then, Sister Qiu Ying would probably have already realized something was wrong and conveniently wiped out the entire Xiaodiancang Mountain family.
Moreover, it doesn't require killing dozens of people; killing him, Lingyue, and Yuelan is enough.
Fu Hai was having a headache. [Ding!]
[The righteous heroine Murong Die has discovered her host's hidden demonic lair and is about to invade. As the future ultimate demon, how can the host allow such a tiger to return to the mountains?]
[Tasks issued: Task 1: Capture the heroine Murong Die! Reward: 60 system points! Task 2: taint the heroine Murong Die's flawless body with [something]]
The main color, completing the task will earn you 600 system points and a low-grade random card.
No.
You only get 60 points for capturing the female warrior.
To make a female warrior's delicate body stained with my colors, not only do you multiply your points tenfold, but you also give away cards? Is this really the ultimate demonic system? This is probably the ultimate lewd system.
Before Fu Hai could finish complaining, a bright female voice rang out from outside: "Is anyone home?" The heroine stepped through the door.
Chapter 3 The Female Knight Who Intruded
The female knight-errant who entered the inn had her hair styled in a snake-like bun and wore a bright red, cross-legged, flowing fairy dress with arrow-shaped sleeves.
The flowing fairy skirt looks similar to the traditional deep robe, but the skirt is pleated, making it very convenient for female knights-errant to use their lightness skills and leap across rooftops.
"Miss Butterfly, where have you made your fortune lately? It's been months since I've seen you." Fu Hai came out from behind the counter.
He recognized this female knight-errant, Murong Die.
Murong Die, with her cultivation at the seventh level, often performed acts of chivalry in this county, earning her a reputation as a chivalrous woman.
A group of bandits who once hid in the Tiger Forest of the Broken Cloud Mountains to the west were wiped out by her, who used her personal reputation to gather constables and martial artists from the surrounding area.
What's most despicable about those bandits is that they often steal children and sell them to other places, causing blood relatives to be separated and creating many family tragedies. Fu Hai has no intention of "capturing" the heroine Murong.
That being said, they were just staying at an inn, so what do you mean by "discovering the Demon Realm" or "trespassing"?
They just came to stay at an inn, and they were captured and raped. What kind of evil is this... Okay, let's leave the system's name aside for now and not consider anything else.
Lady Murong is at the seventh realm, while I am at the weakest ninth realm. Can I capture her?
[Ding! To assist the host in completing the mission, a special tag, "Desperate to Die or Ecstasy (Beginner)," has been issued. With this tag, the martial arts and skills used by the host will have a special effect of being specifically designed to target female warriors of the lower three realms.]
[Please complete your first task as soon as possible to obtain system points and rewards.] Immediately afterwards, Fu Hai saw that a new tab had appeared in the system panel.
"A state of ecstasy (beginner level). This system is really thoughtful?"
"Young manager, what are you daydreaming about?" Murong Die said with a smile as she stepped in. "Why is your inn getting more and more deserted? I can't see anyone except you, the manager?"
Fu Hai put the newly acquired label out of his mind, shaking his head with a smile: "There's nothing I can do! Nobody goes down this road anymore."
"Now we'll see about the Lantern Festival in town next month. There will definitely be people coming to see the lanterns. After the festival, this inn might not be able to stay open." "Miss Butterfly, have you perhaps caught some thieves again and gone to the prefecture to collect the reward?"
Murong Die said, "They're just some petty thieves who don't know their place. They traveled all night and will stay here for the night." Fu Hai said, "It's still the 'Earth' room, right? The same one as last time?"
"Alright!" Murong Die took the number seven for Earth Science. "Remember to feed the horses outside for me." This Dragon Claw Inn is actually quite large, although it hasn't been renovated in a long time and looks a bit old.
The inn has three VIP rooms, called "Tianzi Rooms," which cost one string of cash per night, but no one has stayed there for the past year, so they are completely empty.
A room with the character "地" (earth) costs 300 coins per night, which is just right for guests who are particular but not short of money. The less desirable room is the room with the character "人" (person), which costs only 120 coins per night.
Money is usually prepaid, but for Murong Die, a well-known and established regular customer, it's enough to just remember her name.
"Why are you all alone today?" Murong Die asked. "Where is Miss Ying, and your two junior sisters?"
“Only three people moved in yesterday, and today it might just be you, Miss Butterfly,” Fu Hai sighed. “Why do we all need to stay here?” “Hmph, I never imagined that the opening of that canal would have such a big impact on your area!”
Murong Die shook her head, "This place used to be a crossroads for trade between the north and south. I remember last year when your inn was doing well, you even hired several people." Fu Hai frowned, "At this rate, we won't be able to pay our Dragon Claw Sect's taxes this year."
"Let's stop clinging to the name of the Dragon Claw Sect," Murong Die said. "Anyway, no one comes to learn from us, and the martial arts school has been closed for a long time."
“That won’t do!” Fu Hai puffed out his chest. “No matter what, the Dragon Claw Sect of Xiaodiancang Mountain cannot have its lineage broken by me.” Murong Die nodded.
Everyone has their own ambitions, and she couldn't say anything. Murong Die went upstairs in the inn.
Fu Hai went outside first, led the brown horse from the inn's entrance to the stable, took the feed, and went into the stable. Although he was only at the lowest level, the ninth realm, Hao Sui was still a martial artist, and he was quite efficient in his work.
Back at the counter, the sun shone brightly outside, and the inn was deserted. Fu Hai glanced at the mission and decided to ignore it.
Although this isn't a good system of "Five Stresses, Four Beauties, and Three Loves," he wants to be a good person who embodies these principles.
However, he still wanted to try his luck with the random low-grade cards that the system had given him earlier.
In this world, martial arts techniques and so on are divided into three grades: superior, middle, and inferior. Grades seven, eight, and nine are all inferior.
The Dragon Claw Sect's own Dragon Claw Hand technique is only at the ninth rank; no matter how much practice, it can only cultivate a martial artist to the ninth realm. If he could draw an eighth or even seventh rank martial arts technique, it would be a huge improvement for him. He gently swiped the "Random Low-Rank Card".
The card flipped open and transformed into a martial arts manual. [Obtained the Rank 8 martial art, "Dragon Claw Hand for Grabbing Breasts"!]
[Dragon Claw Hand for Grabbing Breasts: An eighth-grade martial art with special attacks on certain parts of the human body.] Fu Hai's lips twitched.
Is this really the "Ultimate Demonic Chaos System"?
This really isn't the "ultimate solution." Fu Hai started to feel conflicted.
The secret manual of eighth-grade martial arts is the only way to advance to the eighth realm.
Generally speaking, the secret manuals of each school and sect are not passed on to outsiders. Apart from this "Dragon Claw Hand for Grabbing Breasts", he really had no other martial arts to practice. Then, he looked at the "Death and Immortality (Beginner)" label.