The Demon King is an Idiot [BL]-Chapter 57: The fake Nanxun city
The man entered a brothel.
"..." Jie Fu Lian hesitated for only a second and then, he also entered the brothel.
Once inside, he lost sight of the man who seemed to have disappeared into thin air.
Jie Fu Lian’s eyebrows creased together and he immediately pinched his nose as he felt a little nauseated by the smell.
The scent of the corpse powder had gotten stronger.
Three girls approached Jie Fu Lian. Their faces were caked with heavy makeup and their lips were curled up in smiles.
"Gege, I haven’t seen you here before. Is this your first time?" One of the girls unhesitantly spoke up with a flirtatious tone as she clung to Jie Fu Lian’s left arm.
Before Jie Fu Lian could say anything, the second girl clung to his other arm and chuckled as she asked, "Gege, you’re quite handsome. I’ll prepare some really good wine for you, how about we have a few drinks together?"
The third girl blocked his way and simply smiled at him without saying anything.
Jie Fu Lian felt a little trapped and frowned as he rudely snatched his hands back from the girls and covered his nose.
These three girls... Reeked of corpse powder!
"Gege, are you playing hard to get, or are you just shy?" Although the girl had been pushed away once, she still insisted on clinging to him.
At the very next moment, Jie Fu Lian unsheathed the Changbo sword and placed its blade on the girl’s neck.
The girl looked to be a little surprised but she didn’t seem to be afraid of the sword.
"As expected," Jie Fu Lian muttered before he sliced the girl’s neck with the sword.
There was no blood and there was no reaction.
Although the neck had been sliced, it looked as if the girl couldn’t feel it.
She continued looking at Jie Fu Lian with a smile on her face as she asked, "Gege, do you want LuoLuo to sing for you? You’ll definitely like it."
Jie Fu Lian took a few steps back and gulped before he once again raised his sword and tried to kill the girl standing in front of him.
The sword beheaded the woman and her decapitated head fell down onto the floor with a ’thud’.
The other two girls looked down at the decapitated head for only a few seconds before they raised their heads and looked back at Jie Fu Lian with wide grins plastered on their faces.
"Gege, Let’s have a great time together~" the decapitated head beamed.
Jie Fu Lian’s face twisted in disgust and he took another step backward.
When he looked around, he found that everyone was now looking at him with the same creepy smile plastered on their faces.
None of them were humans...
Jie Fu Lian only had two choices in front of him. The first was to stay and kill everyone in this brothel while the second was to turn around and leave.
Jie Fu Lian chose both options. First, he would kill everyone and then he would turn around and leave the place.
Jie Fu Lian had been taught a lot about the corpse powder. Most of the information was about its effects and cures.
If a person was exposed to a small amount of corpse powder, they would fall sick for a few days but their illness was one that could be cured. If a person ingested a handful of corpse powder, they would have to face fatal consequences but once again, there was a cure to reverse the damage done to the body.
However, if a person ingested or was exposed to large amounts of corpse powder, they would die on the spot without a cure. In certain cases, if death was avoided, the person would turn into a corpse puppet and would no longer be considered a human. The corpse puppet had no soul and no will of its own.
A corpse puppet could easily be controlled by a demonic cultivator or a demon. In fact, they were the easiest tools to control and hence, had remained a favorite of demonic cultivators.
But the corpse puppets that filled this brothel were clearly not controlled by a demonic cultivator.
In order to control so many corpse puppets, a lot of demonic Qi was required and that could only be readily supplied by a demon.
With this in mind, Jie Fu Lian could be sure that the one controlling all these corpse puppets was none other than the demon that they were currently looking for.
Jie Fu Lian gulped as he felt a little worried for Hua Tianshu and Hua Meifang. Those two were strong and capable but could they have also been turned into such corpse puppets...?
Jie Fu Lian knew that he could no longer waste time. He needed to find them as soon as possible.
Jie Fu Lian’s sword moved smoothly across the place, it’s every action intended to cause harm. Within just half an hour, Jie Fu Lian had already managed to chop up the people that surrounded him.
He headed deeper into the brothel and killed every single one of the corpse puppets.
In the end, he finally found someone who wasn’t a corpse puppet.
She was a young woman who looked to be just a few years older than Jie Fu Lian. When she saw him, she didn’t seem to be surprised. On the contrary, it looked like she had been expecting him.
"I almost bored myself to death while waiting for you," The woman sighed as she commented.
"Who are you?" Jie Fu Lian asked as he didn’t bother letting his guard down against the woman.
The woman smiled as she replied, "The one you’re looking for."
Jie Fu Lian frowned as he raised his eyebrow.
With a chuckle, the woman corrected herself and added, "More accurately speaking, I’m the person who’ll help you find the one you’re looking for."
"And who might I be looking for?" Jie Fu Lian firmly questioned back, not sounding polite in the least.
"The famous Hua Tianshu of the HuiXue sect."
"I’m not looking for him," Jie Fu Lian immediately snapped, "I couldn’t care any less about him. I’m looking for the demon who caused trouble around here."
The woman looked to be amused as she heard this, "Don’t worry. I’ll help you find them both."
"I don’t take help from strangers. Especially not from suspicious ones like you."
"..." For a second there, the woman was conflicted about her feelings. It was unclear whether she was offended or intrigued...?
Jie Fu Lian had a bad gut feeling and so, he turned around to leave. He felt as if he could get himself in deep trouble if he were to stay and be swayed by her words.
He only took three steps before he felt a sudden presence behind him. He immediately turned around and was caught by surprise.
The woman blew a certain powder onto his face and he was forced to close his eyes which were stinging from the effect of the powder.
He clenched his fist and got ready to fight the woman but before he could even lift his hand, he had already fallen onto the floor like a dead piece of wood.
"Happy dreams!~" The woman chimed with a wide grin but Jie Fu Lian was naturally unable to hear her words.
He had already fallen asleep.
With a loud gasp, he woke up but his body was no longer inside the brothel.
He was lying in the center of a road but none of the passerby’s paid him any attention. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
He pursed his lips together and frantically looked around at the unfamiliar surrounding.
For a minute or two, he was stunned.
It looked like he was still in Nanxun, but at the same time, it felt as if this wasn’t the Nanxun that he was previously in.
He gulped as he pushed himself off the ground and made his way to the nearest shop that happened to be selling low-quality medicinal herbs.
"Mister, where are we?" Jie Fu Lian politely asked the owner of the shop.
The owner of the shop was a middle-aged man who didn’t have any cultivation base. He was a common man with nothing special to note. However, the moment, he looked up at Jie Fu Lian, this man’s abnormality became visible.
His eyes didn’t have any pupils!
He was a corpse puppet!
Jie Fu Lian gulped as he faltered a step back. It was only now that he noticed the smell that lingered in this place.
It was the smell of corpse powder.
The shop owner opened his mouth and instead of giving an answer to Jie Fu Lian’s question, he asked back, "Young man, would you buy something from here?"
Jie Fu Lian looked down at the low-quality medicinal herbs and frowned. Even if he was injured, he would never use these.
However, although they were completely useless, Jie Fu Lian still took out a gold coin from his pocket and tossed it over to the shop owner as he spoke, "Give me everything worth a gold coin and tell me where we are."
The shop owner looked to be extremely happy as he received the gold coin. He immediately started packing random medicinal herbs for the customer as he spoke, "We are in Nanxun city."
