The Demon King is an Idiot [BL]-Chapter 88: Yao Fei’s strange hobby
The sect master of the Yu Sect was a woman called Yao Fei.
She was at least a few hundred years old and was well known for her incredible abilities and peculiar tastes.
When it came to strength, there was no doubt that she was the strongest member of the Yu Sect. Due to this, there were a lot who admired and respected her.
However, her fame wasn’t owed to her abilities and strength. The real reason why many people knew her was because of her peculiar tastes.
She hardly ever left the Yu Sect and she spent most of her time nurturing rocks and stones instead of overseeing the workings of the sect.
At first, many wondered what special abilities these rocks had or how they could be worthy of receiving so much love and care from her. However, in the end, it was proven that these rocks nurtured by her were merely rocks with nothing special about them.
They were simply rocks picked up from the side of some random streets.
Whenever the woman traveled outside, she always made sure to bring a rock back home with her, and soon enough, she was able to own a small collection of rocks that varied in size, texture, and even color.
Except for her weird hobby of collecting rocks and her rumored cultivation level, Hua Tianshu and Jie Fu Lian knew nothing more about the woman.
Jie Fu Lian didn’t judge her too much after hearing about her hobbies. He only found it a bit strange but that was it.
As for Hua Tianshu, he had been interested in the rumors and like many others, he wondered if there was anything special about the rocks raised by her.
If there was really nothing special about those lifeless rocks, the woman was probably crazy to be collecting them and pouring so much of her attention onto them.
The three demonic beasts led them to the jail where Sect Master Yao was kept.
As soon as they saw the woman, they were a bit stunned.
It seemed that the rumors about her were true. This woman truly loved lifeless rocks...
With a huge smile on her face, Yao Fei used a torn-out piece of cloth from her sleeve and rubbed a small stone as if trying to thoroughly clean it.
Looking at the dirty piece of cloth and the glimmering grey stone, it could be guessed that she had been doing the same for the past few hours.
She sat crossed-legged on the floor with a few more stones laying around her in a circle.
Hua Tianshu guessed that these stones had also been ’polished’ by her till they were all smooth and shiny.
Her hands and feet didn’t look to be chained nor was there anything special about this jail where she was captured in. The bars of the jail were made with iron and the walls were made with regular stone.
Seeing this, one would surely wonder if she was being kept here against her will or if she chose to stay here.
Even Hua Tianshu couldn’t help but think that the latter seemed to be the case.
When Yao Fei noticed the presence of the two strangers, she immediately stopped polishing the stone and looked up at the two.
She didn’t say anything nor did she ask anything. She simply looked at their faces for a minute or so before her eyes trailed down to the mask that was hanging on Hua Tianshu’s waist.
Her face was a bit pale and her hair had started to turn white but she still looked quite youthful. There was no tiredness visible on her face and she certainly didn’t look like a person who had been kidnapped. She wasn’t particularly beautiful but she was charming and her peach blossom eyes added to the youthful innocent look on her face.
"Greetings to Sect Master Yao," Hua Tianshu politely bowed his head as he greeted the woman, "My name is Hua Tianshu. I’m an elder from the HuiXue Sect."
Yao Fei nodded her head as she greeted back, "It’s nice to meet you, Daoist Hua."
Her eyes traveled to Jie Fu Lian and it looked like she was waiting for the man to introduce himself but Jie Fu Lian kept his mouth shut and said nothing.
With a cough, Hua Tianshu decided to speak up on behalf of Jie Fu Lian, "This is Hua Lian. He is an acquaintance of mine."
Jie Fu Lian wanted to sneer as he heard the words ’Hua Lian’ and ’acquaintance’.
He regretted the fact that he had used that name as an alias this time, but he couldn’t deny that it felt a little nice to hear that name. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
"An acquaintance?" Yao Fei raised her eyebrows as she repeated and suspiciously looked at Jie Fu Lian as she added, "Your acquaintance is certainly interesting. I can’t guess his cultivation realm at all."
"He’s a bit shy so he uses an artifact to hide it," Hua Tianshu replied, not wanting Jie Fu Lian to attract too much unwanted attention to himself.
"Is that so?" Yao Fei nodded her head in understanding as she spoke, "Then it must have been an amazing artifact."
Obviously, it was a lie that Jie Fu Lian had used an artifact to hide his cultivation realm. There was hardly anyone in this world who surpassed him in terms of cultivation so it was naturally useless to hide his cultivation realm that could not be easily guessed by others.
Unlike the woman, Jie Fu Lian could clearly sense the woman’s cultivation realm. She was at the peak stage of the divine realm.
In a fight, she would surely be a forbiddable enemy, however, right now, her spiritual Qi was pretty stable and almost seemed harmless.
"Are you here to take me back?" Yao Fei asked, her face devoid of any emotions.
"Is that what you want us to do?" Hua Tianshu questioned back knowing that he would not be able to take her back easily.
The woman smiled as she looked down at the stone in her hand and after a minute of contemplating something in her mind, she shook her head as she responded, "There’s no need for that."
"..."
It seemed that Sect Master Yao was pretty comfortable in this jail.
"Then I won’t try to help you," Hua Tianshu sighed as he replied and the woman nodded her head.
"I’m sure you didn’t come all this way just to ask me whether I needed your help or not."
Hua Tianshu nodded his head, "I came here to ask you a few things. I hope it isn’t too inconvenient for you to answer my questions."
"That depends on the question that you ask," The woman smiled as she replied, "If it is a question that I’d prefer not to answer, I wouldn’t be helping you."
Hua Tianshu didn’t give a response to that and simply asked, "Have you heard of the name Bai BaoShi?"
The woman shook her head.
Hua Tianshu had certainly expected this answer and so, without missing a beat, he spoke, "She was married to Bai Guanyu, the city head of Xiujiang."
"Xiujiang?" Yao Fei raised her eyebrows as she repeated, finding the name familiar, "The city of osmanthus wine?"
Hua Tianshu nodded his head as he confirmed it, "That’s right. It is quite famous in the months of spring for its osmanthus wine and rice cakes."
"I’ve heard about it but I’m afraid I do not know much about its city head."
"No problem," Hua Tianshu shook his head as he reassured. In the first place itself, he didn’t expect the woman to know much about the city head or the name ’Bai BaoShi’.
"I was hoping we could show you a picture of Bai BaoShi and perhaps you’d be able to recognize her."
The woman didn’t seem to reject the idea and Hua Tianshu expectantly looked at Jie Fu Lian.
Jie Fu Lian sighed as he sat down cross-legged and took out a paper and spiritual ink brush from his spatial ring.
The paper was quite ordinary, however, the spiritual ink brush had a special ability. As long as one was able to remember a particular scene, they would be able to accurately draw it onto the paper with the help of the spiritual ink brush.
He closed his eyes and sent a bit of his spiritual Qi into the spiritual ink brush and the brush soon stood straight before it started dancing around on top of the paper.
Within just a few minutes, the picture was beautifully painted onto the paper without any mistake.
As Hua Tianshu looked at the painting, he couldn’t help but acknowledge the fact that her name and reputation matched her appearance.
She had a pair of peach blossom eyes, a small nose, and perfectly shaped plump lips. Her face was a bit round and her hair was dark. Like a lone white flower that had bloomed on top of a graveyard, her beauty was quite bewitching and made one wonder what kind of person she was.
There was no denying the fact that she was beautiful but Hua Tianshu still preferred Jie Fu Lian’s face more.
If it had been someone else, they would have certainly been awestruck by the beauty of the woman that was painted on the paper but Hua Tianshu only took a glance before he looked back at Jie Fu Lian.
