Chapter 32 - The Savvy Civet Cat (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

It was a dark and windy night. A night for catching a demon.

The entire inn, having been cleared of all customers very early on, was filled with silence. There were four or five fat cockerels in a cage in the middle of the inn’s inner courtyard, and the flapping of their wings could be heard from time to time.

There was nobody in sight, not even the waiter who normally patrolled the inn in the middle of the night, but a closer examination would reveal a few shadowy figures lying on the roof, under the eaves, behind the door, and even in the shrubs in the courtyard. Every one of them was concentrating on the chickens dozing in the courtyard.

Two hours passed.

No movement.

Four hours passed.

Dead silence.

Six hours passed.

“Ah choo!” Lonemoon let out an involuntary sneeze and was greeted by dozens of chiding eyes. He felt like he must be crazy leaving his bed in the middle of the night to follow this group of mental retards. They had waited for so long but not so much as a demon’s hair could be seen.

“Enough. You all should call it off.” He nudged at Shen Ying who was next to him. He really didn’t want to continue lying on the roof. He had told them that such a harebrained idea wouldn’t work. Those Foundation Establishment disciples did not know how to rein in their aura; only a blind demon would be unable to detect a few dozen cultivators full of Spirit Qi. “You and your asinine plan. It would be a miracle if a demon came!”

“It’s here!” But just as Lonemoon finished speaking, a disciple called out urgently from below.

A cloud of black Qi descended from the sky.

Lonemoon: “…”

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Holy shit! It’s really the demon!

The cloud of black Qi flew directly towards the chickens in the cage. The court yard immediately resounded with the clucking of chickens. Within moments, the chickens had disappeared. A stack of golden objects could be seen among the chicken feathers in the cage.

“Arh…” The cloud of black Qi, which had grown decidedly bigger, seemed to be burping. It floated up again as if intending to fly away.

“Catch it!” Cheng An shouted. Immediately the array formation was activated and the disciples who had been lying in ambush rushed over with their weapons.

Seemingly startled, the black Qi hurriedly turned around in a circle and began to jump up and down in an attempt to fend off the attacks from the disciples. Perhaps it was because this inner courtyard was too small and there were too many Blackheaven Sect disciples, but the demon actually managed to evade capture.

“Don’t panic, junior brothers and sisters defend your assigned formations!” Cheng An was the lead disciple of the sect master. Seeing that it would take time to capture the demon, he instructed everyone to use the array formation to box in the demon.

The chaotic crowd of disciples started retreating at his command, but at the exact moment that they retreated, the Black Qi suddenly burrowed out from the crowd, shot up into the sky and moved to the right.

“Oh no!” An anxious Cheng An looked up and saw that the mass of black Qi had already broken clear of their array formation and was flying directly to the right which was being guarded by…

Shen Ying, Lonemoon and Yi Qing: “…”

Cheng An paused for a moment, remembering that this was their experiential training. Making a snap decision, he immediately rushed towards Shen Ying. “Junior Sister, stop that demon!”