7 Snake and Rabbit 6 (2/2)

She actually wasn't sure what the status of the Nine Dragons Stove was here in this world, as this was a treasure the female lead had brought over from the modern world. The information didn't really mention anything either. The female lead never revealed its existence, and she never fully explored all the mysteries of it either. Yin Mei could only guess that she had only done so after she entered the upper realm, but too bad the story cut off at that point.

”Nine Dragons Stove?” The demon king seemed to grow thoughtful.

Yin Mei thought that maybe he might be able to recall something, so she supplied some more useful information. ”It's a stove with nine revolving dragons, bound by blood to the girl. The material is unknown, but black in color and very strong... it has the dragon gate engraved on it.”

”Nine revolving dragons and the dragon gate?” A possibility emerged in the head of the demon king, but he didn't speak aloud. Not caring how Yin Mei was able to obtain this information, if what she said was true, then this refining stove was much more precious than anything else. There wasn't any need for the furnace anymore, as long as he could get his hands on that stove...

Yin Mei didn't know that the demon king had already changed his decision and decided to kill the female lead, and also was too dense to feel the dark aura that was gradually gathering around him. She only felt that he was deep in thought and shouldn't disturb him, instead calling out a price for one of the pill bottles. They were already on the seventh pill bottle, betting at about 100,000 gold coins, or 100 gold ingots, so she directly raised the price to a thousand gold ingots.

There was silence, and the pill bottle naturally went to her. She would have used a purple gold, but she actually really didn't have a lot of purple gold left... She resolved that she would go ask for (extort) some from some unimportant rich cannon fodder later.

”Right, I should give a gift to the female lead while I'm at it!” Yin Mei said, thinking that her idea was great. She thought, and thought, wondering what would be good to give to the female lead. It needed to be beneficial enough that the female lead would appreciate it, but also not so beneficial that she would have a hard time later.

”For now, how about this?” Yin Mei took out a pair of exquisite pearl earrings that shimmered with an iridescent light. These pearl earrings used pearls made by the sea king. They had the power to regenerate and heal wounds. Yin Mei called for the attendant, telling her to give these to the female lead.

But, before she could hand them over, the demon king stopped her. With question marks written all over her face, she handed them over to him. He seemed to observe them for a moment, and she wasn't sure what he was thinking. Maybe the gift wasn't good enough?

After a few short moments, the demon king handed them back without saying anything. Although Yin Mei wasn't sure what that was about, she still had the attendant gift them to the female lead. Whatever! Since the demon king didn't say anything in the end, that meant there were no issues right?

The demon king hadn't had any issues, partly because it didn't make a difference to him if she possessed those earrings, and partly because he had used a few techniques to add some special add ons... Such as GPS tracking, hidden camera surveillance, and a special curse. If Yin Mei knew this, her image of the demon king would be totally destroyed.

When the female lead received the present, she was surprised as she heard the attendant describe the use of the pearl earrings. Looking at the pearls in her hand, she was immediately suspicious. Such was her personality. She could tell they were out of the ordinary with one glance, she just didn't know if there were some tricks involved... For now, she decided to keep them in her storage space until she could find a way to appraise them.

Yin Mei had actually expected this, but the demon king was a little upset. This girl had actually not worn the gift and instead put it straight into her storage ring? Then wouldn't the techniques he had gone out of the way to cast on them be pretty much useless? If it was the little rabbit, she'd be overjoyed and immediately start using them. His impression of the female lead immediately went down by ten points.

Going back home, Yin Mei decided to start planning the next move, while the demon king was using his subordinates to check if the stove the female lead had really was the one he was thinking about. As for the matter of Yin Mei knowing about the stove, the demon king just pinned it on the special ability of the Jade Rabbit bloodline (how convenient).

Checking the plot information again, Yin Mei decided that they should make the next move during the assassination event. The one being assassinated would be the ninth prince. He would almost die before being rescued by the female lead. Yin Mei decided to steal this event from the female lead and save him herself. The male lead would be in a perilous situation, just perfect for stealing the ring and killing him off all at once. Yin Mei had more confidence then before because they had just obtained the mysterious rock. The demon king had already made use of it, currently in the midst of refining the ice energy stone.

She felt that this was the perfect plan, just hoping that the demon king would finish his closed cultivation before then.

For now, she decided to go visit the academy.

That's right, it wouldn't be a proper story if there wasn't an academy arc!