Chapter 59: Gu Xiyan Thinks All Is Lost

Su Xuanhu’s withered fingers opened a drawer at the bottom of the medicine cabinet and took out a tattered ancient book.

This was the inner room of the medical hall.
Just now, after Su Xuanhu had examined the milk tea cup, she had said that it was too crowded outside and had brought the two of them here.

While Su Xuanhu was busy preparing at the desk, Bai Ling finally had time to look around this small room.

Ever since she had stepped into the backyard, the girl had felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if she had lived here for a long time.

The room the three of them were in was like a study, with all kinds of calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls.

The girl curiously paced in front of a piece of calligraphy and painting, and couldn’t help but softly read the poem on it:

“Transformation and reincarnation, again and again, life and transformation, again and again…”

The calligraphy on this piece of work was fluid and powerful, and it looked like the work of a famous calligrapher.

“This was written by a friend of my ancestors.”
Seeing the girl staring at this piece of calligraphy in a daze, Su Xuanhu couldn’t help but smile.
“This calligraphy has been hanging here since I was a child.”

“I seem to have seen this calligraphy somewhere before…”
The girl said, pinching her chin.

But no matter how she searched her memory, she couldn’t remember where she had seen it.
It just felt familiar.

“This calligraphy was written for a woman.”
Su Xuanhu dripped the remaining milk tea into the bronze mortar.
“Although I don’t know who that woman was, she was probably as beautiful as you.”

“Not at all…”

Hearing the old woman’s praise, the girl couldn’t help but blush.

‘She had been a boy just half a month ago, but she was blushing because someone had praised her as a beauty?’

‘What’s wrong with you, Bai Ling?’

“Borrowing a wisp of the Lord Bai Ze’s spiritual consciousness.”

While the girl was blushing, Su Xuanhu inserted three silver needles, which had been quenched in mermaid tears, into her own celestial spirit.
A fluorescent network of veins suddenly appeared under her old skin, converging into a Bai Ze unicorn totem on her forehead.

The whole room suddenly trembled.
Hundreds of medicine cabinet drawers automatically popped open, and all kinds of medicinal herbs converged into a river of stars in the air.

“Bai Ze’s insight!”

The old woman’s turbid eyes suddenly glowed with a golden light, and her white hair moved without any wind.

“Found it!”
Her withered fingers suddenly poked the milk tea cup.

A black gas suddenly condensed into a blood-red thread, pointing straight to the southeast.
The scales on the girl’s wrist suddenly stung.
That direction was clearly… Lin’an University!

“The little mouse actually ran to the university.
Interesting…”
Guan Qing pursed her jade pipe and suddenly let out a light laugh.
“You’ve been listening for so long.
You should have heard enough, right? Little fellow?”

‘Little fellow? Is there someone else here?’

The girl suddenly turned her head and looked around, but there were clearly only the three of them in the room.

Guan Qing suddenly blew out a puff of green smoke, and a ripple like a water wave suddenly appeared in the air.

“Ouch!”

A reddish-brown figure suddenly fell out of the ripple and sat on the ground with a thud.

“Lin’an University, do you understand?”
Guan Qing looked at the figure with a half-smile.

The girl followed her gaze and her pupils suddenly constricted.

‘Gu… Gu Xiyan?!’

As for why Gu Xiyan was here, the time had to be turned back to half an hour ago.

“I really don’t want to come here…”
Gu Xiyan sighed, looking at the full moon in the demon market.

The street in front was bustling with demons.
This was the demon market, so of course it was full of demons.

The thick demonic energy made her want to vomit.
Even after demonizing, she could still feel the demonic energy gradually corroding her cells.

After all, she was only a half-demon.
Although she could be immune to a part of the effect of demonic energy corrosion after demonizing, it was not all of it.
If she was exposed to this place with strong demonic energy for a long time, her demonization process would become irreversible.

This would not simply turn her from a half-demon into a pure-blooded demon, but when a half-demon’s demonization process exceeded 75%, their sanity would be occupied by their demon’s instincts.

Half-demons were flawed from the perspective of demons.
They couldn’t maintain their sanity like ancient demons.
After their sanity was occupied by their demon’s instincts, they would transform into an individual similar to a Resentful Demon.

This was not without precedent.
At that time, even a demonic energy inhibitor wouldn’t be able to reverse the demonization process.

Fortunately, as a half-demon, her tolerance for demonic energy corrosion was much higher than that of humans.

“I hope I can find some clues…”
Gu Xiyan muttered and squeezed into the crowd of demons.

The Demon Suppression Division actually knew about the existence of the demon market, but they had not taken any action against it, at least not in the history that Gu Xiyan knew.

This was not because they wanted to take some kind of protective measures for the demons, like protecting animals.
The military officials of the Ministry of War wished they could just exterminate all the demons.

The reason they hadn’t taken any action was that humans couldn’t actively enter the demon market without holding a certain token.
Only half-demons like her, who had demon blood, could sneak into the demon market.

Those higher-ups also knew very well that rashly starting a war with the demon market was a thankless task.
Not to mention how much manpower would be lost and how much damage would be caused.

Just the reason that they wouldn’t be able to hide the existence of demons from the public after the war was enough.
For the Demon Suppression Division, hiding the existence of demons was in some ways more important than killing them.

And just like a room always needed a trash can, the demon market was the trash can for Lin’an.
As long as these demons living in the demon market didn’t appear in human society, they were basically no threat to the Demon Suppression Division.

And for those demons who appeared in human society, all that awaited them was the complete extermination by the military officials of the Ministry of War.

Of course, Gu Xiyan was not a military official of the Ministry of War in the Demon Suppression Division.
The members of the front-line teams of the Demon Suppression Division were not all from the Ministry of War.
In fact, the five main members of a team were from different departments.

For example, in Xu Zhi’s team, Xu Zhi and Lu Qingtian were military officials of the Ministry of War, Zhou Xuan was an analyst of the War Preparation Bureau, and Lu Qingyu was a specially appointed doctor of the External Affairs Bureau.

And intelligence personnel like her actually belonged to the Records Bureau.

There were still no clues about the zombie that was attacking demon slayers everywhere.
Xu Zhi was patrolling everywhere, which was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Zhou Xuan was comparing the traces of those sword marks in the deep database.
Who knew if he could find any valuable clues.

So Gu Xiyan, as a demon spy, could only think of coming to the demon’s territory to ask for information.

This was not only a joint effort of various departments, but also a competition between different departments within the Demon Suppression Division.
Whoever had the greater contribution in this case would get more weight in next year’s financial budget.

But the department leaders above were fighting for next year’s budget.
It didn’t have much to do with Gu Xiyan.
Her biggest benefit might be that if she represented the Records Bureau and obtained key information in this case, her year-end bonus would be a little more.

“Hmm?”

Gu Xiyan, who was shuttling through the bustling crowd of demons, suddenly narrowed her eyes.
In the gaps of the demon crowd, a flash of white scales was faintly visible.

‘It’s that Ice Pop Girl!’

At the same time, she also noticed the person beside the snake demon girl, Guan Qing, the master of the demon market.

‘They actually have a relationship?’

‘That Ice Pop Girl had suddenly appeared at the riverside last night and said she had come to save her.’

But Gu Xiyan didn’t believe this kind of rhetoric.
Considering that she had been hunting demons and then saving demons before,

‘It might be related to this case!’

Thinking of this, Gu Xiyan hurriedly concealed her figure and followed the two into the medical hall.

And then…

“Lin’an University, do you understand?”

Facing Guan Qing’s half-smile, Gu Xiyan felt that she might be done for here.