Chapter 9: The Carrots Aren’t Harvested Yet…
Bai Xuci had been diligently covering his eyes, but he kept feeling someone pulling them away.
Every time he covered them, the other person would pull them away.
A surge of nameless anger…
He lifted his rabbit eyes and the flames of anger were instantly extinguished.
It was the demon.
He couldn’t fight back.
He tried to lift his rabbit legs to hop away.
But—
His neck was fatally grasped, leaving only four rabbit legs dangling in the air.
Alas…
He was pushed back into place.
“Today’s meeting is adjourned. Everyone, please leave,” Fan Yue said calmly.
The demons below murmured, seeming to think their Lord was too hasty, their faces still full of worry.
Bai Xuci’s drooping rabbit ears slowly lifted, trying to eavesdrop on some information.
But—
“Pat!”
His ears were pressed down, flat against his head, unable to stand up.
Bai Xuci: “??”
He tried to shake his ears, but after struggling for a long time, they still couldn’t stand up.
He raised his rabbit head and felt speechless.
“Lord…”
“Are you all still not leaving? Do I need to ask again?” The demon’s tone wasn’t pleasant, and there was a hint of irritation, his eyelids too lazy to lift.
Silence fell below, then quickly returned to normal.
Bai Xuci turned his head and saw that there wasn’t a single demon left in the hall.
Their efficiency was really high, he thought to himself.
“You’re very interested in the Qingyun Sect’s affairs?” Fan Yue questioned, his posture relaxed.
He pinched the two rabbit ears, as if treating them as interesting objects, playing with them.
Bai Xuci’s heart skipped a beat. He wondered if he wasn’t supposed to be listening.
He twisted his body, tilting his rabbit head slightly, wanting to speak.
But Fan Yue’s expression suddenly changed, with a hint of a smile, and Bai Xuci felt his head yanked back, his front legs lifting, making his entire rabbit body unsteady.
“…”
The other party had folded his ears behind him.
So from the front, Bai Xuci only had a bare rabbit head, his two large ears gone.
“Like this, it’s not bad,” he commented objectively.
Bai Xuci really wanted to retort. Not bad my foot, quickly release his ears!
It was so uncomfortable.
He could now truly understand the online phrase, “Mom, my hair is tied too tight,” this was the second time.
Was this demon trying to pull out his scalp as well?
As the saying goes, enough is enough.
Bai Xuci struggled vigorously and finally freed his two large ears, then comfortably shook them.
Then.
He used his magical power to retract his ears.
As you wish.
Fan Yue: “…”
He certainly held a grudge.
Bai Xuci, now an earless little rabbit, sat squarely on the demon’s lap, staring wide-eyed.
“Show them.” A cold voice commanded.
“But Lord, you said…” Bai Xuci’s voice was initially high but gradually lowered, “…this is also pretty good…”
What was the point?
Looking down on earless little rabbits?
He silently retracted his rabbit legs, then with a “bang,” his ears reappeared.
They were merely pressed flat against his head like airplane ears.
Inner chamber—
“Why are you so interested in the Qingyun Sect?” Fan Yue repeated the question.
He put the rabbit on a nearby table, next to a candle whose flame flickered constantly.
Bai Xuci: “…”
Was this an attempt to silence him? Why was it so gloomy here!
“Curiosity,” he answered honestly.
He silently curled his rabbit legs, like a small cat.
He lay neatly on the table.
“…”
Fan Yue lightly frowned, especially seeing the two ears still pressed against the rabbit’s head.
His ruby-like eyes looked nervously at the nearby teacup.
After a while.
He glanced in this direction…
Then quickly withdrew his gaze, and his two ears became even more diligent.
Firmly pressed against the back of his head.
When Bai Xuci returned, he had intended to transform, but he was immediately picked up by the demon.
And he had also tried.
He couldn’t transform.
The other party wouldn’t let him.
(Image: A sad rabbit)
Just then, Bai Xuci suddenly saw the demon approaching and was startled, wanting to jump back.
But his rabbit legs were grabbed, and he couldn’t run away.
He was flattened on the table.
He became a rabbit pancake.
“Why is this so?” Fan Yue leaned over to look, his tone genuinely puzzled.
He moved the two ears, trying to make them stand up.
But as soon as he straightened them, they automatically pressed against the rabbit’s head, remaining airplane ears, as if they had their own consciousness.
“…”
Bai Xuci initially didn’t realize what the other party meant until he saw their gaze.
Fixed on his head.
Oh, could it be?
His ears quietly flipped, showing a small edge, testing.
The demon’s drooping eyes changed slightly.
His ears tried again, both slightly raised, probing once more.
The demon’s eyebrows relaxed.
Bai Xuci directly stood his ears up, proudly shaking them.
With a proud air.
See? My ears are the best ears in the world!!
Self-satisfied.
But his pride didn’t last long, his ears drooped again.
He felt a little guilty.
Because the great demon was looking at him with an ambiguous expression…
“Very interested in the Qingyun Sect? Or do you want to leave Linshan?” The tone was slow, but it exerted invisible pressure.
Bai Xuci’s heart skipped a beat. Had he been that obvious?
He did want to leave Linshan, but he had to wait for the protagonist, the Dragon-Aura Protagonist, to grow up!
Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to escape.
Although the demon world was free and easy, there were still some guards.
For a weak little demon like him, leaving the mountain would be subject to questioning.
Bai Xuci knew his magical power was barely enough to transform, so he didn’t dare to clash head-on.
At most, he would climb to the top of the mountain for some fresh air or go to the foot of the mountain to visit Lin’s family.
Then—
Patiently wait for the protagonist to come and attack the great demon.
So he could slip away.
“How could that be?” Bai Xuci replied righteously.
With an air of wanting to clear his suspicion.
“Our demon world and the Qingyun Sect are sworn enemies. As a member of Linshan, how could I be a traitor!” Fearing the other party wouldn’t believe him, he added a few more lines.
Fan Yue just stared at the rabbit on the table without much emotional fluctuation.
“Good.”
The rabbit’s ears twitched slightly, as if listening intently, then, realizing he was finished speaking, put his ears back in place.
Very useful.
Bai Xuci breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the great demon wouldn’t bother with a little demon like him.
The other party was the final boss of the entire story, how could he possibly care about him…
Suddenly, a sharp pain pierced through, interrupting his thoughts.
“No, L-Lord?”
A glowing mark, with intricate patterns, appeared on his rabbit leg.
Bai Xuci looked down and felt that life had lost all hope.
His ears drooped…
It was clearly a—
“Lingyan Contract, unbreakable. You just spoke so loyally; you must be able to pass such a small test,” Fan Yue said leisurely, but his gaze remained fixed on the white lump on the table.
Bai Xuci: “…”
He sighed inwardly, silently stretching his rabbit leg forward to look.
Inner OS: I never expected that after being a good student for so many years, I would end up with a cool tattoo.
Fan Yue’s golden pupils flickered slightly, his brows furrowed, seeming puzzled.
Bai Xuci was completely disheartened, feeling that his plan to escape Linshan was far from reach.
The Lingyan Contract was somewhat like a word-becomes-flesh contract.
As long as the conversation between two people contains a promise, and the other party responds, the conditions for forming this contract are met.
At this time, as long as the promisee is willing, they can enter into the contract.
Thus leading to the completion of this verbal transaction.
In fact, Bai Xuci had been very indignant when reading the story, because this contract was simply buggy.
Whether it takes effect or not depends entirely on the cultivator’s level.
In other words, it’s biased.
For those with high cultivation, the contract is difficult to break; but for those with low cultivation, the Lingyan Contract serves only as decoration.
Bai Xuci silently raised his rabbit head and looked at the great demon.
They looked at each other for a few seconds.
Then sadly lowered his head.
With such a gap in cultivation, he was afraid he would never be able to leave Linshan.
“Lord, can I go now? I haven’t harvested my carrots yet…” His rabbit ears drooped, looking listless.
This wasn’t a lie. In the years before becoming a demon, when he couldn’t transform, he would just eat some roadside weeds.
After meeting Lin’s family, he got some carrot seeds.
He wanted to be self-sufficient.
But he hadn’t checked on them for a long time.
They were probably all stolen.
Fan Yue’s expression suddenly became unpleasant, and finally he asked:
“You’re a demon, and you don’t know how to abstain from food?”
Bai Xuci was instantly startled.
How could he say that so rudely!
Then… you great demons hold banquets, so why can’t he eat carrots?
The demon world was indeed strange. They imitated human beings in terms of diet and etiquette, yet they looked down on grains and other food.
They only ate occasionally, mainly to replenish their spiritual energy.
Because Linshan was a spiritual mountain, everything that grew in this land was of great help to cultivation.
So demons would also eat spiritual herbs and fruits as a supplementary effect.
But after the demon’s awakening, these phenomena had become rare because spiritual energy had reached a new peak.
Cultivation had become mainstream.
The banquet a few days ago was purely to imitate the human world, seeking some fun.
Simply put, food supplements are inferior to self-cultivation.
But Bai Xuci was originally a rabbit, and his transformation was accidental. He didn’t know how to cultivate.
So he did what he wanted and still ate carrots.
“I…” Bai Xuci didn’t know how to explain, so he could only mumble in retort, “But the carrots on Linshan also have spiritual energy; they are spiritual carrots.”
Feeling tired, he stretched his rabbit legs and lay on the table, sadly looking at his Lingyan Contract.
He started to feel gloomy.
Inner OS: I wonder if this thing can be removed, but it’s quite pretty? Alas… I wonder how many carrots are left…
Fan Yue looked down at Bai Xuci, his expression indescribable.
But he still said:
“You can go back today.”
The gloomy little rabbit on the table was instantly excited, wanting to stand up, but perhaps because the wooden surface was too slippery.
His four rabbit legs began to fight each other.
Finally, he tumbled head over heels.
Falling into the great demon’s arms.
“…”