Chapter 54: The Demon Realm – Spring Water

Tu You only wanted to indulge in the intoxicating fragrance, not caring about anything else.

Sang Chu fell into deep thought. This scent seemed to have the power to control one’s mind, making people drowsy and completely defenseless.

Sang Chu didn’t know if there were any side effects to the scent, so she picked Tu You up. He was sleeping soundly, smacking his lips in sweetness, even drooling…

Unable to hold back, she slapped him: “Wake up!!!”

“Huh? What is it? You’re so annoying. I just want to sleep!”

“Tu You, if you don’t wake up, believe it or not, I’ll strip all your fur off and you’ll really be a naked rabbit!”

Tu You’s watery eyes instantly widened in anger, glaring at Sang Chu, his ears pressed furiously against his round belly: “You wouldn’t dare!”

He was fine, so Sang Chu let out a sigh of relief: “Alright, you’re fine. Don’t lean on me anymore. Let’s go and see what’s up ahead.”

Tu You snapped back to his senses as well. He glanced nervously at the little flower on Sang Chu’s body, but didn’t say anything, as if he had already made up his mind.

He hopped onto Sang Chu, and the girl and the rabbit walked deeper into the woods together.

“Chirp chirp—”

“Hiss~”

Strange sounds came from somewhere, but when Sang Chu looked around, she saw nothing.

When they reached the edge of a cliff, she discovered that only the head was intact; beneath the clothes, all that was left was a skeleton.

Tu You said, “Should I bury him?”

“Yeah.”

Since they had taken his Heavenly Order, they should at least bury him, so he wouldn’t be left exposed.

With that in mind, she used vines to make a simple shovel and started digging a grave by the cliff.

【Why are those two little ones carrying a corpse?】

【They look like wood tribe kids, but why would wood tribe kids be here?】

【Yeah, it’s so strange!】

【Why don’t you go check it out?】

【You go! You go!】

【I’m not going. If you want to, go yourself!】

When Sang Chu and Tu You heard these voices, they instinctively looked around. Sang Chu asked, 【Can they see you?】

Tu You replied, 【It’s fine. I’m hiding now that I know we’re in the demon realm.】

Sang Chu nodded and said no more. She focused on burying the body. After she finished, she stood up and sighed, “Hey, rabbit, how did I forget the way home? It’s a shame—I found so many good things.”

Tu You was stunned for a moment, then immediately retorted, “Don’t look at me! I don’t know where your home is either. You’re the one who made me wander that bright road for so long, tricking me into thinking you were from some big family. I think you just wanted to trick me. Just give me back my spirit jade and let’s go our separate ways!”

“I just forgot, okay? Besides, would I really keep your spirit jade? Here, take it, you stupid rabbit!”

With that, she took out a spirit jade the size of a fingernail and tossed it to Tu You. He deftly pretended to eat it, then quickly stored it in his belly.

Just then, Sang Chu felt something tugging at her clothes.

Looking down—

Whoa, it was a withered butterfly!

“I know the way to the demon realm.”

The withered butterfly’s voice was soft and sticky, like a little child.

Sang Chu: “Really?”

“Mhm, I know the way. As long as… as long as you give me a piece of spirit jade when we get there.”

“I only want one piece!”

An ice butterfly fluttered beside them, chiming in.

The withered butterfly tugged at Sang Chu’s hem: “I—I’ll lead the way first.”

Ice Butterfly: “But I’m cheaper!”

This was Sang Chu’s first time negotiating with demons. She instinctively ignored Tu You and said, “Stop arguing. I can give you a piece of spirit jade, but you have to tell me—who is that person? Why did he appear here? And what is this place?”

Since she was pretending to be lost, she might as well keep up the act and see what these little demons were up to.

Withered Butterfly said, “He’s a demon hunter. He came here after taking a bounty, but he…”

She seemed hesitant, stammering. Ice Butterfly couldn’t help but blurt out, “He entered Peach Demon’s territory ahead, ate a peach, and died.”

Sang Chu looked in the direction Ice Butterfly pointed. That was the road she and Tu You had taken before—it used to be a wide path, but now, looking back, there was nothing there, just dense woods.

“That’s Peach Demon’s territory?”

Ice Butterfly: “Yep. Peach Demon is a powerful demon. Butterfly Valley is under her watch. Anyone who enters gets bewitched and can never leave—they’re trapped until they die. You were trapped too.”

Withered Butterfly: “Yeah, you were just walking in circles like a fool!”

Ice Butterfly: “If that big rabbit hadn’t seen the body, and you weren’t a wood tribe demon, Peach Demon wouldn’t have let you in either.”

Sang Chu was stunned. She hadn’t even realized she’d been walking in circles!

How foolish!

But this made her think of the base—if the base had something like Peach Demon, wouldn’t it have the same effect?

“Can you take me to see Peach Demon?”

Withered Butterfly climbed onto Sang Chu’s clothes: “To get to the demon realm, you have to pass through Peach Demon’s woods. I don’t know if she’ll let you through, but I can go ahead and check.”

Ice Butterfly: “Let’s go, let’s go!”

Ice Butterfly fluttered energetically ahead to lead the way.

Suddenly,

Sang Chu seemed to hear the sound of a mountain spring, tinkling and bubbling.

“There’s a spring here?”

Ice Butterfly replied nonchalantly, “Of course! There are lots of spirit springs in Butterfly Valley, big and small. I don’t know what you’re so surprised about!”

Tu You, who had been silent, suddenly shouted at Sang Chu in her mind: 【Ah Chu, hurry and buy some spirit spring water from them! Hurry!!!】

【What’s wrong?】

Tu You: 【That spirit spring water is super valuable in the demon realm! I never thought you’d look down on it before—hurry and buy some!】

Sang Chu understood and quickly asked, “Ice Butterfly, does the spirit spring water here belong to anyone? Can I buy some from you?”

Ice Butterfly stopped in confusion and looked back at Sang Chu, thinking she was acting weird: “Why do you want to buy spirit spring water?”

Sang Chu smiled, “I don’t know either. I just want to have some on me. I can pay with spirit jade, is that okay?”

Withered Butterfly: “Oh, I get it! Are you going to the Immortal Cultivation Academy?”

Immortal Cultivation Academy?

Sang Chu was confused: “I… I don’t know. It just feels like this is my home, so I wandered here in a daze. But after I got here, I don’t know where to go!”

Withered Butterfly: “You’re so pitiful. The little demons in our demon realm say that lately, lots of big clans are sending their kids out to study. You must be one of them. I heard people in the cultivation world really like our spirit spring water.”

Ice Butterfly: “Pfft, isn’t that just everyone’s bathwater? What’s so good about it!”

Withered Butterfly: “No idea, that’s just what the grown-ups say.”

Sang Chu: “Bathwater?”"

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**Chapter 55: The Demon Realm - ""Earth""**