Night Demon

"Whimper... give it to me... give it to me... whimper..."

Whimper my ass!

I'll beat you to death, you damn whining monster!

You're actually trying to steal my umbrella?

Lu Yibai gave a fierce tug and pulled Lion Umbrella out of the woman's hands.

His strength had increased by about ten percent compared to before. An ordinary woman was certainly no match for him.

Give you shit! This umbrella is bar property, okay?

The fullness in the woman's hands vanished, leaving her feeling strangely empty.

The next moment, she opened her eyes.

Her gaze was filled with desire.

Lu Yibai sharply noticed that her pupils were brown, unlike the black eyes of ordinary people.

He had no idea whether she was wearing colored contacts or had been born that way.

These days, plenty of young women liked wearing strangely colored contacts.

Her cheeks were still flushed, and the scent of alcohol had not completely faded from her body, but her eyes made it clear that she was actually very sober.

Seeing Lu Yibai fully dressed, she looked a little dazed.

That fast? He got dressed again already?

Remembering the warmth in her palm just now, she became even more intoxicated.

"Handsome boy, you're quite good-looking," she said, pretending to be shy.

In her eyes, younger men should be easy prey for this sort of act.

"Mm, I know," Lu Yibai replied blandly.

The woman: "..."

Damn it, how was she supposed to follow that up!?

Looking at Lu Yibai's dead-fish eyes, she could sense from those lifeless eyes that this man seemed to have no interest in her whatsoever.

Most strangely, he had been holding a large black umbrella the entire time, never letting go.

What, was he afraid she'd steal his umbrella?

As if she wanted it!

More importantly, how could this man possibly not be interested in her?

There was no reason for it!

She had spent more than an hour getting dressed up in front of the mirror today!

Her cosmetics were expensive, okay?

"Take it off," Lu Yibai said flatly.

"Huh??" The woman froze.

So sudden?

"Will you do it yourself, or should I?" Lu Yibai asked with interest.

The woman gave a sweet smile. "I'll do it myself."

As she spoke, she blinked her brown eyes and said playfully, "Big brother, don't move. Your little sister is fully automatic."

"It'll be the same later too~"

Lu Yibai's mouth twitched. He could not be bothered to respond to her.

This woman was really putting on quite a performance...

She gently swayed her waist, struck an attractive pose, and then... removed the first piece.

"Continue," Lu Yibai said, sitting on the sofa.

The second piece...

"Continue."

The woman gritted her teeth. These underwear cost a fortune, and you won't even take a few extra looks?

Victoria's Secret, okay? A major brand! Very expensive!

Don't you want to try the feel? The fabric is excellent!

But after glancing at Lu Yibai's listless dead-fish eyes, she could only grit her teeth and continue.

At last, with no clothing left to conceal her, the world became pristine. Everywhere he looked was a vast expanse of white.

Staring at that vast expanse of white before him, Lu Yibai was slightly stunned.

Why was it a vast expanse of white?

But he still held the big black umbrella in one hand, using it like a cane as he planted it on the ground and said:

"Continue."

The woman froze slightly. "Hey, don't joke around. The girl's already like this—how can we continue?"

"I said, continue!"

The woman's expression hardened, and her body stiffened slightly.

If she continued now, she could only...

—shed her skin!

Lu Yibai knew very well that she was not human.

"Y-you... you..."

The woman was clearly panicking.

How was that possible? How had he seen through her? This "layer of skin" was supposed to be flawless!

I didn't sense the aura of those people on him.

He couldn't possibly be a Night Watchman!

If Lu Yibai had known what the woman was thinking, he probably would have looked up at the sky in speechless exasperation.

So what if I'm a little weak for now?

So what if I'm from the Trash Protagonist School?

As Lin Xiaoqi put it: "This whole area is under my protection, got it?"

The woman quickly regained her composure. It did not matter how this man had seen through her.

"You shouldn't meddle in other people's business. You're just an ordinary person."

Lu Yibai immediately replied, "I'm not!"

Me and my last shred of stubbornness...

He gripped the Lion Umbrella tightly and urged her, "Hurry up. You said you were fully automatic. Run your business with integrity."

Woman: "..."

To be honest, Lu Yibai was only an apprentice Night Watchman. He was currently just a little stronger than an ordinary person, and only by a limited amount. He really was not suited to "meddling in other people's business" yet.

But the woman before him was different.

After cramming all that knowledge recently, coupled with his earlier observations, Lu Yibai had already determined that the woman before him was, more precisely, a Night Demon.

Night Demons were a very strange kind of demon.

They were somewhat similar to the succubi familiar to Westerners.

The difference was that Night Demons could only move about at night. They could not stand sunlight, truly living only for Nightlife.

They really did die upon exposure to light!

However, they were also creatures whose physical structure was extremely close to that of humans.

What would happen if a person never got sunlight?

Anyone with a bit of common sense knew that if humans went without sunlight for a long time, the consequences would be severe.

Night Demons were the same.

The difference was that Night Demons could solve this problem through other means.

That was by absorbing yang energy.

With that, everything made sense.

As for why she had pretended to be a "corpse" outside the bar instead of directly going out to "hook up," that was probably just a matter of personal preference.

According to Lin Xiaoqi, Night Demons like her were at the bottom of the demon hierarchy. Their abilities were extremely weak, and they possessed virtually no combat ability. The one thing they were relatively good at was... that sort of thing.

And this race was especially skilled at "changing outfits."

Not just their clothes, but their appearance as well.

They could use certain special methods to complete an "outfit change."

For example, when Lu Yibai had stood so close to her earlier, he had not seen a single blood vessel beneath her skin.

That was highly unusual.

There was only one explanation: she was actually wearing another layer of clothing.

—A layer of skin!

Other than that, Night Demons had nothing particularly special about them. Their combat strength was extremely low.

In Lin Xiaoqi's words: "Boss, even as weak as you are right now, you could take one down with one hand."

That was also why Lu Yibai was so fearless.

The Night Demon before him reached toward her back, looking as though she was about to shed her skin. Lu Yibai watched with great interest, treating it like a magic show.

However, his right hand gripping the Lion Umbrella remained on guard at all times.

Sure enough, she seemed to think Lu Yibai had been drawn in by her movements. She wanted to give him a quick shove, then rush out the door.

Unfortunately, she did not even manage to touch Lu Yibai.

Whoosh—!

Lu Yibai directly opened the Lion Umbrella.

With a light spread of its pitch-black canopy, it blocked her.

Lu Yibai clearly saw the carved lion head on the umbrella's handle flicker faintly.

The few tiny light motes generated within his body through cultivation were absorbed by the Lion Umbrella.

Meanwhile, the tip of the umbrella struck the Night Demon in the small of her back.

A massive surge of yang energy poured into her body.

She could not run away.

Her legs went limp.

Second update. There's a cover now, and the character on it is Ji Dekeng.