Close the Door and Unleash the Demoness

Chapter 29 - Unleash the Demoness!

As soon as he opened the door and was about to go inside, Li Bai heard a muffled thud. He then saw the Green Flood Dragon, only about a foot long, coiled guiltily on the closed laptop.

"This servant welcomes Young Master home!"

The Demoness actually had the audacity to say that.

"If you want to play, why sneak around?"

Like catching a naughty child who secretly watched TV instead of doing homework, Great Demon Li unceremoniously pried open the laptop. The screen lit up, and after logging in, it displayed a full-screen Minesweeper game. The Demoness had already cleared nearly ninety percent of the mines.

The Wi-Fi password had been changed, so Qingyao the Demoness, forcibly disconnected from the internet, could only play single-player games.

"I'm so bored, this servant wants to go online!"

Having become a seasoned netizen in just one day, the Demoness's internet addiction was insatiable, and she clearly had little interest in cultivation.

"How many hours did you cultivate today?"

Li Bai didn't indulge this freeloader. Playing on the computer was fine, watching TV was fine, but the internet was off-limits.

"This servant will fight you!"

The Demoness, furious, leaped at him.

Li Bai, who was about to wash rice for dinner, casually caught the Flood Dragon's body and shoved it under the faucet, giving her a good rinse to clear her head.

Then he tossed her into a pot, added water, and turned on the gas, directly stewing her.

Although the Glazed Heart only remained within a three-foot radius, it was enough to deal with the Demoness's sneak attack.

"You must cultivate for no less than two hours every day, or you'll be braised, stir-fried, and stewed, one after another."

Under the intense blue-green gas flame, the soup pot quickly heated up. The Demoness tried to escape but was pushed back by Li Bai's finger. It seemed tonight's dish of boiled Green Flood Dragon was unavoidable.

Even keeping a cat or dog at home required rules to prevent them from making messes everywhere. How could Li Bai, who kept a demon, not impose some discipline? Otherwise, wouldn't she become completely lawless?

Unlike Hong Li, the little Demoness raised at home, who was docile and obedient, Qingyao, this wild Demoness, was always untamed.

Dean Zhou's long leave was perfectly timed. He could cultivate and recover his cultivation while also teaching this Demoness not to cause irreparable trouble in this world.

Which is more powerful, the Demon King or a nuclear weapon? She should weigh it herself!

If the world knew there was a Demon King Green Flood Dragon from another world, being captured and subjected to electric shocks, bloodletting, and forced ingestion of various concoctions would be the least of her worries.

Next to a high-precision slicer capable of cutting a human body into 5,000 to 10,000 slices, there would surely be many hot pots.

White broth, red broth, spicy, numbing, sour and spicy – with the appetites of foodies, they probably wouldn't miss the chance to taste what Flood Dragon meat was like.

Why hot pot? Sichuan's medical field is highly developed, ranking among the top in the country. There's a saying: if even Sichuan's Huaxi Hospital can't cure it, don't bother sending it anywhere else in the country.

The Demoness was stewed by classmate Li Bai for a good half hour. In the end, she simply squinted, with only her head floating on the water, stubbornly refusing to come out of the pot.

In ancient times, hot springs were called "tang" (soup). What was being cooked on the gas stove now was not just a pot of soup, but Green Flood Dragon soup.

After preparing dinner, Li Bai finally fished the Green Flood Dragon, whose bones were now soft from being stewed, out of the pot. Clearly, the Demoness was enjoying the stew so much that she didn't even want to move.

"Look at this!"

Li Bai placed the bracelet he had obtained from the Dong family's young lady in front of Qingyao and began serving himself.

Dinner consisted of three dishes and one soup: braised pork, deep-fried small yellow croakers, stir-fried pork with celery, and a tomato and egg drop soup. Though not extravagant, it was full of color, aroma, and taste.

"This is..."

The rice spoon, which had been wrapped around her tail, fell onto the dining table with a clatter. The Demoness's entire attention was focused on the string of pearls that emitted a soft, moonlit glow under the light.

She felt the Moonlight Essence contained within each bead, identical to the trace of aura within the cold moonlight of another world, and even purer.

"These beads are made of Moonstone. See if you can use them."

After leaving the Dong family, Li Bai recalled an important piece of information.

This Moonstone bracelet wasn't expensive, meaning the output of Moonstone in this world was very large, enough to support the Demoness's recovery of cultivation and even allow her to advance further.

"I should, I should be able to use it!"

Although she had neglected cultivation recently, Qingyao the Demoness knew that the cultivation resources within the Storage Dragon Scale were dwindling. Unless she entered a long period of hibernation and rarely used her demonic arts, she could only maintain her current cultivation for a longer time.

Even so, in the predicament of lacking cultivation resources, her cultivation would still gradually degenerate until she reverted to a beast with clouded intellect, unable to withstand the erosion of time, and finally turn into a pile of dry bones.

For any demon race that was fortunate enough to gain sentience, this was a torment more cruel than death.

The higher one's cultivation, the more one knew how hard-won it was.

However, the bracelet beads that suddenly appeared before her gave the Demoness a glimmer of hope.

"Where did this come from?"

In her excitement, the Demoness's bracelet suddenly made a crackling sound, and the thin thread stringing the 24 beads snapped unexpectedly. Before the Moonstone beads could scatter around the room, the green Flood Dragon body twisted nimbly, blocking all the round beads and encircling them in the center of her coiled body. Not a single one escaped.

She didn't even bother with her dinner, opening her mouth and gently sucking at the beads. Wisps of a deep blue glow, like moonlight, rose up, like mist or clouds, and were quickly absorbed.

The Moonstone beads, having absorbed the Moonlight Essence, became much more opaque, losing their original deep blue glow.

The Green Flood Dragon lowered its head, its green scales shimmering with an unusual light, its demonic aura faintly fluctuating. It was clearly refining the essence of moonlight it had just absorbed.

Li Bai quietly took out a jade talisman from his Storage Ring, infused it with a wisp of Spiritual Qi, and the runes immediately lit up, enveloping the fluctuations of the aura emanating from the Flood Dragon's body, preventing even a trace from leaking out.

Although the rules of this world made cultivation difficult, Li Bai couldn't guarantee that no extraordinary individuals would notice the Demoness's abnormal movements during her cultivation.

It wasn't until Li Bai finished his own dinner that the shimmering light on the Demoness finally stopped flowing, re-entering her emerald flood dragon scales.

It took her more than half an hour to refine the concentrated Moonlight Essence contained within over twenty moonstone beads, each the size of a soybean, before it could be converted into her own demonic energy.

Her stagnant cultivation finally showed a slight loosening, recovering just a trace.

In another world, this degree of recovery would be completely insignificant, but under the current conditions and environment, it was an incredibly valuable unexpected gain.

"Young Master, Young Master, this servant still wants more, more!"

The Green Flood Dragon coiled on the dining table finally pounced on Li Bai, who was washing dishes, wrapping its body around his neck. It looked insatiable, acting spoiled while attempting to kiss his neck, though its highly poisonous fangs were chillingly terrifying.

Li Bai pulled the Green Flood Dragon off his neck and threw it onto the stove. He pointed at the pots, bowls, and plates submerged in thick dish soap foam and said, "There's only this much, no more. Your performance from now on will determine if you get anything. Otherwise, all household chores like washing dishes, cleaning, and tidying up will be yours. Come on, get to work!"

Confucius said: Only Demonesses and petty people are difficult to raise.

Therefore, he absolutely couldn't spoil her. Li Bai put on his airs as a Young Master.

The Demoness gazed resentfully at the pool of foam. Was this a case of walking into a trap?

The moonstones containing Moonlight Essence weren't cheap. At the rate the Demoness was consuming them, it was undoubtedly an extravagant expense that ordinary people absolutely couldn't afford.

The washing basin started to make loud splashing sounds again. Li Bai didn't pay attention to how the Demoness was washing the dishes with her tail. He opened his dormant laptop and logged into the "17th Floor" forum, wanting to see how those demonic cultivators from Qingliang Temple were slandering him.

As the saying goes, a barking dog doesn't bite. Qingliang Temple was clearly adept at this.

If he didn't openly appear and instead used disguised alts to spread rumors, they could remain invincible no matter what. Even if things got out of hand, they could then feign concern and say a few words to mediate, thereby gaining a reputation for being detached from worldly affairs. It had to be said that this tactic of "no move is the best move" was truly insidious.

Not everyone possessed the ability to distinguish objectively and rationally. Under such instigation and agitation, it was easy to trigger a herd mentality that blurred right and wrong. Therefore, this was undoubtedly psychological warfare.

After scanning over a dozen posts filled with blatant falsehoods, the Great Demon Li, who Great Dean Zhou had praised for his composure, finally took action.

Release the Demoness!