The Flower Of The High Mountain Turns Into A Cat And Is Picked Up By A Human Chapter 43
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“Bai!”
“Mr. Bai!”
“Bai Chendeng! It’s him!”
Yuan Zhiyi was yanked away by Deng Luo gripping the back of his shirt. His head was ravaged, his hair a bird’s nest.
“You little brat, you scared me to death! You actually snuck Mr. Bai in!”
Yuan Zhiyi looked at Bai Chendeng, who was facing off against the tiger demon, a smile spreading across his lips. He exclaimed in admiration, “This is destiny’s arrangement.”
A slap landed on the back of his head.
“Speak like a normal person.”
“The Director told me to do it…”
Bai Chendeng and the tiger demon exchanged blows several times. Unable to achieve a decisive victory quickly, they paused.
His palms were throbbing, and his fingertips were starting to go numb. Unnoticed inside his sleeve, his arm was trembling slightly.
Bai Chendeng’s heart sank slightly, knowing he was not the match for the tiger demon before him.
The others had already rushed over and surrounded Bai Chendeng.
“Mr. Bai, are you alright?”
Deng Luo even reached out directly, squeezing his arm to check, naturally sensing the subtle tremor Bai Chendeng was hiding.
He froze for a moment, then acted as if nothing was wrong, though his mind was filled with worry and concern for Bai Chendeng.
The great demon opposite them clearly exceeded the scope of an ordinary great demon, possessing strength almost at the peak level below a true Demon Immortal.
Fighting such an existence, even if Bai Chendeng’s strength was exceptional, the innate disadvantage was clear: a cat and a tiger could not be compared in every aspect.
Bai Chendeng pulled his arm back, dropping a single sentence: “I’m fine.”
Deng Luo twitched his mouth, unable to find any comfort in those words.
Before they left, their superiors had said that reinforcements would arrive soon and they only needed to hold on for a while.
A long time had passed. Why were the reinforcements still not here?!
Deng Luo involuntarily shifted his gaze to the dog-faced man on the altar.
Those eyes, inhabited by the eye worms, held an unfathomable darkness.
“The gas masks were meant to guard against the hypnotic gas?”
Zheng Lang let out a strange cry and dragged the collapsed man in the black suit back into the room.
The three of them woke the black-suited man, only to hear something alarming from him.
“You mean, the adults coming as reinforcements needed people to carry the sedan chair, and all the people you prepared, including the backups, were ambushed?”
Heng Yuze’s brow furrowed, a sense of dread rising in his heart.
Feng Chengji was completely flustered: “What should we do now?”
Zheng Lang sighed, looking at the scene outside that resembled a living hell, and muttered, “No wonder these Bureau personnel needed to protect us…”
Heng Yuze pursed his lips. After countless mental preparations, he said softly, “I want to go help Chendeng.”
The two stopped talking and looked at him simultaneously.
Heng Yuze explained, “Chendeng must be at the center of the battle. If I go help carry the sedan chair for that adult, I should be able to see him.”
Zheng Lang and Feng Chengji exchanged glances, murmuring, “That seems logical.”
Heng Yuze smiled sheepishly, then grew serious: “The fact that he collapsed here proves that the sedan-carrying reinforcement is not far away. I think…”
The two wrapped their arms around his shoulders, one on each side: “No need for extra words. The three of us stick together. Let’s go, together!”
The sacrifice was still ongoing. Countless people’s vital energy was being drained. At this moment, the vital energy inside the cave had reached a certain density.
Bai Chendeng and the tiger demon were locked in combat. When two of the world’s top great demons fought, the remaining humans and demons could not even approach.
In a flash, a figure slammed heavily into the wall, leaving spiderweb cracks before sliding down.
Bai Chendeng gasped, then his eyes condensed into golden-red light. His aura changed completely, shifting from the cool moonlight to the violent and scorching radiance of the sun.
The tiger demon paused: “Impossible. How can you use both powers simultaneously? You… when did you return to the Innate Realm?”
Bai Chendeng naturally wouldn’t tell him.
The tiger demon sneered: “We shouldn’t have let that yellow dog deal with you back then. Not only was it counter-killed, but it didn’t even send back a single piece of information about you.”
Blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, and Bai Chendeng wiped it away carelessly.
“It will be enough if I leave you here too. That way, no news will get out.”
“Wishful thinking!”
Before the words finished, the two demons clashed again.
On the other side, the Flower Fox’s abilities were strange. He was toying with the Bureau executives single-handedly, clearly a great demon of the same caliber as the two fighting.
The fox could have swiftly taken lives like the tiger demon, but instead chose to lead them on a merry chase.
Seeing that the vital energy gathered on the altar had already faintly formed a continuously spinning embryonic prototype, everyone grew anxious, and their actions became increasingly reckless.
“Why haven’t the reinforcements arrived yet?!”
Yuan Zhiyi replied, “Communication is down! We can’t contact them!”
The Flower Fox was in the mood to answer them: “Your human mighty one might have been stalled halfway.”
Deng Luo frowned and asked, “What?”
“The famous person on the sedan chair—we minor demons avoid him like the plague. How could we let him arrive successfully…”
The tiger demon slammed a punch toward the opposite side. Bai Chendeng blocked with both arms, dragging his feet several meters on the ground to dissipate the force before finally stopping, breathing heavily.
Yuan Zhiyi tried to help him up, but Bai Chendeng waved him away, instantly dodging another strike from the tiger demon. Shattered stones flew, faster than bullets, leaving scars on Bai Chendeng’s body.
In this scene, anyone could tell who held the advantage.
The tiger demon looked at the miserable little white cat and laughed: “I can’t spare you this time. An Innate body—I underestimated you. If you don’t die this time, the next time we meet, you might even break through to become a Demon Immortal.”
Bai Chendeng coughed up blood, splashing an eerie red flower on his chest. He said coldly, “You can try.”
His mouth was certainly tough.
“Alright, let’s see how long you can last. I’ll take your life within ten minutes.”
The tiger demon’s pupils narrowed into a single red vertical line. The ferocious aura bursting forth was enough to scare people out of their wits.
Bai Chendeng was covered in bleeding wounds. Facing the tiger demon’s undisguised killing intent, he gritted his teeth and fought back.
Yuan Zhiyi was frantic. Yet, the vital energy here was so dense that human lives were more effective than any magical artifact or treasure. Any life-saving item taken out of storage would be destroyed by the eye worms on the altar.
“Don’t…”
Seeing Bai Chendeng overwhelmed and lifted by the neck by the tiger demon, everyone felt despair.
Yuan Zhiyi clenched three small, lusterless swords and two yellow talismans, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints.
The hand gripping Bai Chendeng’s neck tightened—
“N-no!!!”
A sharp gust of wind, like a swift sword, accurately struck that hand!
A figure was revealed beneath the wind-blown sedan curtain. Dressed in dark robes with long hair, his eyes shot out brilliant light. He held a bundle of bamboo slips in his hand, his oppressive presence accurately intimidating everyone present.
The tiger demon cried out in pain and was forced to retract his hand. Bai Chendeng regained his freedom and immediately retreated, only to be supported and embraced around the waist by someone.
Bai Chendeng felt a familiar aura. He turned his head and saw it was Heng Yuze.
He was injured, and coupled with his surprise at Heng Yuze’s arrival, he didn’t immediately struggle out of the embrace.
“Why are you…”
Before he could finish, Heng Yuze took out a pill and lightly touched it to his lips.
Bai Chendeng was startled. He quickly took the pill from his lips and asked, “What is it?”
Heng Yuze held him steadily around the waist and said gently, “The person on the sedan chair gave it to me. He said it can heal your injuries.”
Bai Chendeng glanced at the person on the sedan chair. After a moment of silence, he swallowed the pill.
Heng Yuze was heartbroken, seeing the little white cat covered in wounds. He felt extreme remorse for his own helplessness.
The arrival of the person on the sedan chair instantly reversed the situation.
The tiger demon and the fox looked at him warily.
“Didn’t we already manage to incapacitate the sedan carriers?”
The Flower Fox whispered, “Brother He, those aren’t Bureau personnel…”
The tiger demon looked at the three individuals whose clothing and demeanor were completely out of place among the Bureau’s hyenas, and cursed, “Where did these bastards come from?”
The sedan carriers not only couldn’t be ordinary people, but they also couldn’t be stained with killing karma. Among the Bureau personnel, not everyone was a killer, but those who had embarked on cultivation and never killed were only a small minority in logistics. Moreover, even logistics personnel sometimes couldn’t help but kill demons…
The tiger demon looked at the human standing beside the sedan chair, radiating a murderous aura. This surging killing intent, which seemed to require the slaughter of ten thousand people, was actually innate?
Zheng Lang and Feng Chengji watched Heng Yuze directly embrace the cat. Normally, they would have teased him, but Bai Chendeng was too miserable right now. After setting down the sedan chair, they rushed over.
“Oh, Cat Immortal, this is going to break my heart…”
Feng Chengji frowned, pulling out a handful of strange plants from his bag: “Chendeng, are these useful to you?”
Bai Chendeng struggled slightly, pulling away from Heng Yuze’s embrace. He looked at the three people who kept chasing after him, intending to maintain distance. His lips parted, finally settling on: “No need, thank you.”
This appearance of forced composure, coldness, and resistance was exactly the same as when he was a white cat.
Yuan Zhiyi silently collected his spiritual power-drained treasures and jogged over to Bai Chendeng’s side.
“Mr. Bai!”
Watching the Bureau subordinates flock to check on the little white cat, the person on the sedan chair stroked his chin, enjoying the show.
He asked the only remaining executive, “The Qu Ying Branch seems to have a very harmonious relationship with demons…”
The executive answered nervously, “Reporting, sir. Mr. Bai has a cooperative relationship with the branch. He has helped us greatly. He is a good demon.”
“A good demon…?”
The person on the sedan chair laughed lightly.
Not necessarily a good demon, but certainly a very talented one.
He calculated with his fingers. The bamboo slips materialized, clustered in front of him, and then scattered, performing a divination right there.
The person on the sedan chair drew a slip. Looking at the unexpected result, he murmured, “This… this is too interesting, ha…”
This bunch of bastards from the Bureau no longer held them in high regard.
The tiger demon glared hatefully at the eye worm. He no longer resisted its action of prematurely starting the sacrifice; instead, he began to agree with it.
With the successful arrival of the person on the sedan chair, they wouldn’t even have two days before their plan was destroyed, leaving them with no ability to resist.
Where did these sedan carriers come from?!
Everything today was caused by the unexpected arrival of these few sedan carriers!
Otherwise, the person on the sedan chair would have been stranded above and never reached the underground cave!
Since things had come to this, the embryo could not be abandoned. The tiger demon gritted his teeth, took out a crystal clear fruit glowing with white light, and swallowed it in one gulp.
He instructed, “I’ll hold off the person on the sedan chair. You stop the cat demon.”
The Flower Fox looked timid, replying sluggishly, “O-okay, but I can’t beat Bai Chendeng. He counters me…”
The tiger demon rubbed his head: “You must hold him. You won’t disappoint me, will you?”
The Flower Fox nodded blankly, a hint of fear on his face: “O-okay.”