235: Chapter 235 Uncle Yun...you summoned those demons, didn't you...?

Back to the present.

The cat demon wearing a ghost mask looked at the girl blocking her path, her pupils shrinking to pinpricks.

Her Innate Talent, 'Shadow Assault', was never meant to be countered in close quarters. Once she was grabbed, her stealth was completely useless, and the other party was holding her weakness tightly.

Wait... what did she just say about attacking the Saintess... This white hair, these golden eyes, and this terrifying Demonic Power... No, shouldn't she still be at Longxiang Academy? How could she possibly be here...

But before she could think for too long, a force she couldn't resist suddenly came from her claws, almost instantly bending them slowly. She could even feel her bones creaking under the unbearable pressure.

Looking at her Demonic Power, isn't she only at the fourth rank... How can she be so strong...

The intense pain in her hand already made her unable to speak. Although as a cat demon she didn't possess great strength, she was a fifth-rank demon, so how could she be so ruthlessly suppressed by a fourth-rank?

"Yo, as expected of a fifth-rank, your body is quite tough; it didn't even break..."

Xing Yaoyan said with a smile, instantly increasing the force.

"Meow!"

Just as her arm was about to be violently snapped, the cat demon felt the immense force on her hand suddenly loosen. Without thinking, she quickly activated her Innate Talent and instantly appeared beside the Sea Demon further away.

She clutched her nearly ruined arm, sweat dripping continuously from beneath her ghost mask.

She looked up and was quickly shocked by the scene before her again.

The White-haired girl was crossing her seemingly delicate arms, steadily blocking the Lion Demon's fist, which contained a destructive Aura.

The walls on both sides had already cracked from the shockwave of that fist, showing just how powerful it was.

Yet even so, she caught it steadily.

"Not using your Innate Talent? Are you afraid of exposing yourself..."

The corners of Xing Yaoyan's mouth curled up slightly, her eyes staring fixedly at the devil mask on the massive figure before her, as if trying to see through the mask directly to the demon behind it.

Although she sounded dismissive, Xing Yaoyan still felt a lingering fear in her heart. Fortunately, when the Lion Demon attacked, she had used her spirit eyes to see the invisible line of weakness, allowing her to barely catch his attack steadily.

Sure enough, compared to a fifth-rank of the royal family, her current strength was still a bit lacking...

But this was also assuming she didn't fully unleash her strength. If she used her Power Of Will and activated her 'Angel' mode, the outcome would be uncertain...

The Lion Demon's strike seemed purely intended to help the cat demon out of a predicament, so he didn't stay in a stalemate with the White-haired girl for too long.

He didn't respond to the girl's taunt either. Instead, he exerted force suddenly and, taking advantage of the moment she deflected the force, quickly retreated to his companion's side.

"We're retreating."

His words were brief because he knew that when his companion failed, their mission for this time had failed. They couldn't afford to drag it out, because the humans would be here soon.

With the Sea Demon's hallucinogenic singing as cover, the Lion Demon took a small bottle from his clothes and threw it down.

The familiar stench, accompanied by a mist that blocked perception, instantly enveloped the three demons.

"Don't run!"

Xing Yaoyan shouted, the red Demonic Power on her body instantly boiling. She transformed into a streak of red light and charged straight into the mist...

"Qian Mo, aren't you going to help?"

Inside the private room, Yun Sheng looked at the young man who was already sitting in a chair drinking tea and asked.

"It's fine, the other party doesn't dare to keep fighting now, Xiao Yan will be fine." Qian Mo wasn't worried at all.

"I know, but they are going to run, and the Security Bureau's people will be here soon..."

"There's nothing we can do about that; that mist has the effect of isolating spiritual perception, and I have no way to deal with it either."

However, what Qian Mo didn't say was that when Xing Yaoyan went out, she specifically told him not to interfere. He knew the reason just by thinking about it; she clearly didn't want these few demons to fall into the hands of the Security Bureau alive.

As a good boyfriend who is considerate of his girlfriend, he certainly wouldn't interfere.

Sure enough, the White-haired girl who had entered the mist so aggressively suddenly stopped, and the red Demonic Power on her body dimmed significantly.

"Sigh... can't catch up..."

After complaining with some regret, she waved her hand with some disdain.

Hu Wang is really good at inventing things; this item is too useful. Even with my current Four Marks perception, I can't penetrate this mist...

That's right, this familiar item was clearly invented by Hu Wang back then—the 'Soul-Bewildering Mist', essential for home travel, murder and looting, and escaping.

To be honest, Xing Yaoyan always felt that this stench was the twisted hobby of that old fox, Hu Wang, but she never had any evidence...

"Right! I almost forgot, hasn't that old fox been owing me a star crystal! He promised to give it to me when I helped him retrieve the memory crystal."

Xing Yaoyan clapped her hands suddenly.

Being able to advance to the fourth rank was because the massive energy of the star marrow replaced the star crystal, but she would still have to rely on this stuff to advance in the future. And star crystals were priceless on the market; let alone buying them, she hadn't even seen them a few times in the Dark Pavilion...

The mist was finally about to dissipate, so Xing Yaoyan tidied her clothes and walked out, pretending that she had just been fighting very hard.

"Sigh... what a pity, they ran too fast..."

"As long as you are safe."

Qian Mo walked over and naturally wrapped his large hands around hers.

In a corner that Xing Yaoyan didn't notice, a few inconspicuous black spiritual power threads quickly retracted into the young man's body.

Xing Yaoyan could feel his intense concern. However, the meaningful smile on his face always made her feel like she had been seen through.

This guy definitely knows I was slacking off on purpose, he definitely knows...

Although she had some small emotions in her heart, Xing Yaoyan still smiled and nodded at him, indicating that she was fine.

This time she didn't struggle to pull her hand away. The look in her eyes as she watched him also added a few hints of ambiguous tenderness inadvertently.

She knew that Qian Mo could actually have achieved the same result as her just now on his own, but he still chose to unconditionally agree to her request and not interfere. However, she could also feel that he had actually been focusing his attention on her the whole time, just waiting to quickly help if she was in real danger.

This feeling of mutual understanding was something she had only ever felt with him...

"It's really nice, the feeling of having you behind me is really nice..." Xing Yaoyan's smile became even sweeter.

Behind them, Yun Sheng looked at the two people clinging to each other with a gratified expression. The figures of his old friends Qian Yu and Li Ling seemed to be slowly overlapping with the two people before him...

The matter came to an end, and the people from the Security Bureau arrived quickly.

The diners downstairs heard such a big commotion and only then realized that such a major event had just happened on the second floor, separated from them by only a wall.

Those few demons who attempted the assassination were not caught later.

Because of the sensitivity of Yun Sheng's identity, and because it was an attack by the Yao Race, reporting it would easily damage the hard-won alliance between humans and demons, so this matter was quickly suppressed by the people from the Security Bureau.

But this matter would serve as an excuse for the Human Alliance to pressure the Yao Race, and they could still obtain some benefits from the Kingdom of Myriad Demons...

...

Outside a room in the Security Bureau, Qian Mo and Yun Sheng sat together.

Qian Mo was waiting for the girl inside to come out, while Yun Sheng had forcibly secured ten minutes of private conversation time under the guise of not having seen his nephew for a long time.

This was the Security Bureau, so the higher-ups weren't worried about anything happening to him.

The two sat side by side, not speaking for a long time.

After a long while, Qian Mo took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes.

Then, a Voice Transmission also sounded in Yun Sheng's heart:

"Uncle Yun... those demons were called by you, right..."