FRIVOLOUS SNOW

57|Wait

Knowing the demon's face in Yao Xue's mind, he directly went to the Central North and hoping that Yong Jie would stay in the inn and wait for him. Yao Xue has a little doubt about Yong Jie not leaving the inn knowing his attitude but he trusts Yong Jie.

Yao Xue could hear murmurs that the plague was spreading to the central this time. People were starting to panic and hide in their houses but a lot of people still walks outside. The demon could be anywhere but it would be hard to find with this number of people.

Yao Xue hasn't been in Central North yet the place was familiar to him for he had seen it in his mind when he tracked the demon and he felt that he was going the right way.

Yao Xue scanned the crowd and a familiar figure caught his eyes. A man standing in front of a stall with a lot of people wanting to buy a certain good. He didn't even hide his demonic aura. Yao Xue turned to his side and saw a noticeable man, another cultivator dressed in red robes, and Yao Xue could tell that the man knows it was the plague demon in human clothing.

The cultivator drew his sword alarming Yao Xue and the people who saw and the cultivator pointed it to the demon's back. People instantly turned to the scene and some walked away in fear of getting caught of the commotion.

Yao Xue gripped the hilt of Jinghua when the demon chuckled and turned around, looking at the cultivator who was pointing a sword at him then his eyes rolled to Yao Xue.

"You two did the same trick to find me. One, a friend and one, a lover." The demon grinned and the cultivator in red tightened his grip on his sword.

Yao Xue thought that the cultivator's lover got the plague too.

"After poisoning my sworn brother with your filth, this very cultivator will be the one to kill you." The other cultivator, Zi Xiāng, said then he only noticed the cultivator in white. Zi Xiāng was wondering who the demon was talking about the lover part. Zi Xiāng guessed it was the white cultivator's lover who got infected like his sword brother.

"Please, I am so scared." The demon said and Zi Xiāng got so pissed, thrusting his sword to the demon and the demon leaped backward.

The people who were watching started running away from the fight that was going to happen.

Yao Xue could feel the red cultivator had a stable and strong cultivation base.

"Think you can defeat me?" The demon fashed his red eyes.

"I have to." Yao Xue said and Zi Xiāng turned to Yao Xue.

It was Zi Xiāng's first time seeing the cultivator in white and he could see the need and determination to kill the demon in his eyes. The cultivator must have loved this lover of his so much.

The demon grinned. "It's because you're all getting in my way."

"What are you planning to do?" Zi Xiāng asked, furious.

"Should I tell you about my plans? It would spoil you, wouldn't it? So, I better not. Anyway, you two with your partners and everyone here wouldn't live to see it. So why bother, right?"

Zi Xiāng chuckled humorlessly. "Indeed, why bother right, the young master in white?" Zi Xiang turned to Yao Xue and Yao Xue just gave him a small nod.

"Nice talk, how about I send you both with your friend—" The demon nodded at Zi Xiāng then turned to Yao Xue "—and your lover to die like the others now." He drew his black claws and his eyes turned to complete red just like the eyes of the victims.

Yao Xue was confused about how the demon confused his relationship with Yong Jie. Though, they kissed but they weren't lovers. Or kissing means they are lovers already?

Yao Xue drew Jinghua and the demon looked at the two cultivators feeling sad thinking that they didn't even draw their spiritual weapons, meaning they looked down on him.

"I can take him down alone, young master." Zi Xiāng said to Yao Xue.

"Huh!" The demon sneered. "Without even using your spiritual weapon? What a joke. I wouldn't even mind if both of you charge at once."

Zi Xiāng attacked and the demon just easily dodged the sword as if he could read Zi Xiāng's every swing. Yao Xue attached from behind and the demon dodged both of their attacks at the same time. Zi Xiāng and Yao Xue took turns attacking the demon and the demon never showed exhaustion. Yao Xue would also dodge the demon's claws for one scratch and Yao Xue would get the plague. The demon was fast and Yao Xue never faced this kind of clever demon before.

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Yong Jie was worried sick of Yao Xue yet he fought the urge to go after him. Yong Jie promised Yao Xue not to leave and only wait for him. Yong Jie knew that Yao Xue knew how he hates to wait.

Yong Jie paced inside the room back and forth as he bit his nails and thought of something to help Yao Xue and his condition. A few hours had passed yet Yao Xue didn't come back yet and he was getting paranoid.

"Yao Xue." Yong Jie muttered as he paced. "Please don't make me break my promise. Come back. Come back." Yong Jie chanted.

Yong Jie stopped pacing and he felt strange. It was coming from his insides. Yong Jie suddenly threw up a mouthful of blood. It seems like the plague was getting worse. The plague strikes on its host's internal organs, eating everything.

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Zi Xiāng cried when the demon scored, his arm getting scratched by those claws making the demon laughed.

"You might want to act fast. I changed the pace of the plague and made it consume its host faster than before." He smiled.

Yao Xue turned to Zi Xiāng who got scratched and his eyes already turned red so fast. Yao Xue couldn't stop thinking about Yong Jie. Yao Xue didn't have enough time to play with the demon. He needed to exterminate it as fast as possible.

Yao Xue sheathed Jinghua back in its sheath and materialized Ji Jing. A white bow appearing out of nowhere with a jade tassel of angel's wings swinging below.

Zi Xiāng immediately recognized that kind of spiritual weapon. The white cultivator came from Yao Sect of Xueguo.

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