Chapter 32

By evening, after finishing his affairs, Ye Lixiao returned to the bedchamber. Xing Luo was already waiting for him.
She greeted him, “Your Highness, let me see your wounds.” Ye Lixiao lifted his injured arm, and Xing Luo rolled up his sleeve, only to find that the wound had almost healed.
Actually, a wound of this severity would have healed quickly anyway, but Ye Lixiao wanted Xing Luo to fuss over him a bit more, so he hadn’t let it heal completely.
Still, since he needed to head to the Ghost Realm as soon as possible, he had no choice but to let the wound recover.
Throughout the day, Xing Luo had been thinking about Ye Lixiao. She still couldn’t figure out why, if he truly didn’t dislike her, he had taken the Wanqucao she needed to save her life back then.
Ye Lixiao set his arm down. “My wounds are nothing serious. Tomorrow, I have business to attend to and won’t return for some time. You must stay here obediently.”
He genuinely feared that if he went to the Ghost Realm, Xing Luo might seize the chance to run off.
Xing Luo pouted playfully, “Your Highness, where are you going? Why not take me with you?”
Being by Ye Lixiao’s side was the fastest way to cultivate. In just a few days, Xing Luo was already close to breaking through to Level 21.
Ordinary cultivators might only gain a single level in a year. Being near Ye Lixiao showed just how beneficial it was for her progress.
“No.” Ye Lixiao refused firmly. The Ghost Realm was too dangerous; he couldn’t let her take the risk.
“Your Highness” Xing Luo wrapped her arms around his, her tone soft and teasing. “I don’t want to stay in the Demon Palace all alone. Just take me with you, please?”
Ye Lixiao pursed his thin lips. The refusal that had been on the tip of his tongue vanished.
When the woman he liked was acting cute, he would give her anything without hesitation, even if she demanded the entire Demon Realm.
“It will be dangerous.” After a long pause, Ye Lixiao finally spoke.
“But Your Highness will protect me, won’t you?” Xing Luo smiled up at him.
Ye Lixiao: “As you wish.”
“Thank you, Your Highness.”
That night, the two went to bed early, together.
The next morning, after breakfast, Ye Lixiao took Xing Luo with him to the Ghost Realm.
The Ghost King, Feng Lu, had seen Xing Luo’s face before. If she went in her current form, it would raise suspicion. So Ye Lixiao had her revert to her original form and remain as his pet.
Besides Xing Luo, He Chen and Yuan Xiu also accompanied them.
Before heading to the Ghost Realm, Ye Lixiao had already sent word to Feng Lu. This morning, he entered the Ghost Realm’s royal palace directly using a teleportation talisman.
The meeting point for the talisman transfer was at the palace gates. Ghost King Feng Lu was waiting there. Seeing Ye Lixiao appear, he smiled warmly and approached, “Welcome, Demon King. Forgive my lack of proper reception, please, come in.”
Feng Lu was a classic smiling tiger: warm and friendly on the surface, ruthless when stabbing someone in the back. Xing Luo had firsthand experience with this in her previous life.
Her falling out with Ye Lixiao had been thanks to Feng Lu.
The chaos she had quelled before had been instigated by him. Later, she had been ambushed and poisoned with a corpse toxin he had personally crafted, only Wanqucao could neutralize it.
This had set off the chain of events that led to her estrangement from Ye Lixiao.
Although Xing Luo didn’t know exactly what Ye Lixiao was doing in the Ghost Realm, she had to warn him to be careful of Feng Lu. This Ghost King was certainly not someone to be trusted.
Entering the palace, Ye Lixiao held Xing Luo as he took a seat.