I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 67: City That Never Sleeps

Chapter 67: Chapter 67: City That Never Sleeps

"You all wait in the car, I’ll go in and have a look."

Without a second thought, you opened the car door and stepped out.

"I’ll go too."

As soon as Fan Yi opened her mouth, you turned around, looked her straight in the eye, and shook your head, "No way, your outfit will stand out too much inside. Wait in the car for my good news."

"But..."

"No buts. What I say goes!"

You glared at Fan Yi, who nodded dumbly: "Oh."

Turning away, you rubbed your head irritably, tch!

Women are such a hassle!

Perhaps many men would take pleasure in serving beautiful women; you used to think so too. But ever since your life had become filled with beauties who were even more eye-catching than Photoshop-enhanced models, you started to feel rather weary of it all.

Some say men are naturally affectionate because of their genes; to procreate better offspring, they seek women with more perfect appearances.

In your view, that’s just an excuse for one’s promiscuity.

Actually, in this vast world, there are a plethora of girls with stunning appearances. If you took a closer look at the people around you, you would realize they are even more beautiful than so-called celebrities and internet goddesses, both in appearance and at heart.

But what truly troubles you is Zhao’er.

Once a person really falls in love, that feeling is hard to stop.

Now, you had blended in with three young white-collar workers dressed in suits and entered, temporarily setting aside the clutter of thoughts and began to survey your surroundings.

From the outside, the Eternal Demon City appeared to be nothing more than an entertainment venue, but once inside, you realized it was far from simple.

Setting aside the riotous display of glitz and glamour, men and women; you were surprised to find traces of Yin Ghost Qi in the air here.

This Qi felt somewhat similar to what you had encountered before, yet different; you couldn’t tell precisely what it was but noticed that upon entering the main hall, your attention became somewhat scattered, and your body would pulsate to the lively music.

The main hall was vast. After careful observation, you determined that the Endless Demon City was likely a round structure.

Ignoring the upper floors and focusing solely on the ground level, the central position featured a round dance floor divided into Yin and Yang areas, with black and white platforms for solo dancing. Excluding the entrance and staircases, there were twelve private rooms, with each two rooms aligning with a cardinal direction.

Overall, the décor of the Eternal Demon City was quite peculiar.

And the longer you stood there, the more you felt your head spin. Before long, your left eye began to feel a burning sensation once again, which shocked you.

This was because, in the middle of the dance floor, you could see young men and women twisting and gyrating their bodies unrestrainedly. They emitted a lively aura, which intertwined and ascended through a circular sieve in the center of the ceiling, towards the second floor or perhaps even higher.

Your brows were now firmly furrowed.

The "Greatest Classic Mysteries" mentioned that there are countless ways for a person to practice cultivation, but the underlying principle never changes: one must absorb external elements and energy to gain greater power.

A person’s body is merely a vessel; the type of energy it acquires represents the path that person will take in the future.

The Laws of Nature, the practice of Taoism, advocates acting according to one’s heart, behavior, and nature.

There are two types of Taoist cultivation: one that resides deep in the mountains, meditating among the singing birds and mountain forest, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, using the purest energies to transform one’s body and soul; this is the Orthodox Path.

The other involves leaving seclusion to enter the Worldly realm, traveling the Mortal World to experience the myriad aspects of life and achieve enlightenment through personal experience; this too is the Orthodox Path.

Beyond these, there are some shortcut methods of cultivation explicitly stated in the scriptures: any method that harms others to benefit oneself is considered the Evil Path.

It was clear that someone inside the Eternal Demon City practiced the Evil Path.

And from the scale of it all, this person was definitely beyond your ability to contend with.

Just as you were about to turn your head, you suddenly froze because you saw another paper effigy, escorting a voluptuous blonde woman inside.

It paid no attention to others, leading the woman into one of the private rooms beside the dance floor.

Soon after, the paper effigy walked out of the room. When it opened the door, you clearly saw men and women sitting inside, one of whom was Fan Yi’s friend!

Now that you had found your target, you stealthily made your way over.

But as you neared the private room, you hesitated again.

How were you to lead Fan Yi’s friend out of the room?

The paper effigy was merely a medium. The person behind it seduced those faint-hearted girls through the effigy. From that brief glance earlier, you saw some images: a corpulent man was making advances on Fan Yi’s friend, who was giggling and being very receptive, but it was unclear whether it was genuine or due to enchantment.

Your plan was simple, whether the girl was acting willingly or under duress, your task now was to get her out of here. As for what would happen afterward, that was none of your concern; you felt you had done your part to the fullest by achieving this much.

The problem you now faced was how to rescue Fan Yi’s friend without being detected by the puppeteer behind the paper people.

Around the dance floor, many sofas were placed where couples embraced and kissed each other, some smoked and drank, creating a very chaotic scene.

When a gangster-like man lit a cigarette with a lighter, a brainwave suddenly struck you.

You turned a corner and entered the bathroom.

When you emerged from the restroom, you had a talisman in each hand, the left one an Earth Curse and the right a Fire Spell.

Mingling with the crowd, you took advantage of the moment when no one was paying attention, pressed the two talismans together, and dropped them at the feet of a few smoking youths.

Then you quickly walked over to the private room where Fan Yi’s friend was and formed a hand seal with your right hand. Soon, thick black smoke began to billow from under the feet of those youths!

"Fire!"

The black, acrid smoke quickly spread, and the youths screamed at the top of their lungs, rushing toward the exit.

As the smoke continued to spread, the dance floor descended into chaos, and people pushed and shoved their way toward the exit.

"Ring—"

The smoke soon triggered the fire alarm, and fire extinguishers on the ceiling activated as panicked screams echoed from inside the private rooms.

"What are you doing!?"

"Bastard!"

"Get off! I’m calling the police!"

In an instant, some girls in disheveled clothing ran out of the private rooms; as soon as Fan Yi’s friend left the room, you grabbed her arm, and before she could scream, you hissed at her, "I’m Fan Yi’s friend, follow me if you want to live!"

Although dazed, she nodded immediately after recognizing your face and ran toward the exit door with you.

You both easily blended into the chaotic crowd and, drenched in cold water, made it out of the Eternal Demon City.

As soon as you left the door of the Endless Demon City, Xiao Feng, who had been waiting outside for a long time, immediately drove up to you, and you shoved the woman next to you into the car like cargo, slammed the door shut, and jumped into the passenger seat, barking at Xiao Feng, "Go!"

Xiao Feng sped off, and within minutes you were on the expressway.

"Phew—finally safe."

When Xiao Feng spoke, the friend of Fan Yi was already weeping in the back seat, "How could this happen, why would this happen, he said he really loved me, why would he take me to such a disgusting place?"

You glanced at Fan Yi’s friend, not bothering to speak, feeling that someone who couldn’t see through such a simple lie was undoubtedly foolish.

While Fan Yi was comforting her friend, Xiao Feng turned to you and asked, "Little Yunyun, what was the situation in there? I saw quite a few disheveled girls come out, oh boy, they were hot."

"Hmph, what good can come from such a filthy place?"

By now, the moon was already high in the sky, and you checked the time, finding it was already past seven in the evening.

"Madman, have you eaten yet?"

"What do you think?" Xiao Feng glanced at you irritably.

"The school cafeteria should be closed by now. Zhang’s Noodle House is good; let’s have noodles tonight, my treat."

"Really?"

"No kidding."

"Heh, that’s great, let’s go, Zhang’s Noodle House!"

During the meal, Xiao Feng, with his gift of gab, managed to soothe Fan Yi’s friend until she finally broke into a smile. She promised you not to associate with those flashy men in society ever again.

To which you snorted derisively. They say a leopard cannot change its spots. Although this girl came from the same place as Fan Yi, their natures could not be more different.

One was a valley orchid and a narcissus in the stone; the other was merely a trumpet flower trying desperately to climb up the trellis, aspiring to reach the treetops.

You had a very poor impression of her and were even too lazy to ask her name. As for Xiao Feng, he merely left her his number out of politeness and then watched as Fan Yi and her friend entered the school gates.

No sooner had they left than Xiao Feng’s originally beaming face fell, and he asked with a grave expression, "Tonight’s events couldn’t have been as simple as you just made them sound, could they?"

"What, do you care?"

You were slightly taken aback as you looked at Xiao Feng. In your mind, he was not only easygoing but also rarely poked his nose into others’ affairs. He lived by the motto: If it’s not my problem, I won’t bother with it.

Shrugging his shoulders, Xiao Feng replied, "I have to care, don’t I? You caused such a commotion earlier, and seeing you escape in such a mess can only mean one thing—there’s something in that Demon City you’re very wary of. Otherwise, with the character of Young Master Li, wouldn’t you have cleaned house in there already?"

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