The poor, innocent little demon felt her cheeks flush at Su Yuan's words of "the prettiest leaf", and all her previous annoyance melted away.
Zhaozhao stiffened her body. What could she do? Since he had complimented her so, she felt too embarrassed to say anything too harsh.
So, thinking she should be a polite little demon, Zhaozhao hesitated for a long while before replying courteously, "You're the most good - looking demon I've ever seen..." Then she turned around and ran off.
It was indeed true. Su Yuan was the most good - looking demon Zhaozhao had ever laid eyes on.
She ran to a nearby table and lay down, then began to carefully plan how to get her leaf back.
It couldn't go on like this with Su Yuan holding her leaf. He was so unruly!
Su Yuan squinted at Zhaozhao's back, thinking she was simply too innocent. Why did she compliment his good looks just because he complimented the leaf?
Then he thought of the Yuki - Onna he had deliberately let go tonight.
Not long after Su Yuan had sent Zhaozhao's blood to the Demon Management Bureau, the Yuki - Onna had appeared.
For an ancient Yinglong like Su Yuan, capturing a Yuki - Onna was an easy task.
The Yuki - Onna came with a puff of black mist. Su Yuan precisely grabbed its neck in the darkness and subdued it in an instant.
However, just as Su Yuan was about to take the demon pill of this evil - doing demon and trap it, he detected a familiar spiritual energy from the Yuki - Onna's wound.
It was the scent he had been tracking for a long time. That was why he had come to Posa Village.
This scent was the same as the strange fragrance he had smelled on Zhaozhao before.
Su Yuan had intended to extract the spiritual energy on the Yuki - Onna that obviously didn't belong to it for further investigation. But the Yuki - Onna seemed to sense his intention and tried to self - detonate at a critical moment. So Su Yuan had no choice but to let it go.
For Su Yuan, Zhaozhao's identity was unknown and she was involved with the Yuki - Onna. It was obviously more appropriate to let the Yuki - Onna go and use Song Yao and her sister to find out the truth.
Thinking of that strange fragrance, Su Yuan's gaze on Zhaozhao darkened.
If she was really a demon, what kind of demon could carry such a strange fragrance and make his spiritual consciousness clear? In Su Yuan's memory, there seemed to be no such demon in the world.
After all, sin was not something that could be easily removed. Otherwise, he would have been freed long ago.
"Hey, wake up. Don't sleep. Get up. I have something to tell you." Song Yao came over with her phone, interrupting their train of thought.
Zhaozhao waved her hand on the table, indicating that she wasn't sleeping and was listening.
Su Yuan retracted his gaze and walked over to the table to sit down.
Seeing that both of them were there, Song Yao began to talk about the next plan. "I've contacted the Xuanmen. They've submitted an application for external support tonight. It should arrive tomorrow night. Before that, we still need to stay in the village and keep watch."
Zhaozhao had no objections. She was in no mood to object. As for Su Yuan, there was no need to mention it. He couldn't leave until he figured out that spiritual energy. It was just what he wanted for Song Yao and Zhaozhao to stay here.
"Cheer up!" Song Yao tapped Zhaozhao on the head and continued. "Although we've applied for the Xuanmen's assistance, we can't just sit and wait for death. Tomorrow, we'll go around that tower and take a look again. Do you hear me?"
Zhaozhao rubbed her slightly painful head and replied listlessly, "Got it."
Seeing Zhaozhao looking so listless, Song Yao thought the girl might have been really scared tonight. She wondered if she should give her the phone to relax for a night...
Unexpectedly, when she kindly offered the phone to Zhaozhao, Zhaozhao refused.
This was really strange. Song Yao stared at Zhaozhao uneasily for a long while.
Zhaozhao didn't know what Song Yao was thinking. She was very worried now.
She suspected that the leaf she had dropped was the tenderest and prettiest part of her original form. Otherwise, she wouldn't be so sensitive. She would freeze up completely when Su Yuan touched it casually.
She didn't know if it was because she had only recently transformed into a human form and couldn't control her spiritual energy well. That was why she always couldn't control some characteristics of a tree demon. But it was the first time that she had dropped a small leaf without showing her original form.
Zhaozhao frowned and thought for a long time. Suddenly, she thought of the spiritual energy floating in the village. Could it be because of this?
A little demon like her would easily lose control if she absorbed too much spiritual energy, just like when her master watered her with spiritual spring water.
But anyway, the most urgent thing was to get the leaf back from Su Yuan.
Once Zhaozhao had figured it out, she decided to act immediately! But when she came to her senses again, she found that Su Yuan was no longer in the room.
"Cousin, where's the big demon?"
Song Yao was lying in bed reading a comic. Hearing this, she replied indifferently, "He's gone out. Anyway, he's a male demon. It doesn't make sense for him to live with us."
Song Yao said it matter - of - factly, but Zhaozhao didn't quite understand. She was a tree, a tree that had just managed to transform and come down the mountain. How could she understand the difference between men and women? The people on Wutong Mountain hadn't had the time to teach her.
She only felt that now that Su Yuan had gone out, her chances of getting the leaf back were even slimmer.
Song Yao continued slowly, "Besides, he's a dragon. He can just show his original form and coil around a tree to sleep."
"..." Zhaozhao was a bit unhappy. She thought, We trees don't let just anyone coil around us, okay!
In the dead of night, after Song Yao fell asleep, Zhaozhao tiptoed out of the door to look for Su Yuan.
Since Su Yuan had her leaf, she easily found him.
Just as Song Yao had said, Su Yuan had found a tree. But he didn't show his original form. He was just sitting cross - legged on the tree, not sleeping.
This posed a problem for Zhaozhao. How could she steal the leaf if he wasn't sleeping? She hid some distance away from Su Yuan and thought about knocking him out.
But as soon as this thought came to her, she shook her head and dismissed it. No, no! What if she accidentally killed him? She still had a lingering fear about the time when she had broken the barrier on Wutong Mountain with a vine.
Just as she was struggling, somehow, her luck seemed to be really good. Su Yuan, who had been sitting upright just now, leaned against the tree trunk and fell asleep.
Zhaozhao was overjoyed. She carefully ran to the tree, carefully pasted a talisman on her back, and flew up the tree.
Even when sleeping, Su Yuan still held her leaf tightly in his hand.
Zhaozhao held her breath and inched closer to Su Yuan. She held a pack of sleeping incense in her left hand, always on guard, and reached out her right hand for the small leaf.
Just a little more. She was almost there!
There was a glint in Zhaozhao's eyes. However, just as she successfully got the leaf, Su Yuan, who had been sleeping, suddenly opened his eyes and stared at her without blinking.
Didn't the sleeping incense from Third Senior Brother work?!
Zhaozhao was extremely frightened. Instinctively, she wanted to jump off the tree and run away, but Su Yuan hugged her tightly in his arms.
"Don't move."
At this moment, Su Yuan was completely different. He was strange and cold. His open eyes had bright red pupils, greedily searching for the fragrance on Zhaozhao that could make him feel at ease.