Bound to Mary Sue, I am against involution in the world of immortal cultivation

Fan Ning asked again, "What if I want to tear down all your decorative flower beds?"

Demon Lord: "..."

Demon Lord: "...It doesn't matter."

"Really?" Fan Ning glanced at the flowerbed, which was being meticulously tended to in an exceptionally gorgeous and luxurious manner. He pinched his chin and smacked his lips, completely disregarding anyone's life or death. "Even if I wanted to uproot them all and plant some bok choy?"

The Demon Lord remained silent for even longer this time. Ling Feng from outside came in through the hole. Even Hong Rong, who was about to speak, shrank his neck and shut his mouth at the Demon Lord's silence.

After a long time, the Demon Lord closed his eyes, as if he had made some kind of decision.

"……Can."

With a "click", the fan that Jiangxue was playing with in her hand finally fell down.

"...I didn't hold it firmly," Jiang Xue struggled to control her expression, adding a layer of seriousness to her already aggressive face. "Go on, you guys go on..."

For the first time, the Demon Lord felt that this subordinate was so inconsiderate.

Continue? Continue what…?

Let’s continue discussing the types of bok choy?

"Yu Li is willing to serve you," the first demon general who had been watching finally spoke up to stop the topic. In fact, compared to the Demon Lord, he was the most helpless one when he heard the words "fork out the cabbage".

He had spent a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources on the flowers in the Demon Palace... Just one mature flower in there was worth several years' savings of an ordinary demon cultivator.

...planting Chinese cabbage.

Those flowers themselves would never have thought that they would lose to a mere cabbage.

Yu Li smiled helplessly, and when he lowered his eyes, there was a hint of seriousness in his snow-white eyes.

-

Near midnight, Jiangxue knocked on Fanning's door again.

After Fan Ning had caused such a scene in broad daylight, he did not stop there. Not only did he confidently drive away the real master of the Demon Palace, he also openly began to discipline his subordinates - mainly Huo Rong who refused to give in.

Jiang Xue recalled the scene she saw when she came in, and the corner of her mouth twitched: "Huo Rong is impatient and stubborn... You can obviously beat him into submission directly."

“张口就是揍服，你可真是没有一点同僚爱，”繁宁一手捏着郁礼送进来的灵果，扫了一眼说道：“现在不好么，我又不急着让他服软，要是随随便便就把刺拔了，显得我多无礼似的。”

After hearing this, Jiang Xue said: "..."

"It's not considered rude now?" He was stunned for a moment, thinking of Huo Rong, who was still hanging upside down outside the Demon Palace, groggy and with all his dignity and dignity gone. His expression was complicated, "...When are you going to let him down?"

"Of course, we have to wait until the effect of the medicine wears off," Fan Ning said calmly as he drank a cup of tea and smiled, "His brain, which is easily overheated, won't be damaged by a bit of cold wind."

What's wrong with lowering the temperature?

Fan Ning glanced at the tea leaves in the teacup and blew on them with his chin propped up. "The things Yu Li sent are quite good."

Jiangxue sat down on the other side, and the moment she heard the name, her brows inadvertently frowned.

"Yu Li has always been a man who knows the times. I heard that he was the first to come to the Demon Lord, when the Demon Lord was not yet the Demon Lord."

"It seems he is very loyal?" Fan Ning looked at Jiang Xue.

Jiangxue paused and shook her head, "No, perhaps it's quite the opposite."

"That person... doesn't have anything that can be called sincerity, let alone loyalty to another person."

The fact that he became the number one demon general and even reached his current position was entirely the result of assessing the situation... He only chose the right one, not the good one.

Jiang Xue thought for a moment and added, "But the Demon Lord doesn't need our loyalty."

He is better at controlling the people under him in his own way. No matter what they think in their hearts, they have to pretend to be respectful on the surface. As for those who are disrespectful, they have long become fertilizer in the garden.

When the Demon Lord came to power, he used thundering methods, which continue to this day.

I don’t know if he regretted it after he went to the point of being controlled for his own Yu Li.

"That's great news," Fan Ning said without getting annoyed. He even tapped the table with interest and said frankly, "It's just a coincidence. I don't need sincerity."

Jiangxue: "..."

Jiang Xue pondered for a moment, then nodded in agreement, "Compared to Huo Rong, Yu Li is much easier to win over."

He believed that Fan Ning could demonstrate value that would satisfy the profit-seeking person, and as long as this was in place... Yu Li would not need any convincing at all, he would come forward to recommend himself.

"Fan Ning," a somewhat vague figure appeared beside Fan Ning.

Jiangxue was stunned. Before she could react why Ling You appeared here in this form, her eyes were attracted by the token in his hand.

"This is……"

"I found it from the secret door under the Demon Palace. It seemed to be trying to attract me." Ling You didn't look at him, but his eyes fell on Fan Ning, as if he had some inexplicable uneasiness. "But when I got it in my hand, there was no reaction. It turned into a dead object again."

"Attract?" Fan Ning narrowed his eyes, took the token, and probed into the demonic energy to test it, but it was useless.

"It doesn't look like it's prepared for you now," she threw the token back to Ling You calmly, neither denying the token nor saying anything else.

Ling You, however, understood.

He looked at his soul, as if he understood something, and fell into a new round of entanglement.

...Perhaps this token is the closest he has ever been to the truth, Ling You thought.

But for some reason, he was somewhat resistant to that future happening.

"If you don't want it, just pretend you didn't see it." Fan Ning noticed his gaze, paused, placed his cold hand on hers, patted it coaxingly, and said softly, "It's not to the point where you have to wrong yourself yet."

"Cough cough," Jiangxue, who was sitting next to her, coughed lightly.

He also looked at the token, and when he touched the silent writing pattern, he couldn't help but reveal some of his emotions, "This thing... may be related to the previous Demon Lord."

"I've seen similar patterns at Yu Li's place, but... I can't quite remember them."

He rubbed his eyebrows. When he thought of this, he felt like he was thrown into a fog, and even his eyes became confused.

"That's right," Fan Ning looked at his suddenly changed eyes and smiled meaningfully, "When you touch upon the truth, you always have to walk through a road full of traps."

"But the choice is still yours." She looked at Ling You again, without a trace of coercion on her face. Instead, she held him in her hands and asked gently, "If you don't want to, you don't have to explore. I'm not so incompetent that I need my lover to sacrifice for me."

Ling You: "...It's not certain what will happen."

Fan Ning raised an eyebrow: "But you are very unhappy now."