Lily Bai Both Startled and Delighted

Their beauties, spirit jade, and delicacies haven’t even arrived yet!

The brocade-furred rat fiend was in a foul mood and snapped, "Scram!"

The demon horde didn’t dare ask any further.

Soon after, they were all teleported out and landed on the deck.

Lily Bai calmly observed her surroundings and realized this was actually a pocket realm.

The rear of the black ship hadn’t fully entered yet. Its stern seemed to be soaking in mysterious black water, with blue ripples shimmering at the edge.

A pocket realm is a self-contained, independent space.

Its entrance is usually extremely well-hidden.

Without a guide, it’s almost impossible to find.

Lily Bai congratulated herself on her decision.

Good thing she followed them; otherwise, she’d never find their lair in a lifetime.

...

The demon horde broke up into small groups.

Lily Bai controlled the puppet so it neither led nor lagged behind, keeping it hidden in the crowd as inconspicuously as possible.

But no matter how well you hide, you can’t stop someone from approaching you.

Another little demon casually slapped a hand onto the puppet’s shoulder, acting like an old friend.

Lily Bai’s heart instantly leapt into her throat.

The downside of Puppet Runes: once you start chatting with someone familiar, it’s way too easy to blow your cover…

But right then, she actually heard Damian’s voice: "It’s me. Tell him to put me in the Life‑pouch too."

Lily Bai was shocked and delighted.

He actually followed her here too!

She instructed the little demon to take Damian Black into the Life‑pouch as well.

Once inside, Damian shed the little demon disguise and reverted to his true form, barking at her, "Lily Bai! You’ve got some nerve, following them all the way here!"

But Lily just said, "Damian, I’ve noticed that no matter where I hide, you always find me!"

She once hid deep in Thousand‑Caverns Mountain, and he found her in no time.

When she was at the Black‑Kiss Beast’s lair, he showed up just like that.

Now she was hiding inside a little demon’s Life‑pouch, and he still managed to track her down.

Is his tracking skill even better than her Rune Master arts?

"Where exactly is your focus?" Damian asked, face dark.

"To me, you’re just as dangerous as that rat fiend! Now that you’ve found me and he hasn’t, of course my focus is on you." Lily Bai grinned.

Damian took a deep breath, looking ready to strangle her but holding back. He said, "Azure Flame and Baxa once infiltrated a pocket realm like this.

Azure Flame was cursed with the Moonbound Ice Curse, and Baxa was poisoned during a fight there.

That pocket realm must be this very place."

"So that’s how it is! But I’m not like them," Lily Bai said calmly.

"Of course you’re not like them—your cultivation is so pitiful it’s tragic!"

Lily Bai: "Uh... I meant I’m a Rune Master, and Rune Masters are born with a knack for dodging disaster. That’s something they can’t match, you know?"

Damian: "Shut up."

Lily Bai obediently shut her mouth and steered the little demon into a dense forest.

Then she set up a Spirit Barrier and removed the Puppet Rune from the squirrel demon.

The little demon was, of course, terrified.

Under Damian’s methods, he spilled quite a bit.

For example, this pocket realm is called the Sealed‑God Pocket Realm.

His name is Chestnut, and he’s a squirrel fiend.

All the demon beasts living here are ruled by the one who transformed into Baxa—the so‑called 'Demon Emperor.'

They actually call him 'Your Majesty the Demon Emperor.'

This Demon Emperor leads them to raid, slaughter cities, snatch spirit jade, abduct girls, grab resources—anything they can get their claws on.

Life under him has been ridiculously comfortable.