Chapter 1
Chapter 1: The Green Tea Demon Takes a Bath and Soaks Herself to Death
A weak voice cried: “Save me, save me, please, I am begging you, save me…”
Jiang Tea Tea, a green tea tree spirit, had jumped into a river, planning to brew a whole river of green tea for everyone in the demon clan. She never thought she would end up soaking herself to death instead.
Dying was one thing, but when she opened her eyes, she did not know what birdless, godforsaken place she had appeared in. Half of her spiritual power was gone, and a young girl who looked exactly like her was clutching her hand, begging her to save her.
She turned her hand and caught the young girl’s wrist, saying: “Girl, it is not that I do not want to save you. It is that you cannot be saved. Your body has already been chopped into two.”
The young girl had been cut in half at the waist. Her lower body was still over there in the flying device that had thrown her out, while her upper body lay here in this patch of dead wood and dry grass.
There was some distance between the two halves. Blood was everywhere. The only reason the young girl had not died on the spot was because Jiang Tea Tea had used up almost all of her remaining spiritual power.
The young girl froze for a moment, then turned her head toward her flying device. Endless hatred burst out in her eyes as she said: “Why? Why did they do this to me? Being switched at birth was not my fault. Not awakening any supernatural abilities is not my fault either.”
“I do not fight over anything. I do not steal anything. They still refuse to let me go and even want to kill me. Why!”
Jiang Tea Tea said softly: “Why? What else could it be? Because you have no value and you are standing in someone else’s way. People like that will never let you live.”
That was just how it was in the demon clan. If you blocked someone else’s path and were not useful, cruel Great Demon Stage demons or immortals from the Immortal Realm would, for no reason at all, act on a whim and blast you apart, eat you, or use you as ingredients to refine pills.
A little demon that had just shapeshifted into human form, without the protection of a Great Demon Stage elder of its race and without a big backer to cling to, was guaranteed cannon fodder. They could die without even making a sound.
“Who are you?” The young girl looked at Jiang Tea Tea and asked: “Why do you look exactly like me? Did they send you to kill me?”
Jiang Tea Tea raised her hand right away to clear herself: “I am just Passerby A B C D. You being sliced in half has nothing to do with me. Do not hang any karma on me. I do not kill people.”
The demon clan had rules. You could not just kill people casually.
She was a good demon, who had studied the demon clan rules carefully and followed them strictly.
The young girl tried to find a trace of a lie on Jiang Tea Tea’s face, but she could not see even a bit. Jiang looked completely innocent and sincere.
The young girl asked Jiang Tea Tea: “Do you have money?”
Jiang Tea Tea did not understand why she asked, but she answered honestly: “No.”
With a Great Demon Stage demon like her, once she recovered her spiritual power, she could turn stone into gold.
There was no need to save money. She always created it on the spot and spent it on the spot.
The young girl asked again: “What is your name?”
Jiang Tea Tea blinked and said: “Jiang Tea Tea.”
The young girl’s pupils shrank sharply. She did not know where the strength came from, but she grabbed Jiang Tea Tea’s hand again and asked: “Your name is Jiang Tea Tea?”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Yes. My grandma gave me that name.”
She was the only demon in the whole green tea tree family who had cultivated a spirit and taken human form.
She was born with the traits of her race. Her mouth was naturally soft and sweet, and she was great at coaxing people. She had acknowledged a Xuan Yuan Cypress Tree that had cultivated into a Great Demon over ten thousand years as her grandma.
Her grandma was stunningly beautiful, with a curvy figure, knew everything from ten thousand years ago to ten thousand years in the future, and had lovers all over the three realms. She was the strongest, fiercest, most overbearing demon in the entire demon clan.
The young girl’s gaze swept over Jiang Tea Tea’s empty wrist. Suddenly she smiled and said: “Your name is Jiang Tea Tea, and my name is also Jiang Tea Tea. You appeared out of nowhere, you do not have a light-brain wrist terminal, and you do not have an identity, right?”
The young girl’s eyes were very sharp.
With one glance, she saw that Jiang Tea Tea was a “three-no” product: no identity, no records, no background.
Jiang Tea Tea had nothing to hide from someone who was about to die, so she said: “Right. I do not just lack an identity and a light-brain wrist terminal. I am also not human. I am a demon.”
“Demon?” The young girl seemed to think of something and asked: “You are the demon from legends, the kind that can use magic spells and change into all kinds of shapes?”
Jiang Tea Tea let out a small “uh”: “When my spiritual power is at its peak period, I can change into other people’s looks. But right now all my spiritual power is being used to keep you in this state. You get it.”
The young girl suddenly understood: “No wonder my body has been cut in half, but I do not feel any pain. It is because of your help.”
Jiang Tea Tea grinned, and the smell of tea spread through the air as she said: “Think nothing of it, think nothing of it. Meeting you is fate. Helping you a little also lets me earn some karmic merit for myself.”
The young girl looked at her smile and said: “We look exactly the same, but when you smile, you look better than me.”
Jiang Tea Tea replied modestly: “Thank you for the compliment.”
“You are welcome. I am only telling the truth.” The young girl thanked her, then suddenly changed the topic: “I remember that in the legends, you demons like to eat people, especially people who willingly offer themselves as a sacrificial offering, right?”
Jiang Tea Tea’s smile faded: “How did you find that out?”
Little demons were a great tonic for Great Demon Stage beings.
For people of the Immortal Realm, they could be used to refine pills as a powerful supplement.
In the same way, the more pure-hearted a person was, and the more they liked to do good deeds, the more they were like a great tonic pill for a demon’s cultivation.
The young girl suddenly smiled in a twisted way and said: “Do not worry about how I know. I, Jiang Tea Tea, am willing to offer everything I have as a sacrificial offering to you…”
Jiang Tea Tea cut her off: “Wait. I am not some casual demon who takes anything people hand over.”
The young girl paused and asked: “Then how can I make you into a casual demon?”
Jiang Tea Tea bared her teeth in a grin and said: “First I have to see if you even have the capital to offer yourself to me as a sacrificial offering.”
A body and soul that someone willingly gave up as a sacrificial offering was full of charm for a demon.
She was not stupid, but she still had to go through the proper process. Otherwise people would think demons were cheap.
The young girl said: “Then look.”
Jiang Tea Tea pulled her hand back from the girl’s and placed her fingertip on the girl’s forehead. At once, a faint layer of light spread out from the girl’s body.
Karmic merit.
The light of karmic merit.
[Grandma, this girl actually has karmic merit light.]
She was a well-informed Great Demon Stage demon.
[Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm. Important things must be said three times.]
Jiang Tea Tea’s heart boomed like thunder, but her face stayed completely calm. She asked casually: “You have karmic merit light. Did you do a lot of good deeds?”
The young girl pulled at the corner of her mouth. She did not answer Jiang Tea Tea, but instead asked: “Do I have enough capital to offer myself to you as a sacrificial offering now?”
Jiang Tea Tea stopped dodging. She went straight into the process. She moved her hand away from the girl’s forehead, cut her own palm so that fresh blood flowed out, and held it out to her: “Yes. You have enough capital to offer yourself to me. Say your conditions for this sacrificial offering.”
People called it a willing sacrificial offering, but in truth it was just an exchange of benefits.
There were always extra conditions.
If a demon accepted a person’s sacrificial offering, they had to accept the conditions that person named and help them fulfill their unfinished wishes.
The young girl stretched out her bloody hand and gripped Jiang Tea Tea’s hand.
The blood of human and demon mixed together, and the sacrificial offering contract began.
Hatred surged in the young girl’s eyes as she spoke word by word: “I, Jiang Tea Tea, willingly offer everything I have as a sacrificial offering to the demon Jiang Tea Tea.”
“The condition of my sacrificial offering is that the demon Jiang Tea Tea will use my identity to become famous across all interstellar space, find my birth parents, and ask them whether they love me and why they never came to look for me.”
“She must also avenge me, step on everyone who ever bullied me, make it so they can neither die nor live in peace, and force them to spend their days in pain, full of regret and wishing they were dead!”
Humans were truly strange creatures, twisted and tangled inside. The more they could not get something, the more they wanted it.
They especially liked to imagine that the people who had let them down would, after their death, live every day in endless regret and pain.
Jiang Tea Tea watched as a red light the young girl could not see moved from their clasped hands onto the young girl’s body, making the karmic merit light on her grow brighter and brighter.
She stared at the karmic merit light until she felt hungry. Her clear voice rang out with excitement as she said: “I, Jiang Tea Tea, Great Demon Stage tea tree spirit of the demon clan, accept all the conditions of the human race Jiang Tea Tea’s willing sacrificial offering.”
“From this moment on, everything you have is mine. I am going to eat you and make you my fertilizer!”