Shuang Hu

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Shuang Hu 「双湖城 (Shuāng Hú Chéng)」is a small city that falls within the territory of Cang Qiong Mountain sect.

The city is located several tens of kilometers away from Cang Qiong Mountain Sect, and can be reached within an incense time when traveling by sword. Despite it's small size, the city is bustling, with mentioned locations including a market, a coroner, a cosmetics shop, an abandoned and neglected house, and the Chen Manor.

## Locations

### Market

The bustling market takes up an entire street of the city. Stalls crammed with goods meant to catch the eyes lined both sides of the street {honeymoon}. At one point, after Shen Qingqiu leaves the mountain on a honeymoon with Luo Binghe, Madam Meiyin has a stall set up in this market to act as a jianghu fortune-teller .

The most bustling corner of the market is where Luo Binghe once lost track of Ning Yingying during his first mission, and near that corner is the cosmetics shop that Die-er had recently visited at that point.

### Chen Manor

The city's richest man is Old Master Chen, a man with many concubines and a house that had furnishings so luxurious they even smelled rich, boasting good sturdy ceiling beams. The Skinner Demon infiltrated into the household by pretending to be Die-er the concubine. After she was defeated, the room in the wing where she used to live was disturbed every night by wails and screams. The only difference in that courtyard between the Skinner Demon's defeat and Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe's visit over a decade later was the amount of yin energy that was present. The wails and screams were caused by the lingering spirit of the Skinner Demon, who appeared to ascend to the heavens in gleeful self satisfaction upon learning that the master and disciple pair were a couple.

The Skinner Demon masquerading as one of his wives did not deter the near seventy year old man's propensity for collecting beautiful young concubines.

## Skinner Demon Incident

After nine people were discovered dead within Shuang Hu city, all beautiful young women with their skin meticulously peeled off, several influential families (including Old Master Chen) arranged to send someone to Cang Qiong Mountain Sect to plead for assistance. Due to the nature of the killings, the murderer was called the "Skinner Demon."

Cang Qiong Mountain Sect sent Shen Qingqiu, who was using this opportunity as a training mission for his disciples. Ming Fan took charge, making small talk with Old Master Chen and examining the corpses and soil for demonic energy with talismans. Meanwhile, Ning Yingying, after failing to convince Shen Qingqiu to accompany her to the market, convinced Luo Binghe to go with her instead, the latter of which was unable to help her when she ended up kidnapped off the busiest corner of the market. After realizing she was missing, Luo Binghe ran to get assistance from Shen Qingqiu, who was being delivered Ming Fan's report at the time. Shen Qingqiu sent Ming Fan to retrieve a couple of shidi and ask Landlord Chen for assistance while he went with Luo Binghe to track down Ning Yingying.

After being led to her last known location by Luo Binghe, Shen Qingqiu followed a barely perceptible thread of demonic energy to a cosmetics shop, where the trail fell off. There, the System allowed him to activate easy mode, which made the demonic energy into a palpable path to an abandoned house. Before he could send Luo Binghe to Chen Manor to retrieve Ming Fan and the others, a foul gust of wind knocked them both out.

Upon awaking, Shen Qingqiu found himself tied up alongside Ning Yingying and Luo Binghe, though he alone was shirtless. After identifying the Skinner Demon as Die-er and listening to their evil monologue about their damaged martial aspect, Shen Qingqiu tricked the demon into trying to harm Luo Binghe, who's protagonist halo kicked in and caused a ceiling beam to fall onto the Skinner Demon. Since the move failed to kill them, they sprang up and began to berate Shen Qingqiu for tricking them, giving Luo Binghe the chance to grab Xiu Ya from the Skinner Demon's hip and free Shen Qingqiu, who then killed the demon with a palm strike.

## Trivia

* The Skinner Demon mission that takes place in this city did not exist in the original parent novel of Proud Immortal Demon Way.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Chapter 6: Unfavourable Beginning (Web Novel)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 30: Honeymoon (Light Novel)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 7: Screwing Over the Male Lead (Web Novel)
4. ↑ Chapter 8: Giving Rewards Afterwards (Web Novel)
5. ↑ Chapter 5: Beginner-Rank Mission (Web Novel)