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After these words were spoken, the air fell silent.

As Jiang Huali was pondering how to answer, Xuan Qing took her hand, gave Yu Tian a gentle smile, and called out, "Senior Sister."

In an instant, Yu Tian's expression became indescribable.

Looking at the rogue cultivator and his junior sister's tightly clasped hands, she felt a surge of anger rising to her head. Gritting her teeth, she said, "Who is your senior sister? Fellow Daoist, please have some self-respect."

Jiang Huali sensed that something was wrong and quickly broke free from Xuan Qing's hand, stepped forward, and pulled Yu Tian's sleeve.

"Senior sister, the most urgent thing is to find Liu Mulin and detoxify Master. Let's not waste time on other things."

Jiang Huali smiled sweetly and spoke gently to Yu Tian.

Yu Tian's expression softened somewhat, but Xuan Qing beside him slowly suppressed his smile.

Yu Tian patted Jiang Huali's hand and said, "You're right. In that case, it's best for irrelevant people to leave as soon as possible."

Jiang Huali nodded obediently and gave Xuan Qing a wink.

Xuanqing remained unmoved.

Jiang Huali's smile slowly froze.

Xuanqing touched his sword.

Jiang Huali: "..."

She moved closer to Xuanqing and whispered, "Don't play dumb, go back first."

Xuan Qing took her hand again: "I can go with you to find Liu Mulin."

His voice was neither too loud nor too soft, so Yu Tian naturally heard it.

She frowned slightly; she couldn't tell how powerful this rogue cultivator was.

Back in the Xuanlong Secret Realm, no one found the Xuanlong inheritance. After Liu Mulin was tied up and Jiang Huali left, golden light suddenly appeared in the sky above a certain part of the secret realm. Everyone rushed over to investigate, but lost their way halfway. By the time they realized what was happening, the golden light had already disappeared without a trace.

Yu Tian remained where she was. She hadn't entered the Xuanlong Secret Realm for the sake of inheriting the legacy. When the golden light appeared, she noticed that it was the direction her junior sister had gone.

Later, when the exit of the secret realm opened, the junior sister came out with this rogue cultivator. The parasitic flower that Mingyao and the other two had been searching for in vain was easily taken out by the junior sister.

Yu Tian looked at Xuan Qing with displeasure.

Jiang Huali: "Senior sister, why don't we go and check on Master's condition first?"

She then looked at Xuan Qing and said, "In that case, you should set off now to hunt down Liu Mulin."

Xuan Qing paused for a moment, then finally nodded.

Before he released Jiang Huali's hand, he tapped her palm and then disappeared from the spot.

Yu Tian and Jiang Huali walked out of the room together, their voices echoing in the air.

"You're still young, and you're easily deceived when it comes to love. You can't rush things..."

"I understand, Senior Sister..."

-

Liu Mulin covered his wounds and hid in a cave.

This is the Northern Wilderness, a hundred and eight thousand miles away from the Lingxiao Sect. Fortunately, he had made preparations in advance...

He sat on the ground, took out a small ceramic jar from his pocket, opened it, and found a mother Gu inside.

This is the Gu he refined before possessing the real Liu Mulin. Apart from his system, no one knows that he possessed a Gu master before possessing Liu Mulin.

If it weren't for that old fellow Dao Chen encountering a bottleneck in his cultivation and developing inner demons, he might not have been able to control himself.

Unfortunately, when he wanted the system to help him seize Dao Chen's cultivation, that old guy actually sacrificed most of his own cultivation rather than give it to him.

Thinking of this, Liu Mulin's eyes were filled with resentment. His system had been destroyed by that woman of unknown origin. He couldn't stay here any longer; he had to find another place to go...

Thinking of that hateful woman, his eyes were filled with malice.

Just as he was preparing to treat his wounds, a person suddenly appeared at the entrance of the cave.

Because he was backlit, he couldn't see the person's face clearly at first.

"who?"

When the person finally approached, Liu Mulin looked up in surprise: "Are you a demon?"

Under normal circumstances, demons will not be recognized unless they actively reveal their racial characteristics. However, demons are ultimately different from humans. Although they also cultivate with spiritual power, they have demonic energy on them.

Xuan Qing was in a terrible mood, and at this moment he made no attempt to conceal the soaring demonic energy emanating from his body.

The person suddenly appeared here, but Liu Mulin hadn't noticed anything beforehand.

Liu Mulin asked warily, "May I ask what brings you here?"

Xuan Qing: "I'll kill you."

After saying that, he seemed to realize it was inappropriate, so he changed his words to: "I'll arrest you."

Liu Mulin gritted his teeth, raised his sword and retreated: "I recognize you. You know Jiang Huali. You like her?"

He still remembered that day at the exit of the Xuanlong Secret Realm, this person stood intimately with Jiang Huali.

"I have a secret about her, a secret she'll never tell you. But if you let me go, I can tell you..."

Upon hearing this, Xuan Qing's expression remained unchanged, and he went straight to knock Liu Mulin unconscious and take her back.

Upon seeing this, Liu Mulin hurriedly shouted, "Even if she leaves you and goes to a place you can never reach, don't you care?!"

He gasped for breath, as if struggling in his death throes: "If you help me and let me go, I'll tell you."

He looked at Xuan Qing with great trepidation. He had dealt with Xuan Li before and seen the demon generals under Xuan Li's command, but none of them had the same strong demonic aura as Xuan Qing.

Xuanqing put down his sword and made a listening gesture, seemingly interested.

Liu Mulin said, "First, swear that you will help me evade the pursuers and take me to a safe place..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xuan Qing seemed impatient and pointed his sword directly at his neck.

"My patience is limited."

Feeling the chilling sensation on his neck, Liu Mulin swallowed hard and gritted his teeth, saying, "Jiang Huali isn't from here!"

"She comes from another time and space, and she will definitely disappear in the future. Even if you want to find her then, you won't be able to. Listen to me, it's all because she has something on her. As long as you get that thing and give it to me, she will never be able to leave this place again..."

Liu Mulin was in a frenzy, but Xuan Qing's expression remained unchanged. He seemed not to have taken Liu Mulin's words to heart and directly used his sword to cut off Liu Mulin's tongue.

Bloody chunks of flesh fell to the ground, stained with dirt and grime. Liu Mulin knelt down, covering his mouth where blood was gushing out.

"you--"

He was slurring his words and his eyes were bloodshot, but the next second Xuan Qing knocked him unconscious.

Xuan Qing stood still and tilted his head, kindly stopping the bleeding for the unconscious Liu Mulin.

Some specks of light emerged from Liu Mulin's forehead, and Xuan Qing reached out and crushed them away.

He said softly, "I won't let her leave."

...

Jiang Huali and Yu Tian stood to one side, watching the Gu Master brought by Ming Yao treat Dao Chen.

"How is my master?" Yu Tian asked.

The Gu Master's solemn expression eased slightly, and he said, "Fellow Daoist, rest assured, the Gu that Sect Master Dao Chen was afflicted with is recorded in the village's records. I have already used acupuncture to draw out the poison, and he will wake up soon."

"That's good." Everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.

The Gu Master said, "However, I observe that the sect leader's meridians are disordered, and his cultivation may be damaged after he wakes up."

"How could Master be controlled by Liu Mulin?" Jiang Huali asked, puzzled.

Yu Tian glanced at her, dismissed the irrelevant people, and said in a low voice, "Master has been troubled by inner demons for a long time, and his Dao heart has been damaged. Liu Mulin once took his pulse to diagnose him. At that time, I did not stay in the sect often. Perhaps it was because of this that the evil cultivator took advantage of the situation."

The original owner had always grown up under the care of his teachers and elders, unaware that his master had developed a demonic inner demon and was nearing his end.

Jiang Huali remained silent for a while.

Yu Tian patted her shoulder: "Fate is hard to defy. Master had already foreseen that day would come, and he didn't want you to worry about it."

Jiang Huali forced a smile: "Senior sister, I know."

Just then, a disciple came to report: "Senior Sister Yu, Senior Sister Jiang, Liu Mulin has been captured and brought back to the sect, and has been imprisoned in the dungeon again."

Jiang Huali and Yu Tian exchanged a glance, then walked out together, heading towards the dungeon.

Mingyao and the Gu Master stayed behind to continue treating Daochen.

Before long, Jiang Huali and Yu Tian were standing in the dungeon.

Jiang Huali looked at Liu Mulin's miserable state in the dungeon and fell into deep thought.

She looked at Xuan Qing, who was standing silently to the side, and asked, "Why did you pull out his tongue? This is my second senior brother's body, after all."

Xuanqing lowered his eyes and said, "He said things he shouldn't have said, and then he ran into my sword, trying to atone for his sins with his death."

Jiang Huali: "..."

Yu Tian stood to the side, preparing to use the Soul Searching Technique on Liu Mulin.

As time went by, Yu Tian's expression grew increasingly solemn.

After the soul-searching technique ended, she took a breath, her expression filled with grief.

"Junior brother, he..."

...

When Liu Mulin first learned that his master was trapped by inner demons, he diagnosed his master many times, hoping to find a solution.

He is already an outstanding young Chinese medicine practitioner, even surpassing many old scholars who have lived for hundreds of years.

After countless failures, Liu Mulin watched as his master was tormented by inner demons day and night, his cultivation regressed, and his Dao heart was damaged. He consulted countless ancient texts and decided to travel alone to the Northern Wilderness to find medicine to calm his master's mind and resolve his inner demons.

He met a Gu Master in the Northern Wilderness.

The Gu master happened to have some insights into the mental demon disease and gave Liu Mulin many suggestions.

Later, Liu Mulin parted ways with the Gu Master. When they met again, the Gu Master was attacked by a monster, and Liu Mulin rescued him, sustaining serious injuries in the process.

Liu Mulin was unaware that the Gu Master, whom he once considered a close friend, was filled with malice. While Liu Mulin was seriously injured and unconscious, the Gu Master delivered a fatal blow and then possessed him.

After that, Liu Mulin, who had been possessed, returned to the Lingxiao Sect and colluded with the Demon Clan, intending to seize the destiny of the Yutian Heaven...

...

The art of soul searching can recreate the memories of the person whose soul has been searched, and these memories are presented to everyone present through the process of recalling the past.

The intruder's name was Chen Qi.

After the Gu Master met Liu Mulin, he was possessed by Chen Qi while gathering herbs. Chen Qi then devised a plan to save Liu Mulin from the jaws of a monster, and then possessed Liu Mulin when he was seriously injured.

Jiang Huali watched as Chen Qi finished recalling his memories, and her heart beat faster than ever before.

A hesitant voice from the system echoed in Jiang Huali's mind: "[Strange, why is there absolutely no trace of the system in Chen Qi's memories...]"

Yes, that's it. Jiang Huali's heart sank.

Chen Qi's memories have been altered.

Since Chen Qi was bound to the system, he had to communicate with it.

However, the memories that were recalled had no trace of the system. Instead, they showed Chen Qi's plan to possess the Gu Master, then possess Liu Mulin, and then use Gu on Dao Chen to seize Yu Tian's fortune.

Yu Tian was unaware of the system's existence, nor did he understand what intruders and destiny were. Jiang Huali had told Yu Tian that she would explain after they came out of the secret realm, but after leaving the secret realm, one thing after another happened, and the matter of explanation was temporarily put aside.

Yu Tian also thought that the light cluster that absorbed her cultivation was an unknown magical artifact.

Who erased the traces of Chen Qi's system beforehand?

Even if the memories presented by the Soul Searching Technique are incomplete, it is impossible to completely erase an existence.

Jiang Huali looked at Xuan Qing, whose fingers were intertwined with hers.

The other person noticed her gaze, smiled at her, and gestured with their eyes to indicate what was wrong.

It looks perfectly normal.

Jiang Huali looked away.

Why do I always have a bad feeling in my heart?