Mingzhuo didn't even look at the others, walked straight up to Gao Hongguang, and said angrily, "So, Gao Hongguang, you lied to me!"

The others' gazes towards Gao Hongguang immediately became ambiguous.

This guy's really lucky with women lately; he's managed to snag such a pretty girl.

Several people stared at Mingzhuo for a while, their eyes practically glued to her.

The more you look at her, the more beautiful she becomes. Her eyes are as pretty as a doll's, and her lips are red and her teeth are white. She looks so sweet and gentle, like a little fairy.

Gao Hongguang paused for a few seconds before saying, "Do I know you?"

He didn't remember ever seeing the other person, and the anger came on inexplicably.

Mingzhu stomped her foot, stepped forward, and said angrily, "You still want to pretend you don't know me? You heartless bastard, I hate you!"

She looked like she was about to throw herself into the man's arms and cry, but in her anger, she clenched her fists and punched him a few times.

The people around laughed, admiring the pretty girl while secretly feeling jealous. Damn, she's so charming and cute. If she acted like that to me, I'd give my life for her.

The old woman stood in the shadows of the porch, looking at the pretty young girl with a hint of disdain in her eyes.

Another brainless idiot.

Gao Hongguang, however, did not think so, and was even sweating profusely with anxiety.

From the moment the other person struck him for the first time, he felt a tingling sensation in his body, and then he saw the other person openly stuffing a stun talisman into his collar.

Gao Hongguang had previously manipulated Bai Mao by briefly putting him under a puppet spell; he was always the one doing the manipulating others, and this was the first time he had been manipulated like this, leaving him speechless.

He looked at Mingzhuo in horror, blinking frantically as if trying to warn him.

Mingzhuo said, "Explain yourself clearly! What exactly happened? Why aren't you saying anything?"

She seemed furious and slapped Gao Hongguang across the face.

To outsiders, that slap was as light as flirting. "Brother Gao, tell me quickly."

"Explain yourself clearly, don't just stay silent."

Gao Hongguang was about to vomit blood. He had been punched several times and slapped, and his whole body was in so much pain that his blood was churning.

"You want to talk to me outside? Fine." Mingzhuo suddenly leaned closer and muttered discontentedly, "If you lie to me again, I'm not going to live anymore!"

She grabbed Gao Hongguang's arm and started to walk him out.

The old woman stepped out into the sunlight, then suddenly her eyes sharpened. "Wait! Stop!"

Despite her advanced age, she was incredibly agile, lunging forward to snatch Gao Hongguang back.

Outside the courtyard gate, Zhong Yufei was extremely anxious: "Oh my god, the master has been exposed, should we go in and help...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Gu Xu pushed the door open and went inside.

The old woman helped Gao Hongguang glance at him, and then asked, "Another accomplice has arrived?"

She sneered, "People of the Daoist sect? You have a path to heaven but choose not to take it, you barge into hell when there's no way out. You're courting death!"

Ming Zhuo blocked Gu Xu's way: "I'd love to die, but unfortunately, the King of Hell won't take me. The time before last, the guy who organized the suicide pact tried to buy my life with 500,000, and the time the guy who was trying to use my luck-changing magician tried to absorb my fortune, but they both failed. Why don't you try to take it?"

The old woman's eyes widened: "What? So they were all defeated by you? Who exactly are you?"

Mingzhuo: "Didn't you say you came here to die?"

The old woman weighed her options in her mind. She was based in the university town and was very well-informed. She had heard that recently a master had emerged in the Xuanmen sect, a master who made ghosts and evil cultivators tremble with fear.

I never expected that the expert in front of me would be like this.

"You're here to see Xiao Gao? How about we compromise? I'll hand him over to you to take away." She didn't want to confront Ming Zhuo unless absolutely necessary.

Mingzhuo raised an eyebrow: "Who said I'm just here to arrest him? Of course I'm here to take down your stronghold."

As he spoke, he drew his peach wood sword and with a few swift strokes forced the old woman to retreat repeatedly. Then, he suddenly turned around and chopped down the flower-protecting bells hanging under the eaves of the courtyard.

Gao Hongguang was just an ordinary person. Although he was quite talented, he didn't have the ability to control Song Wanning when she was so rebellious.

The real culprit is this old woman.

Moreover, it seems that she not only taught Gao Hongguang puppetry, but also many other people.

The old woman gritted her teeth: "Don't push your luck!"

"I'm going to push my luck, what, you're not happy about it?" Mingzhuo said with a smile as he recalled the peach wood sword.

The old woman's eyes suddenly turned sinister. She didn't want to confront Mingzhuo, but that didn't mean she would be afraid of a little girl.

Five or six young men nearby rushed up with weapons.

Mingzhuo grabbed the wooden stick that was being swung at him, slapped the person away, and then used the stick as a fulcrum to leap up and kick away all the people rushing at him.

She was still thinking to herself that these people were terrible at fighting; they were just old and didn't even have the same fighting ability as her former underlings.

Gu Xu, who was about to pull Ming Zhuo behind her but ended up with nothing, was speechless.

The old woman muttered incantations, and a tinkling sound came from inside the house. Then, a wisp of gray mist drifted in from the air, carrying a mesmerizing fragrance.

Upon closer inspection, it wasn't a gray fog at all, but rather a dense mass of tiny insects. Because they were difficult to see with the naked eye, they could be mistaken for fog.

The aroma was strange, making you want to take a few deep breaths. However, if you took a few more breaths, those little insects would be inhaled into your respiratory tract and enter your brain through the bloodstream!

So this is the secret of puppetry.

"Hold your breath!" Ming Zhuo reminded Gu Xu, then threw out several talismans, his hands forming hand seals. Once the seals were formed, the talismans spontaneously combusted without wind.

The gray mist ignited upon contact with the talisman fire, emitting a hissing sound, and soon the air was filled with the smell of burning.

Gu Xu knocked out the person who was trying to get up with a karate chop, then turned to look at the only old woman still standing on the field.

He had his sleeves rolled up, his face was like that of a beautiful woman, unbelievably beautiful, yet he was cold and aloof.

This scene looks exactly like someone bullying an elderly person.

The old woman took a step back: "Do you intend to bully the few with your numbers?"

Gu Xu stepped forward, not thinking there was anything wrong with it; this wasn't just an ordinary old man.

A smug glint flashed in the old woman's eyes. In a flash, a silver light shot straight toward Gu Xu, so fast that no one could react.

"Hahaha, you're doomed now that you've been poisoned by my silver ring snake venom!" the old woman laughed loudly.

Gu Xu said calmly, "Is that so?"

He raised his hand, holding a small silver snake in his palm. The snake trembled in his hand, pitiful, weak, and helpless.

The old woman's face changed drastically. This was a silver ring snake that she had carefully raised for decades using her clan's secret method. It was extremely yin, evil, and venomous. An ordinary person would be corroded by the yin energy if they touched it. How come this person didn't react at all?

She realized something was wrong and quickly chanted a spell to urge the snake on. However, under the urging, the snake suddenly flew towards the old woman.

"You're going to kill me?" The old woman was stunned!

When the snake attacked the old woman, it clearly changed its appearance, becoming insidious, vicious, and murderous, biting hard on the old woman's wrist.

Seeing the wound oozing black blood and eerie energy, the old woman flew into a rage and killed the snake.

This completely devastated him, almost ruining his decades of martial arts skills.