Liu Hui watched the two struggle until Yan Chenghuan disappeared from sight, then Liu Hui gloated, "You had to help such a troublemaker, and now you've gotten what you deserved!"

Zhang Xu wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and said nonchalantly, "I'm happy to do it, what's it to you! What, you don't care about your senior brother anymore?"

Liu Hui's face flushed red again, like a steamed bun with rouge on it: "Hmph! The city is in this state because Senior Brother was eliminating the evil spirits. Senior Brother wouldn't be so useless! You should be more concerned about the troublemakers who just rushed in!"

Well, he's still obsessed with his senior brothers. But he's a troublemaker one after another. Does he know something?

"Why do you keep calling him a troublemaker? What, how has he gotten in your way?"

Liu Hui looked at her like she was an idiot: "You don't know anything, yet you dare to defend him like this? Yan Chenghuan's name is notorious in the cultivation world as a son of a demon. We usually avoid such filthy people like the plague."

Despite her displeasure with the words he used, Zhang Xu suppressed her disgust and continued to ask, "Is Yan Chenghuan's reputation really that great?"

The question seemed to have hit Liu Hui's sweet spot, and he said with a smug look, "Back then, the Queen Consort of the King of Chu had an affair with a demon and gave birth to an illegitimate child. The whole world knew about it. She gave up being a proper queen consort and insisted on having an affair with a demon, resulting in such an illegitimate child..."

"Enough!" Zhang Xu interrupted him coldly. Even though she could get a lot of information from him, she couldn't bear to listen any longer.

Behind a well-known secret lies nothing more than an innocent person bearing the brunt of discrimination.

A feeling of heartache spread, and it's no wonder that Yan Chenghuan eventually turned to the dark side. With so many cold words behind him, even without Rong Yue's abandonment, any normal person would go crazy.

Liu Hui wanted to mock her, but seeing her eyes, he didn't dare say anything more and could only look away to ease the awkwardness.

The dark clouds that had gathered in the city burst open in an instant, and several figures were spewed out.

Before Yan Chenghuan could even rush into the city, he was pushed to Zhang Xu's side by a powerful gust of wind. Lu Qinglan, protecting Rong Yue, also landed beside her after a few somersaults. The people who came out had blood on their faces and torn clothes, and they all looked to be seriously injured.

Behind them, the dark clouds seemed to come alive, hurtling towards them at a visible speed.

Lu Qinglan quickly stood up, her hands forming hand seals: "Come and help me quickly."

Liu Hui, who was still in a daze, was pulled over. Even though Lu Qinglan was covered in blood, her expression remained calm, and her hand gestures were quick and stylish.

"The city is already her territory. Now that we have angered her, we can't go in for the time being."

Lu Qinglan explained, "Currently, with our strength, we cannot defeat them. We have no choice but to return to Yuqingshan."

Rong Yue, her eyes red, pleaded, "Can you please not hurt him?"

Lu Qinglan paused in her hand gesture.

"If this is not resolved, the capital of Chen will become a dead city forever, and it will also threaten the surrounding towns. We cannot take this risk."

Zhang Xu saw Rong Yue pull Lu Qinglan's hand back.

Zhang Xu's eyebrows twitched, and she knew in her heart that something was wrong.

Sure enough, as soon as Rong Yue's hand fell, she rushed inside again with a pair of scissors.

"Ah Bing, was that you just now? If you have any complaints, take them out on me too!" Rong Yue shouted as she ran, moving incredibly fast.

Zhang Xu was right next to her, and seeing Rong Yue's speed, she followed her inside.

Are all the characters in this book lone wolves? Do they all love rushing into dangerous places? Zhang Xu didn't want to go, but unfortunately, there was this broken system in her head that said she couldn't be absent during this crucial moment of deciphering!

The original novel only describes how the male and female protagonists went through many hardships to leave the capital. Facing the evil spirits in the capital, Lu Qinglan finally killed Hou by overdrawing his cultivation. However, after killing Hou, the third prince Rong Bing in the city also died. Rong Yue then realized that her younger brother, who had always followed her, harbored such deep resentment towards the royal family that he was willing to drag everyone down to hell. However, the original novel did not clearly describe Rong Bing's descent into darkness.

"Princess!" Zhang Xu followed Rong Yue.

After experiencing so much in the past few days, Rong Yue's innocence and cheerfulness had been greatly diminished. At this moment, there was little smile on Rong Yue's face, like a bright flower covered in frost, looking very haggard.

"Why Rong Bing? I've been so good to him," Rong Yue asked, her expression forlorn.

"Princess, what did you see?"

"I followed Senior Brother Lu to the altar, where everyone had turned into zombie puppets, but we couldn't find Father and Mother. We followed the trail to Rong Bing's residence and found a man in black, but..."

Rong Yue couldn't say anything more, and tears streamed down her face. Zhang Xu didn't dare ask any more questions and silently handed her a handkerchief.

Zhang Xu followed Rong Yue to the center of the altar. The journey was unimpeded, and the temperature in the air seemed to have dropped considerably, indicating that Rong Bing still did not want to hurt his sister.

Lu Qinglan and Yan Chenghuan arrived without anyone noticing. The violent atmosphere in the city had subsided considerably, and in just a moment, the violent city seemed to have accepted them.