After Mu Chen reappeared and spent some time alone with Ming Mei, he left. After he left, Ming Mei sat quietly by herself, processing what Gui Gui had said earlier.

Not only did she not know until she asked, but once she did... Mingmei was stunned for a long time, until the sky outside darkened.

She remained there, completely absorbed in Gui Gui's narration, sitting quietly without moving.

To outsiders, she looks like a delicate little doll.

At least, that's how it looked when Mei Jiu came back. Seeing her like this, Mei Jiu was extremely worried. By the time she came to her senses, Mei Jiu was already hugging Mingmei like a sloth.

It was just suffocating.

Literally, suffocation.

Mingmei felt that her small frame had taken on too much.

"When did you get back?" Seeing that Mingmei had come to her senses, Mei Jiu reluctantly let go of her hand. When she heard Mingmei ask her, Mei Jiu replied, "A long time ago."

As she spoke, she stared at Mingmei with a resentful look for a while, and then said, "What are you thinking about so intently? The Fifth Elder came to see you earlier, and if he hadn't said you were alright, I would have called Mom and the others!"

"Sorry~" Mingmei stuck out her tongue, then asked, "Are you hungry? Have you eaten anything?"

“No, I want to eat with you.” Mei Jiu said, pulling Mingmei up, and added, “It’s a good opportunity to go for a walk.”

Mingmei did not refuse and followed Mei Jiu to the disciples' canteen of Butianmen, where she happened to run into Lu Xiaoyao, Zhen Po, and Mu Chen.

"Hey? What are you three doing here?"

Mei Jiu was surprised at first, then she twitched her sensitive little nose. An enticing aroma was coming from the pot that Mu Chen was stirring.

"I made some soup, and I was planning to serve some to you later, but I didn't expect you to come too."

Mu Chen waved them in warmly, but he didn't explain why the three of them were together.

However, unlike Mei Jiu, whose attention was immediately drawn to the delicious food when she came in, Ming Mei only glanced at the corner of her eye and saw Lu Xiaoyao and the others packing something up.

The patterns and engravings peeking out from the corner of the rolled-up object made it immediately clear to Mingmei that it was a magic array diagram.

It seems that Lu Xiaoyao and the others really did need Mu Chen's help, which is why they came to him while he was stewing soup.

Although Mingmei believed in Mu Chen's abilities, she couldn't help but wonder if Lu Xiaoyao and the others would be throwing their lives away if Mu Chen failed to regain his body today.

This is truly a stroke of luck!

Not only did Mingmei breathe a sigh of relief, but Lu Xiaoyao, having just received the definite news, was already overjoyed, feeling that she could be incredibly happy even if she didn't drink any soup tonight!

That's what she thought, but her gaze remained honestly fixed on the soup pot in front of Mu Chen.

When she and Zhen Po came to find him, he had been simmering the soup for so long, it should be drinkable by now, right?

But Lu Xiaoyao was dumbfounded when she finally saw that only three bowls of soup had been made and there was no soup for her.

She waited here for so long only to find nothing?

"Why are you still here?" Guan Jianmu seemed to find this guy, who looked like a glowing telephone pole, quite disgusted.

"I……"

When asked this, did Lu Xiaoyao mean she wanted to stay and have some soup?

Why are you still standing here when you already have the information you want to know? qvq

Thinking back carefully, it seems that they never actually mentioned taking me to drink soup.

"I was just looking at what you guys were rolling up. What were you doing?" Because they treated Mingmei as an NPC, Lu Xiaoyao and the others were sometimes reluctant to share their conversations with her. Instead, they would treat Mingmei like a Doraemon, asking her questions from time to time.

Now, Mingmei asked directly, regardless of whether Lu Xiaoyao and the others would speak up, Mu Chen would definitely say it.

"It's about exorcising evil spirits."

As expected, Mu Chen spoke first: "When they are tracking down the evil cultivators, they are always a step behind and can't catch up with them at all. Sometimes, they can hear about the evil cultivators committing crimes in the north one day and then receive news of them committing crimes in the completely opposite direction the next day."

"Could there be more than one evil cultivator?" Mei Jiu didn't think that far ahead, only assuming that there might be many people involved.

"No, they have special tracking artifacts that keep track of the other party. In fact, it was that evil cultivator who moved. He used a teleportation array that someone made for him."

Zhen Po denied Mei Jiu's speculation.

"A teleportation array? That's amazing!" Mingmei said, turning her head to look at Mu Chen, her eyes full of "It was made by the one inside your body, right?"

In response, Mu Chen lowered his head and drank his soup, tacitly acknowledging that Xie Chen had done it.

Seeing this, Mingmei couldn't help but smack her lips, and then looked at Mu Chen with the eyes of a complete scapegoat and a victim of injustice.

"Have you figured out anything about this teleportation array?"

Mingmei lowered her head and took a sip of soup, then looked up again, her gaze fixed on Mu Chen.

“I can see it now, there’s definitely something to it!” Lu Xiaoyao was the first to raise her hand and speak. “Those teleportation arrays are actually intersecting with each other, forming a cycle. I guess only the person being teleported and the person who built the teleportation array know the pattern inside.”

"So you're so happy? If it's really that complicated, don't you even know what it's really like?"

Mei Jiu was puzzled. Why did she look like she had been completely figured out when the question was so complicated?

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