The hen spread her wings and lowered her body—it seemed ready to peck the fox cub until it bled.

Ai Cao's gaze passed over the dry straw and chicken coop.

In the courtyard, the proprietress was talking to a group of men in black. Her clothes were neat, but her hair was a little messy. It was less that she had gotten up early and more that she hadn't slept all night.

Then we passed the group of men in black, whose faces and clothes were as black as their own.

There was also a lot of hay piled up at the entrance of the yard. This messy hay not only blocked half of the gate, but was also scattered sparsely on the yard wall, making it look like a huge hen's nest.

The leader of the men in black glanced at Ai Cao, who was holding a sword. But it seemed that Ai Cao had no spiritual power at all, so he ignored her and only said to the proprietress, "You have to come with us."

The man in black raised his hand expressionlessly—the landlady hurriedly shrank her neck—but he simply removed a piece of dry grass from his face that was about to poke his eye.

The proprietress asked with a forced smile, "May I ask who this gentleman is...?"

“You’ve seen my son,” the man in black said.

He pulled down his mask, revealing a face that bore an eight-tenths resemblance to the dead man in black from before.

The proprietress was startled, her voice tinged with fear: "So you're an immortal... an immortal, may I bid farewell to my daughter before..."

The man in black impatiently reached out and grabbed her.

Ai Cao quickly opened the skill menu, glanced at it, and then regretfully closed it.

Now that Yang Lingyao is not here, she doesn't know if these people have blood on their hands.

But it's okay, she has her own solutions.

She charged forward, sword in hand, and asked the system, "As long as I leave them alive, I can use the [Pregnancy] skill on them, right?"

The system responded with a bewildered "Huh?".

In the short time that the system was in a daze, Ai Cao had already rushed to the man in black.

She raised her sword and calmly thrust it out.