"Please fall into the trap. My cultivation level far surpasses yours."

After speaking with Ji Linsong, it was already dusk when the rain had stopped.

Yan Huanyue took a pill to suppress the death energy, stood under the eaves of the guest room for a while to enjoy the breeze, and then went out alone to search for the undiscovered corpse demon.

When passing by the back street of Xuntianliao, the rain had stopped, and several more stalls had been set up. Several lanterns had already been lit next to Meng Yao's stall.

Now most people believe that the scourge of the corpse demons has been resolved. Even if it hasn't been completely resolved, the Sky Patrol Hall is capable of dealing with the fully transformed corpse demons. Therefore, most people are no longer so alarmed.

Because it was close to Qixi Festival, there were more people on the street. Meng Yao had several customers at his stall, and he was busy taking lanterns or wrapping thin red candles to match the lanterns.

Yan Huanyue listened to the woman buying lamps exchanging pleasantries with him, talking about everyday matters between neighbors, but she didn't linger and simply passed by.

After she had walked a distance, she heard Meng Yuanyuan call out from afar, "Miss Yan, wait a moment!"

She slowly stopped, turned around and looked back. Meng Yao's eyes were bright. He was running towards her against the wind, holding a paper package in his hand. He handed the package to her and said, "I forgot to give you the candle at noon."

Yan Huanyue lowered her hands and said, "Oh, there's no rush for now. You can sell these candles first, and I'll come to you for them if I need them."

Meng Yao tightened her grip on the candle, lowered her head, and said, "If you don't want it, do you think I'm being too abrupt?"

Yan Huanyue glanced at his expression briefly, then shook her head. "No."

Meng Yao seemed unable to suppress her excitement, but she still tried to control her emotions and said cautiously:

"Actually... I've wanted to report that family's situation to the patrol office for a long time. I've helped several beggars on the street before, and one of the little beggars even wanted to learn how to make lanterns from me, wanting to become a self-reliant craftsman..."

"Back then, two or three beggars disappeared from the street. After all, nobody cared about them, and nobody paid any attention. Once, I bumped into that couple taking the little beggar home. I thought they were giving the child food out of pity..."

"Young lady... it was my carelessness that killed him. You avenged him. I want to thank you on his behalf, and on behalf of all those poor souls who have no one to care about. I know this is just me trying to comfort myself after someone has lost their life. I wonder if you find someone like me laughable..."

Yan Huanyue raised her hand and rubbed her temples, saying calmly, "Why are you talking to me like that?"

Meng Yao, unaware of what taboo she had violated, asked in confusion, "What?"

Yan Huanyue looked up at him and asked, "What do you want me to answer?"

"girl?"

Yan Huanyue said, "I am not qualified to comment on your righteous act, nor do I have any opinion on whether it is laughable or not. It is just that you have regrets about it. If it is truly a knot in your heart, no matter what I say, it is not as good as you seeing it clearly and understanding it yourself."

"I......"

Most people would answer his question with "Of course it's not funny" and then offer him some words of comfort.

But she left the problem to him.

On the one hand, Meng Yao thought that she was using useless reasoning to evade the issue. Her underlying nature was that she seemed calm and objective, but in reality, she was unwilling to meddle in other people's business or waste her emotions. On the other hand, what she said was indeed correct.

Yan Huanyue raised her hand and gently tapped her throbbing head, saying, "You go ahead with your work, I have something to do, I'll be going now."

Meng Yao hurriedly said, "Miss, do you have time to go to Sanliu Street in the east of the city tonight? There is a big matter that involves many people, and it is not easy to say right now. I want to report to you that I only trust you in the Xuntianliao. I don't trust anyone else. If you are willing to listen to me, please set a time. If you think that place is not good, we can change it. I will listen to you."

To avoid arousing any doubt in her heart, at least one of the time or place must be completely left to her to decide.

Yan Huanyue nodded and said, "Alright, I'll come find you there at the end of Xu hour, okay?"

That's right, she agreed so readily, which shows she's not a troublemaker and her mind is probably quite simple...

Meng Yao clenched her sleeves and bowed, saying, "Okay, then I'll wait for you, young lady."

While taking her medicine, Yan Huanyue wandered around aimlessly, following the decaying aura to find the undiscovered corpse demon, and then dug her way to Sanyang Valley.

Three of them were corpses that turned into zombies on the spot, and she dragged them to the bottom of Sanyang Valley with poison nails stuck in their nails.

The people from the Sky Patrol used magic to search, which required more effort and manpower than she did. She made more than ten trips back and forth a day, and three of them were subdued with great effort. The fellow cultivators guarding the valley were truly astonished.

The female cultivators of the Heavenly Evolution Sect are truly fearless when it comes to work.

Yan Huanyue worked tirelessly until the moon was nearly at its zenith. However, due to persistent nasal congestion, despite having consumed a whole bottle of pills, she still suffered from a severe headache after leaving the Three Yang Valley for the last time. She couldn't help but lean against a tree trunk by the roadside and vomit incessantly.

As Lu Shenchu ​​dragged a corpse demon past, he heard a noise from the edge of the woods. When he went over and saw her, he couldn't help but laugh and say, "I say, Fellow Daoist Yan, if you're injured, don't do this kind of physical work, and don't worry about the initiation trial. Go back and rest well."

Seeing that she was in so much pain that she couldn't speak, Lu Shenchu ​​went to the bottom of the valley to put away the corpse demon, and quickly returned, asking, "What's wrong with you?"

Yan Huanyue punched her head twice, her face pale, and said, "It's nothing, the smell of the corpse demon is giving me a headache, it'll be fine in a bit."

After taking a pill and resting for a while, his complexion gradually returned to normal.

Just as Lu Shenchu ​​was about to take her pulse to find out what was wrong, Ning Wuyang happened to be passing by with a group of people pushing several corpse demons in a cart.

Lu Shenchu ​​hurriedly said, "Fellow Daoist Ning, your junior sister is ill."

Ning Wuyang stood on the main road and asked from afar, "Baoying, what's wrong?"

Yan Huanyue walked out of the woods and said, "I have a bit of a headache from running around all day. Senior brother, I have some business to attend to at Sanliu Street in the east of the city."

Ning Wuyang gave her a deep look and asked, "Where are you going?"

Yan Huanyue made an excuse, saying, "There are some things I need to take care of."

Ning Wuyang didn't ask any more questions. He gave her a bottle of pills and said, "Okay, go and come back soon. I'll buy you a midnight snack. Eat it while it's hot when you get back."

Yan Huanyue then bid farewell to Lu Shenchu ​​and headed to Sanliu Street in the east of the city.

Watching her departing figure on her long sword, Lu Shenchu ​​couldn't help but say, "Fellow Daoist Ning, aren't you going to try to persuade her? Running around so late at night, even a minor injury can turn into a serious one, let alone the one she just suffered."

Ning Wuyang said, "I'm almost fully recovered."

Lu Shenchu ​​asked in confusion, "Did you transfer the other half of the clothing demon's soul to her as well?"

Ning Wuyang said, "No, only some medicine was used. The other half of his soul was almost completely destroyed after the soul search."

Lu Shenchu ​​then said no more.

Yan Huanyue's intention not to accept favors anymore was so clear. That day, the little fairy took the snow crystals back from him. Surely she wouldn't be so shameless as to personally deliver them back, would she?

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When Yan Huanyue arrived above Sanliu Street, she could see from afar that there were only two small shops with their lights on on the deserted street.

Meng Yao was sitting at a small, quiet stall eating a bowl of wontons, with an off lamp on the table.

Yan Huanyue leaped into the street and walked to his side.

Meng Yao immediately stood up and said, "Miss, you've arrived. Have you eaten anything?"

Yan Huanyue gestured for him to sit down and said, "I've already eaten, you should eat something first."

As she spoke, she pulled out a stool and sat down. The old stall owner walked over with a smile and asked, "Young lady, what would you like to eat?"

A few customers at another stall glanced back at her before continuing to eat.

Yan Huanyue politely said to the stall owner, "Grandpa, no need, I've already eaten."

The stall owner smiled and went back to the stove to wrap wontons.

Meng Yao quickly finished the wontons in her bowl, turned on the lamp on the table, and said, "Girl, come with me."

Yan Huanyue then got up and followed him to a more secluded place.

As the oil lamps on the two stalls gradually faded behind them, Meng Yao, holding the lamp, walked beside her and said, "Miss, I've discovered a place here where people come and go, but I can never see where the entrance or exit is."

Yan Huanyue glanced at him sideways and said, "Perhaps he is a recluse who is proficient in Qimen Dunjia."

Meng Yao said, "I don't know anything about your Xuanmen and Daoist sects, but those people always travel at night. I've seen them from afar several times and almost fell into the river and drowned. If it weren't for the Xuntianliao stationed here, I'm afraid I would be dead by now."

Yan Huanyue asked in confusion, "Oh?"

As he spoke, he took out another pill from his sleeve and ate it.

Seeing this, Meng Yao asked, "What medicine are you taking, young lady? Are you sick?"

Yan Huanyue said, "Yes, I used up a lot of energy searching for the corpse demon today, and I suddenly have a headache now."

Meng Yao followed her secretly and knew that she had been searching for the Corpse Demon all day without stopping. She left immediately after arriving at the bottom of Sanyang Valley and did not have time to return to the Patrol Hall.

But after hearing Yan Huanyue's words, he still acted as if he didn't know anything and said to himself, "Miss, you've been busy all day and still have to come to keep my appointment. Tonight, Miss, just come with me over there and take a look from afar. You can bring people to come and see for yourself tomorrow."

Yan Huanyue said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Meng Yao took out a paper package from her bosom and gave it to her, saying, "It's no trouble at all. This is candy I bought on my way here. Women all like it. Please try it, young lady."

As he spoke, he picked up the lantern to illuminate the oil paper package in her hand.

Yan Huanyue opened the paper package and found three or four ounces of seasonal water chestnut candy inside.

She looked at Meng Yao, who smiled in the lamplight, seemingly expecting her to try the candy.

Yan Huanyue carefully rewrapped the paper package and placed it into her treasure pouch, her smile radiating warmth.

"Thank you. Actually, I don't eat much candy, but when I saw this, I thought of my husband. He is not in good health and needs to use candy to mask the bitterness of his medicine. He grew up in Chang'an and probably hasn't tasted this kind of candy much. I thought I would take it back for him and say that it was a gift from a kind-hearted person with a righteous heart. I'm sure he would like it."

Seeing that the girlish infatuation she showed when talking about that so-called husband didn't seem fake, and that she didn't seem to have noticed anything, Meng Yao didn't force her to eat the candy.

Anyway, she had already followed him smoothly to the north of the city, so whether or not she ate anything was no longer important.

Yan Huanyue continued, "In a little while, just stay at a distance and point out the direction to me. I'll go and see for myself."

In Meng Yao's eyes, she was like a silly girl who had been sold off and was still helping the seller count the money.

The righteous sects only cultivate physical strength, not cunning. They produce naive killing machines and still dare to dream of fighting against the demon race? What a joke.

“Miss Yan, it’s right there, the house with wisteria in front of the door.”

Yan Huanyue glanced over and saw that it was a very ordinary courtyard, and the gate of the house next to it was almost exactly the same.

The houses here are scattered in a well-organized manner, but because they are located at the junction of the east and north sides of the city, they appear somewhat desolate.

Yan Huanyue said, "Then wait here for a while, I'll go take a look."

Meng Yao nodded.

Yan Huanyue took two steps, took a pill from her sleeve and swallowed it. Then, seemingly still not entirely at ease, she turned around and walked to his side, saying, "The city wall is right next to us. I'm afraid that if there are really bad people inside, you might be targeted and retaliated against. It would be better to leave you outside the city wall for a while."

She gently grasped his wrist and whispered, "Brother Meng, don't be afraid. I'll just take a look and then bring you in from outside the wall and safely send you home."

At the last moment, Meng Yao didn't think much about it. Crossing the city wall was just a matter of a moment, and he simply followed her back.

Without saying much, he let Yan Huanyue carry him out of the city wall, relying on the weight on his body.

Under the bright moonlight outside the city wall stood an old locust tree. Yan Huanyue, seemingly of low cultivation level, jumped down in a panic. Although she suddenly realized the location of the locust tree and tried to avoid it, she could not avoid being swept along by the tree's dense and slender crown.

As the branches and leaves brushed against him, he suddenly opened his eyes wide, slapped Yan Huanyue away, clutched the bloody wound on his abdomen, and turned to leap onto the city wall.

Yan Huanyue made hand seals, and a spell wrapped around his leg, throwing him directly onto the open ground outside the city. She then used her sword to drag him for nearly two miles.

Under the bright moon, Yan Huanyue sat on her longsword, gently swinging her legs, and said with a smile, "When I first met Yun Ruoliang, he used the same tricks as you. But now it seems that you, as his subordinate, are even a notch above him. Your insidious schemes are so skillful, yet you remain subservient. What a pity..."

Meng Yao clutched her abdomen and curled up on the ground, motionless. In an instant, her expression changed, and she leaped into the air, striking at her temple with a palm strike.

Yan Huanyue released her grip and fell backward, her legs hooked around the long sword as she swiftly circled back up, the horizontal blade in her left hand already held against his neck.

Meng Yao gently pinched the tip of her knife with two fingers of her right hand, while two streams of spiritual energy fiercely resisted, causing their clothes and long hair to sway in the air.

Yan Huanyue stared intently and said, "If you stop resisting, we may leave you with a whole corpse."

Meng Yao remained motionless, his gaze fixed on the vast expanse of stars before him, and said in a low voice, "It is your honor that the young master likes you. Your companions must not have arrived yet. If you know what's good for you, come back with me to see the young master. Otherwise, even if you become a wandering ghost, do not come looking for me."

The sword was suddenly flung away by two fingers, and Yan Huanyue used the force of the throw to spin around and kick him.

Meng Yao rose up as lightly as a feather, made a hand seal with one hand, looked down at her, and said calmly, "Do you know why I was sent to capture you?"

Yan Huanyue held a horizontal sword in her right hand, resting the blade against the crook of her left arm. Her left hand formed a hand seal, and she stood fiercely in the wind, her dress and black hair dancing wildly, like a misty pink firework that kept flowing with light under the moon.

"Because your life is the least valuable thing."

Meng Yao shook her head, and with a hint of patience that encouraged teaching regardless of background, said from afar, "Because my cultivation level is far superior to yours."

In the blink of an eye, a cold, piercing sword pierced through her temple.

Yan Huanyue was secretly shocked by his speed, but she immediately turned to the side and saw Meng Yao fail to stop in time and fly past her. She quickly pulled out the hairpin from her head and secretly cast a spell to stab him in the neck.

Meng Yao deliberately exposed a weakness in her, and seeing that she had indeed fallen for it, he suddenly grabbed her hand and pulled her in front of him, and the long sword in his hand instantly shrank into a short sword and was pressed against her neck.

"See, Madam Yun? What did I say?"

The two were close together, and Meng Yao restrained her hand holding the knife.

Yan Huanyue turned her head to look at him, her face showing a hint of anger, and her lips were unusually red.

He sneered, "Madam Yun, once you're by the young master's side, you'll have to serve him well. If you displease him, he might turn you into a corpse demon. In that case, I'll have to help you refine your corpse. When we storm Tianyan, I'll send you there. Are you happy?"

Yan Huanyue was indignant and cursed him a few times. Suddenly, she parted her red lips slightly and breathed a breath of air at him. A faint fragrance unexpectedly entered his nostrils.

"You...you just ate a poison pill...femme fatale..."

Yan Huanyue kicked him away, sending him flying to the ground. Then, she hovered in the air, looking down at him expressionlessly, and spat out the poison pill wrapped in a medicinal powder from her mouth.

Her eyes were icy, and her tone was slightly cold. "In the eyes of those who consider themselves clever, everyone else is inferior to them. Such people often imprison themselves. You can't even hide your own decay, yet you still flaunt it everywhere, as if you're afraid people won't notice."

She clenched her five fingers in the night sky, holding the horizontal sword in her hand. She raised the sword and slashed down mercilessly from mid-air. The person on the ground was instantly cut in half by the wind of the sword, and blood and flesh were torn apart and spread across the field.

Meng Yao bled from all seven orifices, his upper body still struggling to move, when Yan Huanyue pierced his skull with a gust of wind and a hair-cutting technique.

She looked at the large patch of shadow gradually spreading under the moonlight and said indifferently, "Your cultivation is far superior to mine, yet your vision is also narrow."

She didn't glance at the lifeless corpse again, turned around and leaped to the top of the locust tree, silently watching the members of the Patrol Guard dressed in black sneaking through the streets and alleys under the cover of night.

He took out a pill from the medicine bottle given to him by Ning Wuyang and flicked it towards the courtyard with wisteria vines hanging in the distance.

Yun Ruoliang sent someone to lure her into his house, not because he was truly in love with her, but simply because she had stumbled upon him. Regardless of whether she was sure the figure was him, he had to get rid of her quickly.

Yan Huanyue watched as Ning Wuyang led his men to the front of the mansion, then slid into the city wall, floated to the gate, and used a telepathic method to say to Ning Wuyang, "Senior brother, there are two more stalls on Sanliu Street."

Ning Wuyang turned around and asked someone to investigate. Then he used a magic talisman and, together with the others, quietly set up an array around the many houses in the area.

Lu Shenchu, who was usually so talkative, had taken off the string of copper coins from his waist and kept staring at Yan Huanyue. He wanted to speak but couldn't transmit his voice, so he just mouthed to Yan Huanyue, "You're the one who guided us this time?"

This operation was quickly organized by Ning Wuyang and Ji Linsong after she left. Perhaps because they always lost clues when investigating the person behind the scenes in the past, no one else knew about it in advance this time.

Lu Shenchu ​​felt that neither he nor Yan Huanyue had particularly outstanding cultivation levels. Yan Huanyue relied on her sect, while he relied on his minor immortality. In actual combat, he relied on his mystical arts and his minor immortality, so he was definitely stronger than Yan Huanyue.

She was feeling nauseous in the woods just now, so how did she suddenly become the guide for tonight's secret operation? How can anyone be so surprised?

After the magic array was set up, some people were assigned to other courtyards. Yan Huanyue, along with Ning Wuyang and others, leaped onto the Wisteria Courtyard. In the shadows, several willow leaves drifted down into the courtyard.