Bai Yilian cursed for a while, then shouted at Zhang Ruosheng, "What are you doing! Are you mute?!"

After a long silence, Zhang Ruosheng suddenly spoke up: "You're right."

Bai Yilian didn't expect him to reply to her at this moment. Seeing that he agreed, the sarcasm in her mouth seemed to flow out like it was free: "Of course I'm right! I became like this because of your master! Your senior brother and you are the ones who caused it! You should be my slave for the rest of your life to pay off your debts!"

Zhang Ruosheng chuckled and shook his head, saying, "No, I mean what you said earlier is right. I am a shallow man who only cares about appearances, and you are a vicious woman who only cares about appearances."

"What did you say?" Bai Yilian's previously composed expression twisted into a grimace.

Zhang Ruosheng said, word by word, "I say you are a vicious woman, and everything you did is your own fault! You were able to be accepted into the sect by Master because you deceived me with sweet words and made me beg for you! You were punished with the bone whip because you didn't want to complete your lessons and wanted me to take the punishment in your place. You deserved it! You were expelled from the sect and had your cultivation destroyed! It was because your heart was poisonous and you wanted to harm the children. You deserved it!"

"You! Zhang Ruosheng, how dare you say that!" Bai Yilian shouted!

Zhang Ruosheng seemed to have found an outlet, and the turmoil and complicated feelings of the past few days gradually dissipated: "Why wouldn't I dare? Bai Yilian, I, Zhang Ruosheng, owe you nothing! On the contrary, it's you who used my resources to cultivate, and made me suffer the punishment for you! What have you done to deserve this? If anyone owes anything, it's you, Bai Yilian, who owes me!"

"That was your own choice! What, you did this not because I begged you, I don't owe you anything!" Bai Yilian said fiercely.

"Yes!" Zhang Ruosheng's melancholy dissipated, and after untying the knot in his heart, his mood brightened: "All of this was of my own free will."

Bai Yilian felt smug upon hearing his words, but before she could finish gloating, Zhang Ruosheng continued, "I did it willingly before, but now I don't want to anymore."

He looked at Bai Yilian, his voice firm and resolute: "When I wanted to, I could hold you in my arms and give you the best I could offer! Now that I don't want to, you are nothing to me!"

Bai Yilian was stunned by his words for a moment before she reacted and struggled to say, "No! No! I don't agree!"

“If you disagree, that’s your business. From now on, we’ll go our separate ways! I won’t interfere in anything you do anymore!” Zhang Ruosheng’s voice was firm.

Bai Yilian shook her head and said, "No! It's all Qi Zhiheng's fault that I've become like this! It's all Feng Yuanyi's fault! It's all your fault! You can't just abandon me!"

Zhang Ruosheng suddenly stepped forward, grabbed her hair, pulled her face to face him, and slapped her on the left cheek, saying in a warning tone: "My master and senior brother are such upright and honorable people, your filthy mouth is not worthy to mention them!"

He used to be able to tolerate Bai Yilian only because he cherished her. But now, he has let go of Bai Yilian, and since she has been let go, he has no need to contact her anymore.

He threw the person back onto the bed with a loud thud!

Then he opened the door and left without looking back.

The wailing and pain behind him were no longer on his mind.

After that, Qi Zhiheng stopped paying attention to Zhang Ruosheng and Bai Yilian's affairs and focused on waiting for his ability to control the rules to return soon.

Half a month later, Qi Zhiheng regained his ability to follow the rules and began to try to create something similar to the Demon Mushroom in the space.

He had previously planted several mushrooms that resembled the Demon Mushroom, and now he could try planting them one by one to see which one was suitable to be made into a substitute for the Demon Mushroom.

Qi Zhiheng first used the power of rules to modify the shape of a mushroom. Changing the shape alone would not have any impact. Next, he made changes to the internal structure.

There are three aspects he needs to modify. The first is the appearance, which he has already been able to do.

The second possibility is the reproductive ability of the Magic Mushroom. Since the Magic Mushroom can reproduce in a short period of time, the second possibility is the reproductive ability of the mushroom in his hand.

Thirdly, the Demon Mushroom contains demonic energy, but Qi Zhiheng cannot actually create a Demon Mushroom with demonic energy, so he has to choose a power of a certain attribute to put into the mushroom.

Qi Zhiheng simply chose the light attribute, which is the opposite of the magic mushroom!

After listing the three points, Qi Zhiheng got caught up in the grand plan of mushroom transformation!

During the few days that Qi Zhiheng hid in his space, Que Hanhai received more information and waited for Qi Zhiheng to come out and share it, but unexpectedly learned that Qi Zhiheng had gone into seclusion again.

Qi Zhiheng had only been researching the Demonic Mushroom for about five days.

Upon leaving, he learned that Que Hanhai needed to see him, so he rushed to Lufeng.

Que Hanhai shared the news with him directly: "Recently, our sect's disciples were patrolling their territory and did discover some suspicious figures. I suspect they might be people who left behind the demonic mushrooms to investigate, but our people stopped them."

Qi Zhiheng offered his opinion: "Their current investigation into the spread of the Demonic Mushrooms is probably intended to clarify the situation before proceeding to the next step."

"But if they discover that the demonic mushrooms in the territory of the God Slaughtering Sect have not spread and have been dealt with, will it affect their next move? By the way, I also found demonic mushrooms in the territories of several friendly sects, but the number is still relatively small."

Qi Zhiheng thought for a moment and said, "I've come up with a way to prevent them from noticing the abnormality of the Demonic Mushroom."

"What method?" Que Hanhai trusted Qi Zhiheng quite a bit, and when he heard that he had a solution, he hurriedly asked.

Qi Zhiheng took out his achievements from the past few days: "Sect Master, look at this."

"Demon Qi Mushroom? You still have this?" Que Hanhai took the mushroom from his hand, examined it, and found nothing unusual.

Qi Zhiheng said, "This is not a demonic mushroom. I have discovered a kind of mushroom that looks very similar to the demonic mushroom and has a strong ability to reproduce. However, what it contains is not demonic energy, but light-attribute spiritual energy."

"Light attribute spiritual energy?" Que Hanhai found this statement somewhat unbelievable, but out of trust in Qi Zhiheng, he probed his spiritual energy into the demonic mushroom, and a stream of light attribute spiritual energy entered his meridians along with his spiritual energy.

However, the light-attribute spiritual energy did not harm him; instead, it gave him a refreshing feeling.

Que Hanhai took a deep breath, and after the comfortable feeling dissipated, he asked, "You mean? Use this kind of mushroom to replace the original demonic mushroom to deceive the enemy's spies?"

“That’s right!” Qi Zhiheng explained, “The Demonic Mushroom contains demonic energy. I don’t think even the disciples sent by their sect would bother to investigate whether it’s demonic energy or light-attribute spiritual energy.”

The two then discussed other matters, such as how to deal with the demonic mushrooms that had appeared in the territory of the friendly sects.

Que Hanhai first instructed his subordinates to plant the fake demonic mushrooms in his hand, and then quietly contacted the sects he was on good terms with to inform them of the matter.

Originally, these sects also planned to send their disciples who were affected by demonic energy to Wuchen Temple to receive the baptism of Buddhist light. However, before one wave subsided, another arose, and these sects were once again caught up in a busy situation.

Another half month passed, and the light-attribute demonic mushrooms that Que Hanhai had people planted had grown to a considerable scale.

Then, Que Hanhai instructed his disciples on patrol to let some suspicious individuals into their territory.

The matter was thus quietly passed by.

Que Hanhai only mentioned the Demonic Qi Mushroom to a few sects he was on good terms with. As for the other sects, they had no obligation to help investigate, since their manpower was also limited.

Now that the Tianyuan Sect has already done this, they will likely expose the matter of the Demonic Mushroom to the public. All they need to do is wait and see what the Tianyuan Sect does next.

Shenmu Sect.

Ye Yunchuan made hand seals, and the alchemy furnace in front of him spun around a few times, causing the fire below to burn even more fiercely.

He seemed to sense the unusual movement in the air, quickened the hand seals, and then began to perform the pill-condensing incantation. Half an hour later, the fragrance of the pill filled the air, and the pill was successfully refined.

The sound of clapping came from behind the curtain, followed by a deep male voice: "Master Ye is indeed worthy of being a fifth-level alchemist. I'm afraid even your sect's... alchemy skills are not as exquisite as yours."

Ye Yunchuan calmly put away the pills: "What news have you brought this time?"

As he finished speaking, a man dressed in a black robe emerged from behind the curtain, his face mostly obscured. However, judging from his figure and voice, he was a young man in good health.

The man in black robes said, "The Netherworld Seeds in the territory of the Slaughtering God Sect have grown significantly. I wonder what Alchemist Ye thinks of the next plan."

Ye Yunchuan's voice was indifferent: "Opinion? What opinion can I have? Isn't it all up to your actions?"

"Then proceed according to the original plan." The man in black robes continued the reply himself, and then brought up another matter, saying, "I heard that Master Ye was very insistent that your sect not sell pills to the Slaughter God Sect. The Slaughter God Sect is a major sect. Since you haven't sold pills to the Slaughter God Sect for so long, your sect must have received far fewer resources, right?"

Ye Yunchuan, somewhat impatient at having his grievances brought up, asked, "What do you want to say?"

"No! I just wanted to remind you that perhaps we can continue making this sound," the man in black robes said.

Ye Yunchuan frowned and said, "You want to tamper with the pills? No way! That would easily damage Xin Yun of the Shenmu Sect!"

The man in black robes said, "Don't rush. I'm just making a suggestion. Whether to do it and how to do it is up to Master Ye himself."