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A man was kicked out from the red tent and fragrant curtains. He rolled around in a mess, covering his lower body and wailing in pain.

The slender legs that kicked him out were resting on the steps, motionless.

"You, you..." The man pointed at her, his fingers trembling violently, "Poisonous woman...poisonous woman!"

A porcelain bowl peeked out from behind the curtain. Its black pottery texture made the slender fingers look even whiter as they pushed aside the red curtain.

"I took it as a compliment."

Ning Guanyin's eyes were as charming as silk, but her dark pupils were devoid of any lust.

"I have no grudge against you..."

Ning Guanyin interrupted, "Really? Then what kind of grudge do you have with the three young ladies of the Xu family in Nanfeng Town?"

The man opened his eyes wide in shock.

"Three years ago, you passed through Nanfeng Town on your way to Zhongzhou for the imperial examination. Madam Xu kindly offered you a place to stay, but you became lustful and insulted three unmarried young ladies of the Xu family, the youngest of whom was only eleven years old. You fled overnight. Do you know what happened next?"

Ning Guanyin sneered, "Madam Xu felt guilty towards her daughters and hanged herself. The sixteen-year-old eldest daughter jumped into a well that day, and the second daughter, unable to bear the humiliation, followed her mother. Three days later, Mr. Xu, who had been away on business, returned home to find the bodies of his wife and daughter."

The man shouted, "Who told them to be so beautiful? Not only me, but anyone else would be fascinated by them! This is not my fault! Besides, there are only three dead, so there is still one left."

"Master Xu dismissed the servants, set fire to the house, and followed them with his youngest daughter." Ning Guanyin sneered faintly, "I heard that you wanted to kidnap the third young lady, but she struggled to get away."

The man's face turned pale. "How do you know?"

"Killing you would be too easy."

As he finished speaking, a burst of spiritual energy struck the man's chest, causing him to cry out in pain. The next moment, an indigo pill flew into his mouth, and he subconsciously swallowed it.

"Third Senior Brother, this is a good idea. He is short of drugs to test, but I have plenty that can be used for testing. Isn't that wonderful?" Ning Guanyin smiled and clapped her hands, overjoyed.

The man tried to dig his throat, but the pill melted the moment it touched his tongue.

An extremely itchy feeling slowly spread over his body. He screamed and tore his skin, "Witch, you witch!"

Ning Guanyin watched for a while, became bored, and threw the man into the dungeon.

The moment the cell door was opened, a mixture of wails and curses were heard.

She closed the cell door calmly.

At this time, Wen Renyi's voice came from outside the courtyard, "Fourth Junior Sister."

Ning Guanyin flew out like a rainbow.

Wenren was also wet, obviously having just crawled out of the icy spring.

Gong Ziyu folded his arms and walked over leisurely, "Big Brother no longer crashes into mountains, he has become a water ghost."

Wen Renyi didn't even raise his eyelids, "Why does Junior Sister always go to your place?"

No one noticed at first, but Ruan Zhaozhao went there almost every day, especially at night, which naturally attracted attention.

Gong Ziyu observed: "She likes the crows in my yard and has become friends with them. It's normal for children to be close to small animals."

Wenren also looked strange, "The crows guarding the corpses in the mass grave are... small animals?"

"She dismantled my maze."

Su Yuhan walked out of the bamboo forest and threw the broken formation stone to the ground. "This little girl is not simple."

Ning Guanyin heard the sounds of breaking and collapsing coming from deep in the bamboo forest last night. "Was it her last night?"

Su Yuhan speculated: "Could it be that the technique that the Grandmaster gave her is the Beast Taming Technique? I asked her, and she said no."

Gong Ziyu was practicing the Corpse Taming Technique. He had observed how Ruan Zhaozhao interacted with the crows. "I don't think so either. All 'controlling' techniques share something in common. It doesn't look like she's practicing the Beast Taming Technique."

Wen Ren also came for another matter. "This time, the entrance to Xiaocang Realm has opened in Fengle Town, and most of the Canghai Sect's disciples have come. Master had anticipated this day, and the formation he set up has worked. They think Jueqing Sect is just a small Taoist temple and will not disturb them again. After Xiaocang Realm is closed, they will leave."

Su Yuhan noticed it keenly, "You want to go in?"

"That's right." Wen Renyi nodded expressionlessly, "I've been waiting for this day for five years."

None of the three people like to ask why.

Because I have secrets that I don't want others to know.

but--

After all, we have been fellow students for four years.

Gong Ziyu said calmly: "I won't stay here forever."

Su Yuhan turned around: "I also have important things to do."

Only Ning Guanyin remained silent.

After a while, she smiled softly: "Then you can go, I will stay in the Jueqing Sect."

The three of them looked at her at the same time.

They knew why they were "picked up" by the headmaster, and of course they didn't believe that the old man would bring back someone without obsessions.

Ning Guanyin looked at the three of them in surprise. "Three senior brothers, I have long since abandoned my past and my obsessions. This Jueqing Sect will be my burial place from now on. I have nowhere else to go anyway."

Gong Ziyu couldn't help but ask, "Hehuan Sect?"

Ning Guanyin glared at him fiercely, "Second Brother, I know you like dealing with the dead. Would you like to try becoming a dead person yourself?"

Wen Renyi: "Okay, since you want to stay in Jueqing Sect for the rest of your life, then Xiaoye and Fifth Junior Sister will be left to you."

Ning Guanyin leaned lazily against the railing. "Though these two children aren't difficult to take care of, I won't be taking care of them forever. Big Brother, you're not really going to take charge of this place, are you?"

Gong Ziyu thought of Ruan Zhaozhao commanding a group of "crows".

"I think that little girl is very capable. Maybe it's not us who are in charge of her, but she is in charge of us," he joked.

Gong Ziyu and Wenren also left one after another.

Seeing that Su Yuhan hadn't left, Ning Guanyin raised an eyebrow and said, "Third Brother, I had someone try the pill you gave me, and it wasn't very effective. It just made the whole body itch intensely, and the user had to tear off their own skin with their own hands. It's not really torture. At least, compared to the injuries he's caused to those he's harmed, it's nothing."

Su Yuhan raised his eyes and looked at her, "Lu Zhi?"

Ning Guanyin's expression suddenly turned ugly.

She suddenly understood and sneered, "I was wondering why Xiaoye had a trace of spirit in him. I thought it was released by the eldest brother, but I didn't expect that the first person to release it would be you."

"I had no intention of eavesdropping."

Su Yuhan took out a piece of paper from his bosom. "This is what Junior Sister gave me last night. She sent Crow to Fengle Town to gather information about the Canghai Sect. There's a person mentioned on it, Lu Zhi."

Before he could finish his words, the paper was rolled over by the red silk.

Ning Guanyin pinched the edge of the paper to block her face, but from the wrinkled edges of the paper, it could be seen that she was not at peace. "Why did she collect these?"

Su Yuhan didn't say anything.

He waved his hand and turned to walk deeper into the bamboo forest. "It's better for you to stay in Jueqing Sect. Master will find it lonely when everyone is away."

Ning Guanyin remained silent for a long time.

After a while, she burned the things.

Watching the evening breeze carry the ashes into the night sky, she murmured, "Is this really the end of it?"

·

The moon is above the treetops.

Ruan Zhaozhao listened to Crow's report as usual.

She discovered that the words "Lu Zhi" occasionally appeared in the crows' intelligence.

When they were collecting information, they found that the man who often followed Xiao Yichen would drink tea with Han Duanyun, and Han Duanyun directly called his name, "Lu Zhi" once or twice.

Han Duanyun also called him "Junior Brother Lu". As an elder, the only one he could call his "Junior Brother" was another elder of the Canghai Sect, Lu Zhi.

Yu Xiaoye once mentioned that he was the person Ning Guanyin hated the most.

Ning Guanyin never mentioned why she hated him.

As I was thinking, a person suddenly rushed over from the side.

Ruan Zhaozhao dodged sideways, but the man didn't brake in time and hit the tree, getting caught on the branches.

She walked over and found a strange man dressed as a scholar. "Who are you?"

"Little sister," the man said pitifully, "please help me find someone to help me. I, I met a witch!"

"Witch?" Ruan Zhaozhao suddenly realized, "Ah, you mean Fourth Senior Sister!"

"Fourth Senior Sister? You, you are in cahoots with her!" The man was frightened at first, and then angry.

On second thought, this child looks only five or six years old, he is just a child, is there any need to be afraid of him?

The man immediately put on a pitiful look, "Little sister, yes, I'm talking about your senior sister. She, she wants to kill me! If you help me, I'll give you candy. You can have anything you want, okay?"

Ruan Zhaozhao tapped his left hand with his right hand. "She wants to kill you. So you must be a good person?"

The man was overjoyed: "Yes, I am a good person. I have told her many times that I am an upright gentleman. I have never done any of the things she said! But she insisted that I did it. I am so wronged!"

He looked at Ruan Zhaozhao eagerly, with a long sentence brewing in his mind, waiting for her to ask.

Ruan Zhaozhao looked at his face for a long while, "Brother, we shouldn't lie to each other."

The man was stunned. "What?"

Ruan Zhaozhao: "You look just like the lowest-level villains in the City That Never Sleeps. My dad says villains like you who like to pretend to be good are the most despised. You're not even villains, you're just 'rat in the gutter.'"

The man's anger flared up. "Little girl, what nonsense are you talking about?! I, Yang Feng, am a well-known good man in the surrounding area. I have helped so many poor women—"

Before he could finish his words, a fist landed on his nose.

With a "click", the man heard the sound of his nose bone breaking.

My heart was in turmoil: How could this kid have such strong grip?!

The next moment, he was grabbed by the ankle and pulled straight down from the tree!

The rough branches scratched his thighs, leaving deep bloody marks.

The little girl didn't say much. She pulled him back, crossed the stone bridge, and arrived in front of the Red Mansion.

Knocking on the door, "Fourth Senior Sister, there's a mouse running out of your house!"

The gate opened in response.

Ning Guanyin stood under the eaves, glancing in surprise at the half-dead man who had been dragged all the way, "You caught him back?"

Ruan Zhaozhao nodded, "Yeah, didn't he run away from you?"

Ning Guanyin smiled suddenly, "Yes."

She deliberately let this guy go because she wanted to see where his accomplices were.

Unexpectedly, he was caught by Ruan Zhaozhao, who beat him up and sent him back.

This kind of person...

He should be cut into pieces.

System: "Host, the 'Causal Killing Value' has increased."

Ruan Zhaozhao looked at the top of Ning Guanyin's head. Unlike the sudden rise and fall of the other three people, her "Cause and Effect Killing Value" was rising slowly bit by bit.

Like a lingchi knife.

Ruan Zhaozhao threw the man into the yard and said, "Fourth Senior Sister, I'm returning it to you."

Seeing her turn to leave, Ning Guanyin called out to her, "Junior Sister, aren't you curious about what this person has done?"

Ruan Zhaozhao turned his head and looked at her.

"He's not deceiving decent women. He likes to pretend to be a gentleman and deceive those prostitutes. He pretends to pay a portion of silver, plus the money they have earned from selling their bodies over the years, to 'redeem' them, but then he forges the bonds and sells them at a higher price to high-ranking officials with 'unique' hobbies..."

Ning Guanyin walked up to the man, raised her foot and stepped on his face.

The man was twitching in pain and couldn't make a sound.

"Which is more unacceptable, deception in the name of love or blatant lies?" Ning Guanyin said softly.

Ruan Zhaozhao yawned, "Fourth Senior Sister, I'm so sleepy. I'm going back to sleep first."

Ning Guanyin was stunned.

Then I couldn't help laughing at myself: She is just a five-year-old child, how can she understand love?

Ruan Zhaozhao walked briskly across the stone bridge, down the stone steps and returned to his house.

She lit the candle on the table, brought a doll over, and pondered face to face.

System: "Host, what are you thinking about?"

Ruan Zhaozhao knew that Lu Zhi was the protagonist's master.

She takes everything related to the protagonist seriously.

"Tell me, how can I kidnap the protagonist's master?"