Qi Yu frowned, then darted out of the thatched hut and chased after the dark figure.
The dark figure wasn't running very fast, staying neither too close nor too far within Qi Yu's line of sight, seemingly deliberately controlling its speed, as if it wanted to take her somewhere.
After chasing for a while, Qi Yu suddenly stopped, realizing something was wrong, and hurriedly turned back.
A tactic to lure the tiger away from the mountain!
The shooting star is still inside the thatched hut!
She hurriedly called out to Feng Xiao in her mind, "Feng Xiao, please go back and check if Liu Xing is alright!"
A silver-haired, red-eyed man appeared beside her. Seeing her anxious expression, he nodded and quickly slipped away.
Even divine-level flying artifacts couldn't match the speed of the phoenix, which put Qi Yu at ease a little.
There were no lighting devices set up on Xingyue Peak in the dead of night, and the road was shrouded in a gray haze, with only the bright moon shining down from high above.
The slender girl, stepping on pale green wind talismans, sped towards the small thatched hut with the help of the wind.
She wasn't led away for long and soon returned to the little hut.
A tall, elegant silver-haired man stood at the entrance, gazing at Qi Yu from afar. The dim moonlight made his face appear eerily unreal.
A person lay at his feet, their fate unknown. Meteor stood behind him, head bowed, motionless.
Qi Yu breathed a sigh of relief the moment she saw Feng Xiao.
Fortunately, he was there; otherwise, if something had happened to Meteor, the plot clues might not have been so easy to explore.
Qi Yu removed the wind talisman and slowly walked over. The person lying on the ground looked somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him before.
She crouched down, turned the man's face around, and looked at him carefully. Finally, she remembered when she had seen this somewhat lewd-looking face before.
It was the senior brother who caused trouble for her when she disguised herself as a meteor.
Not far from the lewd senior brother was a shiny black stone. Qi Yu picked it up and looked at it with a subtle expression.
It looks very similar to the projection stones in the secret realm that monitor the actions of the trial participants.
The projection stone has already chosen a master; unless the master dies, no one can see what's recorded inside...
Feng Xiao stood with his back straight for a long time, but Qi Yu didn't praise him, which made him quite unhappy.
He said coldly, "This person is acting suspiciously. Should we kill him?"
Qi Yu didn't look at him, but said, "We are civilized cultivators, we can't just shout for war and killing."
She fiddled with the projection stone in her left hand and patted the lewd senior brother's face with her right. Seeing that the lewd senior brother still showed no signs of waking up, she added more force and slapped the lewd senior brother's face twice.
These two blows were much stronger than the ones she had used to hit Zhu Yue before, and the lewd senior brother immediately woke up.
He stared in disbelief at Qi Yu's smiling face, oblivious to the inexplicable burning sensation on his cheeks, his eyes darting around as he shouted, "W-what are you going to do!"
Qi Yu held the projection stone up to his face and said softly, "It's so late, and I'm also wondering why you've come to my place so suddenly."
Among the people who blocked the meteor last time, the highest cultivation level was only the third level of Qi Refining. The person who lured her away just now was definitely more than that, at least at the Foundation Establishment stage like her.
This person's late-night visit, with its diversionary tactics and projection stones, really piqued her curiosity.
Qi Yu brandished a long sword in her hand, and with a smile, she pressed the sword against the lewd senior brother's neck, saying softly, "If you don't tell the truth, this sword of mine will not obey you."
The long sword gleamed with a chilling aura, instantly deflated the lewd senior brother, who repeatedly cried out, "I confess! I confess!"
Qi Yu sheathed his sword and said with satisfaction, "That's more like it. Shouting for war only hurts harmony."
The lewd senior brother: "..."
"Hmm? Does Senior Brother have any objections?"
"No, no!"
"Then let's not waste any more time, just say it."
The lewd senior brother swallowed hard, looked at Qi Yu, then at the handsome man who had suddenly appeared and knocked him unconscious, and then at the calm Meteor beside him, feeling remorseful.
"Ahem, I didn't mean to disturb my junior sister's rest. It's just that someone offered a high price for a record of her and this, Meteor Junior Brother's... um... secret rendezvous, so I..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was silenced by the silver-haired man's murderous gaze. The man's crimson eyes flashed with a chilling light that instilled fear in the listener.
Qi Yu: "..."
She said speechlessly, "Who asked you for this?"
The lewd senior brother said awkwardly, "I don't know either. That person was wearing a mask, and he looked neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin. I couldn't even tell if he was male or female. He came up and said he wanted a thousand low-grade spirit stones. How could I resist such temptation? Junior sister, I really didn't mean it. Please forgive me and let me go!"
He had already heard of Qi Yu's formidable reputation, and having just experienced it firsthand, he began to beg for mercy, showing his ability to be both yielding and assertive.
The lewd senior brother kept rambling on about his difficulties, even mentioning how many people were in his family and how many calves his cows had given birth to, all to prove that he was struggling and had no other choice but to do this.
Qi Yu scratched her ear and made a "pause" gesture. Her lewd senior brother was making so much noise that she couldn't think about who the mastermind was.
Asking for a record of her rendezvous with Meteor? Are you kidding me? She looks only seventeen or eighteen, and Meteor is only twelve. Does she really look that heartless, reaching out to even a child who hasn't grown up yet?!
However, Meteor was indeed quite handsome. Qi Yu shifted her gaze to the young boy's face. A few strands of hair were stuck to his mouth. After activating the Chaos Spiritual Root, his entire face became even more translucent and fair, and the red mole between his eyebrows was perfectly placed...
A blank face suddenly blocked her view.
The young man stared at her with his deep red phoenix eyes, his grievances almost overflowing, and his lips were slightly downturned. Qi Yu coughed and looked away.
This eerie feeling...
She brought her thoughts back on track. If she were to suspect anyone, the most likely candidate would be Zhu Yue, whom she had taught a lesson. It wouldn't be unreasonable for him to want to smear her because he didn't like her.
But what's the point of him hiding his identity? Qi Yu will suspect him immediately.
Qi Yu pondered for a moment, then patted his lewd senior brother's face and said, "Senior brother, do you know who you were with just now?"
The lewd senior brother exclaimed in confusion, "What do you mean, 'come with me'? I came alone!"
Qi Yu frowned even more deeply.
Zhu Yue bribed his lewd senior brother to record a video to smear her, so there was really no need to hire another person.
Who was that dark figure that led her away?
What does he want to do?
Qi Yu turned his gaze to the dark projection stone in his hand.
"Senior brother, didn't you record my secret rendezvous with Meteor? Show it to me."
"This..." The lewd senior brother dared not breathe as he took the projection stone back from Qi Yu's hand, infused it with a wisp of spiritual power, and released what he had recorded that night.
He stood outside the door, unable to see what was inside, only able to hear the occasional painful groans of shooting stars, and nothing else.
No clues.
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