Yongning Prefecture, Chuxiang City.

The building was tall and magnificent, with flying eaves and heavy roofs, jade railings and jade pillars, and it was extraordinary. Beyond the wall, there were winding corridors and quiet trees and bright flowers. Yao Yue was used to seeing palaces and palaces, but she had never seen such an elegant courtyard, with low curtains and scattered flower windows. Every step she took changed the atmosphere. The fragrance of jasmine flowers in the garden was refreshing, and she was already ecstatic before she saw the beauty.

"Hey, what brings Master Ling here?"

As soon as I entered Lanxue Pavilion, a young woman in violet clothes came up to me. When she smiled, the muscles in the upper half of her face did not move at all, only her lips were stiffly curved upwards, which was a typical example of what it meant to smile with one's appearance but not his heart.

——I guess Ling Wujie has caused a lot of trouble for Lanxue Pavilion, so he is so unwelcome.

The young man didn't laugh. His tone was calm and composed, but it carried an uncomfortable arrogance: "I want to see Bai Ruyu."

"I'm sorry, Azhi, I can't inform you. The young master has a distinguished guest right now, so I don't want to disturb him." The violet-clothed woman answered, but her eyes glanced at the slightly shorter black-clothed boy behind him, "A few new young men came last month. Do you want to take a look?"

She could tell at a glance that the young man from the Ling family was followed by a girl dressed as a man. Even though she knew many people, she had never seen such a beautiful and charming person.

Ling Wujie was about to refuse when he heard the girl suddenly speak——

"Look, of course you should. One is enough, no more is necessary."

Ling Wujie's face suddenly darkened, and he looked angry but dared not speak. This made Azhi even more curious about who this black-clothed girl was and how she could control this dude.

"Is this your first time at Lanxue Pavilion? May I ask what your name is?"

"My last name is Baili."

His surname is Baili, and he was traveling with Ling Wujie... A name popped up in Ah Zhi's mind, and he immediately understood what was going on, and hurriedly invited the two of them in.

The interior scene of Lanxue Pavilion was truly an eye-opener for her.

On a stage near the entrance, six girls wearing light red lotus-shaped short skirts and cloud-shaped capes of the same color on their shoulders, with their arms and legs naked, were dancing to the lascivious music. Their gestures revealed their soft and charming bodies, which really made the audience melt. The drum beats suddenly became faster, and the girls turned around twice like a whirlwind, dancing faster and faster in the colorful rain of flowers.

Azhi took them to a private room on the second floor, which was the best viewing spot. Even the onlookers could see it clearly.

Yao Yue retracted her gaze, her eyes were clear and even a little colder than before, "Who are these people?"

"They are probably refugees from the 100,000 mountains who are still young and looking for food. I heard that they all came voluntarily." Ling Wujie sat on the couch in a nonchalant manner. "These refugees are very troublesome. We can't drive them away, and we can't kill them either. Lanxue Pavilion can accept them if they want."

——Most of the original inhabitants of the Shiwan Mountains were forced to flee because of the Lingxiao Sect’s mining of spirit stones. They were not properly resettled and were unable to adapt to the living environment in the city.

Just as she was about to continue asking, she saw Ah Zhi leading a young man in. The young man had a baby face and wolf-like grey fur ears on his head. He stood alert at first, but suddenly softened after seeing the appearance of the person opposite him.

"This was just rescued from the slave market a few days ago. He's still a baby. Do you think he likes it, Master Baili?" Ah Zhi smiled and pushed the boy forward.

Yao Yue's face turned completely cold.

Yongning Prefecture is backed by the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and countless wild beasts live there, including some intelligent monsters. A large number of animal trainers and monster refiners gather in the prefecture, and the scale of monster trading is unprecedentedly large, not only pets and mounts, but also beastmen born by forbidden techniques. Most of these beastmen die before they are one year old, and some who survive by chance are also mentally retarded, and only the luckiest ones can speak human language. They are destined to be slaves forever from birth, how cruel.

The orcs were brought to the table because Lingxiao Sect did not prohibit such transactions. How much sin had the Ling family accumulated during their hundred years of prosperity?

"May I have your name?"

"My name is... Li Yun."

The young man lowered his head, his voice trembling, he felt that the gaze of the patron above his head was as powerful as a thousand pounds, making him so frightened that he could not speak.

"Did you enjoy your stay?"

"I like it." He nodded.

Here you can eat enough, wear warm clothes, and sleep on clean beds. It is a hundred times better than the slave market.

The benefactor sighed, his voice not very cheerful, his eyelids half lowered in sorrow and anger, and then he stretched out his hand to him, "You have good roots, how about you join my whole nature?"

***

The moon is rising, the palace flowers are still, the mist is thick in the garden trees. The gate of the silver platform is closed, the fairy clock is deep in the night.

Yao Yue sneaked into the top floor of Lanxue Pavilion in her nightgown. In the small pavilion, the black curtains were lightly rolled up, and the necklaces were scattered. In the inlaid gold Boshan stove, there was a stove of frankincense, the fragrance was faint, almost imperceptible.

She walked around the six-panel landscape screen and saw a young man sitting at a yellow pear wood desk, writing something. He was dressed in white and had an upright figure. Just from the back, she knew she was a beauty. She dodged and rushed over, lightly tapping the acupoint on the back of his head.

The young man leaned back against the chair involuntarily, staring at the man in black with wide eyes. His handsomeness even transcended the boundaries of gender, with beautiful eyebrows and eyes, and skin as white as snow. His pair of affectionate peach blossom eyes were dark and deep, and at first glance, they were the beauty of a spring night, but deep inside, they were desolate.

"Who are you?" The question was ordinary, but the voice was not ordinary. It was softer than that of an ordinary boy, but not so soft that people would mistake it for a woman. There was a hint of slight resentment, and the soul melted halfway after listening to it.

Yao Yue was about to speak when she heard him whistle loudly, and then four guards with knives rushed in. She stood still without running away or avoiding, but just raised her eyebrows and smiled softly:

"It turns out that the Jingtao Sect has changed from a stray dog ​​to a guard dog."

The assassin's voice was lazy and she was actually a young woman. She seemed to not take them seriously at all. The four men felt humiliated and rushed forward with their knives drawn.

At the critical moment, Yao Yue raised her hand and grabbed the wrist of the person on the far right. Her movements were not fancy, but the man felt an extremely violent magical power rushing into his meridians, causing unbearable pain, and the knife in his palm slipped into her hand. As the knife changed hands, the four guards were all shocked, and felt the murderous knife energy sweeping over them, like a winter blizzard, crushing people's lungs. The girl's figure was like a ghost, and her knife energy was continuous. In the blink of an eye, all four people were beheaded, and their eyes were still filled with horror when they died. The body of the last person hit the bookshelf, and the jade-white porcelain bottle on it fell rapidly and was caught by her, firmly clasped in the palm of her hand.

——In her hands, any weapon becomes a magical weapon.

She calmly put the porcelain bottle in her hand back on the shelf, then stretched out her right hand and grabbed the boy's neck.

"Anything else? Call them out together."

"...What do you want to do?" Bai Ruyu's muscles were tense and veins were bulging. He tried to break through the acupuncture point, but he was unable to resist the overwhelming and unquestionable force. "You...exactly..."

"Did you make the Mother and Child Ghost Gu?"

"……yes."

"Remove it." She tightened her fingers slightly and squeezed out a few words from between her teeth. "Remove the poison from Yunmozhou's courtesan."

There was no trace of fear in the boy's eyes. He looked at her without blinking, "There is no antidote for this poison..."

She frowned and was about to say something, but the next second, a woman in violet clothes rushed in from outside, holding a dagger and rushing towards her. It was Ah Zhi who had received her during the day: "Let go of the young master!"

Yao Yue stood there without blinking, and raised her right hand to use the young man as a human shield.

Ah Zhi used all his strength this time and there was no possibility of turning back. With a "swish" sound, the dagger sank into Bai Ruyu's back. Then the girl kicked Ah Zhi in the knee and he fell to the ground and couldn't get up anymore.

"You have to thank me," she casually threw the boy into the bed, "If I hadn't lifted him a few inches higher, you would have committed the crime of slaying your master."

——The voice was careless, and at this moment it was full of evil, but it had a magical power that made people feel fascinated.

"Baili Yaoyue!" Ah Zhi looked at her hatefully, "We have no grudge against you, why did you kill us?!"

"You fed the Mother and Child Ghost Gu to my sister, and you still have the nerve to say that we have no grudges against each other?" She smiled coldly and walked slowly to the bedside, with a heart-breaking magic power condensed on her fingertips. "Since there is no antidote for this Gu, I will send you down to make amends to my sister."

"It can be cured! It can be cured!" Ah Zhi panicked and crawled to the bed with both hands. "If either the mother Gu or the child Gu dies, the Gu will be cured!"

"Who has Nan Shuangshuang's mother Gu?"

"I don't know..." Fearing that she would take action, Ah Zhi said in a sharp voice, "This Gu was forced by Ling Lang to make it! The mother Gu is in the body of Ling Xiao Sect members!"

"The child Gu absorbs the other's magic power through intercourse and passes it to the mother Gu. The person who plants the mother Gu can obtain the child Gu's five senses, just like the eyes and ears of a thousand miles away! If the child Gu dares to resist, it will bleed from all seven orifices and die!"

No wonder... No wonder Sister Shuangshuang would rather stay in Quliu Pavilion than go back to Zhang Chi...

"Why would your son help the tyrant?"

"Ignore her!" the young man lying on the bed suddenly shouted.

Ah Zhi shook her head and almost burst into tears: "We are originally from the Five Immortals Sect in the Ten Thousand Mountains. We were destroyed by the Lingxiao Sect a hundred years ago... Ling Lang took your mother hostage and forced you to make Gu and become a slave... Just because, just because you refused to become his Taoist partner..."

The young man's profile was reflected in the moonlight, making it hard to tell the difference between him and the beautiful jade on his waist. His snow-white cheeks were stained with a hint of red, whether from anger or shame, as if his ugliest scars were exposed in front of her. His chest rose and fell rapidly, and his dark peach eyes were filled with frost:

"Are you satisfied?"