The stone door to the basement was opened from the outside.
Liu Jinghong's urgent voice came: "Come out quickly."
"It's alright. This poison only works on people with internal energy. Stay away and don't get caught in the crossfire."
However, the smell of this poisonous fog is really strong.
Chu Hongluan covered her nose, frowned, and quickly walked out of the basement.
With a rumbling sound as the boulders rubbed together, the stone gate closed again.
......
This was a decision made after careful consideration by Chu Hongluan.
Since the ghosts will return to the outside world after they die, albeit with damaged souls and slightly regressed cultivation, it's not a great loss. So, let's keep them trapped for now.
Use it when it's useful, and then kill it afterward.
If there's no use for them, then lock them up until they die.
Stepping out of the manor, Chu Hongluan stretched and felt refreshed.
Ke Tinghe muttered sullenly, "I thought that since you use a knife like me, you would be a disciple of the Sword Sect like me. I didn't expect that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion would benefit from this."
"You can be envious and jealous all you want. No matter how much you nag, I won't give up my spot."
Kotinghe rolled his eyes at him, then suddenly seemed to remember something and looked back at the manor:
"How about we bring out a demonic cultivator and interrogate him? Like, how did he get back to the outside world?"
Koting scratched his head, his mind a little blank.
"No rush, let's use sleeping powder to keep them in place. Our priority is to find our own people."
"But haven't all the 'Chang Gui' been captured? What's the point of keeping them?"
Chu Hongluan stopped in her tracks, stared at him for a long time, making him feel a chill run down his spine, before letting out a deep sigh.
"Don't use your limited intelligence to try and figure out my decisions."
After saying that, he shook his head helplessly and left.
Liu Jinghong chuckled.
Kotinghe, enraged, retorted, "What's so funny!"
Liu Jinghong glanced at him, a slight smile playing on her lips, and slowly said, "You thought of the second level, but you think she only thought of the first level. In reality, she is on the fifth level."
"You understand? Then explain it to me!" Ke Tinghe muttered defiantly.
Liu Jinghong opened his jade-bone fan and said with a smile, "I don't understand either, but I won't ask, otherwise I'll look silly, just like you."
After saying that, he took a long stride and caught up with Chu Hongluan in a few steps, standing shoulder to shoulder with her. When he turned his head to talk to her, the smile on his face was indescribably gentle and tender.
......
Kotinghe: I can't stand this damn mirror world for even a second longer.
The night is quiet, the moonlight is hazy, and it blends with the evening dampness, like clouds rising, swirling and lingering.
Chu Hongluan looked up and saw a full moon.
Let's end this in the next few days.
The next morning, the three of them met at the teahouse and their first stop was the Princess's Mansion.
Find a fellow disciple first; there's nothing wrong with that.
Ke Tinghe had no objections, after all, he was his only disciple. But he felt there was a 99% chance they would be turned away. Qiao Yue was a princess, after all; they hadn't even sent a formal invitation, but had come directly to ask to see her.
I'd be lucky to avoid being kicked out of here.
However, the truth is that after the guard went in to report, he soon heard a series of hurried footsteps. When he looked up, he saw that Princess Qiao Yue had come out to greet him in person!
"Sister Chu! It's been a long time!"
The little girl ran up to Chu Hongluan, her eyes bright, clearly in a very good mood.
Li Dazhuang stood quietly behind Qiao Yue, playing the role of a background figure, which made Qiao Yue appear even more petite.
"At the last Hundred Flowers Banquet, as the host, I had to attend to all the guests and was unable to meet with Sister Chu, which I still regret to this day. I had wanted to invite you out for a stroll, but I was afraid you would find it presumptuous. I never expected you to come here on your own today! Come quickly! Please come in and sit down!"
Kotinghe was speechless.
Qiao Yue seemed to only then notice the two men behind Chu Hongluan; her smile instantly faded, and her eyes showed disdain: "Why are you here?"
"Everyone in the city knows that I am in love with Miss Chu and am pursuing her intensely. So, naturally, wherever Miss Chu goes, I will go."
Ke Tinghe opened his mouth, but couldn't bring himself to say anything about his feelings for Miss Chu. After a long pause, he finally managed to say, "I feel the same way about Prince Liu."
Qiao Yue glared at the two men fiercely. She had heard that these two scoundrels were harassing her sister from the Chu family, but she never expected that they would be inseparable from her.
I hate it!
Why am I not a man?!
"Hmph, since you came with Sister Chu, then come in."
Kotinghe's lips twitched.
What's wrong with this world?
Upon entering the princess's residence, Qiao Yue was incredibly hospitable, asking if they were tired from walking and if they needed a sedan chair; she also asked if they had eaten and if they were hungry, promising to prepare a feast if they were.
Chu Hongluan was both amused and exasperated: "Little Princess, I've come here on important business."
Qiao Yue smiled broadly: "Of course it's important! Whether Sister Chu is tired or hungry is also important to me."
"......"
Although communication was difficult, Qiao Yue eventually understood what they meant.
Chu Hongluan didn't ask her whether she believed it or not, or whether she still had doubts. She only said that if she was willing to join their operation, she could meet with the others at the manor five miles south of the city tonight.
After saying that, she left with Liu Jinghong and Ke Tinghe.
Qiao Yue stared blankly at their retreating figures, lost in thought.
The Mirror Realm, the Cultivation Realm. Righteous Disciples, Demonic Cultivators.
Each one of them is an obscure and difficult-to-understand word.
But she inexplicably believed it.
"Dazhuang, what do you think?"
"I believe that Miss Chu can be trusted."
Why?
"intuition."
"What a coincidence, me too. But what makes you think you can be my senior brother?!"
"......"
Meanwhile, Chu Hongluan and her group were going through the list, picking out the martial arts practitioners one by one and visiting them door to door.
Even when the oddities in their memories are pointed out, some people still refuse to accept reality. The main reason for this is that they are mostly very satisfied with their current lives.
Some people think that the talk of cultivators and demons is utter nonsense.
But some readily accepted, for who wouldn't want to pursue the path to immortality? If what she said was true, then it would be a direct leap in quality. What's wrong with taking a gamble?
Ultimately, the vast majority of those chosen by Chu Hongluan opted to take a gamble.
Because Chu Hongluan wanted to leave them with a sense of crisis, she didn't tell them that she had already captured the remaining demonic cultivators.
In their view, so many people have already died, and since they are all on the demonic cultivators' prey list, the demonic cultivators will inevitably target them sooner or later, so they might as well stand up and fight back.
Now there is only one person left on the list: Elder of the Sword Sect.
Kotinghe was somewhat looking forward to seeing what kind of person his grandmaster would be.
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