"We've lost quite a few men these past few days," Chu Hongluan said indifferently. "Do you even remember how many people came in initially?"
The second half of the sentence carries an extremely heavy sense of oppression.
The entire room fell silent; the atmosphere was heavy.
They all assumed that Protector Yu was interrogating them, and no one dared to utter a sound.
"say!"
Chu Hongluan rebuked her sternly.
"Replying to Protector Yu! When we first entered the Mirror Realm, there were forty people! Three at the Nascent Soul stage! Sixteen at the Core Formation stage! Twenty-one at the Golden Core stage!"
Chu Hongluan thought to herself, "It's all my fault for reporting in such detail."
But the person in front of him sneered, "Forty people? Look around you, how many are left!"
The group of demonic cultivators fell silent in fear.
"Reckless! Foolish! Arrogant! Simple-minded! Stubborn! You think that by bringing your memories in, you can be above all others! But don't forget! Once you enter the Mirror Realm, you are still mortals! You only had a slight advantage! As a result, one by one, you only know how to target bodies with high martial arts skills and engage in assassinations! In just a few days, nearly 40% of you have lost your lives! And what have you achieved? Don't tell me you have gained nothing."
This is an attempt to elicit information about the current situation.
"Reporting to Protector, I killed one the night before last; he was a disciple of the Jade Maiden Sect!"
"I...I killed one too! He was from Penglai!"
Once the first person spoke, the atmosphere became lively, and a subtle competitive spirit emerged.
“I’m different. I killed three of them, all of them female cultivators from the Joyful Union Sect! I didn’t expect that once they entered the Mirror Realm, they would become virtuous women and give me a good chance to capture them.”
As he spoke, the tall, young demonic cultivator proudly displayed the scratches on his arms and neck, making it easy to guess what he had done.
"Me! Me! Me! Aren't all female cultivators of the Jade Maiden Sect pure and virtuous? This time, I also got to experience the taste of purity and virtuousness, haha! It was worth the trip! It was worth the trip!"
They were having a lively discussion, and no one noticed that Chu Hongluan's eyes were gradually turning cold.
"What a pathetic sight! Your head is full of lewd nonsense! Even when you're on a mission in the Mirror World, you still can't forget about women, women, women!"
The one speaking was the burly man who had been relentlessly pursued by Ke Tinghe at the Prince's mansion.
"Hehe, of course Sixth Brother is still the best! Our cultivation levels are low, how can our soul strength compare to yours? The bodies we can possess are limited to this much. What about you? How are your results?"
At the time, Ke Tinghe said that he was the one with the deepest internal strength among them, so it seems that in the outside world, this person's cultivation level is also among the top of the demonic cultivators.
Wu Laoliu laughed arrogantly: "What's so great about killing a few defenseless women? A strongman like me will kill the strongest. See this knife? The five souls beneath this blade were all sword cultivators!"
As he spoke, he seemed to remember something, and his face darkened: "Last night I was planning to kill another Sword Pavilion disciple to make it an even number, but who knew I'd run into a madman who chased me and hacked at me for most of the night!"
"Oh dear! As expected, I still have to rely on my sixth brother! I encountered a sword cultivator before, but I was discovered before I could even get close, and he chased me for two blocks! Luckily, my lightness skill is quite good, otherwise I would have been in trouble!"
Chu Hongluan lowered her eyelashes, concealing the emotions in her eyes.
The current situation is far more dire than she imagined.
"You don't cultivate properly in ordinary times, so you complain about your low cultivation level when you need it? Otherwise, you could have possessed a good body too!"
"Sixth Brother, you're mistaken. Do you remember Brother Meng? Like you, he was at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. On the night of the possession, another brother and I followed Brother Meng into the palace. Brother Meng was highly skilled and daring; he went straight for the Emperor! We watched with our own eyes as Brother Meng gradually broke through the Emperor's protective dragon aura and entered the Emperor's body!"
"Oh? That's good. The emperor has the power of life and death. With an imperial edict, what kind of person can't he kill? But it's been so long, why haven't we seen him take any action?"
"Hey! That's what I wanted to say! What a pity! Just a little bit more! It looked like the emperor's soul was about to be completely devoured by Meng Ge, but at the last moment, a white cat jumped in through the window! With one swipe of its paw, the white cat actually knocked Meng Ge out! Meng Ge was not convinced and tried to intimidate the cat, but the cat could actually attack the soul directly! It pounced on Meng Ge and pinned him down, tearing him to pieces with extreme ferocity! It devoured him! If we hadn't run fast, we probably would have become that white cat's meal too!"
A white cat? Chu Hongluan's eyes flickered.
Was it a coincidence that she also encountered a white cat at the Hundred Flowers Banquet that day?
"Impossible! Could it be that you're trying to flatter Sixth Brother by deliberately smearing Brother Meng? A white cat that can attack souls? Do you think we're still in the cultivation world? Besides, Brother Meng's powerful soul, even if it's just a part of it, could never be torn apart by a cat! I don't believe it!"
"Well, although I don't believe it either, but... Brother Meng really doesn't seem to be here today. Where's that brother you mentioned? Get your brother out here to testify!"
"Oh my, the night before last, this guy insisted on assassinating Ke Tinghe. I tried to dissuade him, saying that Ke Tinghe was, after all, the sole heir of the Sword Sect, and he was definitely not an easy target! He wouldn't listen and insisted on going! As a result, he never came back!"
The sole successor of the Sword Sect... Ke Tinghe may seem unreliable, but he has quite a background.
"Yes, I was at the General's Mansion the night before, but they questioned my identity and insisted on going to their deaths. As a result, they fell into Ke Tinghe's ambush, and none of them survived! It was utterly foolish! A day earlier, someone had already tried to assassinate Ke Tinghe, but was killed on the spot by the guards of the General's Mansion. They alerted the enemy before they even got started, so how could Ke Tinghe not have made preparations!"
Chu Hongluan took the opportunity to speak, indirectly vouching for the little demonic cultivator who mentioned the white cat, thus gaining favor before asking, "Tell me more about that white cat."
The little demonic cultivator, as expected, looked grateful and immediately raised his voice, as if afraid that others wouldn't hear him: "That white cat looks young, chubby, with long fur, all white except for a tuft of light gray fur behind its ears! Its eyes are heterochromatic blue and green, and when it goes berserk, both eyes turn red! Protector Yu! I really didn't lie!"
Chu Hongluan's heart skipped a beat. Snow-white ears with stray hairs, blue-green heterochromatic eyes! Not large in stature but slightly plump!
Isn't this the white cat she encountered?
The demonic cultivator said that the white cat attacked the soul of a Nascent Soul stage demonic cultivator, preventing him from possessing the emperor's body. That at least proves that the white cat and the demonic cultivator are absolutely irreconcilable enemies.
As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. This incredibly capable little white cat... maybe we can recruit him?
Suddenly, Chu Hongluan recalled that day when she was teasing the cat and gave it a sweeping kick... Oh no, will she be held a grudge?
Chu Hongluan shook off the unnecessary thoughts in her mind and nodded with feigned composure.
"Yes, I will investigate the matter of the white cat."
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