Mu Anxiao looked at Xie Xin's slightly recovered complexion and asked, "Are you a monster?"
As for what Feng Qishi had said, Mu Anxiao still cared, because she thought that even if Lin Yan was not the real Lin Yan, that fake Lin Yan had possessed Lin Yan.
In that case, he was still a person.
And the dagger was indeed unsealed after Xie Xin touched it.
She thought she should ask clearly.
Xie Xin: "You don't believe me."
"I don't not believe you."
"You said that Lin Yan was fake, and you... still want to ask me like this."
"Don't get excited, I'm just asking casually. If you don't want to say it, I won't force you."
"I'm really not a monster."
"I know, then..." Mu Anxiao casually took Xie Xin's wrist and said, "Tell me, did you encounter anything strange on the way here?"
"What do you mean?"
"For example, being threatened."
"No, I told you, there was demonic energy on the path I traveled, I guess..."
"Alright, don't say any more." Mu Anxiao interrupted, let go and stood up to look at the wolf demon, "Come with me for a moment."
Wolf demon: "...." He glanced at Mu Anxiao and took a few steps back.
Xie Xin looked up at Mu Anxiao's strange behavior and insisted, "I am not a monster."
Whether she was a monster or not, Mu Anxiao could not tell. Because in some aspects, she still trusted Feng Qishi a bit. As for Xie Xin, she decided to remain vigilant.
"You rest!" she said, and followed the wolf demon.
Instantly, the wolf demon and Mu Anxiao stopped side by side at the trees not far from Xie Xin.
"What are you doing?" The wolf demon deliberately walked parallel to Mu Anxiao and asked in a low voice.
Mu Anxiao tilted her head and said softly, "Do you think she has a problem?"
"She is a monster."
All along, Mu Anxiao had not seen Xie Xin as a monster. Her current suspicion was only due to Feng Qishi's words. However, the wolf demon's statement surprised her.
"You could tell." she muttered.
Wolf demon: "You couldn't tell."
"No."
"You can't even detect demonic energy?" The wolf demon chuckled. "That's truly amazing."
"What's amazing about it?" Mu Anxiao felt inexplicably a bit embarrassed.
Wolf demon: "You, a fake Yin emissary who has been catching demons for so many years, cannot see her identity. I just find it amazing."
"Boring." Mu Anxiao glared at the wolf demon. Thinking of Feng Qishi's words, she suddenly felt she had indeed lost face. However, thinking that Feng Qishi also couldn't see through the fake Lin Yan's identity, she felt a slight sense of balance.
Wolf demon: "But speaking of which, this monster is also well hidden. If you don't sniff carefully, you can't smell her demonic energy at all."
"Why?"
"Who knows." The wolf demon spread his hands. "Anyway, I can tell you clearly that those human lives have nothing to do with her."
"I know." Mu Anxiao nodded, deciding to put Xie Xin's matter aside for now and said, "In that case, let's just turn a blind eye."
"Mhm." The wolf demon nodded.
Immediately, Mu Anxiao turned back to Xie Xin and said, "We might have to sleep on the streets tonight."
"You really don't believe me." Xie Xin looked up, her eyes filled with tears.
Mu Anxiao: "I believe you." She nodded, crouched down, and held Xie Xin's shoulders. "I'll go buy some food over there, you wait here for me."
"I..."
"I'll have the wolf demon accompany you."
"Okay." Xie Xin agreed immediately.
The wolf demon, hearing Mu Anxiao's words, stepped forward and said, "I want to go with you."
Mu Anxiao: "If you come with me, and that guy shows up, she'll be in trouble." As she spoke, she looked down at the dagger on the ground, thinking of Feng Qishi's words, she froze, "No."
Wolf demon: "What's wrong again?"
Mu Anxiao glanced at the wolf demon, bent down, picked up the dagger on the ground, and handed it to Xie Xin, "Here you go."
Xie Xin was stunned: "...." She shook her head.
"Don't dare to touch it?"
"Mhm."
The wolf demon looked at Xie Xin nodding, and remembering the scene when Xie Xin first picked up the dagger, he said, "No." He looked at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao looked up at the wolf demon, "..."
The wolf demon glanced at Xie Xin, turned, and walked a few steps forward.
Subsequently, Mu Anxiao also glanced at Xie Xin, then stood up, walked to the wolf demon's side, and asked softly, "What is it?"
"Feng Qishi was wrong."
"What do you mean?" Mu Anxiao was completely confused by the dagger.
Wolf demon: "This dagger has its own mind," he said. "When Xie Xin picked up the dagger in the dilapidated temple, it started to act up."
"Then tell me, is she a demon?"
"I cannot say for sure." The wolf demon said, then thought and asked, "By the way, did you see the dead beggar?"
"Mhm."
"Where was the wound?"
"..." Mu Anxiao thought for a moment and said, "The neck."
"Xie Xin's neck was also injured just now."
"..." Mu Anxiao swallowed her throat, looked down at the dagger in her hand, and said, "Could it be that this dagger has become sentient?"
"It's possible." The wolf demon stared at the dagger.
Immediately, black light lit up around the dagger.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao deliberately tightened her grip on it and said, "It wants to kill someone again."
"Hold it tight."
"I know." Mu Anxiao gritted her teeth, looked up at the darkening sky, and said, "It has an owner."
"Its owner is summoning it."
"Yes." Mu Anxiao nodded, extending her other arm to the wolf demon, "Grab me."
"What are you doing?" The wolf demon was confused.
Mu Anxiao: "Grab me, lend me some demonic power."
"You're being too bold." The wolf demon refused from the bottom of his heart.
"If not, it will kill more people."
"...." The wolf demon's heart sank. Thinking of Feng Qishi's suspicion towards him, he immediately reached out and grabbed Mu Anxiao's arm, saying, "I am only doing this for myself."
Mu Anxiao: "...." She closed her eyes and began to borrow the wolf demon's demonic power, communicating with the dagger with her mind, "Who is your owner?"
On the other side.
Xie Xin had fainted due to the demonic energy.
The wolf demon did not close his eyes, but calmly glanced at Xie Xin, then at Mu Anxiao. At that moment, he inexplicably began to trust her.
Dagger: "...." It continued to struggle.
Mu Anxiao frowned, her hand was cut by the dagger, and blood dripped drop by drop from the gaps between her fingers onto the ground, yet she still tried to communicate with the dagger: "Who is your owner?"
Dagger: "Let me go."
Mu Anxiao frowned upon hearing the sweet female voice and asked, "Are you a girl?"
"Let me go." the dagger said again.
Mu Anxiao: "I won't let go, tell me, who is your owner?"
"If you don't let me go, I'll cut off your hand." the dagger said, deliberately pressing the blade deeper into Mu Anxiao's flesh.
Mu Anxiao endured the pain and continued, "Tell me." She gasped.