“Yes.” the fake Lin Yan nodded slightly.
“I am your master, what are you afraid of?”
Fake Lin Yan: “I… I don’t want to be a burden to my master.”
“Since you are my disciple, do not speak of being a burden. Remember, from now on, I stand behind you. I am your backing. Last time you died for me, this time,” Feng Qishi became unexpectedly serious, “I will not let such a thing happen again.”
Immediately, the fake Lin Yan softly called out, “Master.”
“Let’s go, go see your brothers one last time.”
“Mm.”
The fake Lin Yan agreed on the surface, but his heart was still worried, because he knew Feng Qishi could see souls. He also knew that Feng Qishi, like Mu Anxiao, had an unusual relationship with the underworld officials below.
What he could do now was, when they arrived, if he encountered them, he would try his best to act foolish and not speak.
Feng Qishi: “Let’s go.”
The fake Lin Yan nodded and stood up.
Xie Xin: “What about me?”
“You and Xiao Zeng stay here.”
Xiao Zeng: “Sister, I’ll protect you.”
Hearing Xiao Zeng’s words, Xie Xin smiled helplessly, “It’s more like I’m protecting you than you protecting me.”
Feng Qishi: “We’re going.”
Xie Xin looked back and nodded, “Okay, you guys go!” As she said this, she couldn’t help but glance at the fake Lin Yan again.
The woods.
Mu Anxiao leaned against a tree, leisurely watching the underworld officials still searching for the entrance. He sighed, turned to look at the wolf demon staring at him, and said, “Can you stop looking at me?”
“Do you know the entrance?”
“Why are you asking me this?”
“Aren’t you his colleague? Then you must know about the entrance, right?”
“Did you not bring your brain with you?”
“What do you mean by that?”
“I’ve already told you very clearly, I’m not the same kind of person as them. How could I possibly know about them…” Halfway through his sentence, Mu Anxiao suddenly remembered his journey back from the underworld. He took a breath and said, “Eh, I think I know.”
“You know?”
“Mm, I came back from there a few days ago,” Mu Anxiao said, pulling the silver rope and standing up. “It doesn’t seem to be around here.”
The wolf demon had no intention of getting up. It remained seated, looking up at Mu Anxiao and saying, “I think you might not have gone to the same place as them.”
“You’re right, it’s indeed not the same place.” Just as Mu Anxiao was about to crouch down, the underworld official happened to turn around, and their gazes met.
“Haven’t found it yet?” she asked.
Underworld official: “No.” He shook his head and walked up to Mu Anxiao. “I find it strange, it’s clearly right here, why can’t I find it?”
“I think,” Mu Anxiao looked at the underworld official’s dejected expression and said seriously, “you should look for the problem within yourself. Perhaps there’s a key.”
“Key?” the underworld official repeated, lowered his head, and thought for a moment. “The entrance doesn’t need a key.”
However, Mu Anxiao was just making small talk. She never expected the underworld official to take it seriously.
Thinking about it, she felt speechless.
Wolf demon: “It’s clear you’ve never done any homework.”
Hearing this, the underworld official shifted his gaze to the wolf demon, who had transformed into a dagger, and said, “You have no right to speak here.”
“Clearly you’re stupid, and you don’t want anyone to say it,” the wolf demon said, shaking its head slightly.
The underworld official glared at the wolf demon, then looked at Mu Anxiao. “I believe you.”
“You believe me, yet you’re arresting me?” Mu Anxiao was confused.
Underworld official: “I’m not talking about that. I’m saying, I believe you won’t run away.”
“What are you going to do?”
“I’m going to look a bit further away.”
“Just bring us with you then.”
“No, if you follow me, it will affect my normal performance. So,” the underworld official smiled, “I believe you won’t run away.”
“I believe in myself too, but,” Mu Anxiao looked down at her legs, “I don’t know if I can control my legs. They seem a bit disobedient.”
“……” The underworld official’s expression stiffened.
A few minutes later.
Mu Anxiao and the wolf demon were tied to a tree with black ropes by the underworld official.
“This way, I can rest assured,” the underworld official said as he tightened the black ropes.
Mu Anxiao: “……” She stared straight ahead, yawned, and said, “I can actually control my own legs.”
The underworld official released his hands, walked around the big tree, and stopped in front of Mu Anxiao and the wolf demon. “I won’t believe your words.”
“Didn’t you say you believed me?”
“You broke my trust in you,” the underworld official said, looking at the wolf demon. “I told you, whatever suffering your master endures, you will endure. Staring at me is useless.” He pointed at the wolf demon’s eyes.
Wolf demon: “You win this round.”
“Wait for me,” the underworld official said, turned around, and left.
The wolf demon disliked being restrained, so it turned and glared at Mu Anxiao, saying, “Couldn’t you have been more humble?”
“How was I not humble?”
“He said he trusted you, and you immediately said you wouldn’t run. Why did you have to mention your legs?” The wolf demon looked down at Mu Anxiao’s legs, which were tightly bound by the black rope, and then at its own legs, also bound by the black rope, saying, “You even implicated me.”
“But speaking of which, he’s quite stupid.”
“What are you saying?” the wolf demon sneered.
Mu Anxiao glanced at the wolf demon and said, “The demonic energy on you is clearly different from that on the dagger. Since he didn’t notice, what kind of eyesight does he have?”
“Who says the demonic energy on me is different from that on the dagger? My demonic energy is very similar to hers, didn’t you notice?” The wolf demon was extremely arrogant.
“How can it be the same? The bloody smell on you is clearly not as strong as hers.”
Hearing Mu Anxiao’s professional description, the wolf demon couldn’t help but frown. Then, recalling Mu Anxiao’s usual behavior when searching for demon souls, its mouth twitched, and it said, “Mu Anxiao, I’m starting to doubt your identity.”
“What do you mean?” Mu Anxiao didn’t want to turn her head, so she squinted at the wolf demon and asked.
Wolf demon: “Don’t you usually use your nose to find demon souls or monsters?”
“……” Mu Anxiao continued to squint at the wolf demon.
Seeing Mu Anxiao’s silence, the wolf demon said again, “Normally, people use spiritual energy to sense. You, however, use your nose. Tell me the truth,” it furrowed its brows, “do you have another identity?”
“What do you mean?”
“I seriously suspect you’re a dog demon.”
“You’re the dog demon.”
“Then why do you insist on using your nose? Can’t you just…”
“My spiritual energy is limited, my magic is limited, and my nose has always been good since I was little, so I use my nose. So what? Are you unhappy?” Mu Anxiao didn’t want to listen to the wolf demon’s nonsensical babbling anymore.
Wolf demon: “This is your talent.”
“What does this have to do with talent?” Mu Anxiao said dismissively.
Wolf demon: “The demons I’ve met, no matter how much they try to train their sense of smell, they can’t achieve what you have. Even those with the best sense of smell can’t do it like you. Tell me, if this isn’t talent, then what is it?”