"Thanks," Mu Anxiao said, though her body still lacked strength, and her back ached terribly.
The first monster, knowing Mu Anxiao couldn't stand up, intentionally pulled her arm. "Get up, get up and fight me. I wasn't at my best yesterday, but I will be today."
The second monster looked at the first monster's strange behavior and asked, "What are you doing?"
The first monster, while struggling to pull Mu Anxiao up, said, "She injured me yesterday, and today I want to let her taste that feeling too." As he spoke, Mu Anxiao stood up.
Immediately, Mu Anxiao shook off the first monster's hand. "I don't need you to pull me."
"You all spread out," the first monster instructed.
Then, the monsters dispersed one by one.
The first monster spread his hands, conjuring a large saber. "Come on."
Mu Anxiao swayed, unable to stand steadily from the pain. "Here I come," she said, raising her fist.
Seeing this, the monster leader exclaimed in surprise, "She's not using magic?"
The first monster was also surprised. "You want to fight me directly?"
Mu Anxiao smiled, her lips cracked and bleeding. "Yes, fight you the human way. What, are you scared?"
"....." The first monster widened his eyes, glanced down at the saber in his hand, and said, "Alright, I won't use demonic arts either."
"...." Mu Anxiao narrowed her eyes and ran towards the first monster.
Instantly, the first monster and she began to fight.
Originally, the first monster had intended to use this opportunity to lure Mu Anxiao into the air and then let her go. But now, since she wasn't using magic, he was at a loss.
Helpless, he had to think of something else on the spot.
The residence.
Piao released the barrier.
"It's done," he said.
Seeing this, Feng Qishi's mouth curled into a smile. He stepped forward. "You heard it, right?"
"I heard it."
"Good, let's go," Feng Qishi nodded, leaped upward, and disappeared.
Piao followed closely behind Feng Qishi.
The room.
Shen Xian was startled. He quickly put down his brush, rushed out from behind the table, and looked towards the center of the courtyard. "Damn it," he exclaimed, then transformed into a beam of light and chased after them.
Yan Bian and Xiang Nang exchanged glances and also left the place using magic.
The demon forest.
The vine spirit arrived beside the monster leader and frowned as he looked at the first monster fighting with Mu Anxiao. "She's alright?"
"What is it?" The monster leader glanced at the vine spirit.
The vine spirit said, "That's not right. By now, it should have taken effect? Why can she still fight the monster?"
"Perhaps the effect hasn't reached yet."
The vine spirit shook his head. "No," he pondered, recalling the actions of Yan Bian and Mu Anxiao outside the demon tower, and suddenly realized, "Not good."
"What's wrong?" The monster leader glanced at the vine spirit.
The vine spirit said, "She must have given Mu Anxiao an antidote."
"What?"
"No, she must die today," the vine spirit said, without even looking at the monster leader, he spread his hands, conjured a long sword, and rushed forward.
The monster leader was stunned and did not move.
Immediately, Mu Anxiao sensed the vine spirit's demonic aura. She pushed the first monster away, turned around, and saw the vine spirit charging towards her with a long sword raised.
The monsters all made way for the vine spirit.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao quickly cast a spell to counter him.
However, due to insufficient spiritual energy, Mu Anxiao could barely use any magic.
Behind her, the first monster looked at the vine spirit rapidly approaching Mu Anxiao, then at Mu Anxiao's desperate attempts to use magic. He shouted, "Quick, dodge!" As he shouted, he quickly ran forward.
Instantly.
The long sword in the vine spirit's hand pierced the first monster's body. The first monster stared at the vine spirit with wide eyes. "You were using us all along."
"....." Mu Anxiao's eyes widened in disbelief as she looked at the first monster who had taken the fatal blow for her. Her voice trembled as she asked, "Why did you do that?"
The first monster, while slowly pulling the sword out of his body, said, "Yesterday, you let me go. Today, I saved you. We're… even." With that, he instantly turned into an inner core and fell to the ground.
Before coming here, Mu Anxiao had always thought all monsters were bad guys. She had even decided not to show them any mercy.
Now, it seemed she was wrong.
Just as Zhang Yan said, there was no absolute good or absolute evil in this world.
From this, she realized that the first monster… wasn't bad, and the other monsters weren't bad either. The only one who was truly bad was the vine spirit who had used them.
Thinking this, she looked down at the first monster's inner core and choked out, "You injured me yesterday, and I wounded you with my soul sword. We are even," she said, bending down to pick up the inner core from the ground. "This time, I owe you a debt of gratitude."
The vine spirit had not expected any monster to be willing to die for Mu Anxiao.
Therefore, he shook his head in disbelief.
Mu Anxiao put the inner core into her money bag, suppressing her tears, and looked up at the vine spirit coldly. "You want my life that badly?"
The vine spirit tightened his grip on the long sword, forgetting his surroundings, and sneered, "I want your life, no matter what. I will have your life, even if it means offending the demons or using monsters."
"...." Mu Anxiao nodded slightly and asked, "Don't you feel any guilt?"
"Why should I feel guilty? It's just the death of a monster," the vine spirit replied directly, completely forgetting the surrounding monsters.
The monsters on the side, upon hearing the vine spirit's words, had their eyes flash with red light.
Mu Anxiao tilted her head. "Just? So, according to you, a monster's life is not a life?"
"They are just a bunch of monsters that I can use at will."
Mu Anxiao had not expected her desire to kill her to be so intense, so intense that it made him forget the existence of all other monsters.
Then, she let out a soft hum and took a step back. "You all heard him, right? You've all been used by this guy. Are you still going to kill me?" she turned her head to look at the monsters.
At first, Mu Anxiao didn't know that monsters could fully understand human speech, nor did she think they had any conscience.
But after the first monster took the sword for her, she understood that these monsters had much kinder hearts than this vine spirit.
The monster leader heard everything that was happening here and clenched his fists, running directly towards them.
The vine spirit stiffened. Only then did he realize he had been tricked by Mu Anxiao.
"Mu Anxiao, you're ruthless."
"I'm not as ruthless as you, you heartless fellow," Mu Anxiao said, stepping back.
Next, it was the vine spirit's turn to be besieged.