"My head hurts when I listen to him," Mu Anxiao said, pointing to her head.
Feng Qishi looked astonished. "Just for that, you want to knock him out? You... I won't say anything."
Mu Anxiao, too lazy to argue with Feng Qishi, glanced down at Lin Yan and said, "That's strange, Chen has disappeared."
"This is the downside of you knocking him out," Feng Qishi said, pointing at Lin Yan.
Mu Anxiao gave Feng Qishi a fierce glare. "Feel it."
"Feel what?"
"What else can it be but to feel if there's any demonic energy around?"
"Can't you feel it yourself?"
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao paused for a few seconds. "I used too much spiritual energy just now, and I'm a bit uncomfortable. I can't feel it," she said. "Are you satisfied with that excuse?"
Feng Qishi was helpless. "Satisfied." As he spoke, he cupped his fingers, calculated, and then turned his head to look at the screen.
Mu Anxiao followed Feng Qishi's gaze towards the screen and asked, "What is it?"
"The demonic energy is very weak," Feng Qishi said as he turned and walked towards it.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao spread her hand and conjured a silver rope.
Immediately, Feng Qishi stopped abruptly and turned to look at the silver rope in Mu Anxiao's hand. "Didn't you say your spiritual energy was weak?"
Mu Anxiao dodged his gaze. "I'm protecting you."
From Mu Anxiao's words, Feng Qishi immediately detected her timidity.
So, he deliberately tried to scare her. "You protect me? You go first." He pointed towards the screen.
Mu Anxiao gave a dry laugh. "I'll protect you when I reach the tenth level of spiritual energy."
Hearing Mu Anxiao's vow, which was impossible to achieve in the short term, Feng Qishi was speechless. He turned and continued to approach the screen.
Mu Anxiao trotted to Feng Qishi's back and asked, "Is the demonic energy strong?"
"I already said it's very weak. Didn't you hear me?" Feng Qishi glanced sideways at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao smiled. "I was nervous and forgot."
As he drew closer, Feng Qishi felt no nervousness at all, but... Mu Anxiao's hold made him uncomfortable.
"Um," he stopped in front of the screen, looked down at Mu Anxiao's tightly clasped hand on his arm, and said, "When you dealt with that person just now, weren't you quite capable? Why are you so cowardly now?"
Feng Qishi hadn't intended to say such things, but seeing Mu Anxiao like this, he couldn't help but want to test her with words to see how nervous and scared she really was.
Mu Anxiao still held Feng Qishi's arm. "Didn't you hear him say he... didn't make a move? If he had, I probably would have been finished too. Based on my recent experience, I believe from the inside out that it's safer to follow you."
"....." Feng Qishi was speechless.
Seeing Feng Qishi's silence, Mu Anxiao smiled sheepishly at him twice.
Feng Qishi gave a fake smile, and just as he was about to step forward, a voice came from behind the screen.
"You're back!"
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao blinked her eyes and said, "It's Chen!" As she spoke, she slapped Feng Qishi's shoulder hard. "You can't even sense Chen's demonic energy. You're useless." After saying that, she glared at Feng Qishi, stepped past him, and went around the screen.
Feng Qishi remained in place, blinking his eyes, filled with helplessness.
In Feng Qishi's understanding, demonic energy was like a person's scent; each demon had a different demonic energy. Moreover, there was a difference between men and women. If Feng Qishi had truly tried to familiarize himself with Chen's scent, as Mu Anxiao suggested, Chen would surely be angry!
"Mu Anxiao is truly a lunatic," Feng Qishi muttered, walking around the screen.
At the same time, Mu Anxiao helped Chen sit on the bed and asked, "What's wrong?"
Chen looked at Mu Anxiao weakly and said, "Many demon souls came just now, asking for Lin Yan, so I..." She coughed.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao quickly patted Chen's back.
Chen continued, "So I used my demonic arts to drive them away, and then I couldn't anymore." She clutched her chest.
Feng Qishi said, "No wonder the demonic energy here is so weak. It turns out you're injured."
Hearing Feng Qishi's words, Mu Anxiao said angrily, "Shen the madman, what's the use of all your nagging? Save her quickly!"
Chen said, "I... I can manage myself."
Mu Anxiao held Chen's arm with one hand and gently stroked her back with the other. "Don't talk. If you try to heal yourself, it will deplete your demonic power, and it will only be more troublesome later."
Chen: "...."
"Let me see," Feng Qishi stepped forward, bent down, took Chen's wrist, and said, "Forgive me." Then, he began to take her pulse.
Mu Anxiao watched Feng Qishi's serious expression, then looked at Chen's pained expression, and became anxious.
Outside the temple, Piao Yang looked up at the slowly changing sky and said, "So this is how demon souls appear!"
As Piao Yang's curiosity grew, black mist gradually approached, and a man's voice was heard. "Who are you?"
Piao Yang said flippantly, "I'm a powerful individual who can take care of all of you..." He glanced around.
"You are not human."
"Whether I'm human or not isn't for you to say," Piao Yang said, a hint of red light flashing in his eyes.
Immediately, the male demon soul's piercing laughter reached Piao Yang's ears.
"Laugh, I'll let you laugh all you want," Piao Yang said coldly. The black mist dispersed, and the male demon soul gradually appeared.
Seeing this, the male demon soul stopped laughing abruptly and asked in surprise, "What's going on?" He looked down at the red light mist that surrounded him.
Piao Yang coldly looked at the floating male demon soul and said, "Laughing is the price you pay for laughing."
"Who exactly are you?" The male demon soul was scared.
Piao Yang, with his hands behind his back, flew in front of the male demon soul and said coldly, "Who I am, you tell me who I am."
Then, the male demon soul looked closely and his eyes widened. "You are a demon."
"You know, yet you still provoke me."
"I..." The male demon soul nervously forced a laugh. "Ha... ha, no, I was blind and didn't recognize your greatness. I didn't see it at first, but now I... I see it. I was wrong. Please don't kill me."
Piao Yang was too lazy to toy with the male demon soul and asked coldly, "What are you here for?"
"I... I'm just passing by."
"You're lying," Piao Yang raised his red-glowing hand. "I'll burn you."
"Don't," the male demon soul's voice trembled.
"Tell the truth."
"I'm here to find someone."
"Looking for someone." Piao Yang waved his hand in front of the male demon soul, and the red light surrounding the demon soul immediately dissipated.
Seeing this, the male demon soul exclaimed, "You're going to let me go?"
Piao Yang said coldly, "Tell me who you're looking for, and I'll let you go!"
"I'm looking for..."
Just as the male demon soul uttered two words, the door of the dilapidated temple was suddenly pushed open by Mu Anxiao.
"Piao, come quickly," she called out without looking up.
Hearing this, Piao Yang's mouth twitched. He turned sideways to look at Mu Anxiao and said, "What are you shouting about? Don't you see what I'm doing?"
At the same time, the male demon soul quietly slipped away.