Piao smiled, "I mean, Mu Anxiao was too gentle with her methods."
"Gentle?" Lin Yan repeated, touching his still throbbing neck. "She wasn't gentle at all. It still hurts!"
"Then I'll give you a painless one," Piao said, setting down his teacup and glancing at his hand.
Lin Yan didn't understand what Piao meant, but seeing Piao's serious expression, he couldn't help but have a bad premonition.
"What... what are you going to do?" he stammered.
Piao smiled faintly, "Sleep!" With that, he waved his hand towards Lin Yan.
Lin Yan chuckled, "You..." Before he could finish, his vision suddenly blurred, and then he lost consciousness.
Feng Qishi, hearing the sound of Lin Yan's forehead hitting the table, sighed and said, "You took his memories."
"Someone like him is troublesome even when he's awake."
"....."
"Am I wrong?"
Feng Qishi shook his head, "No, you're absolutely right. I just feel like you and Mu Shazi are bullying him." He pointed at Lin Yan.
Piao lowered his eyes and smiled, "I'm not bullying him. The one bullying him is Mu Anxiao."
Feng Qishi smiled helplessly.
Outside the house, Mu Anxiao surveyed her surroundings by the moonlight, her brow furrowed.
"You've come out."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao turned around sharply to see a dark soul shadow, but the voice was no longer a woman's, but a man's.
In an instant, the courage Mu Anxiao had just mustered began to dissipate bit by bit.
Because before this, she had always thought the owner of the voice was A Xia, so she wanted to use this opportunity to clarify things with A Xia. To her surprise, she had been tricked.
"It's you." She recognized the demonic soul speaking as the male demonic soul that had possessed the woman's body today.
"I didn't expect you to come out the moment I used a woman's voice. You're really quite stupid!"
"Despicable."
"Not despicable, how else would I lure you out," the male demonic soul paused intentionally and continued, "Deceiver, don't you want to see who I am? I'll give you a chance to see my face."
The second he finished speaking, a faint green light illuminated around him.
Mu Anxiao, using the eerie green light, saw the male demonic soul's face clearly. "You are..." She couldn't recall.
"I'll give you three seconds to say my name, or I'll let those people die."
"You..."
"Three!"
Mu Anxiao hadn't expected this male demonic soul to be so cunning. She lowered her eyelids slightly, ran through all the names in her mind, and then said urgently, "Your name is Gui Xiao." She said with conviction.
Immediately, the male demonic soul retracted the finger he had raised to his lips and smiled, "I didn't expect your brain to be quite useful, deceiver."
"Can you stop calling me a deceiver every other word?"
"No, the facts prove that you did deceive me."
"I deceived you, but... that was to complete my mission. I didn't treat you too badly, did I!"
In Mu Anxiao's memory, she had treated Gui Xiao relatively well. She wasn't as harsh to him as she was to other demonic souls, nor did she use the cold shoulder. Now, for him to return and demand her life, she felt indignant.
Gui Xiao said, "I hate being deceived the most."
Mu Anxiao couldn't be bothered to argue with him. She said, "If you hadn't shown up, you would have gone to reincarnate by now."
"I've thought it through. I'm not reincarnating. I want to take you down with me."
Over the past few decades, Mu Anxiao had offended quite a few demonic souls. She figured many of them would want to take her down with them.
But then again, if she were to be taken down with Gui Xiao, it would be too unworthy.
Therefore, she refused.
"Alright, let's see who catches whom first!" she said, her hands parting to summon the silver rope.
Gui Xiao had always assumed Mu Anxiao was weakened now. The moment she summoned the silver rope, his confidence wavered.
"You... I won't let you catch me," he said, taking two steps back.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao made no move to advance, opting to wait and see.
Then, Gui Xiao suddenly shouted, "Big guys, attack!"
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao's eyes widened. She looked towards the creatures with green eyes behind him and shouted, "Gui Xiao, what are you doing?"
"I admit I can't defeat you, but they can," Gui Xiao said, stepping aside to clear the way for the dozen or so monsters behind him.
Immediately, Mu Anxiao tightened her grip on the silver rope and looked at the green-eyed monsters. She asked, "If I'm not mistaken, these aren't demonic souls."
"Of course not," Gui Xiao said, leaning against the wall.
If they weren't demonic souls, then the silver rope would be useless.
Furthermore, Mu Anxiao hadn't fought any monsters in recent years. For her to suddenly confront these creatures, she was truly scared.
"Gui Xiao, I didn't expect you to be so capable," she said, her voice trembling. She let the silver rope dissipate and took out her celestial book to search for counter-spells.
Gui Xiao leisurely crossed his arms and said, "These guys aren't mine. They're little soldiers assigned to us by my boss. You, just play with them!"
Listening to Gui Xiao's voice, Mu Anxiao wiped the cold sweat from her forehead with her arm and frantically flipped through the celestial book, but couldn't find any useful moves.
Finally, she closed the book and looked up at the motionless green-eyed monsters. "Gui Xiao, what do you mean?"
"My boss knew you'd flip through that broken book of yours, so to avoid you saying I'm bullying you, I told them to wait for you."
"You..." Mu Anxiao was speechless.
Then, Gui Xiao said, "Alright, one by one!"
Immediately, the first green-eyed monster in the front row grunted a few times and walked towards Mu Anxiao.
Seizing the opportunity, Mu Anxiao quickly searched for the green-eyed monster's weakness, but... she couldn't see anything.
"Uh, no way!" she said, starting to back away.
At the same time, the green-eyed monster raised its fist and swung it fiercely at Mu Anxiao. As the fist descended towards her, Mu Anxiao quickly bent down to dodge, thinking, "I can't die, I absolutely cannot die."
With that thought, she swiftly moved behind the green-eyed monster.
The green-eyed monster reacted a beat too late, freezing in place.
Mu Anxiao breathed a sigh of relief and then her eyes inadvertently fell on the vines on the back of the green-eyed monster's head. She thought, "I didn't expect a vine spirit to have such abilities."
With that thought, she quickly reached out and grabbed the back of the green-eyed monster's collar.
At the same time, the green-eyed monster reacted, spinning around abruptly.
Mu Anxiao, due to limited strength, as she was about to be thrown off, quickly reached out and grabbed the vines on the back of the green-eyed monster's head.