"If you spout any more nonsense, I won't let you go," Wan Sha said.
Hearing Wan Sha's icy tone, Chen immediately ran off.
Wan Sha watched Chen's retreating figure from the side, her eyes darkening.
In the ruined temple, Mu Anxiao squatted by the well, thinking about her sixth layer of spiritual energy, but she couldn't bring herself to be happy.
At the same time, Feng Qi Shi walked up behind Mu Anxiao and asked, "What's wrong?"
Mu Anxiao listlessly picked up a wet cloth from the copper basin. "Shen Fengzi, ever since you came, I've found my life's pace has slowed down. How about," she wrung out the cloth and dabbed her face, "you leave?"
These were thoughts Mu Anxiao had just had. Down here, she found herself feeling dazed every day. Although she had accomplished many things, none of them were things she truly wanted to do.
"You... you're not chasing me away anymore," Feng Qi Shi said, looking down at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao tilted her head up to look at Feng Qi Shi. "I originally wasn't going to, but now that I've squatted down and thought about it again, I feel like we really can't be together."
"Reason."
"You're too much of a cheat."
"How have I cheated you?"
"How haven't I cheated you?" Mu Anxiao retorted, throwing the cloth back into the basin and standing up, pointing at her clothes. "First, this outfit. Then, when we went to Piao's place, you let Piao treat me like that. I really... I don't know how you'll cheat me tomorrow."
"I cheated you, but didn't you still cultivate to the sixth layer of spiritual energy?" Feng Qi Shi looked down at Mu Anxiao's face.
"That's true, but this isn't the result I wanted."
"Then what result do you want?"
"I want my own efforts."
In Feng Qi Shi's eyes, Mu Anxiao was constantly striving to improve.
Mu Anxiao remained silent. Feng Qi Shi hadn't expected Mu Anxiao's thoughts to differ from his own. However, thinking about his actions today, he had indeed been a bit of a cheat.
"Then what do you want me to do?" Feng Qi Shi asked.
Mu Anxiao thought for a moment and said, "I know you're doing this for my own good, and I'm grateful to have you by my side..."
Feng Qi Shi interrupted, "I'm not leaving."
"I'm not asking you to leave; I just mean, don't get involved in my affairs."
"If I don't get involved, can you handle it yourself?"
"I..." Mu Anxiao couldn't gauge her own abilities and hesitated. "I don't know. Regardless, don't follow me for what I'm going to do next."
"....."
"Why aren't you speaking?"
"We have a cooperative relationship. If you don't want me to manage your life and death," Feng Qi Shi shook his head, "I can't do that."
"Can't you wish me well?"
"It's not that I don't wish you well, you..." Before he could finish, Feng Qi Shi's expression suddenly turned tense. "Something's not right." He looked around.
Mu Anxiao looked at Feng Qi Shi's strange behavior in confusion and then sniffed the air. "It does feel off."
Hearing this, Feng Qi Shi turned to Mu Anxiao. "You can smell it?"
Mu Anxiao nodded. "The scent of a demon soul."
"It's nearby," Feng Qi Shi said, looking up at the night sky. "You go."
A moment of glory leads to eternal regret.
The instant Feng Qi Shi spoke, Mu Anxiao's face froze.
Mu Anxiao: "...."
Immediately after, Feng Qi Shi looked down at Mu Anxiao and asked, "Why aren't you speaking anymore?"
What could she say at this moment? She had thought that besides Wan Sha and A Xia, there were no other demon souls here. Now, faced with this situation, she suddenly felt scared.
"I feel... there are quite a lot of them."