He clasped his hands behind his back and said, "I asked this guy to bring us, and he just didn't." He glanced at Hei Feng.
Mu Anxiao saw a mature side to Jia and couldn't help but smile.
Hei Feng replied, "But I did bring you here."
Jia let out a soft snort.
Gu Xiao stood beside Feng Qi Shi, watching Hei Feng and the others ignore them. He said, "They can't see us."
"Yeah, only Mu Shazi can see us. No one else can."
"Oh." Gu Xiao nodded.
Then, Yan Yu, unable to accept the way Mu Anxiao addressed him and Jia, introduced himself, "Mu Anxiao, both Boss and I have names now."
Mu Anxiao asked, "What are they?"
Yan Yu replied, "My name is Yan Yu, Boss." He stopped mid-sentence, suddenly realizing it might not be appropriate to call Jia "Boss." He then looked at Jia with a smile and said, "Why don't you introduce yourself?"
Jia glanced at Yan Yu and said, "My current name is Jia."
"Your names," Mu Anxiao said with a dry laugh, "are quite casual."
"I think they are very meaningful," Yan Yu said earnestly.
Mu Anxiao asked, "Yan Yu, how did you come up with this name?"
"To clarify, my name is Yan Yu, not Yan Yu."
"What?" Mu Anxiao, who hadn't learned Pinyin, was confused after Yan Yu said that.
Yan Yu, seeing Mu Anxiao's bewildered expression, closed his eyes and explained, "The 'yu' in my name, Yan Yu, is the 'yu' from 'comparison,' not the 'yu' from 'language.' Do you understand?"
Mu Anxiao, who had never been interested in characters, turned to look at the demonic souls while Yan Yu explained himself.
Yan Yu opened his eyes and looked, feeling speechless.
"Let's get to work," Jia said, slowly flying upwards to start setting up the net.
Hei Feng looked up at Jia's unnecessary action, then quickly turned his head to look up at Mu Anxiao. "Do you have something?" he asked.
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao looked at Hei Feng and nodded.
"Do you want to go with him, or me?" Hei Feng pointed at Jia, then at himself.
Mu Anxiao hesitated for a moment. Considering the abilities of Hei Feng and Jia, she finally chose Yan Yu. "Him," she pointed at Yan Yu.
Yan Yu was stunned. "I... I don't understand what's going on here. Even if you look for me, it's useless. I'm still learning. You should rather..." He pointed at the clearly unhappy Hei Feng. "Go with him!"
Hei Feng said, "Mu Anxiao, I've been helping you all these years. How could you be so ungrateful?"
"..." Mu Anxiao glanced at Hei Feng, then at Yan Yu's persistent refusal, and said helplessly, "Fine, I'll go with you." She then shifted her gaze back to Hei Feng's face.
Hei Feng glared at Mu Anxiao.
At the same time, Feng Qi Shi cast a spell to fix Jia in mid-air. He couldn't use any magic at all now.
The demonic souls looked up at the suddenly frozen large net and Jia in terror, and began to discuss.
"What's going on?" Zhu Yang asked.
Ma Kai replied, "Who knows? Can that kid really do it?"
Although Jia was frozen, he could still hear them. The moment Ma Kai's voice reached his ears, he looked down and shouted, "If you have the guts, don't fall into my hands."
Hearing this, Ma Kai looked up excitedly and said, "Oh, the kid can talk."
Jia tried hard to lower his head to see Ma Kai's face. "I'll remember you."
Ma Kai threw his head back and laughed heartily.
Seeing this, Feng Qi Shi directly released the immobilization spell on Jia.
The next second, Jia swooped down and landed in front of Ma Kai.
Ma Kai's smile, the moment Jia landed, vanished.
Then, he looked up at the sky, and when he looked down at Jia again, he revealed an ingratiating smile. "Hello!"
As the saying goes, laughing at someone when they fall usually leads to a bad end. Ma Kai was the prime example.
"You come down," Jia said, clasping one hand behind his back and raising the other, beckoning.
Ma Kai swallowed his throat and obediently squatted down.
Then, Jia began to torment Ma Kai.
The demonic souls beside them were startled by Jia's violent demeanor, considering his age.
Subsequently, for their own safety, they each turned away.
Yang Tai looked towards Mu Anxiao.
Seeing this, Yan Yu hastily retrieved the large net that was suspended in the air, walked behind Jia, and dared not utter a word.
Mu Anxiao said to Hei Feng, "Hei Feng, I want to help a demonic soul clear his name."
Hearing this, Hei Feng's eyes widened. "Are you crazy, Mu Anxiao?"
Mu Anxiao had long expected Hei Feng and Feng Qi Shi to say the same thing, which was why she had wanted to discuss this matter with Yan Yu earlier.
Who would have thought that that guy was also too cunning and saw through her plan.
Helplessly, she had to face Hei Feng honestly.
But after he flatly refused her, Mu Anxiao felt a surge of frustration. "Those five women are the culprits. I want to understand their situation. Can you take me there?"
"No."
"Why?"
"Because our jurisdiction is the realm of demonic souls. If we go to manage human souls, we would be crossing boundaries. Moreover, given your situation, you are seeking a retrial, which is not an easy matter. I advise you," Hei Feng lowered his voice, "not to get involved in this mess."
"Back then, you just gave me the task to capture those sinful demons. You never told me about their past..."
"You only need to capture them, not meddle in other people's business."
"But those five women are also involved with me. How should this be calculated?" Mu Anxiao didn't want to involve herself initially, but after Hei Feng's words, she felt compelled to.
"What does it have to do with you?"
"I was the one who tied the red threads in that town, but they sabotaged it, causing those who shouldn't have died to perish, and their marriages to be broken. I bore the stigma of arbitrarily tying red threads."
"I don't know about this."
Continuing, Mu Anxiao said, "They also disfigured Yang Tai. Yang Tai endured them for ten whole years. In the end, they framed Yang Tai. I believe that when Yang Tai took action, he was eliminating evil for the people."
Hei Feng had never heard any of this before. He was merely an acceptor of missions as a Yin Messenger, so he was genuinely surprised after hearing Mu Anxiao's words.
"You mean..."
"It's very simple. I just want to go there and see the fate of those five women, thereby helping Yang Tai clear his name, and also helping myself."
"To go there, you have to pass through the demon realm. We who catch demons cannot go."
Hei Feng didn't want to tell Mu Anxiao these things, but after hearing her reasons, he felt a desire to help her. However... the rules had to be followed, and before that, he decided to clarify things.
But he didn't know where to begin, so he could only tease her for now.