"I'm upset."
"Upset about what? You have no relationship with that fool anymore, you should be happy."
Mu Anxiao sighed, "You're so carefree. You'll never understand how I feel." With that, she turned and walked away.
Ma Yuan stood where he was, looking down at the jingling chains on Mu Anxiao's feet. He smirked, "Of course I won't understand. Are you a woman? I'm not." He then followed her.
Entering the house, Mu Anxiao didn't smell the earthy odor Ma Yuan had mentioned. Instead, she felt awkward due to the men in white sitting around the table.
Mo Bi and his father stood in a corner of the room, but they didn't look at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao also didn't look at them. She walked directly to the side of the first man in white and remained silent.
The first man in white sensed Mu Anxiao's presence but, without looking up, said, "Brother Mo, remove the chains from her feet."
Mo Bi hesitated because, although he outwardly let Mu Anxiao go, in his heart, he still didn't want to. However, seeing the cultivators present and remembering his younger brother's fear of them, he had no choice but to comply.
"Understood," Mo Bi said.
If it had been before, Mu Anxiao would have thought that the cultivators weren't as bad as she imagined.
But now, she didn't. Because of their inconsistent methods, she didn't believe the first man in white was genuinely kind. He must have had ulterior motives.
At the same time, Mo Bi approached Mu Anxiao. After a moment's hesitation, he crouched down and quickly unfastened the chains.
Then, Mo Bi stood up with the chains and asked, "May I ask when you will capture that monster?"
"Monster?" The first man in white picked up his teacup and said, "When we arrived, we didn't see the monster you mentioned at the village entrance. Moreover, I just heard from the villagers that the monster left long ago. What do you expect me to catch?"
Mo Bi was surprised by the first man in white's hostile attitude. He clenched his fists, filled with indignation.
The first man in white glanced sideways at Mo Bi's hands and said, "You want to hit me."
Upon hearing this, Mo Bi hastily relaxed his hands, feigning a playful smile, "How could I dare? My hand cramped, I just wanted to flex it."
"Then why are you here?" their father couldn't help but ask.
Mu Anxiao didn't think their father was a good person either. If she wasn't mistaken, he was responsible for all these tricks.
She figured that these disciples of the cultivators must also know their father's true nature. Otherwise, wouldn't they have greeted their father first upon arriving? Instead, they were nice to Mo Bi and completely ignored their father.
This was because they knew it was easier to appease someone they met frequently than someone who only dared to scheme behind the scenes. The former's intentions were easier to guess.
Of course, she thought the first man in white must be surprised that the one who plotted behind the scenes… would now speak.
As Mu Anxiao expected, the first man in white stared blankly for a while before saying, "Oh, old man, you're here. We didn't notice you."
Ugh, what a stiff greeting!
"Yes, I just arrived too," their father echoed the first man in white's attitude and walked forward.
The first man in white, along with his fellow disciples, stood up and bowed to their father.
Mu Anxiao was speechless about this group.
Ma Yuan chuckled twice and whispered next to Mu Anxiao, "Wasn't that old man here all along? Why are they acting like this?"
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao calmly glanced at the foolish-looking Ma Yuan and thought, *Your junior brother is much smarter than you.*
Of course, the reason they acted this way was because they felt this old man had value. It was evident that Mo Bi was likely to be ignored.
"What are you here for?" their father asked again, seemingly having understood their scheme.
The first man in white also pretended to act as if he were hearing the question for the first time, smiled, and said, "We received a message from your villagers. But when we arrived, there was nothing in the village. We were planning to come and see you, but then we met her." He pointed at Mu Anxiao, "So, could you two leave for a moment?"
Such a direct dismissal. Mu Anxiao had indeed witnessed the straightforwardness of these cultivators.
"Then what about our matter?" their father asked more directly than Mo Bi.
"Your... Oh, the matter of the three bullies. That's easy. We've already found suitable candidates," the first man in white said with a smile.
"Then we bid farewell." Their father smiled, turned to look at the cold-faced Mo Bi, and said, "Let's go."
Mo Bi frowned.
The first man in white deliberately ignored Mo Bi and gestured to his disciples, "Alright, take a seat."
"Yes, Senior Brother."
After the disciples' cheerful reply, Mo Bi and their father left the room.
Mu Anxiao became nervous after the first man in white mentioned having suitable candidates. Standing still, her heart inexplicably began to pound.
Then, the first man in white tugged at Mu Anxiao's sleeve, "Alright, you can sit down now."
Mu Anxiao snapped back to attention, sat in the chair they had cleared for her, cleared her throat, and said, "Just say what you have to say."
"I've already told them that you are the progenitor of our cultivation sect."
The moment the first man in white finished speaking, they cupped their hands together and said in unison, "Greetings, Progenitor."
Progenitor? When did she become a progenitor? Speaking of which, she was the only one in the Mu family to achieve immortality. In the future, when someone in the Mu family achieved immortality, she, Mu Anxiao, would be the progenitor of the Mu family. What did this have to do with the cultivation sect?
Upon summing it up, she really didn't want to give them a good look now that they were calling her that.
"I am not your ancestor," Mu Anxiao said coldly.
The first man in white smiled, "What do you mean?"
"I've already told you, I'm not one of your cultivation sect members," Mu Anxiao said, tapping the table with her knuckles.
"You achieved immortality in our cultivation sect, so it's our territory..."
"The territory of the cultivation sect was taken over by rabbit spirits long ago. If we calculate based on the year I achieved immortality, I have already become an accomplice of the rabbit spirits," Mu Anxiao interrupted.
"What do you mean?" the first man in white asked.
"I achieved immortality over fifty years ago, and the rabbit spirits have occupied that place for nearly fifty years. So... the day I achieved immortality, you were already destroyed. Therefore... it has nothing to do with you."
Sometimes, some thoughts sound quite reasonable when thought internally, but when spoken, they change their flavor. Just like Mu Anxiao, after saying this, she instantly felt awkward.
"You don't even know what you're saying," the first man in white said with a laugh.