Hun Ling rolled her eyes at the third rabbit spirit, deliberately not replying.
Seeing Hun Ling’s silence, the third rabbit spirit pouted. "I was wrong, wu wu wu."
Hun Ling was startled and turned to look at the third rabbit spirit, who had suddenly started crying. "Why are you crying?"
The third rabbit spirit cried, "If I hadn't looked down on you back then, I wouldn't be like this now."
"There's no regret medicine in this world, so don't regret it anymore," Mu An Xiao said faintly.
Feng Qi Shi glanced at Mu An Xiao and said, "Even if there were regret medicine and she took it, it would be useless anyway."
"Why useless?" Mu An Xiao asked Feng Qi Shi, looking dumbfounded.
Feng Qi Shi's lips curled. "If I had it and she took it, she wouldn't have to regret, but reality would still be the same, with no changes. At least," he shrugged, "that's what I think."
"This is just a way to comfort yourself. Can you not be so literal?" Mu An Xiao said helplessly.
"I'm just expressing my own opinion. I still have that freedom, right?" Feng Qi Shi smiled.
Mu An Xiao was speechless. She looked back at the three rabbit spirits and said, "Take me into the cultivation sect."
"You want us to go like this?" the second rabbit spirit exclaimed.
"Otherwise, if we untie you, you'll definitely run," Mu An Xiao said faintly.
The second rabbit spirit glanced at Hun Ling and said, "Release us, and we won't say anything nonsense to the Rabbit Queen. We'll cooperate with you."
"I don't believe you," Mu An Xiao shook her head.
Seeing Mu An Xiao's expression of distrust, the second rabbit spirit asked, "Then what will it take for you to believe us?"
"It's simple, abolish your demon arts," Mu An Xiao said, deliberately widening her eyes.
Feng Qi Shi looked at Mu An Xiao's widened eyes and said, "You don't have to do this, do you?"
"I like it," Mu An Xiao continued, keeping her eyes wide.
"Alright, if you like it then," Feng Qi Shi said in resignation.
Following that, the second rabbit spirit turned to stone for a moment and said, "Isn't what you're doing too cruel?"
"Cruel? Did you think about how cruel you were when you were absorbing the souls of mortals?" Mu An Xiao stepped forward.
Hong Yan watched them, saying nothing.
"The ones we acted against were all ruthless people. We never acted against good people," the third rabbit spirit quickly argued.
"Oh, so the ruthless people you speak of are those who bully you? Is that it?" Mu An Xiao asked.
"Yes," the third rabbit spirit nodded firmly.
Seeing the third rabbit spirit's firm expression, Mu An Xiao gave up her idea of lecturing them. "Alright, your mistakes have already been made, so it's useless for me to say more. I don't require you to abolish all your demon arts, just abolish a little for me, alright?"
"Mu An Xiao, are you crazy?" Feng Qi Shi exclaimed.
Mu An Xiao was startled and looked at Feng Qi Shi's astonished expression helplessly. "Can you stop being so jumpy?"
"You're going to cultivate demon arts," Feng Qi Shi's eyes widened. "How can I not be jumpy?"
"Okay, okay, you be jumpy, but please narrow your eyes a bit, thank you," Mu An Xiao gestured to Feng Qi Shi's wide eyes.
"Okay," Feng Qi Shi agreed, narrowing his eyes into slits.
"Uh, you're so exaggerated," Mu An Xiao's mouth twitched.
Feng Qi Shi said seriously, "If you dare to cultivate demon arts, I'm not done with you."
"Big brother," Mu An Xiao smiled, "I haven't finished speaking yet. Do you have to be so excited?"
"You have more to say?" Feng Qi Shi's eyes returned to their normal size.
Mu An Xiao just smiled without speaking.
The next second, upon seeing Mu An Xiao's expression, Feng Qi Shi became awkward. "You say it, you say it."
Mu An Xiao glared at Feng Qi Shi and then turned to the three rabbit spirits. "If you go down there to be punished, your demon arts will also be confiscated. That kind of pain will be much worse than this."
"We'll have our demon arts confiscated if we go down?" the second rabbit spirit exclaimed.
"What do you think? If you go down, your body won't be yours anymore. Before that, they will absorb your demon arts with a magical artifact. The painful feeling... it makes me uncomfortable just thinking about it," Mu An Xiao's expression contorted.
Seeing Mu An Xiao's distorted expression, the second rabbit spirit swallowed hard. "How do you know?"
"Didn't the dog-headed demon tell you?" Mu An Xiao feigned surprise.
"We have no contact with the dog-headed demon. Do you have any relation to him?" the second rabbit spirit asked nervously.
"My relationship with him is very deep. His older brother was captured by me," Mu An Xiao leaned forward slightly.
Seeing Mu An Xiao's demeanor, the second rabbit spirit's heart sank. "The dog-headed demon is very powerful. If you can capture even his older brother, are you also very powerful?"
"You can think of it that way," Mu An Xiao acted as if she were very powerful.
Feng Qi Shi glanced at Mu An Xiao's self-praising expression and, considering her current weakened state, decided not to expose her.
Shi Yi listened to Mu An Xiao's words, his heart sinking. Then he remembered what the vine spirit had said. He wondered, Could she have intentionally kept me by her side? With that thought, he cast his gaze downward.
"What's wrong?" Hun Ling noticed Shi Yi's expression.
Shi Yi quickly shook his head. "Nothing, I just didn't expect her to be so powerful." He pointed at Mu An Xiao.
Feng Qi Shi heard Shi Yi's slightly trembling voice. "This guy is quite violent. You'd better find someone else."
"I'm not afraid of being bullied, but I'm afraid of being deceived," Shi Yi said in a low voice.
Hearing the implied meaning in Shi Yi's words, Mu An Xiao narrowed her eyes and turned to him. "Is there something you're hiding from us?"
"I didn't want to say anything, nor did I want to ask. But now," Shi Yi took a few steps closer to Mu An Xiao and said, "I want to ask you, do you have any intention of capturing me?"
"Why would I capture you?" Mu An Xiao frowned.
"Because I am a demon," Shi Yi said calmly.
"Demons are divided into good and bad ones. You are a good demon, so why would I capture you?" Mu An Xiao was puzzled why Shi Yi suddenly had this idea.
"The vine spirit said you wanted to capture me," Shi Yi revealed the truth.
"No," Mu An Xiao frowned and asked, "When did you see the vine spirit?"
"It was after you spoke about me. I met the vine spirit, and he said that you were deceiving me," Shi Yi's playful expression disappeared, replaced by an unusually serious one.
The moment Mu An Xiao heard Shi Yi's words, she fell silent.
Feng Qi Shi looked at Shi Yi's expression and rolled his eyes in exasperation. "Are you stupid?"
"If she were the kind of person the vine spirit described, I would have been captured long ago," Hong Yan walked to Mu An Xiao's side and said.