Mu Anxiao, hearing this, exchanged glances with the wolf demon and the vine spirit who insisted on being present, and asked, "When you went in to look for it just now, did it speak?"
".." Xiao Yi looked up at Mu Anxiao's words, thought for a moment, and shook his head.
"Is that so," Mu Anxiao said, finally turning her gaze to the wolf demon and the vine spirit. "When it beat you up, did it say anything?"
"Beat us? We were fighting it, how could we be..."
"Answer what I ask. At this moment, your dignity is not worth a single coin in my eyes," Mu Anxiao interrupted the wolf demon.
The wolf demon glanced at the vine spirit and said, "It didn't say anything, it just... it just beat us. Honestly," he pursed his lips, "it really hurt."
"So, the only time it opened its mouth was the first time you saw it." Mu Anxiao completely ignored the wolf demon and shifted her gaze back to Xiao Yi.
At this, Xiao Yi, under Mu Anxiao's questioning, relaxed, "Yes."
"So that's how it is. That means it can only say that one sentence," Mu Anxiao guessed, rolled up her sleeves, pulled up her skirt hem, and turned towards the kitchen.
Seeing this, the wolf demon quickly said, "Be careful." He was worried that if Mu Anxiao met with an accident, he would never be able to leave.
"Shut up." Mu Anxiao forged ahead without looking back.
The vine spirit glanced at the wolf demon and chuckled.
Xiao Yi began to worry for Mu Anxiao...
A moment later.
Mu Anxiao emerged from the kitchen with disheveled hair, holding the dark demonic sword. "It's done," she said, gripping the hilt tightly, and walked up to them.
The wolf demon leaned forward, peering at the demonic sword, which seemed exceptionally quiet in Mu Anxiao's hand, and laughed, "How did you do it?"
"You don't need to know this," Mu Anxiao said faintly.
The vine spirit was curious, "What are you going to do with it?"
"Yes, what are you going to do with it? Also..." Xiao Yi hesitated, then thought for a moment before continuing, "Did it say those things to you."
"Those things..." Mu Anxiao thought for a moment and realized, "No."
"No..." Xiao Yi said, his mind now fixated on the demonic sword. He lowered his head slightly and stared at it.
Conversely, the wolf demon laughed, "It seems it really wants you to be its wife. In that case," he said, enjoying the spectacle, "you little ant are going to turn into a long sword."
The vine spirit was speechless at the wolf demon's imaginatively worded statement.
Then, Mu Anxiao cast a death glare at the wolf demon. "If you hadn't said that, I wouldn't have thought of testing it. But now that you've said it, I'm curious." With that, she stepped forward and held the demonic sword up to the wolf demon.
Upon seeing this, the wolf demon's face went dark. "What are you doing?"
"What else? Let's try," Mu Anxiao said, a smile curving her lips, as she fixed her gaze on the demonic sword...
Immediately, the demonic sword spoke to the wolf demon, "Little maiden... are you willing to be my wife."
Hearing this, Xiao Yi was stunned.
As if provoked by something, the wolf demon opened his mouth and shouted.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao raised her hand to cover one ear and shouted, "Enough."
At her cry, the wolf demon shut his mouth, stared at the demonic sword in Mu Anxiao's hand with disgust, took a step back, and said, "What little maiden? Can't you tell gender? You're crazy, crazy." Saying this, he turned and moved behind the vine spirit.
The vine spirit suppressed a laugh and glanced back at the wolf demon without saying anything.
"It seems it's just as I thought," Mu Anxiao said, slowly releasing her grip.
Seeing this, the vine spirit quickly said, "Mu Anxiao, what are you doing?" He instinctively covered his behind.
The wolf demon also said, "What are you doing?" He instinctively held the vine spirit's shoulder.
Mu Anxiao ignored the startled pair and instead focused on the demonic sword floating before her, asking, "Who is your master?"
Demonic sword: "..." It remained unresponsive.
Mu Anxiao continued, "Is it inconvenient for you to tell me, or do you not want to tell me? Or perhaps," she narrowed her eyes, "Ouyang Ye sent you here to monitor me?" Ouyang Ye was the only one she could think of now.
The demonic sword swayed twice, still making no sound.
"You can't speak?"
The demonic sword bobbed up and down... as if nodding.
However, the moment Mu Anxiao saw this reaction, the image of the Soul Sword flashed in her mind. Looking at it, she suddenly felt... a sense of familiarity. "Is your master here?" she tentatively asked, a misconception forming that it was the Soul Sword.
Immediately, as Mu Anxiao asked this question, the demonic sword turned towards the courtyard gate...
Following the direction the demonic sword turned, Mu Anxiao and the others looked. It was the Flower Demon who had arrived.
"You're back," the Flower Demon said, walking towards Mu Anxiao and the others.
"Mhm," Mu Anxiao nodded. Just as she was about to reach out to retrieve the demonic sword, it suddenly flew in front of the Flower Demon. Mu Anxiao looked and quickly said, "What are you doing? Come back."
Conversely, the Flower Demon was not startled by the demonic sword. Instead, a smile bloomed on her face as she looked at it. "It's you."
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao was surprised. "You know it."
"I do," the Flower Demon said, reaching out and gently grasping the demonic sword.
The demonic sword spoke, calling out, "Sister."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao's lips twitched. She said, "This fellow... really likes beautiful women." She turned to look at the wolf demon, whose face was now ashen. "You're a beauty too."
Xiao Yi lowered his eyes and secretly chuckled.
The wolf demon became displeased. "You're the beauty," she said, stomping angrily to the front of the Flower Demon. "Give it to me." She reached out.
The vine spirit also chuckled.
The Flower Demon, paying no mind to the reactions of others, fixed her gaze on the huffing wolf demon in front of her. Just as she was about to speak, the demonic sword broke free. Seeing this, she let go.
The next second, the demonic sword turned towards the wolf demon again, calling out, "Sister."
The wolf demon's face hardened...
The Flower Demon smiled.
The other Flower Demons, holding trays, also burst into unrestrained laughter the moment the demonic sword uttered those two words to the wolf demon.
"It seems you can indeed speak," Mu Anxiao said, walking to the wolf demon's side.
Hearing this, the demonic sword turned to Mu Anxiao. "I can speak, but I don't want to talk to you, you... ugly monster."
"What did you say?" Mu Anxiao thought she had misheard.
"You ugly monster, ugly monster, ugly monster," the demonic sword repeated, quickly hiding behind the Flower Demon.
Mu Anxiao had known from the moment she grabbed the demonic sword that if it could speak, it wouldn't say anything nice. As expected, her guess was correct. She felt nothing and instead let out a cold laugh. "Speaking of which, you don't look good either. Dark and sooty, from a distance, you look like a burnt piece of firewood. Up close... you resemble long dog droppings."