“I don't mean to slack off.”

Mingmei sighed softly, “I’m just expressing my feelings. Actually, Guigui, you must be working hard too, right?”

Helping her remember her past with Mu Chen, over and over again, must be really tiring.

From sunrise to sunset, Guigui was the only witness to every encounter between her and Mu Chen. Even she, the person involved, wouldn't remember any of it after a new day began.

Yet, she has been blankly meeting Mu Chen again every day.

Mingmei felt deeply moved just listening to Guigui's word-by-word record of each repeated scenario and the mostly similar dialogues.

[I'm not tired…] Guigui surprisingly showed consideration for someone else, saying, [At least, I think I might be better off than Mu Chen.]

“Mu Chen…”

Even without Guigui saying it, she understood.

Watching the person she likes look at her with unfamiliar eyes every day, then spending a wonderful day together, promising to meet again next time, but the promised “next time” never arrives, every time is a first meeting, every time they are promising that “next time” that will never come.

She could imagine what her past memory gaps meant to Mu Chen.

Encountering her for the first time again and again…

Although the game might differ from the past, she knew that the most gaps in her past memories were during that time.

“Before, you used to tell me things in advance so I could remember. Was that method useful?”

[Yes, but it doesn’t seem to matter whether I remind you now…]

Mingmei fell silent after hearing Guigui's words.

That's right, Mu Chen seems to be stuck again. Mingmei felt worried and disappointed.

…

What happened in Jibei City did cause quite a stir, and many sects received wind of it.

This was also Gu Qin's intention.

Just like how the demonic cultivators had received news that evil entities were running rampant outside, tainted with demonic energy. Although no one had directly questioned the Jibei City demon clan about it,

if various negative details accumulated without being resolved, sooner or later a bigger conflict would erupt, making the demon clan even more passive.

It would be better to air their “dirty laundry” and say that the demon clan had also been taken advantage of, so at least they were also victims.

“Looking at this formation, it doesn’t seem to lead to the Primordial Demon Realm.”

After Gu Qin confirmed that the evil entity matter was being investigated by Lu Gui and the others, she released them. They carefully examined the image of the destroyed teleportation array that Lu Xiaoyao and the others had painstakingly copied down after their fierce battle in the cave, and she gave this answer.

“Although I also saw a destroyed teleportation array in the Primordial Demon Realm, it doesn’t match this one.” Gu Qin thoroughly investigated the Primordial Demon Realm this time and naturally discovered other oddities as well.

Among them, of course, was the method for sending the evil entities out of the secret realm silently.

“Then is it possible that the endpoints of these two teleportation arrays are somewhere else?”

Lu Gui suddenly thought of a term—transfer station.

“That’s possible, but this teleportation array is very complex, and no one in our clan is proficient in this kind of formation.”

Gu Qin shook her head helplessly. After the teleportation array was copied down, she would have to ask Mei Shi to take it and find someone skilled in formations to study it.

Hearing her say this, Lu Gui and the others’ eyes lit up. They also wanted to ask for help.

However, the person they wanted to ask for help didn’t seem willing to deal with it…

“I’m not going!”

Mei Shi got angry as soon as Xie Zhen was mentioned. Although she knew that besides fortune-telling, he was also a master of formations, she just didn’t want to go.

Even if Gu Qin needed help.

“You can go directly to him. That guy is hiding from people right now! Whether it’s from Bibo Yaoshan or others, A-Ming and I even stayed at his house before, and he only showed his face twice, once to pick us up and once to see us off. That person has always been timid and afraid of trouble!”

Mei Shi simply assumed that Xie Zhen’s years of avoiding trouble meant that he was timid and afraid of everything.

Gu Qin couldn’t help but smile when she heard this.

She had heard about what the Butian Sect had done, and the fact that the sect leader of Bibo Yaoshan had lopped off a section of their mountain head a while ago. How could that not make people hide?

If you can’t beat them, then hide!

Mingmei leaned in Mei Shi’s arms, listened to Gu Qin’s matter, and silently looked up at Mei Shi. Although her mother said she wasn’t going, her hand had honestly used telekinesis to take the jade slip with the copied formation from her hand.

“You can find him later.” After accepting the jade slip, Mei Shi passed it to Ming Yi and added, “By the way, take his disciple back with you. He’s not that old, but he went down the mountain to train and ended up in the demon clan. He’s really brave.”

Mei Shi was naturally talking about Xie Chen, who had been arrested but confirmed to be innocent.

However, he was just very “unlucky” to have been targeted by someone doing bad things, and they even committed the crime using his face. Thinking about it, if this child didn’t have any authentication evidence, wouldn’t he be in big trouble?

“That person is really unreliable, even for outsiders, let alone his disciple…” Mei Shi’s face was full of disgust whenever Xie Zhen was mentioned. Mingmei watched as even her father seemed to agree with this statement, and she couldn’t help but think that Xie Zhen was a really failed sect leader.

His own disciple was secretly causing trouble, but he was the one who was thought of as an unreliable master first. _(：3」∠)_

But how should she point this out?

“I can take him to the Butian Sect, but—”

Ming Yi, who had been silent all this time, took the jade slip that Mingmei threw to him and spoke.

Everyone’s gaze turned to him. Ming Yi was holding a sound transmission talisman in his other hand, and the light on it had disappeared, indicating that someone had just sent Ming Yi a message through the talisman.

“What’s wrong?”

“Xiao Jiu followed one of the elders in the sect to Bibo Yaoshan and beat a monk from the Linhua Temple to death.”

Mingmei: ???

Mei Shi: ???

“Are you kidding me? How old is Xiao Jiu? Even if she’s about to reach the Foundation Establishment stage, she naturally knows how to measure her actions. How could someone die?”

Although Mei Shi didn’t believe in children yielding to each other when raising her children, she believed more in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. If they were bullied, they definitely had to hit back, but she didn’t think Mei Jiu would beat someone to death.

She’s only five years old, right?

Mei Shi even subconsciously asked, “Did that monk want to kill Xiao Jiu?”

However, Mingmei noticed something else—

[Guigui, why do you think a disciple from Jingyun Mountain would beat a disciple from Linhua Temple to death in Bibo Yaoshan?]

Guigui: [Maybe… Bibo Yaoshan has bad feng shui?]

Mingmei: “…”

“I’ll take people and Yujian to the Butian Sect. You take Meimei to deal with Xiao Jiu’s matter?” Ming Yi’s suggestion was agreed upon by everyone present.

Mingmei was also eager to know what Mei Jiu had done, so she didn’t object and was very happy to go to Bibo Yaoshan with her mother.

However, along the way, Lu Xiaoyao, as a disciple of Jingyun Mountain, was naturally brought along with them.

On the way, when Lu Xiaoyao heard that Mei Jiu had beaten a disciple from Linhua Temple to death in Bibo Yaoshan, her reaction was exactly the same as Mingmei’s.

She said, “Heavens, is Bibo Yaoshan some kind of poisonous place? Why are the people who go there so unlucky?”

Mei Shi: “…?” Is that the point?

Oh, no, now that she mentioned it, it seemed to be true.

Guigui: [See, see, I told you, the feng shui is bad in Bibo Yaoshan!]

Mingmei: [Guigui, aren’t you supposed to believe in science?]

Guigui: […]