“Wow! Mom, did you and Dad discover an evil cultivator?"

Compared to Mingyi, Meishi had been spending time with Mingmei and Meijiu as soon as she returned. By the way, because she discovered that Mingmei and Meijiu were not together during the day, she also learned about Meijiu's "achievements" over the past two months.

Before she could even react, Meijiu distracted her with her "cuteness."

"Not an evil cultivator. Didn't you misunderstand what your dad and the sect leader said? It's a demonic beast that has gone astray." As she spoke, Meishi poked Meijiu's little head and looked at Mingmei, who was standing aside and seemed to be lost in thought again.

"What is Meimei thinking about?"

Although Meijiu was clinging to her, Meishi hadn't forgotten about this daughter who had never shown much emotion since birth, and who mostly stood quietly to the side, lost in thought.

"I... I'm curious about what demonic beasts that have gone astray are like. Don't they usually just become obedient demon cultivators after gaining intelligence?"

"I know this! Demon cultivators are like human cultivators. Some follow the righteous path, some cultivate Buddhism, some cultivate immortality, and some cultivate the demonic path! Of course! There are also those who don't cultivate anything, just like evil cultivators who do bad things!"

Meijiu answered quickly. She had gained some knowledge from staying by Qi Tianqing's side recently.

"That's right. Some demonic beasts, although they become intelligent, want to use their intelligence to do bad things, harming others for their own benefit." Considering her two daughters' ages, Meishi's explanation was crude and simple.

"Oh~~" Meijiu's eyes lit up as she stared at Meishi, hoping she would say more. Meishi, on the other hand, looked at Mingmei, hoping she would ask more questions.

As a result, she had just been analyzing with Guigui in the background about whether these demonic beasts and evil cultivators might have something to do with the Zerg, but when she came back to her senses, she was met with Meishi's worried gaze.

Mingmei: "..."

Why did her mother look at her with such concern and pity, as if she were an idiot?

...

"Ah? I'm a dignified Qi Refining stage tenth level cultivator, and you're giving me this kind of task?!"

Outside the Hall of Affairs, when Lu Xiaoyao came to receive her disciple mission, she was actually assigned to run errands in the city at the foot of the mountain, asking Tianyi Pavilion in the city to customize new clothes for the disciples.

Couldn't this kind of message be resolved with a sound transmission talisman?

Lu Xiaoyao's question was answered directly by the steward.

"Tianyi Pavilion is in a city a hundred miles away from Jingyun Mountain. A sound transmission would cost a mid-level sound transmission talisman. It's quite expensive."

These words almost made Lu Xiaoyao explode with anger!

Was he saying she was cheap?!

Weren't her two legs worth more than a sound transmission talisman?!

"Isn't going down the mountain a good thing? I want to go down the mountain every day!"

Lu Xiaoyao told Zhen Po about this. Zhen Po, who had been forced to cultivate by his master recently and had finally gotten a breather, was simply envious and jealous when he heard this!

"If you're going down the mountain, you can ask your fellow disciples if they have anything they want you to bring. If you can't go down the mountain, just pass on the message, right?" Zhen Po suggested to Lu Xiaoyao, acting like he knew the ropes. "When you pass on the message, you can wander around the mountain for a while, buy some things, and earn some pocket money, right?"

"How do you know so much?"

"Ah, a senior brother of mine did this before. Before going down the mountain on a mission, he asked us if we had anything we wanted him to bring, and we had to pay in advance."

After saying that, Zhen Po remembered the time he couldn't resist and gave his senior brother half a month's worth of spirit stones for cultivation, and then got a pile of useless snacks that were only good for eating. He was almost laughed to death by his fellow disciples.

Just for some food, how pathetic!

"Oh! So that's how it works!" Lu Xiaoyao, who had her eyes opened to a new world, and completely missed the darkening expression on the other person's face, immediately perked up!

And so—

"Woah! Bro, you've been here all these months?!"

Lu Xiaoyao never expected that she would meet her own brother here.

No matter how disheartened he was, he shouldn't be working as a shop assistant for Tianyi Pavilion, right?

"What? Do you have a problem with that?"

Seeing Lu Xiaoyao wearing clothes similar to the Jingyun Mountain disciple's uniform she had seen at the foot of Jingyun Mountain that day, Lu Gui was still a little envious in his heart.

But, the way he was now really made people think he had given up on himself.

"N-no, I'm here today to deliver a message to your shopkeeper."

Lu Xiaoyao was intimidated by her brother's gaze, and then spoke to look for the shopkeeper. At this time, another shop assistant who had not spoken until now said, "The shopkeeper has something to do and went out today. This immortal master can also talk to our second shopkeeper," and then looked at Lu Gui.

Lu Xiaoyao: "..."

"How long have you been here?" Lu Xiaoyao asked the shop assistant beside him quietly, receiving the reply "Four years."

"You're still a shop assistant after four years?" After saying that, Lu Xiaoyao's gossipy gaze once again fell on Lu Gui's face, with an expression that seemed to say "What's going on with you, kid?" Lu Gui's fists instantly hardened!

...

Coincidentally, Lu Xiaoyao left Jingyun Mountain, and Meijiu pestered Meishi to bring her and Mingmei down the mountain as well. And so, on the same day, the family of four disguised themselves and went down the mountain.

They went to play in the nearby town.

However, as soon as they entered the city, Mingmei noticed a subtle change in Mingyi's expression. He then whispered something to Meishi and left.

"Dad is..." Not noticing the change in Mingyi's expression, but noticing his sudden departure, Meijiu had to ask a question.

"Dad has something to do. Let's go shopping~" Meishi's tone was excited, as if everything was fine and nothing had happened.

Mingmei and Meijiu were each held by one of their mother's hands and brought into the city. They were not given the chance to think too much about what was wrong. The prosperity and bustle in front of them gave Mingmei a sense of belonging.

Although the surroundings were noisy, the annoying noises in Mingmei's ears gradually calmed her down.

She did not belong to that ethereal Jingyun Mountain, nor to the group of cultivators in this world.

Mingmei listened to the cries of the passing vendors on the road, and watched Meijiu's excited appearance by her side. She also felt excited and smiled foolishly at her surroundings.

Just as she was looking around, the hand that was being held by Meishi suddenly felt the strength from her mother.

Immediately after, Mingmei only felt her body suddenly being lifted up by Meishi. Before she could react, she realized that she and Meijiu had been picked up by their mother.

Holding two children in one arm was definitely not comfortable.

However, before she could feel much, Mingmei's eyes were facing Meishi's back, and she did not know what was happening in front. Suddenly, she felt dizzy and when she looked down, she only saw a few piles of minced meat that had appeared on the ground at some point...