Si Qing remained silent. "...It's nothing, I just realized for the first time that I'm quite poor."
Chen Xi patted Si Qing's shoulder, feeling the same.
Yan Hua looked at Qi Yu and couldn't help but tease, "You earn so much money but don't spend it, are you a Pixiu?"
"It's not that I don't spend it, I do use it," Qi Yu looked at Yan Hua. "But I don't lack money in this life, and I don't have any need for it. I saved so much gold in my previous life mainly to craft more good-looking shells for my original body."
It was a pity she didn't get to use them much later.
"Hey, then you never thought about using this gold to properly dote on me?" Yan Hua sat down and looked at her leisurely.
"Hmm, but it's not very useful. You have more magical artifacts than me, your spells are higher, and you know more. Besides, you're not short of gold either." Qi Yu had indeed thought about it, but couldn't figure out what to do.
She leaned closer to Yan Hua. "Master, how about I take you to eat delicious food! I know so many delicious things in the human world."
Yan Hua smiled at her. "So, you and Si Qing often sneak out of the South Sea to buy delicious food in the human world?"
Qi Yu scratched her hair.
She looked obedient.
Chen Xi interrupted their idle chat from the side. "While I'd love for you to continue chatting, I think it's more important to get down to business. Those vengeful spirits have been exposed to the sun for two days. If I hadn't set up a protective formation, they would have probably dissipated into thin air two days ago."
"Ah, I forgot," Qi Yu said, patting her thigh. She quickly turned to go outside and look at the fierce ghosts.
The fierce ghosts looked like wilted radish kimchi, shriveled from the sun.
If not for Chen Xi's formation, they probably wouldn't have lasted long.
"You few," Qi Yu walked over and squatted down. "Have you thought about how you're going to confess? It's best to reveal all your intentions at once."
"I know that you all became fierce ghosts because you have grievances. I don't intend to stop you from seeking revenge. I just want to know who was behind all this trouble. Tell me, and I'll go settle the score. Then you'll be free, as long as you swear not to cause any more trouble before you're free. It's that simple."
As Qi Yu finished her last sentence, the fierce ghosts finally reacted.
One of them, a female ghost in red, raised her head and asked Qi Yu in an uncertain voice, "Are you, are you telling the truth? Can you swear to the heavens that you are absolutely not lying?"
Such oaths were no small matter for a cultivator.
These were all karmic ties that would be used as a standard for judgment during tribulation.
Qi Yu nodded and swore to the heavens without hesitation.
Seeing her quick and unhesitating action, the other ghosts also let down their guard and began to speak one after another.
Qi Yu was not in a hurry; she listened to them one by one.
After half an hour, she had a rough understanding of the entire story.
It turned out that not long ago, a secret guard organization, similar to the Assassination Pavilion, had opened on a mountain in the human world.
The situation within this organization was similar to her own Assassination Pavilion.
They all came from different places and races, living by taking revenge for others or by seeking revenge themselves.
Although they appeared to be minding their own business, the human world had limited spiritual energy, and both organizations had their own businesses in the human world. Thus, they had clashed a few times in secret over the competition for spiritual energy and business.
Perhaps her Assassination Pavilion had been isolated for too long and didn't take these matters seriously.
However, their secret guard organization did not let these matters go. To eliminate the Assassination Pavilion, they devised a malicious plan: first, spread rumors everywhere, then cast illusions on the Assassination Pavilion and send evil spirits.
If she hadn't appeared in time, the Assassination Pavilion might have truly encountered trouble.
Chen Xi felt something was amiss after listening.
Qi Yu frowned, pondered for a moment, then stood up and said, "Which mountain is that secret guard organization on? What is the name of the boss inside?"
"Ah, it's called the Blood Fiend Hall," one of the fierce ghosts replied. "The Blood Fiend Hall is different from yours. Although it's a secret guard organization, and its members are all from different places and races, most of them are gods from the Nine Heavens, except for a few demonic and beast cultivators."
Another fierce ghost nodded. "It's true. If it weren't for the fact that most of the people in that secret guard organization called the Blood Fiend Hall were gods, we wouldn't have believed them and deliberately come to cause trouble at the Assassination Pavilion..."
Qi Yu frowned.
Blood Fiend Hall?
Gods?
Si Qing blurted out, "Sister, that secret guard organization called the Blood Fiend Hall, could it be established by the Blood Fiend Demon?"