Yuan Muye spoke, and the old Daoist's gaze shifted towards the black line on Yuan Muye's wrist. After only one glance, his expression immediately changed.

"Young friend, how did you get this?"

"How I got it, I won't go into detail. Can you find a way to remove the black line on my wrist?"

Yuan Muye knew that the black line on his wrist was a powerful Yin energy.

Even with his current strength at the mid-stage of the Great Power realm, he couldn't do anything about it.

This made Yuan Muye feel quite troubled.

Seeing that Yuan Muye was unwilling to speak, the old Daoist naturally didn't ask further.

He simply said, "This poor Daoist will try."

After saying that, the old Daoist began to try. He had Yuan Muye sit down, and a stream of true qi quickly entered Yuan Muye's body through his back.

This stream of true qi gave Yuan Muye a different feeling.

It seemed different from the aura in Yuan Muye's own body, vaguely suppressing the aura within, yet also creating a rebound effect.

After waiting for a while, about half an hour, Yuan Muye felt much better.

But when he opened his eyes and looked at his wrist, he found that the black line was still there.

At this moment, the old Daoist also opened his eyes. He naturally knew Yuan Muye's current situation, and could only shake his head with a wry smile, saying, "Young friend, it's difficult."

Yuan Muye responded softly and then said, "I'm very grateful to you, Daoist."

"It's nothing, this poor Daoist should do what he can. This poor Daoist always feels that you and that girl have extraordinary destinies, and may achieve great things in the future."

The old Daoist said with a serious face.

After a while, he suddenly sighed and said, "Young friend, this poor Daoist doesn't have many days left. In the future, we'll have to rely on you. I hope that when you have the ability, you can uphold justice for the world."

He stared earnestly at Yuan Muye.

Hearing these words, Yuan Muye couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion in his heart, and then slowly said, "I will, Daoist."

Yuan Muye explained some things here.

After saying goodbye to everyone, he immediately left the Jade Stone World.

Back at the hotel, Yuan Muye let out a long breath. The most urgent task was to improve his strength.

However, not having any negative emotion points was also a rather troubling thing for Yuan Muye.

After a simple night's rest, at lunchtime the next day, there was a dinner arranged by Yun City.

After the meal, Deputy Director Liu didn't show up.

Acting so mysteriously made Yuan Muye increasingly curious about what their mission actually was!

Finally, at around three o'clock in the afternoon, Director Chen called everyone to the Yun City headquarters.

The atmosphere in the conference room was somewhat沉闷 (chénmèn, heavy).

The overall feeling was quite serious.

After Yuan Muye and the others took their seats, no one inside spoke, and everyone remained silent.

After waiting for about three minutes, Deputy Director Liu walked in from outside the door. When everyone saw him, they stood up one after another.

All eyes fell on him.

Seeing this scene, Deputy Director Liu's face showed a clear expression of satisfaction. Then, he said, "Sit down, everyone."

After everyone was seated, he continued, "Everyone, this operation is still a joint operation between us and Jiang City, so I would like to thank our colleagues from Jiang City for their support."

Director Chen said at this time, "These are all things we should do."

"Director Chen is too kind. There's no such thing as something that should be done."

The two exchanged a few pleasantries.

Yuan Muye couldn't help but say, "Director Liu, let's get to the point."

"Negative emotion points from Liu Deputy Director +199..."

"Alright, since that's the case, I won't waste everyone's time. Tonight's operation is to go to a ghost cave, eliminate the evil ghosts inside, and rescue an important person."

Deputy Director Liu said seriously.

"Rescue an important person?"

Everyone was very curious, and looks of confusion appeared on their faces.

"Director Liu, aren't people who are captured by evil ghosts usually eaten immediately? How could they possibly be kept alive?"

"Theoretically, that's true, but this situation is different. These evil ghosts clearly captured this person with a plan and premeditation. Moreover, this person has a protective talisman on them, so ordinary evil ghosts really can't deal with him for the time being."

Deputy Director Liu spoke very seriously.

At this time, someone asked curiously, "Director Liu, who exactly is this person? Can you tell us?"

Deputy Director Liu said earnestly at this time, "This is classified."

When everyone heard the words "classified," they immediately became serious and didn't dare to pursue the question.

Moreover, knowing such classified matters wouldn't really do them any good.

Rather than that, it was better not to know.

Yuan Muye was actually very curious as well. Someone who was captured by evil ghosts could actually still be alive.

Vaguely, Yuan Muye felt that Deputy Director Liu was lying.

But Yuan Muye couldn't question such an operation.

He had no choice but to remain silent.

After waiting for a while, Yuan Muye asked, "Director Liu, when will we be moving out?"

"Today, I'll give you half an hour to prepare. Gather at the entrance in half an hour."

"Yes."

Everyone responded in agreement.

Yuan Muye and the others came from Jiang City, so they naturally didn't bring any equipment.

Therefore, they needed to collect the equipment from Yun City.

After collecting the equipment, there were several cars waiting outside.

The number of people involved in this operation was about twenty.

Everyone quickly got into the cars together, ready to set off.

The cars drove forward, and soon left Yun City.

Why was this operation a joint effort between the two cities? To some extent, Yun City's strength was much stronger than Jiang City's. There was really no need for people from Jiang City to come and help.

After thinking about it, Yuan Muye suddenly asked Director Chen, "Director, was it you who asked me to come for this operation? Or...?"

Director Chen was stunned for a few seconds by this question, but quickly recovered and said, "Actually, it was Deputy Director Liu who specifically requested that you come."

Yuan Muye: "..."

The feeling of unease in his heart grew stronger.

He had interacted with Deputy Director Liu a few times before, and those interactions had given Yuan Muye a bad feeling.

But he hadn't taken it to heart.

He always felt that this guy was targeting him, but hadn't taken any action.

But this time, Yuan Muye felt that Deputy Director Liu was going to make a move against him.

Could it be that the reason he didn't take action against him before was because his strength wasn't enough?

Now that his strength had reached a certain level, he was going to make a move against him?

He forgot to reply as he thought about this all the way.

At this time, Director Chen's voice rang in his ear, "What's wrong? Director Yuan, is there something wrong?"

"No, I was just asking casually."

Yuan Muye said faintly.