Madam, please ascend.

Chapter 75 Secretly assassinating Chen Cang
In the pitch-black darkness, the air seemed to have frozen, and the silence was eerie.

A figure, like a ghost, was lurking silently within, his presence restrained and undetectable. He gripped the iron bow tightly in his hand, his fingers lightly resting on the bowstring, aiming it at the two people in the inn.

Locked in by this murderous gaze, Yun Yi and the white-faced eunuch both became nervous.

Before I knew it, the chirping of cicadas nearby had stopped and it was so quiet that only the heartbeat remained.

Cui Wuming was slightly injured in the fight just now. Blood was flowing from his shoulder down his arm, and blood was dripping from his fingertips, making a "plop" sound when it fell to the ground.

His ears moved slightly, as if he was slightly distracted by this.

At this moment, an arrow came out of nowhere and broke through the wind!

The arrow was so fast that one couldn't even see its shadow. One could only hear the sharp buzzing sound of the air being torn apart.

Cui Wuming had been prepared, and he had deliberately exposed his weakness just now to lure the other party into attacking. He flicked the whip in his hand, and the shadow of a silver snake suddenly emerged from the air.

The snake opened its huge mouth, aimed at the arrow and bit it, then swallowed it into its stomach in a blink of an eye, thus neutralizing the attack.

But before Cui Wuming had time to catch his breath, the silver snake that had swallowed the bow and arrow suddenly exploded. The power was not great and was not fatal, but the real purpose of this operation was to cover up the next attack.

As soon as one arrow passed, another arrow came.

This time, Cui Wuming was completely unprepared and could only hastily wrap the tip of the bow and arrow with the silver snake whip to try to slow down its attack.

The man who attacked secretly had obviously seen through Cui Wuming's moves. He shot another arrow and hit the end of the whip, locking him directly to the ground.

Seeing this, Yun Yi said, "No wonder this person didn't make a move before. He must have been secretly observing your attack habits, looking for flaws."

Cui Wuming was unable to draw his weapon for a moment and said angrily, "There's no need to trouble you to explain this."

However, as a person in the Spirit Transformation Realm, Cui Wuming also had a trick up his sleeve. He simply pulled up his robe and swung it hard, and suddenly the entire inn was shrouded in darkness.

Yun Yi’s eyes went dark and he could not see anything in an instant.

This is one of the fundamental differences between the Spirit Transformation Realm and the Qi Refining Realm. The Qi Refining Realm is about drawing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body, and can use spiritual power in a crude way, attaching it to weapons or protecting oneself.

When the body is filled with spiritual energy, this spiritual power begins to polish and refine the cultivator's consciousness, also known as divine consciousness. This is the process of refining essence into qi, and refining qi into spirit, thus completing the transformation of essence, qi and spirit.

As for the use of divine consciousness, it is fundamentally different from controlling objects with qi.

Mu Fanzhi could disperse his divine consciousness into thousands of branches, making them extremely sharp. Cui Wuming, on the other hand, spread his divine consciousness into the night, creating an area without any light.

Once a practitioner has divine consciousness, in a sense, he can "make his wishes come true."

Infuse divine thoughts into the magic weapon, turning it into a "living thing" instead of just a cold "dead thing".

Only by infusing divine thoughts into magic can ordinary spells be transformed into magical powers, and from then on have all kinds of miraculous effects.

Yun Yi is still a little short of being fully spiritual, but he had already reached the Spirit Transformation Realm in his previous life and was very familiar with this realm. That was why he was able to triumph over danger and use the Green Lotus Sword Intent to divert most of Mu Fanzhi's spiritual thoughts, thus completing the cross-border kill.

In his opinion, the cultivation level of Cui Wuming and the man who attacked him secretly was not much different. It was a pity that the former had just been injured, and the latter had been dormant for a long time and had already seen through Cui Wuming's lifeblood.

As one gained strength while the other lost, the two became distinguished in terms of their superiority and inferiority.

Cui Wuming concealed himself in the inky black, but the man outside locked onto his target with his divine sense and fired several more arrows. However, this time the arrows seemed to be swallowed by the inky black, missing their target and making no sound, like a stone dropped into a quagmire, not even stirring a ripple.

Although Yun Yi couldn't see the scene clearly, he vaguely sensed that Cui Wuming had a backup plan.

As several more arrows exploded, the inn finally collapsed under the weight and with a loud rumbling sound, it began to collapse. Poor Yun Yi had nowhere to go and could only use the Fangyuan Sword to cover his head.

However, the expected embarrassing situation did not happen, because Yun Yi was suddenly sent out of the inn area by a force, and also left the inky area.

When he finally regained his vision, he saw that there was a silver snake wrapped around his feet, which had thrown him out.

And the destination happened to be where the person who attacked was.

Cui Wuming was indeed good at planning. He first covered the inn with ink to attract the other party's attention, then secretly searched for the other party's whereabouts, and sent Yun Yi directly over, performing a sneak attack.

The inn was destroyed, and Cui Wuming removed the cover, revealing a ruin.

Then the scene before him made him open his eyes wide, as if facing a great enemy.

It was because there was a room on the second floor that was floating in the air, completely intact, and sitting in it was an ordinary-looking woman in white. She was looking outside with her chin in her hand, curiosity in her eyes.

Moreover, this person seems to be relaxed and seems to be eating peanuts?!
Cui Wuming's eyelids were twitching wildly and he wanted to run away, but he didn't have the courage. Besides, the big monk was still there, so he couldn't just leave.

The next moment, the woman seemed to have eaten and drunk her fill, clapped her hands, and finally stood up and left the room. With her departure, the only remaining room in the inn finally collapsed.

Expert! At least at the Return to Void Realm!
Cui Wuming immediately realized that this was someone he could not afford to offend, because he had not been able to feel any spiritual power from the other person before and only regarded her as an ordinary woman.

Now it seems that I was really blind. The Big Iron Swordsman is not just a simple Qi Refining Realm, and the woman beside him is even more terrifying.

Song Xinci didn't take this person seriously. She flashed and appeared again with the big monk in her hand.

The big monk lowered his head and looked at me. He wanted to say something at this moment, but he couldn't say it in the end. He simply closed his eyes and pretended to be out of sight and out of mind, in order to maintain his dignity.

"You?!" Cui Wuming was shocked when he saw this. He had clearly hidden the monk in the cellar of the inn in advance, but he was found out so easily.

"Shh." Song Xinci made a gesture to keep quiet.

Cui Wuming immediately shut up when he saw this.

Compared with the big monk in her hand, Song Xinci was petite, but she threw the big monk directly at Cui Wuming's feet as if she was throwing away a rag doll.

The poor monk looked so hopeless, but his hands and feet were tied with iron chains engraved with mysterious talismans, making him unable to resist.

Song Xinci moved her lips and said, "Chair."

Cui Wuming no longer had the demeanor of a master as before. He immediately found an intact chair from the ruins of the inn, wiped the dust off it like a lackey, and then respectfully walked it behind the woman.

Song Xinci sat down casually, spread out the small cloth bag in his hand, and continued to pick out candied fruits from it and put them into his mouth.

Since she didn't say anything, Cui Wuming and the big monk didn't dare to say anything either, and they all turned their attention to another battlefield outside the house.

(End of this chapter)