Chasing after her husband? Is it even possible to win him back?

Hongzhu and Lao Wang looked up in surprise, exchanged a glance, and then the two ghosts made up their minds.

After all, they had already discussed the current situation.

"As long as we are still of use to you, young master, we are willing to follow you."

Chapter 49, A Plan to Win More and Lose One

Hongzhu and Lao Wang's choices were not unexpected.

Or rather, whatever choices the two ghosts made, they all had their reasons and were plausible, and Chu Xunfeng didn't care.

However, since the two ghosts had made their choice, Chu Xunfeng took them as part of his plan. In order to make them useful in the inner city, Chu Xunfeng first gave the two ghosts a large sum of Yin Sha Pearls, and then entrusted them to Ao Xiu.

If you want them to become useful assistants in a short period of time, there is probably no shortcut in terms of cultivation strength. Although Chu Xunfeng can teach them how to do things, he is very busy right now and has more important things to do.

As for the spies from Yan State...

“He was ruthless. I used several methods, and I felt he might not be able to hold on and would confess, but he bit off his tongue in a fit of rage and became a mute who couldn't speak…” Ao Xiu wiped the blood off his hands, his gaze shifting from Chu Xunfeng’s face to Old Wang and the two ghosts, Hongzhu. “Leave them to me. I will arrange for them to handle things. The Demon Exorcism Bureau’s system is something I improved upon, and I should be able to pass on some of its concepts to them.”

"Thank you, Your Highness, Serpent Lord." Red Candle bowed slightly, while Old Wang hesitated for a moment before bowing in gratitude as well.

"Tell me your plans for the future."

“First of all, I will arrange a play for you tomorrow.” Chu Xunfeng looked at Snake King. “I will bring a group of people to you. It doesn’t matter where the people come from, but they should be useful.”

Snake King raised an eyebrow, while Xue Changyun, who was following Chu Xunfeng closely, also turned his gaze to Chu Xunfeng.

"Alright, what do you need these people for?" The Serpent King didn't dwell on Chu Xunfeng's things, just as the entire Dragon Clan had never inquired about where Chu Xunfeng's Phoenix Blood Dragon Bone Pill came from.

"The Yan people have the technology to purify pure Yin energy. Whether they really have it or not, it must be fake." Chu Xunfeng looked at the Snake Lord.

Under the gloomy sky of the Black Forest, a shrewd and indifferent light gleamed in the young man's dark eyes. "Infiltration, sabotage, the Demon Exorcism Division must be very familiar with these things."

"Heh..." The Serpent King's vertical pupils narrowed slightly, and he chuckled softly without saying a word.

He sensed that Chu Xunfeng was about to do something big.

Moreover, this time, it will definitely not be like the previous times, where he was forced or had no choice but to go with the flow.

As the saying goes, fish fry can only hide, and swimming fish can only drift with the current, but only a true dragon can stir up the wind and clouds. This time, Chu Xunfeng may really be transforming into a dragon.

Therefore, the source of manpower is no longer important. As long as the manpower provided by Chu Xunfeng is useful, then it doesn't matter.

The more capable the people he entrusts to him are, the greater Chu Xunfeng's power is.

"Then, Senior Sister, Senior Brother..." Chu Xunfeng looked at Mo Xun and Xue Changyun, "Do you dare to pull Baidi City into a big heist?"

Mo Xun narrowed his eyes. "What do you mean?"

"Bring Baidi City along and side with Prince Zou. Of course, this is just a temporary boost. I don't need Baidi City to support me. On the contrary, if you dare to make this decision, then Baidi City is using my support this time."

Mo Xun pondered for a long time, struggling internally for a long time, wanting to agree several times, but in the end he still sighed, "I'm not too sure."

"Agree to him." The two senior and junior siblings, who had always let Mo Xun make the decisions, this time, Xue Changyun put forward a completely different opinion from Mo Xun.

"..." The silent Mo Xun turned his gaze to his junior sister.

"We have no way out." Xue Changyun looked at Mo Xun. "Even in Baidi City, there's no way out. Where can we retreat to? Abandon the Imperial State? Or surrender to the Emperor?"

“Actually, surrendering to the Emperor of Xu is also an option.” Chu Xunfeng turned to Xue Changyun. “After all, there should be someone in Baidi City who is on the Emperor’s side. As long as we gather around that person, Baidi City can naturally transition to the power of the Emperor of Xu.”

“Think about the bronze beast, that’s definitely not a good choice.” Xue Changyun immediately refuted Chu Xunfeng’s words, his gaze fixed on Mo Xun.

"I understand." Mo Xun let out a long breath. "I'll tell Master about this later, but... Junior Brother, what exactly are you planning to do?"

"Me?" Chu Xunfeng paused briefly, sorting out the plan in his mind, "I want to atone for my crimes by surrendering to the Xu Kingdom."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and Chu Xunfeng's gaze swept over them. "Tonight I will remake that formation. Tomorrow, we will carry this formation, which can be fully operational and can create Yin Sha Pearls, through the entire Ghost Market to find Prince Zou."

"Oh, and we should also take the body of that Yan person with us."

Chu Xunfeng spoke, his gaze turning slightly cold, "How did we know that the Yan people were making such a thing?"

"In the end, this spy from Yan Kingdom failed to keep the secret." The Serpent King said thoughtfully, a smile appearing on his face.

"Why did my senior brothers and sisters from Baidi City suddenly change their tune and, under the guise of being wanted criminals by the imperial court, go directly to Prince Zou?" Chu Xunfeng asked Mo Xun.

Mo Xun also smiled, "Because you care about the State of Xu. You don't know what the people of Yan have, but you have the same things that the people of Yan promote, but the State of Xu doesn't. You want to offer your treasure, and the Prince of Zou is the person you can contact. He has the most noble status and is capable enough to influence the situation."

Chu Xunfeng snapped his fingers. "So, the Emperor of Xu has a way to strip me of my status as a wanted criminal, Xu has the capital to compete with Yan in the inner city, and the reason for the inner city to open its gates to us is now clear... Furthermore, the reason for us to join forces directly with Prince Zou is also so legitimate."

"And I will hide in the shadows, using your people to do what we need to do. When necessary, I can also use the identity of the Bronze Fang Beast for some disguise. At that time, the things your people do will be done by the Bronze Fang Beast. No one will know that there is such a group of people in this world who act according to your will," the Serpent King added with a smile.

"Look, this is a perfect script of alliances and counter-alliances," Chu Xunfeng said with a smile. "Moreover, Baidi City is considered a great hero in the eyes of the people because it surrendered to Prince Zou along with me this time."

"We have more time to allow Baidi City to make further preparations."

“We’ve won big, but under the circumstances, the Emperor of Xu can only hold back and watch his uncle share the fame with him. He even has to laugh, laugh heartily, laugh sincerely, otherwise he doesn’t deserve to be the emperor.” Chu Xunfeng shrugged.

"Everyone has won."

"Except for the people of Yan."

Chapter 50, The Scheme to Present the Treasure

System, has the formation used to purify the turbid energy last time been improved?

[A new nested filtration array has been implemented, capable of completely purifying the turbid gas. The filtered impurities can be further separated by controlling the array.]

This feature is redundant.

Chu Xunfeng stood on the third floor, where many ruins and fragments were still scattered, his brows slightly furrowed.

If the goal is to purify turbid gas, separating impurities is necessary.

Yes, although the nested centrifugal array can separate the turbid Yin energy into turbid Qi and Yin energy, as well as calamity Qi, on the system's side, Yin energy and calamity Qi are byproducts. What is truly purified by that array is turbid Qi.

and.......

Haven't we found a way to utilize turbid qi yet?

[This system cannot use turbid energy. According to the system's analysis, turbid energy is poisonous to any living being. Small amounts of turbid energy will automatically sink into the earth, but large amounts of turbid energy will repel the energy that exists between heaven and earth. If turbid energy enters the body, the power of qi and blood will become so turbid that it is difficult to control.]

Chu Xunfeng frowned and pondered for a long time before asking the system where the turbid energy came from.

If the system's deductions are correct, the existence of turbid energy is an inherent part of this world.

A link in the world?

Chu Xunfeng pondered for a long time but had no clue, so he could only put it aside for the time being.

Can you revise the formation so that after purifying the turbid energy, you can only remove a portion of the calamity-causing energy?

[It requires time for simulation and extensive experimentation.]

Let's first create that three-in-one array.

[Understood. Please follow the instructions.]

Chu Xunfeng exhaled slightly, then puffed out his chest and began to inhale like a whale sucking in water. As he inhaled, wisps of cloud-like energy began to appear around the young man.

Chu Xunfeng had never stopped practicing the Dragon Clan's Cloud Qi Divine Power since inheriting Ao Jie's legacy. At this moment, as he called upon the wind-attribute spiritual energy, the Cloud Qi Divine Power also began to operate almost instinctively, along with the use of his spiritual root.

If viewed from a distance, one could even see a visible vortex forming in front of Chu Xunfeng as he inhaled.

The magician's special skill is not actually inhaling air into the lungs; the so-called inhalation action is just a psychological suggestion.

After a long inhalation, Chu Xunfeng paused for a second, then exhaled softly.

There was no strong wind, and if you weren't close enough, you wouldn't even feel the wind blowing, but... in those few silent moments, the third floor, which had been half-collapsed, became spotless in the blink of an eye.

The ruins turned to dust, and the entire floorboard was instantly cut off by nearly half its height. All the dust floated in the air, neither falling nor moving, but remaining still.

Then, Chu Xunfeng relaxed slightly, raised his hand, and gently guided it.

The dust that had been hovering in the air was instantly gathered by the controlled wind and collected in the young man's palm.

Chu Xunfeng looked at the dust sphere in his hand, tilted his head slightly, thought for a moment, and then gave up his plan to use the flammable properties of Phoenix Blood to make the dust sphere into a bomb firework and throw it into the sky. He simply tossed it into the air, released his control over the wind, and let the dust drift away with the air currents in the high altitude.

The young man looked at the third-floor floor, which had been completely smoothed to a mirror-like finish. He flipped his hand and took out the black gold spear, which had already changed its shape, from his wrist guard. He began to carve the surface of the smooth, mirror-like floor little by little, following the system's instructions.

Fortunately, the concept of sunrise doesn't exist in this Black Forest; otherwise, with its mirror-like floor, you'd be blinded by the light if you looked down when the sun was high in the sky.

This carving took more than four hours.

[Completed. After testing, it operates without any lag and can be cut off and taken away.]

Standing outside the nearly ten-square-meter array, Chu Xunfeng turned off the system's light screen, let out a long sigh of relief, looked at the group of people who had already arrived on the third floor and were waiting for him, and nodded vigorously, "Completed."

"Want to try it out?" It was the first time Snake King had seen this formation that could extract Yin Qi beads from the omnipresent turbid Yin Qi in the Black Forest, so he was naturally curious. Moreover, he had a very legitimate reason: "Make a splash and help us get some attention."

“Okay.” Chu Xunfeng pretended to take out the cut spirit stones from his storage magic treasure, but in reality he took out several cut and processed top-grade spirit stones from the system’s [Purification] panel, walked to the center of the formation, and raised his hand to put four spirit stones into the array eyes of the three nested formations and the entire main formation.

The spirit stones that entered the formation instantly shone brightly, activating the entire formation.

Then came the astonishing act of inhaling.

The moment this formation was activated, it almost instantly drained away the pervasive turbid and malevolent energy throughout the entire residence.

Even the instant the formation was activated, Hongzhu sensed something was wrong and grabbed Lao Wang, sending him flying through the wall and away for thirty feet before they barely escaped the terrifying attraction that made even ghosts tremble.

At the center of the formation, as the entire formation began to operate, the extremely solid Yin energy, accompanied by frantic swirling, gradually transformed into a single, enormous Yin energy bead and dozens of tiny red calamity energy beads, which rolled wildly around the lines of the formation.

Even Chu Xunfeng hadn't expected this set of interlocking formations to be so successful, since the formation he had previously carved in the small courtyard was only one-third the size of this one.