Rules of the Strange: I Became a God in a Bizarre World Through Taoist Arts

The man in white spoke with righteous indignation, which caused anger to appear on the faces of the other two men.

"Such scum is unfit to be associated with!"

"Exactly! He's ugly and wicked too. I'll go back and tell the headmaster to expel him!"

The two men were furious, their words filled with contempt for Liu Jin.

Shen Xingzhuo watched them spewing insults, but felt a chill in his heart.

They weren't standing up for those poor women, were they?

They were clearly eager to sever all ties with Liu Jin, afraid that people would know they were studying at the same college as a scoundrel like Liu Jin, which would lower their own status.

Moreover, Shen Xingzhuo did not miss any loopholes in the white-clad man's conversation—

His last sentence was probably meant to say that the poor woman who was brutally disemboweled was incredibly beautiful.

Ha ha.

Shen Xingzhuo's hands, hidden in her sleeves, gradually tightened as she pressed her palms to relieve the frustration in her heart.

She slammed her hand on the table and said coldly, "How could he be such a heartless and treacherous person?"

"Gentlemen, tell me! What is it about him that my sister sees in him? She's...she's completely bewitched!"

As she expressed her anger, she leaned forward again, guiding the man in white to say what she wanted to hear.

Sure enough, the other party took the bait.

The man in white looked doubtful and cautiously said to Shen Xingzhuo, "Brother Pei, who knows, he might just be bewitched!"

Shen Xingzhuo's eyes widened.

"Brother, speak quickly!"

The man in white nodded. "Liu Jin is a few years older than us and took the exam before us, but he only passed the county-level exam!"

A hint of disdain flashed across his eyes.

"Later, he heard that there was a Taoist temple on Mount Du'e that was very efficacious, so he went to worship there several times."

After he came back, his academic performance didn't improve, but his popularity with women increased a hundredfold!

Upon hearing this, the man in blue clapped his hands and exclaimed, "No wonder!"

"In the past, those women only loved my good looks, but later, for some reason, they all flocked to Liu Jin!"

He spoke earnestly, but Shen Xingzhuo closed his eyes, hiding his speechless expression.

Unexpectedly, the man in blue patted her arm on his own initiative the next second.

"Brother Pei, what's your opinion? Do you think I'm prettier?"

Uh……

Shen Xingzhuo gasped, pursed her lips, and couldn't bring herself to utter a lie.

[Hahahaha, this really put my sister Shen in a difficult position.]

Share some of BRO's confidence with me. Since when does having two eyes and a mouth automatically make someone good-looking?

[All they do is compare and compete.]

[Sister Shen is also facing a dilemma; I wonder what she has to say.]

In ghost stories.

Shen Xingzhuo picked up the teacup and pretended to "take" a sip.

"You two...each have your own strengths!"

The man in blue immediately objected, but the man in black pulled him back, preventing him from losing his composure in public.

"According to you, brother, did Liu Jin obtain something from the old Taoist priest that can bewitch women's hearts?"

The man in white nodded solemnly.

Shen Xingzhuo frowned deeply.

Judging from this description, it doesn't sound like the work of a Taoist priest; it sounds more like the tricks of a fox spirit...

"Oh, right!" The man in white slapped his forehead and continued, "I once saw him take out a sachet! The sachet smelled really strange, and I even asked him a couple of questions about it."

He said…

The man in white pondered for a moment.

"They say it's the breath of a phoenix!"

As he spoke, the man in white fanned his nose.

"But to me, it smells more like a sweet, bloody odor! Asking too many questions makes me want to vomit!"

Phoenix Breath...

Shen Xingzhu silently pondered the meaning of these two words, and his expression instantly became serious.

Everything matches perfectly!