Brother, how come you're a witch?

Ye Jingqiu held his sword horizontally and slowly walked towards the fallen Heavenly Demon.

Although she never quite understood the situation, she helped Su Yan throughout the entire process based on her trust in him.

But she knew about the Heavenly Demon, and she also knew that the demons were the Heavenly Demon's subordinates.

After being slapped on Little Bamboo Peak that night, she went back and looked through her books. She discovered that low-level demons generally wouldn't do something as strange as slapping someone, so someone must have been behind it.

We've finally found the real deal today.

This humanoid figure with hands and feet, shrouded in black mist, what is it if not the Heavenly Demon described in the book?

It was the right decision not to chase after that short-tailed guy and come here directly.

Moreover, this despicable demon is planning to attack the wolf pack, and that little white wolf who loves to eat egg yolk cake might be among them.

Ye Jingqiu's eyes flashed with sword light, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this Heavenly Demon deserved to be killed.

I just stabbed his right chest to subdue him first; the next strike will be to his left.

She raised her sword and exhaled softly.

Spiritual energy surged across the sword.

"Wait, Ye Jingqiu, this isn't a Heavenly Demon."

Su Yan grabbed her wrist in time and shook his head at her.

"No? But it's exactly the same as what's written in the book." Ye Jingqiu stared straight at the dark figure on the ground, unwilling to put down his sword.

"The author of the book may not know as much as I do."

Su Yan raised a finger and shook it.

This is no exaggeration; a thousand years later, there are as many Heavenly Demons in the cultivation world as stray dogs on the street, and research on Heavenly Demons has also greatly advanced.

The thing lying on the ground right now is clearly not a celestial demon, but a creature of this world that has been corrupted.

"Watch me awaken the truth, goodness, and beauty within it."

Su Yan took out the small bell that emitted a warm fragrance and shook it in front of Ning Jiu.

Ning Jiu fell to the ground, looking at the familiar personal bell swaying in front of her, and felt even more aggrieved, bursting into tears.

"Hmm? It's actually that effective; it made it shed tears of repentance right away."

Su Yan was slightly surprised. This Mo Yu was really a genius. The incense on the bell had so easily awakened the other party's mind.

"Waaaaah, you bad people, you're all bad people! If you hadn't taken my bell, I wouldn't be in such a miserable state, waaaaah!"

Ning Jiu cried and shouted, and the black aura covering her body slowly dissipated under the effect of the antidote incense, revealing her true face covered in tears and snot:

"I just accidentally saw you two mating, and without saying a word, you took a sword and started attacking me. Not only did you attack me, but you also took my bell. Didn't your mother teach you not to take other people's things? Waaah..."

Ye Jingqiu's eyes flickered slightly.

At this moment, the wolves, who had been stunned for a while, finally caught up and bared their teeth at the two people who had bullied Xiao Jiu. If it weren't for a little white wolf standing between the two sides, they would have already rushed up and torn them apart.

"What exactly is going on?"

Ye Jingqiu tilted his head slightly and looked up at Su Yan.

"It's a bit complicated."

Su Yan clicked his tongue and quickly recounted what he could say to Ye Jingqiu.

According to his guess, Ning Jiu, this half-demon, had been living in a cabin in the forest since Mo Yu's death, maintaining her sanity and cultivation with the incense that suppressed foulness. The bell was something she carried with her to leave a fragrance.

However, that night, the Xuanqing Sect secretly dispatched a demon search team to enter Guanyu Valley. Li Changsheng, who was secretly following behind the team, and Ning Jiu, who had black aura on her body, accidentally bumped into each other. The former thought that the latter was a spy of the Heavenly Demon, so he decisively took action.

Ning Jiu used her escape technique to flee, and bumped into him and Ye Jingqiu at Xiaozhu Peak. She hurriedly used her escape technique again to escape, but the bell was cut off.

For the next few days, she didn't dare to return to Guanyu Valley. It wasn't until tonight, when the incense was about to wear off, that she hurriedly returned, but it was too late. She lost her mind on the way.

"Who is Li Changsheng?" Ye Jingqiu asked, blinking as he listened.

"Just think of him as a member of the monster-hunting team, someone you can trust," Su Yan said.

"oh."

Ye Jingqiu nodded seriously, thought for a moment, and said:

"Your guess makes sense, but it doesn't explain why those Heavenly Demons that appeared on Xiaozhu Peak would be in Guanyu Valley."

"Perhaps they just happened to be hiding here; the caves in Guanyu Valley are indeed very suitable for hiding."

Su Yan stroked his chin, for things that lack empirical evidence for the time being, he could only make assumptions:

"It's easy to verify if my guess is correct; just ask her directly."

Their gazes turned to Ning Jiu, who was still lying on the ground sobbing.

她的情绪看起来缓和了些，或许是因为方才苏衍把铃铛还给她了，又或许是有那幺一会没人揍她了，当然也可能是白狼们围着她舔舐她脸颊上的泪珠，让她受了许多安慰。

Sensing their gazes, Ning Jiu's relaxed body tensed up again. Her eyes met theirs, showing a mix of panic and resignation.

Su Yan immediately put on a warm, spring-like smile:

"Xiao Jiu, I have a good relationship with your master's teacher, I..."

"Don't say anything, I know."

Ning Jiu sniffed and sobbed:

"You ask, I answer."

"So quick to understand? Senior Sister Mo Yu's teaching is quite good."

Su Yan was quite surprised, and then asked:

"A few nights ago, a somewhat handsome male cultivator came to Guanyu Valley. You got into a fight with him, injured him, and he ran away, right?"

What male cultivator...

Ning Jiu raised her gaze slightly, but couldn't recall anything. Besides, Sister Mo Yu had said that only bad kids did hitting others, so she shook her head vigorously.

"No, no, no."

But just then, the order that Liu Baishuang had given her earlier suddenly came into effect.

Ning Jiu's neck stiffened, and she nodded frantically again:

"Yes, yes, yes."

"...?"

Su Yan's lips trembled. How come there's a left-right brain battle segment? Are you also a body cultivator?

He thought for a moment, then squatted down, took out the wooden token from the Spirit Beast Peak that Ji Yi had given him, and said in a coaxing tone like he was talking to a child:

"Don't be afraid, just tell the truth. You see, I'm also a half-disciple of the Spirit Beast Peak, from the same sect as your master."

"...Please stop talking about Sister Mo Yu."

Ning Jiu pouted, her cheeks puffed out, and tears welled up in her red pupils.

"I miss her so much, sob sob sob—"

Seeing Xiao Jiu start crying again, the white wolves surrounding her became anxious. They had finally been persuaded to calm down by the little white wolf, but they became angry again and howled at Su Yan.

"I'll do it."

Ye Jingqiu, who was standing to the side, seemed to be unable to bear it any longer. She told Su Yan to move aside and squatted down in front of Ning Jiu herself.

Her small face was as cold as ice, her eyes as deep as an ancient well, staring intently at Ning Jiu without saying a word, making the latter feel uneasy.

"What...what do you want to do?"

Ning Jiu shrank back, hugging her ample chest, afraid that Ye Jingqiu would suddenly strike her with another sword.

Ye Jingqiu remained silent, but reached into his storage bag and took out something as well.

"this......"

Su Yan's eye twitched.

She even had a whole bag of egg yolk cakes!