You've already caught the embroidered ball, and you still say it's not my husband?

Lu Xuan rode his donkey out of the town and into the wilderness.

The sound of horses' hooves came from behind, making him feel somewhat helpless. "Girl, why do you insist on following me?"

"You don't own the road. I can come and go as I please. It's none of your business!"

The woman in white rode up on horseback and walked alongside Lu Xuan, speaking as rudely as ever.

She snorted, turned to look at Lu Xuan, and asked, "You're not really planning to go up Huangshi Mountain to find those bandits from Huangfeng Village, are you?"

Lu Xuan did not reply.

"Why aren't you answering me?" Shen Jinglian raised an eyebrow.

At the same time, she noticed that Bao Bulu was sniffing the air, seemingly trying to catch the scents in the air, and his fist-sized eyes were searching for some traces on the road, following those traces!

What lies ahead?

A man's painful wails could be faintly heard.

The wicked young master of the Huang family!

Lu Xuan is stalking the young master of the Huang family!

"You knew from the beginning that the young scoundrel from the Huang family would go to Huangshi Mountain to find a backer, so you deliberately let him go!"

Shen Jinglian was headstrong, but not stupid; she immediately understood.

Lu Xuan secretly followed behind the young master of the Huang family, intending to follow the clues and climb the mountain!

Just now, she mocked Lu Xuan for being too lenient and letting the tiger return to the mountain, saying that the consequences would be endless. Now she realizes that she was just being shallow!

"But you've gone too far!"

Shen Jinglian's mouth gaped slightly, somewhat incredulous.

She took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "Those bandits from Huangfeng Village aren't as easy to deal with as you think!"

"There are over a hundred people on the mountain, all of them vicious and ruthless. Their leader is called Huang Laosan, a peak sixth-rank cultivator with incredibly powerful and fierce swordsmanship. Even I'm not confident I can defeat him..."

"Although your cultivation is not weak, and you have a seventh-grade demonic beast as a companion... it's unlikely you'll gain any advantage entering Yellow Wind Stronghold alone. You'd be like a lamb entering a tiger's den, courting your own death!"

How could you be so reckless?

Shen Jinglian was also a bandit leader and had dealt with Huang Laosan of Huangfeng Village several times, so she knew that he was not easy to deal with.

The government had twice besieged Huangfeng Village but to no avail, so Lu Xuan, alone with only a donkey, decided to enter the village by himself.

This is far too youthful and impetuous, too impulsive, and too reckless and arrogant!

He's even more reckless than her!

Ok?

Lu Xuan glanced at the anxious-looking woman in white and was slightly surprised.

The other person was usually domineering and aggressive, but now they were rushing after him to remind him of these things...

Did he suddenly have a change of heart?

"Thank you for the reminder, Miss Shen, but I still want to visit Huangfeng Village."

This was the first time he had addressed the woman in white in this way, but he did not take her warning seriously.

Go ahead to dangers!

"you……!"

Shen Jinglian was immediately annoyed.

She didn't want Lu Xuan to go to Huangfeng Village to die, so she chased after him to persuade him with kind words, but Lu Xuan seemed to be impervious to reason and wouldn't listen to her advice!

This greatly angered her, the mountain chief of Bailian Village on Bailian Peak!

"You can't reason with a damn fool! Then go and die!"

She was furious, turned her horse around, and rode away.

Lu Xuanjue was eager for the other party to leave in a huff, so that he could act freely on his own later.

Da da da.

The sound of horses' hooves soon came from behind again.

Shen Jinglian actually returned!

Lu Xuan sighed and rubbed his forehead. "Didn't you leave? Why are you back?"

"Can't I... I come back to collect your body?" The woman in white bit her red lips, her expression resentful.

Lu Xuan: "..."

Can't you say something nice?

Bao Bu Lu blinked its donkey eyes, seemingly understanding, and couldn't help but chuckle, "Not so, not so!"

"This woman is clearly worried about her master and clings to him like a piece of chewing gum, yet she's being stubborn and insists on helping him collect his body?"

"Hehe... My master's damn charm!"

Shen Jinglian continued to follow Lu Xuan.

Her almond-shaped eyes kept scanning Lu Xuan.

Young, handsome, and composed... yet no trace of cultivation could be sensed.

A person can only regulate their internal energy when they are practicing internal energy cultivation, and some of their energy will be revealed externally. The strength of this energy can be used to judge a person's cultivation level.

Just now, after Bao Bulu deliberately revealed a wisp of his aura, Shen Jinglian and her subordinates realized that Bao Bulu was actually a seventh-rank donkey demon.

Lu Xuan had mastered the art of concealing his aura, so his aura was always completely hidden. He had barely revealed it when he beat up the young master of the Huang family, so Shen Jinglian naturally couldn't tell Lu Xuan's cultivation level.

Since she couldn't tell, she asked directly, "You dared to go looking for those bandits from Huangfeng Village alone? What is your cultivation level?"

"And you? Sixth rank?" Lu Xuan asked in return.

"That's right!" Shen Jinglian readily admitted, her brows furrowed with pride.

It is indeed something to be proud of that she was able to cultivate to the Qi Refining Realm on her own at the age of twenty.

However, Lu Xuan immediately poured cold water on his enthusiasm.

"Then I'm a little taller than you."

"Your cultivation level is higher than mine? How is that possible!"

Lu Xuan was young, looking two years younger than her, while she had encountered an opportunity to start practicing martial arts at the age of thirteen, and later became a bandit, fighting life and death with people many times. Her Qi Refining Realm cultivation was all hard-earned.

She's a sixth-rank cultivator. If Lu Xuan's cultivation is higher than hers, wouldn't he be a fifth-rank cultivator?

She didn't believe it at all!

However... she still wanted to confirm, in case Lu Xuan was from a martial arts family or a direct disciple of a sect, it was not impossible for him to reach the fifth rank at such a young age.

"Are you really a fifth-rank official?"

"Not a fifth-rank official." Lu Xuan shook his head.

"So you're also a sixth-rank official, just like me?"

"No, not exactly."

Hearing this, Shen Jinglian didn't ask any further questions, nor was there any need to.

She had initially guessed that Lu Xuan's cultivation level was probably the same as hers, at the sixth rank.

However, Lu Xuan himself said that it was neither a sixth-rank nor a fifth-rank.

Then it can only be... Rank 7!

With such low cultivation level, how dare he go up Huangshi Mountain to find Huang Laosan, a peak sixth-rank cultivator?

What's the difference between this and courting death?

"Do you even realize that with your lousy skills, going up Huangshi Mountain is just suicide!"

Shen Jinglian was truly anxious this time. Her earlier statement about helping Lu Xuan collect his body was just an angry outburst.

She didn't want this young man to go and die in vain!

"Yes!" Lu Xuan wanted to get rid of her, so he went along with her words, "This journey is dangerous, Miss Shen, you'd better not come with me, go back quickly!"

"No!"

Shen Jinglian refused, "You got into this mess because of me, I... can't just stand by and do nothing!"

Ugh!

Lu Xuan sighed helplessly. He beat up the scoundrel of the Huang family because he saw injustice, and he went to Huangshi Mountain to suppress bandits in order to complete the system order!

It really has nothing to do with this woman in white!

"Miss Shen, you can't follow me anymore!" Lu Xuan said, looking ahead. "The young master of the Huang family is not far ahead, and you're not familiar with the horse you're riding. If you get too close, you'll make a commotion and get spotted..."

Lu Xuan advised Shen Jinglian to leave, citing that her horse was not suitable for tracking.

However, Shen Jinglian was proud and stubborn. Especially after mistakenly believing that Lu Xuan's cultivation level was only seventh grade, she couldn't let go of her worries and insisted on going to Huangshi Mountain with Lu Xuan!

"Wouldn't that solve the problem?"

Shen Jinglian loosened the reins, released the horse, and leaped up to sit behind Lu Xuan.

The two of them rode a donkey together!

Lu Xuan: "..."

"Alright!"

Lu Xuan had no choice but to let the other party follow him.

Bao Bulu chuckled and exclaimed again, "My master has such damnable charm!"

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