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

Nangong You Rong was in a great mood and ate all two and a half pounds of pastries on the table.

She smacked her lips, feeling a little unsatisfied.

Suddenly, a subordinate came to report from outside the door.

"My lord..."

Nangong Yourong wiped the crumbs from the corner of her mouth with a handkerchief, her expression returning to seriousness, and her tone becoming more authoritative and indifferent.

"Come in."

A demon-suppressing captain entered and bowed respectfully: "Reporting to the Commandant, I went to Qingfeng City to investigate the Wang family members related to Wang Hao, as well as other people who had recently been in contact with Wang Hao. I also investigated Wang Hao's recent whereabouts... but found no trace of the remnants of the Black Fiend Cult."

Nangong You Rong frowned slightly.

Wang Hao is Su Qingwan's distant cousin. He has cultivated the Black Fiend Demon Art and is a remnant of the Black Fiend Cult.

The Black Fiend Cult is an evil cult. The Black Fiend Demonic Art it cultivates is extremely vicious. It requires the "innate yin essence" from the blood of virgin women as a catalyst to cultivate and transform it into "Black Fiend True Qi" to enhance its power and cultivation level...

The Black Fiend Cult was wiped out by the Demon Suppression Division a few years ago. Most of its members, including the leader of the Refining God Realm, were annihilated, but a small number of remnants managed to escape and have been hiding ever since.

Because of the nature of the Black Fiend Demon Art, as long as the Black Fiend Cult is not completely eradicated, the remnants will continue to abduct and harm young women in order to practice the demonic art...

They had hoped to find clues from Wang Hao, who had cultivated the Black Fiend Demon Art, and then follow the trail to find the hiding place of the Black Fiend remnants... Unfortunately, these remnants were like rats hiding in dark, stinking ditches, cautious and secretive, making the Demon Suppression Division's investigation fruitless.

These remnants of the Black Fiends have always been like a fishbone stuck in the throats of the people of the Yunzhou Demon Suppression Division. Nangong Yourong has always wanted to pull it out, but after investigating for more than half a year, she still has no idea where the "thorn" is hidden, so how can she remove it?

This is really a headache...

the other side.

Lu Xuan put away the captain's order, his face showing a hint of helplessness.

Nangong Yourong wouldn't actually send someone to the Su family to tell Su Qingwan and the rest of the Su family that he had become a captain in the Demon Suppression Division, would she?

There's no need for that!

Although this doesn't seem like a bad idea.

But... Lu Xuan still prefers to keep a low profile and be quiet!

His wife, both in name and in law, was gentle and kind, and so understanding... If she knew that Lu Xuan had joined the Demon Suppression Division and served as a Demon Suppression Captain, wouldn't the young woman only feel more worried?

And what about Madam Su, Wang Yueru? If she knew that her "cheap son-in-law" Lu Xuan was a Demon Suppression Captain, would she shout at the top of her lungs and tell those noblewomen who often competed with her for attention that Lu Xuan was the golden son-in-law she had caught, with a bright future ahead of him?

Lu Xuan's head was spinning just thinking about it!

"Captain Nangong only needs to sit at his desk, eat desserts, and joke around to scare people, while I have much more to consider..."

Lu Xuan sighed softly, thinking it would be better to keep his identity as a Demon Suppression Captain as secret as possible.

"Master, that cowardly crocodile has escaped!" Bao Bulu hurriedly reminded Lu Xuan after he ended the call.

The crocodile was originally chained up, but it secretly broke free of the chains while Lu Xuan was fighting with the fat catfish. Then, while Lu Xuan was on the phone, it quietly slipped into the Blackwater River.

Although the crocodile looked fierce, it was still law-abiding and didn't eat people. Lu Xuan even wanted to help it heal its wounds, but it was too timid and cleverly slipped away.

Lu Xuan: "..."

"It looks so pitiful, let's help it out."

After all, Lu Xuan had personally gutted the crocodile, and he would feel guilty if he simply abandoned it. He also wanted to try out the newly comprehended Tidal Wave Technique.

Slurp~

Lu Xuan leaped into the Blackwater River...

Meanwhile, in a corner underwater.

A huge creature was slowly swimming.

Its tail was only half left, and its belly had been cut open with a gash more than ten feet long, exposing its stomach... It was the crocodile that had sneaked away!

If a person is seriously injured and has their abdomen cut open, they will definitely die.

However, crocodiles are relatively resilient, and Lu Xuan's dissection technique was very precise. He only opened the large stomach without damaging other vital organs. Afterwards, he used the Great Heavenly Medical Technique to stop the bleeding and temporarily halt the injury.

That's why the crocodile had the strength to break free of its chains and escape.

Ah ~

The crocodile opened its mouth wide and took a deep breath. The fish and shrimp in front of it immediately felt a powerful suction force and were all sucked into the crocodile's mouth.

But soon it started flowing out of the ruptured stomach again...

It went in and out again, didn't it just eat for nothing?

It instinctively raised its forelimbs, trying to cover the ruptured stomach with its claws, but embarrassingly found that it couldn't reach it!

My arms are too short!

Despite their long bodies, crocodiles have very short limbs, and their claws can't even reach the center of their abdomen.

It could only watch helplessly as the fish and shrimp it had just eaten flowed out of its ruptured belly...

At that moment, overwhelming feelings of grievance and sorrow surged within him, and the crocodile couldn't help but burst into tears: "Waaah, why am I, little crocodile, so unlucky..."

It lives in the Blackwater River, guarding its small plot of land for years, eating fish and shrimp, sleeping when it's full, and occasionally surfacing for air. If it's lucky, it might even encounter "wild" cattle and sheep to change its diet...

But today, it ran into that fat catfish, which opened its mouth and bit off its tail. The dark-skinned man even hung it up and made it a scapegoat.

Just when all hope seemed lost, Lu Xuan appeared!

It thought Lu Xuan was a good person who would save it, but it turned out to be even more "terrifying" and directly cut open its stomach with a knife, leaving a huge gash that couldn't be stitched up!

"Waaah, I'm so miserable! What a tragic fate! Doesn't a crocodile's life matter...?"

As the crocodile lamented his miserable fate, someone nearby chimed in, "It really is tragic."

"Waaah, you think so too...?"

Swish!

The crocodile suddenly awoke, its pupils shrinking sharply—Lu Xuan was right beside it, watching it with a smile.

"Why did you leave without saying goodbye?"

Lu Xuan smiled.

The crocodile was absolutely terrified; he was so scared he almost jumped out of his skin!

It finally managed to escape and return to the river, but it never expected that Lu Xuan would be able to find it again!

At this moment, Lu Xuan smiled calmly, seemingly unaffected as he remained underwater at a depth of over ten meters...

Why does it seem like Lu Xuan is a better swimmer than it?!

Is this reasonable?

"B-Boss...please, have mercy and just let this little crocodile go, okay? I'm begging you!"

The crocodile knew Lu Xuan's power; it could neither resist nor escape. It could only beg Lu Xuan to show mercy and spare its life.

Lu Xuan glanced at its dissected abdomen and gently shook his head. "No, I have to heal you."

Lu Xuan meant "to treat," but the crocodile misinterpreted it as "to govern," thinking that Lu Xuan was going to deal with it like a fat catfish!

It was terrified, its massive body trembling. "Please, don't kill me! I have a treasure! I'll offer it to you, okay..."

To save its life, the crocodile cried and offered up its treasures as a form of begging.

baby?

Lu Xuan was slightly surprised.

Before he even started treating him, the crocodile said he wanted to thank him with a treasure.

Well done, little crocodile! You're pretty savvy!

"What treasure? Take it out and let me see."

"Your treasure isn't with you, I'll take you to get it right away."

With a pained expression, the crocodile led Lu Xuanyou to a deeper, more secluded area at the bottom of the river...