Dual cultivation makes you stronger, everyone else is a prodigy, and I'm the only one slacking

Yu Luoning: "That day, on the couch... you taught me, didn't you?"

"..."

Upon hearing this, the expressions of several disciples of the Feng family changed drastically, and they all turned to look at Feng Qiguang.

"Your Highness...is it really you who passed on the family's secret techniques to outsiders?"

Feng Qiguang felt a buzzing in his head; he felt so tired.

"I, the young master, do not."

Even if he denied it through gritted teeth, no one would believe him.

The Feng family's unique skills can only be learned by those who are not direct descendants or who have not reached the Foundation Establishment stage.

Feng Qiguang is highly suspicious.

Over here, the array pattern in Yu Luoning's hand had taken shape, tearing a narrow crack in the air.

She disappeared into the void.

Before leaving, she waved goodbye to Feng Qiguang, saying, "Husband, you don't need to see me off!"

"You damned woman! Stop right there!"

Feng Qiguang's eyes sharpened, and he almost instinctively chased after them. Just then, a sword light pressed down from behind, and the Li family cultivators were already close in.

"You little thief, where do you think you're going!"

Feng Qiguang froze for a moment, and in that instant, he completely lost his chance.

He froze for a moment, his face instantly turning as black as ink.

The formation closed in the next second, and Yu Luoning had already vanished without a trace.

At the same time, a sharp shout came from Butler Li's side.

"With Tian Fu broken, not a single member of your Feng family will leave here today!"

The Feng family cultivator was also enraged: "You old dog from the Li family, how dare you!"

The fighting intensified, the barrier hummed loudly, and the spirit field was trampled into a mess.

No one cared about the tenant farmers who made their living by farming.

After a dizzying, tumbling sensation, Yu Luoning's feet finally touched the ground, and she felt as if she had come back to life.

That was close.

I almost got caught.

She clapped her hands triumphantly, about to gloat a bit, when suddenly her nose wrinkled.

A strong smell of blood hung in the air.

Yu Luoning slowly raised her head.

Suddenly, they discovered two people standing not far ahead.

A middle-aged man, his clothes torn and his chest stained with blood, was coughing up blood while clutching his wound; he appeared to be seriously injured.

The other was dressed in white, with a slender figure and a long white silk ribbon covering his eyes, revealing only his well-defined jawline and thin lips.

He's clearly a ruthless character.

Yu Luoning: "..."

Help.

Where did she jump to? A murder scene?

When the injured middle-aged man saw her appear out of nowhere, a glimmer of hope suddenly ignited in his eyes.

He immediately cupped his hands in greeting, as if he had encountered a savior: "Fellow Daoist! I beg you for help!"

Yu Luoning looked completely bewildered.

Her jump just now had completely emptied her body, so she can't use the teleportation technique for the time being.

The man in white in front of me doesn't look like a nice guy at all.

Let alone saving people, it's questionable whether she can even leave alive.

Damn it, why is her luck so bad?

Seeing that she remained unmoved, a sinister glint flashed in the middle-aged man's eyes, and he was about to announce his name.

In that instant, Yu Luoning covered her ears with both hands and spoke rapidly:

"I won't listen, you're just spouting nonsense!"

"I have no interest in who you are, and I don't know your identities. Don't try to introduce yourself and drag me into your karma."

Just kidding, it's not even certain whether she can escape right now. If she finds out the other party's identity, she'll be even more trapped.

After speaking, Yu Luoning professionally gestured to the young man in white, indicating that he should go first, regardless of whether the other person could see it or not.

Yu Luoning: "Handsome, please continue, please continue! I didn't see anything!"

After saying that, Yu Luoning turned and ran away.

The injured man's pupils contracted, and he suddenly raised his hand.

"Buzz!"

An invisible force suddenly swept through the air, and Yu Luoning felt a tightening around her waist, as if she were being pulled back by an unseen hand.

Yu Luoning: "..."

She was utterly speechless.

The injured man said, "Fellow Daoist! I am from Qi Qiong Mountain! I have no grudge against him, yet he has chased me here! If you save me, Qi Qiong Mountain will surely reward you handsomely!"

Yu Luoning cursed inwardly.

She was just a mortal who had only been in the world for a few days and hadn't even begun to cultivate Qi!

Her lips twitched. "Big brother, let me go first. Can't we be a little more moral?"

"Anyway, I can't escape his grasp today. If you don't save me, then we'll keep each other company on the road to the underworld."

Yu Luoning was both angry and amused.

She turned to the blindfolded man as if giving up, and said:

"Bro, are you even doing your job? This guy's the worst kind of scum, trying to drag someone down with him even as he's dying. Are you going to keep him around for the holidays? Just stab this bastard to death already."

The middle-aged man was furious. His face was contorted with rage. He raised his long sword and was about to stab Yu Luoning.

Yu Luoning's vision went black, and she almost instinctively closed her eyes.

She knew it; this old bastard wanted to drag an innocent person down with him before he died.

Just then, the boy in white finally moved.

The imagined pain did not come. Yu Luoning slowly opened her eyes and saw that the middle-aged man had fallen to the ground, his chest pierced by something, spitting blood, and lifeless.

Yu Luoning swallowed hard, and her nerves finally relaxed slightly.

But the next moment, she immediately tensed up again.

The blindfolded boy was walking towards her step by step without making a sound.

Yu Luoning forced a smile: "Thank you for saving my life, fellow Daoist."

She pointed to the corpse on the ground and said in a solicitous tone, "Don't worry, leave the disposal of the corpse to me. I'm the most professional."

Before the white-robed youth could speak, Yu Luoning bent down, picked up the middle-aged man's longsword from the ground, squatted down, and pretended to dig a couple of times in the dirt.

Even with his eyes blindfolded by the silk ribbon, the boy seemed to see Yu Luoning. He tilted his head, his voice clear and cold:

"What are you doing?"

Yu Luoning felt a chill run down her spine.

She forced herself to turn around, smiled at the boy, and said, "Just dig a hole and bury him. You can't kill someone and then go through the trouble of burying him, can you? That would be too unfair."

"Look, now I'm an accomplice to this too. Um, if you kill him, could you please not... kill me?"

Are you afraid of dying?

Nonsense, aren't you afraid?

Yu Luoning nodded cautiously: "Life is precious, of course I'm afraid of dying."

"However, seeing that you are dressed in white and have an upright demeanor, I suppose you are not someone who indiscriminately kills innocent people."

She pointed to the corpse on the ground and said:

"This person even tried to drag me, an innocent bystander, down with him before he died, which shows his viciousness and extremely bad character. Killing him is doing justice and a good deed."

The boy seemed to have heard something interesting and suddenly laughed.

The laughter wasn't loud, but for some reason, Yu Luoning felt a chill run down her spine.

"Then do you know why I killed him?" the boy asked.

Yu Luoning's throat went dry, and she forced a smile: "N-I don't know."

"But he's a terrible person, so I imagine he's like this in his daily life..."

The boy shook his head.

His lips were rosy, with a slight upturn at the corners, his smile both handsome and dangerous.

There is no reason.

"He didn't do anything."

"It just got my clothes dirty."

Yu Luoning: "..."

Her face went blank for a moment.

The next second, her survival instinct kicked in again, and she forced a smile back onto her face.

"Oh...I see! Your clothes must be very expensive!"

"And he didn't even apologize for making it dirty, right? People like that need to be taught a lesson!"

She got more and more carried away as she spoke, and even began to feel angry on the boy's behalf:

"I hate people with no sense of boundaries the most! Getting someone's clothes dirty and then acting all self-righteous is just too much. Don't underestimate this small thing; it reflects a problem with his character. ... In short, he deserves to die."