This is the true immortal of the Taoist sect.

The beautiful woman smiled, turned to look at the little sprite sitting on her shoulder, and scolded:

"You've offended a customer, why aren't you apologizing?"

The little sprite pouted, looking aggrieved.

Just as he was about to apologize to Li Daoxuan, Li Daoxuan waved his hand and said:

"It's alright, the little thing didn't bother me."

The beautiful woman nodded slightly, then turned to look at the maid beside her. The maid quickly carried a tray inside.

There was a wine pot on the tray, which should be something like wine.

The beautiful woman apologized:

"It is my fault for not disciplining my children properly. Please forgive me, sir. Here is a pot of spirit wine as an apology."

Just as Li Daoxuan was about to say no, the beautiful woman had already turned and walked away.

The little sprite, perched on the beautiful woman's shoulder, turned to look at Li Daoxuan, grinned, and bid him farewell with a cheerful smile.

Li Daoxuan smiled and nodded, waving at the little spirit.

After they had gone far away, Li Daoxuan closed the door and sat in the courtyard to continue his meditation.

The beautiful woman glanced at the little imp and asked calmly:

"That's strange, isn't it? Don't you always dislike getting close to these ordinary people?"

The little sprite paused, then subconsciously bit its finger, a thoughtful expression on its face.

"He... seems different from ordinary people..."

The beautiful woman asked curiously:

"Oh? What's different?"

The little sprite stammered for a long time, but finally said:

"He...smells so good..."

The beautiful woman was taken aback; this answer truly surprised her.

"It smells good?"

But the little sprite added another sentence:

"It's also very delicious..."

"Is it delicious?"

The beautiful woman's expression gradually became serious.

As a spirit born alongside the sacred spring, it is a natural and exquisite creature nurtured by the heavens and earth.

Although the little spirit is not good at fighting, its keen senses are comparable to those of an earth immortal.

Its intuition is absolutely correct.

Therefore, the outsider's identity must be quite extraordinary.

"Ha, whether it's simple or not, what does it have to do with me?"

The beautiful woman suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly.

Now she's just an innkeeper; the affairs of the Holy Sect are no longer her concern.

"Aunt Yuxiu..."

Not far away, a girl in a pink dress stood by the spring and waved to the beautiful woman.

The faint trace of sorrow on the beautiful woman's face vanished in an instant, replaced by a gentle and doting smile.

However, the little sprite on her shoulder immediately frowned and desperately hid behind the beautiful woman.

"Yunzhen, over here..."

The beautiful woman waved, and the group of girls in pink immediately ran over.

But once she started running, it became clear that the girl's figure swayed and stumbled, and one of her legs seemed to be a little unsteady.

"Slow down, slow down..."

The beautiful woman quickly stepped forward to help him up, her eyes filled with concern.

The young girl didn't look at her, but instead looked at the maid beside the beautiful woman, and said in a cold tone:

"What are you looking at? Were you looking at my legs just now?"

The maid turned pale instantly, knelt down immediately, and said in a panic:

"I didn't, Miss, please spare my life..."

"choke..."

With a clang of a sword, a long sword was already resting on the maid's shoulder in the blink of an eye.

"Even if you saw it, were you laughing at me for being a cripple?"

The maid was so frightened that her body trembled like a leaf, and she desperately begged for mercy:

"This servant wouldn't dare, this servant wouldn't dare, please spare my life, Miss..."

The girl wouldn't listen to reason, and a sharp light immediately burst forth from the spirit-grade longsword, clearly indicating her intention to kill the maid directly.

"bite..."

A crisp metallic clang rang out, and the beautiful woman stretched out two fingers to pinch the blade of the longsword, stopping the girl.

"Alright, Yunzhen, she didn't mean it. She doesn't deserve to die."

The girl named Yunzhen snorted coldly and remained silent.

The beautiful woman turned to the kneeling maid and said:

"Go down and find Manager Fang to receive your punishment."

The maid trembled violently, her face turning deathly pale.

"Thank you, Madam..."

Although Manager Fang's punishment was terrifying, it was still better than losing his life.

Li Daoxuan, who was meditating in the courtyard, saw all of this and a murderous glint flashed in his eyes.

His divine sense swept over the girl's limping leg, and he felt reassured.

"It really was her. The divine fire talisman drawn by Qingfeng still lingered on her feet. I didn't expect that this punishment hadn't taught her a lesson. She's still so arrogant."

Li Daoxuan thought to himself.

This girl was one of the people who entered the Jingming Cave, and she was also the main culprit who murdered a family of fifteen in Anyi County.

They escaped using methods beyond my control back then, and I never expected to run into them here today.

Li Daoxuan's divine sense detected that the girl's feet were replaced with a specially crafted spiritual treasure.

Clearly, the Divine Fire Talisman had activated. The Divine Fire Talisman Qingfeng was currently using was based on her temperament. Once activated, it would burn her entire foot and even her entire body to ashes.

She's lucky to be missing only one leg.

Surprisingly, the girl who had burned one of her feet showed no signs of improvement and even became more tyrannical and vicious.

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After the maid left, the beautiful woman took the girl's hand and asked softly:

"Why are you free to play today? Doesn't your dad care about you?"

The girl sheathed her longsword, pouting as she said:

"My dad's too busy to care about me, Grandpa's in seclusion trying to break through..."

Before the girl could finish speaking, the beautiful woman immediately made a shushing gesture, glanced back at Li Daoxuan's courtyard, and then pulled the girl toward her own courtyard.

The girl, puzzled, asked curiously:

"Auntie, who's there?"

The beautiful woman led the girl into the courtyard, and with a wave of her hand, she opened the courtyard's protective barrier before saying:

"He's an...unfathomable and extraordinary person."

The girl simply said "Oh," not paying any attention, and continued to chatter on and on with the beautiful woman, pouring out her troubles.

Sitting in the courtyard, Li Daoxuan frowned, surprised that the boss was quite cautious.

Then, his divine sense gradually condensed into a line, groping his way to the beautiful woman's courtyard. After only a little exploration, he broke through her blockade and entered.

Li Daoxuan overheard their entire conversation.

Judging from the conversation between the girl and the boss, the girl is actually the granddaughter of the Holy Master of the Qingyun Sword Sect, and her father is the commander of the 100,000 Qingyun Sword Guards.

Her status and position were absolutely incomparable to others within a radius of thousands of miles; in the Jingming Cave Heaven, she would be a princess of a nation.

"No wonder he developed such a domineering personality."

However, this information was nothing special. The most important information that Li Daoxuan heard was about the Qingyun Sword Sect's Holy Master's seclusion to break through to the Earth Immortal Realm.

According to previous information, the Qingyun Sword Sect originally had a patriarch who was an Earth Immortal.

If the Qingyun Saint Master also reaches the Earth Immortal realm, then this already extremely powerful sect will have two Earth Immortals in charge, and from then on, it will leap to become the top sect power in Nanli Prefecture.

"Shouldn't...we do something?"

Li Daoxuan muttered to himself.