I'm just an ornamental fish in the water.

What kind of face is this?

Round, hollow eyes take up 60% of the face; eyebrows and ears are not visible. Besides the eyes, the most striking feature is the mouth.

A mouth that stretched almost to the back of the head almost horizontally divided this already strange face into two uneven halves.

Seemingly noticing Chen Ying's lifeless gaze, the mouth on that face broke into a grin.

Open wide.

This caused most of its head to tilt backward, but its empty eyes remained unchanged, still staring at Chen Ying.

Chen Ying felt her blood run cold. She wanted to scream, but it was as if there was a piece of iron stuck in her throat, and she couldn't make a sound no matter what she did.

Jiang Li concealed himself, using concealment and invisibility talismans, and then used a wall-penetrating talisman to shrink himself inside the wall. His brows were tightly furrowed.

This evil creature is not much different in appearance and size from the one previously discovered on a rainy night, but the problem is that although the previous one was fast, it was not impossible to catch it.

But this one appeared silently, as if it had suddenly appeared out of thin air.

He even appeared right in front of Chen Ying.

Either the evil entity had been hiding in Yanshi County all along, or it had entered the city silently. Jiang Li simply couldn't believe that there were no City Gods patrolling the city walls of Yanshi County at this moment.

However, although this evil creature appeared in a more terrifying way, its movements seemed to be very slow. If it were the one from the rainy night, Chen Ying's meridians and dantian would probably have been drained in just a short time of eye contact.

This evil creature has clearly sacrificed some mobility in exchange for a more powerful stealth capability.

So it really is a targeted training program?

Moreover, there are many different kinds of them, which is definitely not something that can be developed in a short period of time.

The evil forces behind the scenes have reached an extremely high level of expertise in cultivating such fusion evil entities.

Jiang Li mentally organized the new information.

Jiang Li's thoughts were already incredibly fast, and while she was organizing her information, she had already appeared behind Chen Ying, her hand tightly gripping the seven-colored scales in her sleeve, her magic power already infused into them.

The Empress had already instructed that whenever action was needed, one should not hesitate or hold back, but directly activate the seven-colored scales to summon the Empress.

In other words, it's better to kill a thousand innocent people than let one guilty person go free.

However, before Jiang Li could fully activate the seven-colored scales in his hand, the surroundings changed.

The air became humid. A fine, yet dense rain fell from the sky—no, rather than falling from the sky, it seemed to appear out of thin air.

As the drizzle began, a thin layer of mist rose from the ground.

The evil creature also lingered in the mist, and then its form suddenly froze.

There seemed to be no obstruction, at most just the rain and mist that dampened clothes, but on that evil creature, it was like a mountain, making it completely unable to move.

"tread……"

Footsteps suddenly sounded behind Jiang Li.

A tall figure wearing a light blue dress and a veil covering her face appeared amidst the thin mist and light rain.

Jiang Li turned around and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty."

"Um."

The visitor was none other than the Goddess of Luoshui.

Lady Luoshui had been watching this place closely, and she appeared even before Jiang Li could activate his magic artifact to summon her.

"Even if the City God himself came here, he wouldn't be able to detect this place within an hour, shrouded in this rain and fog." As soon as Lady Luoshui appeared, she easily took control of the situation and even had the mind to explain the strange phenomena around her to Jiang Li.

"The foundation of this method is a kind of water escape technique. I will teach it to you later."

As she spoke, Lady Luo Shui patted Jiang Li's shoulder and praised, "Well done. Even I didn't expect you to make such a fast progress."

"Mostly coincidences."

Jiang Li said with a smile.

It's so smooth, it's almost unreal.

But Jiang Li knew that this was probably due to the special power of his great fortune acting up again.

Or rather, the great fortune had already begun to operate from the moment they entered Yanshi County and encountered Pang Jun by the stream.

Looking back at Jiang Li's so-called investigation today, the word "coincidence" is the most fitting way to describe it.

I met an old man who was fishing early in the morning. He was the great-grandfather of a local family. After chatting for a few minutes, I learned about the background of the magistrate of Yanshi County.

Then they discovered that the magistrate and Chen Ying were related by blood. They immediately went to the county office and learned the cause of the magistrate's death from the coroner.

Upon emerging, they happened to encounter Chen Ying, who had come to attend a funeral. Coincidentally, Chen Ying became the key to breaking the deadlock, not only bringing crucial information to dispel the mystery, but also serving as the most important bait to lure out the evil entity.

The series of coincidences allowed Jiang Li to unravel the case with remarkable ease.

How can one word describe such a coincidence?

Upon hearing this, Lady Luoshui nodded slightly and, together with Jiang Li, walked to Chen Ying's side.

Although Chen Ying was not injured, she was still frightened and had not recovered until now.

Seeing this, Lady Luoshui raised her finger and touched Chen Ying's forehead.

With a flash of azure light, Chen Ying softly fainted.

"Let her sleep for a while, otherwise her mental health might suffer."

"Lady Luoshui said softly, gesturing to Jiang Li."

Jiang Li stepped forward, carefully picked up Chen Ying, clenched her fists, supported herself with only her forearms, and walked to the side to settle her down properly.

When Jiang Li returned to the Empress's side, the Empress Luo Shui had already begun to examine the evil object.

No, not examining, but dissecting. Please remember the only official website for this novel: www.deqixs.org. The website owner has only this one website; other websites may be discontinued at any time.

The fine drizzle seemed to have turned into the sharpest knife, and every drop of rain that fell on the evil creature would take away a piece of its flesh.

But the piece of flesh that was cut off did not fall to the ground; instead, it floated in mid-air.

Before long, the evil creature turned into a pile of minced meat floating in mid-air.

This increasingly bizarre scene left Jiang Li and Lady Luoshui with little reaction.

No punishment is too severe for evil beings.

The scene may seem terrifying, but compared to the methods used by the Heavenly Court's Black Law Division to deal with evil spirits and demons, it is still too gentle.

As the evil creature was thoroughly dissected, Lady Luoshui suddenly raised her hand, and with a slight movement of her fingers, pulled out a soul with an ominous blackish-red hue from the pile of minced flesh.

The soul had almost lost its human form, resembling a tattered cloak, bound to the fingertips of the Goddess of Luoshui.

"As expected, a demonic body, a ghostly soul."

The Lady of Luoshui's tone once again carried that inexplicable meaning.

"Your Majesty, is this thing really something that was born naturally?" Jiang Li asked softly from the side.

Lady Luoshui's knowledge and experience far surpassed Cheng Tianye's, and she reached the most correct conclusion almost instantly.

"Based on non-human beings that have never developed intelligence, their spirituality and soul are erased, and then the wronged soul of a fetus that died in the womb is implanted to replace its own soul."

"In this way, once it cultivates its magical power, under the influence of the vengeful spirits of humans, it can easily transform into a human-like form, thus becoming a so-called evil creature with a naturally born demonic body and ghostly soul."

As Lady Luoshui explained the origin of this evil creature, her tone, besides its natural disgust, also contained a barely perceptible hint of self-mockery.

Jiang Li's expression shifted, but she didn't say anything more.

"However, this evil creature is ultimately a product of induced birth. Although it possesses intelligence, it is influenced by the resentment of the vengeful ghost within it, making it instinctively bloodthirsty and devoid of any rationality."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Li said softly, "In other words, the orderly actions of the evil creature on both occasions must have been manipulated by someone in the dark, or at least its bloodthirsty instincts were suppressed."

"That's right."

Lady Luoshui nodded slightly, and with a gentle rub of her hands, the resentment of the wronged soul, which was essentially a ghost fetus, dissipated, transforming into a gentle breeze that went straight into the underworld.

What ordinary cultivators would need to perform by opening an altar and chanting scriptures to achieve—a transformation and dissolution—is merely a matter of a thought for Lady Luoshui. "Moreover, perhaps due to some restrictions, the one who is manipulating things is not far from here."

Lady Luoshui spoke softly, her toes barely touching the ground.

A light drizzle and mist suddenly spread.