Junior Sister must ascend this time!

As Cen Ning frantically rubbed his staff, Wu Zheng's fellow disciples suddenly realized the meaning behind his earlier words. They looked at Wu Zheng with resentment.

"Senior brother, so you're saying that Buddhist practitioners have to shave their heads to fool us?"

"No wonder the elders said that keeping or leaving one's hair is entirely up to the individual, but you kept urging us to shave our heads!"

"And they even said they had hair? In a fight, someone could grab their braid and make it easier to chop off their head!"

"Senior Brother, I'm never talking to you again!!"

"Huh? Really? Did I say such a ridiculous thing?" Wu Zheng looked up at the sky and then at the ground, then immediately changed the subject, "By the way, at this hour, the evil cultivators should have already made their move. Let's discuss this."

Wu Zheng said seriously in a second, "We observed a couple of days ago that the evil cultivators mainly appear in several abandoned houses outside the city."

"Should we work together? Or split up and search separately?"

After thinking it over, Yun Qing decided to split up. Taking these large lights out at night would be too conspicuous.

So the two groups separated after arriving outside the city, with Yun Qing and the others heading to an abandoned house in the south of the city.

The five people crouched on a large tree outside the house, concealing their location with invisibility and concealment talismans.

Before long, several evil cultivators appeared and, it seemed, captured a few cultivators with low cultivation levels.

Si Mingche asked, "Junior Sister, what should we do? Should we go down and rescue them?"

Yun Qing shook her head, "You guys wait here for me, I'm going to join them."

Pei Shubai immediately turned her head, "Who did you say you wanted to join? A heretical cultivator?"

"But evil cultivators are usually...ugly, and they're surrounded by black energy with red eyes. How can you join them?"

Yun Qing rummaged through the storage ring, rummaged around for a while, and then said, "Senior Brother, why don't you take another look now?"

Yun Qing let her high ponytail down, changed into a black and gray robe, rubbed her eyes vigorously, and finally stuck a talisman on her body. Instantly, black energy surrounded her.

Pei Shubai turned around and almost fell off the tree in fright. "I can understand everything else, but what's with this black aura?"

"This?" Yun Qing pointed to the talisman on her body, "When I was exploding the alchemy furnace, I thought it would be a waste to waste the black smoke, so my third senior brother and I researched and created a 'pseudo-black smoke talisman.' How about it? Is it realistic enough?"

Pei Shubai silently gave a thumbs up.

Jiang Mian said, "Junior Sister, I'll go with you."

"No need!" Yun Qing jumped down from the tree. "Your acting is terrible; you'll give yourself away."

Jiang Mian gritted her teeth and said, "I'll practice my acting skills as soon as I get back!"

Inside the dilapidated courtyard.

The cultivators were bound together by the evil cultivator, and several of them trembled and begged for mercy:

"I...I don't want to die, please let me go..."

"Please, please spare me! I'm only at the Qi Refining stage. Eating me won't have much effect on improving your cultivation. You eat him, and his cultivation level will be higher."

"Are you even speaking human language? I treated you like a friend!"

"Shut up!"

One of the evil cultivators lost his patience. "Why are you talking so much? None of you are going anywhere. If you utter another word, I'll be the first to eat you!"

Another evil cultivator was worried. "Brother, we've only captured these few people today, which is still far from the number the Evil King demanded. Will the Evil King kill us?"

The leader of the evil cultivators thought for a moment and said, "Don't rush. At worst, we can take a risk and go into the city to capture them."

At that moment, the gate to the mansion suddenly opened.

The leader of the evil cultivators frowned. "Come with me and see who's courting death."

Before they could even leave, Yun Qing rushed in, panting, and said, "Big...Big Brother, why didn't you wait for me?"

The leader of the evil cultivators sized Yun Qing up and down. "Who are you? I've never seen you before."

He had intended to slap the intruder to death, but upon seeing her appearance and the black aura surrounding her, he suddenly stopped.

Yun Qing smiled and said, "Big brother, I'm from the team next door. Our leader is too useless; he can't catch a single evil cultivator in half a day."

"I have always admired you. Just now, seeing you lead so many cultivators past us, I know that following you is the only way to have a future."

"So, I've taken the liberty of coming to you, hoping you'll accept me?"

The leader of the evil cultivators sneered, "Why should I take you in? Do you think this place is a place you can just come and go as you please?"

Yun Qing quickly smiled and said, "How could I dare to come and seek refuge with you without any sincerity?"

She whispered to the leader of the evil cultivators, "I've been observing you all along. Just now, several Golden Core cultivators were secretly following you. I think they're planning a sneak attack..."

"I have a plan, but I don't know, elder brother..." Yun Qing paused for a moment and looked at the leader of the evil cultivators.

The leader of the heretical cultivators was getting impatient. "Just say what you want to say, stop beating around the bush."

Yun Qing continued, "We can devise a plan to wipe them all out and then hand them over to the Evil King. I think Big Brother will definitely be valued by the Evil King."

The leader of the heretical cultivators remained silent for a moment, considering the feasibility of such a plan. "You make it sound so easy. How can a few of us possibly capture those Golden Core cultivators?"

Yun Qing said proudly, "Big brother, unfortunately, I just acquired some magical treasures. As long as someone goes forward to distract them, we can use these treasures to trap them and wipe them out in one fell swoop, hehehe..."

The leader of the heretical cultivators nodded. "You're quite clever."

"How about this, you go and attract their attention, okay?"

"This..." Yun Qing hesitated.

"What?" The leader of the evil cultivators stared coldly at her. "You're unwilling?"

"Didn't you say you were very sincere? You're unwilling to do even these small things, yet you want to join us?"

"Of course not," Yun Qing quickly said. "I'll go right now."

As she spoke, she ran outside the courtyard and shouted at the tree, "Damn cultivators! Since you dare to follow us, why don't you come out and fight us?"

"Come on, get down here! Watch me knock you all flying with one punch!!!"

The four people in the tree: ...Junior Sister, what are you up to now?

Even though I don't understand, I still have to cooperate.

So the four of them tore off the talismans from their bodies and jumped down from the tree.

Si Mingche retorted fiercely, "Damn evil cultivator, surrender now and we might give you a whole corpse!"

Jiang Mian sneered, "You've got some nerve, daring to take on four Golden Core cultivators all by yourself?"

Yun Qing put her hands on her hips, "So what if I'm alone? I can easily handle all four of you by myself!"

“…………”

The evil cultivators inside the courtyard were dumbfounded. One of them said to the leader of the evil cultivators, "B-Big Brother, there really are four Golden Core cultivators outside! If that person hadn't warned us, we probably would have been surrounded."

The leader of the evil cultivators initially thought she was just boasting, but he never expected that she would actually dare to go out alone as bait.

"Let's add her to our team when she gets back."