Starting with summoning the succubus

With that, Li Chengwen turned and walked back to Shangguan Xue's side, "We'll meet again at the sect!"

"..."

Yun Muzhi looked down at the jade thumb ring in his right hand, raising an eyebrow slightly.

"Okay, thanks."

Yun Muzhi gripped the jade thumb ring tightly in his palm, turned around, and brushed past Qi Lin. "Let's go, Brother Qi, let's leave this place."

"Ah."

Qi Lin nodded slightly.

Seeing this, the little white rabbit and the big brown bear on the other side also quickly came to Yun Muzhi's side.

Qi Lin, Elena, Catherine, Yun Muzhi, White Rabbit, and Fat Bear left the place and headed straight for the cave's exit.

Soon, their figures disappeared into the depths of darkness.

"Xiaoxue, let's go back too. The positions of stewards in the Law Enforcement Hall are waiting for us to claim."

Li Chengwen looked at Shangguan Xue with a fawning smile on his face.

"What? You don't doubt me anymore?"

Shangguan Xue turned her head to one side and said calmly, "Didn't you doubt me after listening to Yun Muzhi's words earlier?"

"Oh dear, what are you saying?"

Li Chengwen scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly and chuckled awkwardly, "You know me, I've always been indecisive, a real weather vane, I just go whichever way the wind blows. The situation was so complicated before, I... I wasn't sure what to do either, so I... I just..."

"Hmph, alright then."

Shangguan Xue glared at him and said coquettishly, "I'll let you off this time, but don't let it happen again. But when we get back to the sect, you have to prepare a nice gift for me, and it has to be expensive, otherwise I'll hold a grudge!"

"Hehe, no problem, no problem. As long as you can calm down, I'll pluck the moon from the sky for you."

Li Chengwen quickly smiled apologetically.

"Alright, stop bragging. Let's go and get out of this awful place as soon as possible."

After saying that, Shangguan Xue started walking, following the footprints left by Qi Lin, Yun Muzhi and the others, all the way to the cave exit.

Li Chengwen followed closely behind.

……

……

Half an hour later.

In a grove of trees on the outskirts of Qingshui Village.

Qi Lin, Elena, Catherine, Yun Muzhi, White Rabbit, and Fat Bear strolled leisurely, slowly approaching Qingshui Village.

"Om-"

Suddenly, a cloth pouch at Yun Muzhi's waist emitted a bluish light.

"As expected, something's up."

Yun Muzhi's eyes narrowed, and he quickly opened the cloth bag at his waist, taking out an item that emitted a blue light.

Qi Lin and the others looked over curiously.

The glowing object was none other than the jade thumb ring that Li Chengwen had given to Yun Muzhi as a token of gratitude.

The key point is that at this moment, a line of small blue characters slowly appeared on the surface of the jade thumb ring.

"Follow us. If she makes a move, act accordingly. If it's just a small knife attack, don't move. I have high-grade antidotes; even an eighth-tier poison can withstand it for a while, so don't worry about me being poisoned. I'll handle getting information out of her."

"Oh?"

Upon seeing this, Yun Muzhi narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Huh, I mistook someone for someone else?"

Looking at the information displayed on the jade ring, Elena couldn't help but be a little surprised. "That guy isn't a simp after all. He's actually quite clever."

"Those who can step into the seventh realm are no ordinary people."

Yun Muzhi put away the jade ring and looked at Qi Lin with a smile, "Brother Qi, let's go. This is our last chance to gather evidence against Shangguan Xue."

……

……

Half a day later.

At noon, the sun blazed high in the sky.

Outside the Qingshui Mountains, a horse-drawn carriage leisurely drove along an official road.

The groom was none other than Li Chengwen.

Qi cultivators at the seventh level can easily achieve high-speed flight through their Dao techniques, so of course they don't need to travel by carriage. But in another sense, this is not a way of traveling, but a kind of enjoyment of life—at least for Shangguan Xue.

Just as Shangguan Xue and Li Chengwen were flying in the sky, they suddenly saw a carriage passing by on the ground. So the beautiful doctor was in the mood to ride in the carriage.

Li Chengwen naturally granted her wish unconditionally, and immediately landed in a mortal city and got a carriage.

"written."

Suddenly, the carriage curtain was lifted, and Shangguan Xue's beautiful face peeked out. She looked around, then pointed to a grove of trees and a lake not far away and said with a smile, "Chengwen, let's go there to rest. I want to take a bath."

"bath?"

Li Chengwen raised an eyebrow.

"it is good!"

"drive!"

Li Chengwen was in high spirits, cracked the whip, and drove the carriage to the lakeside.

After parking the carriage, the two got off.

"Ugh, the sweat is all stuck to my body, it's so uncomfortable."

Shangguan Xue stood by the clear lake, tugged at the collar of her dress, revealing half of her breasts.

Li Chengwen couldn't take his eyes off it.

"Chengwen, please turn it over."

Shangguan Xue reached out and cupped Li Chengwen's face, turning him around. Then she withdrew her hand, stood behind him, and said softly with a smile, "You're not allowed to peek, okay?"

"Don't worry, don't worry!"

Upon hearing this, Li Chengwen, whose back was to Shangguan Xue, quickly said, "Xiao Xue, I am a gentleman and would never do such a despicable thing. After all, I... uh?!"

Suddenly, his expression changed drastically!

In an instant, veins bulged on Li Chengwen's neck, and purple veins crawled all over his skin, including his arms and face, making him look extremely ferocious.

Not only that, his lips had also turned completely black, and black blood was constantly oozing from the corners of his mouth.

It's highly poisonous!

"Uh……"

Li Chengwen's body trembled as he slowly lowered his head to look down.

A blood-stained, black dagger emerged from his abdomen.

The wound from the small dagger was nothing, and it didn't hit any vital organs, but the problem was the deadly poison coated on it!

That was a terrifying toxin that even a seventh-level Qi Refiner could hardly withstand!

"Little, Little Snow..."

Li Chengwen looked at him with disbelief.

"Pfft!"

Shangguan Xue drew her dagger and walked past him expressionlessly.

"thump."

Li Chengwen collapsed to the ground, using all his remaining strength to look up at Shangguan Xue before him. His bloodshot eyes stared intently at her. "Why...why..."

"Why do you still ask?"

Shangguan Xue twirled a blood-stained dagger in her hand, looking down at Li Chengwen on the ground with an impatient expression. "Didn't Yun Muzhi warn you several times? But you wouldn't listen, so who can you blame for your death? You can only blame yourself for being too stupid. You clearly have a brain in your neck, but you insisted on thinking with your lower half. If you don't die, who will?"

"W-what..."

Li Chengwen lay on the ground, his face turning increasingly purplish-black from the poison, his voice trembling: "Xiaoxue, I only beg you, I beg you to tell me, why? Why did you kill me? Don't let me become a... a confused ghost..."

Chapter 407 Self-Exposure of Evidence

Don't want to be a fool?

"Ha, fine then, I'll let you die knowing why."

Shangguan Xue squatted on the ground, grabbed Li Chengwen's hair with her right hand, and sneered, "Actually, the reason is very simple. Because Daozi doesn't want Yun Muzhi to return to the sect, he sent me to sabotage Yun Muzhi's pardon mission."

"Cough cough! You, you?!"

Li Chengwen's pupils gradually dilated. Coughing up blood, he said incredulously, "You really...you really are...Daozi's...person...But...but what does Daozi's feud with Yun Muzhi have to do with me...Why...why did you kill me...kill him instead..."

"Yun Muzhi cannot die."

Upon hearing this, Shangguan Xue shook her head. "His master, Elder Xuancang, found it hard to believe that Yun Muzhi would violate his master's wife back then. After these past few years, Elder Xuancang has recovered from his initial rage and irrationality and has begun to suspect the incident from back then."

I've heard that Elder Xuancang has been secretly investigating this matter from back then.

At this critical juncture, if Daozi rashly kills Yun Muzhi, it will inevitably alert Elder Xuancang, and then things will become difficult to handle.

Therefore, Yun Muzhi cannot die.

But Daozi absolutely cannot allow him to complete the pardon mission and return to the sect.

If that's the case, then someone else will have to die.

For example, Zhang Shi.