Mu Anxiao felt a burning sensation in her hands. "Hot, hot, hot, hot," she exclaimed, trying to let go of the lock.
However, the more she wanted to get rid of the lock, the tighter her hands seemed to stick to it. This feeling vexed her.
"What's going on?" she cried out.
"Don't move," Shen Yan warned.
Mu Anxiao was already sweating profusely. "Why not?"
"She is breaking free from the seal. If you struggle, you will become the restraint for her escape. Don't move."
"It burns," Mu Anxiao's lips grew dry.
"Endure it," Shen Yan emphasized.
"It's easy for you to say. How can you understand my pain? I can't do this anymore, I can't," Mu Anxiao's eyelids grew heavy.
"I'll help you," said the man in the pale blue robe, pointing a finger at Mu Anxiao's forehead and casting a spell to alleviate her pain.
However, it had no effect.
"It's still burning," Mu Anxiao's expression turned serious.
The man in the pale blue robe withdrew his hand, looking puzzled. "Strange, why isn't it working?"
"It's because of the Yin messenger," Shen Yan frowned.
Upon hearing this, the man in the pale blue robe stopped casting the spell and glanced at a ball of black energy on Mu Anxiao's forehead. "No wonder. So there's another force within her body resisting." He then took a step back.
After Mu Anxiao's prolonged endurance, a ball of green light gradually floated out of the lock, and then a woman dressed in green appeared before her.
Mu Anxiao instantly slumped down, deflated. "Damn, I'm so hot." She raised her arm to wipe the sweat from her forehead and squatted down, sitting directly on the ground.
"Drink water," Shen Yan pointed at the bundle in front of Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao nodded. The moment she took out her water flask from the bundle, a girl's voice echoed from outside the woodshed: "Senior Sister, you must help me teach that guy a lesson."
"Open the door."
"Let's go." The man in the pale blue robe casually grabbed the green-clothed woman's arm.
Shen Yan glanced at Mu Anxiao, and then disappeared with the man in the pale blue robe.
Mu Anxiao looked at the two people who had fainted on the ground, swallowed, and quickly lay down herself.
At the same moment, the girl pushed open the door and was stunned by the scene she witnessed.
"What happened?" she said, walking quickly forward and looking down at the three of them, then turning to the woman standing at the doorway and saying, "Senior Sister, look."
The woman stepped over the threshold into the woodshed, surveyed the mess, then looked up at the rafters. She walked over to the boy, about fifteen or sixteen years old, and looked down at the empty bowls and plates, saying, "The food was poisoned."
"But that doesn't make sense. If it was poisoned," the girl looked at Mu Anxiao and the disciple numbered one, "then the person who ate it should have been poisoned. What about these two?"
"These two took a bite," the woman replied casually.
Mu Anxiao, hearing the woman's serious response, couldn't help but open her eyes. She then pretended to cough and sat up, saying, "Why are you here?"
"What happened to you?" the girl asked coldly.
Mu Anxiao looked up at the girl and blinked, retorting, "Who are you?"
"You don't recognize me?" the girl asked in surprise.
Mu Anxiao pinched her own neck and said, "I don't know. There was a monster just now, and then..." As she spoke, her eyes widened abruptly.
"You mean there was a monster?" the woman stepped forward and said.
Mu Anxiao looked up at the woman and asked, "Who are you?"
"You don't need to know who I am. You just need to answer my questions, otherwise," the woman crouched down and grabbed Mu Anxiao's collar, "I'll make you pay."