Dagger: "I will not."
"Your master..."
Mu Anxiao spoke halfway, her blood soaking the blade. The dagger then stopped struggling and quieted down, saying, "Your blood..."
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao released her grip, and the dagger clattered to the ground.
Wolf Demon: "Are you alright?" He let go, raising an arm to wipe the sweat from his brow.
Mu Anxiao: "I'm fine." As she spoke, she crouched down, staring at the dagger stained with her own blood, and said, "It seems you have no strength left."
The next second, the dagger instantly transformed into a fifteen-year-old girl.
Then, the dagger said, "Damn it," and struggled to sit up, glaring at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao looked at the girl before her and said calmly, "Indeed, you have become sentient."
"Neither immortal nor demon, what exactly are you?" the dagger, now a girl, asked Mu Anxiao coldly.
Mu Anxiao: "Who is your master?" She was too lazy to communicate normally with the dagger.
Dagger: "You answer me, and I'll tell you."
"I asked you first," Mu Anxiao said coldly, glancing down at her blood-soaked hands. "It seems you cannot remain in the human world." As she spoke, Mu Anxiao conjured silver ropes with an outstretched hand.
Seeing this, the dagger startled: "What are you going to do?"
Mu Anxiao: "Since you won't tell me who commanded you, then all of this is naturally your doing alone." Speaking thus, she endured the pain in her palm, reached out, and grabbed the dagger's single hand, then bound the dagger's wrist with the silver rope, saying, "You have been captured by me." As she spoke, she concealed the silver rope.
"What do you mean?" The dagger finally felt fear.
Mu Anxiao: "What do I mean? You should know who I am." Speaking thus, she pulled the silver rope and stood up, looking up at the Wolf Demon, "Help me bandage this." She extended her hand to the Wolf Demon.
Wolf Demon: "..." He curled his lips and obediently took a black handkerchief from his sleeve, wrapping it around Mu Anxiao's wound. "Done."
"You won't help heal it either."
"I cannot," the Wolf Demon said, glancing at the unconscious Xie Xin and sighing.
Immediately, Mu Anxiao followed the Wolf Demon's gaze, turned to Xie Xin, and said, "She must have fainted because of the demonic energy."
At the same moment, seeing Mu Anxiao's attention diverted to Xie Xin, the dagger quietly stood up. Just as she was about to turn and flee, her legs lost their strength.
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao turned to the stationary dagger and said, "Trying to run."
Dagger: "..." She closed her eyes briefly, then turned to Mu Anxiao: "Let me go."
"Tell me who your master is, and I will let you go."
"I have no master."
"No master."
"Yes," the dagger nodded.
Mu Anxiao sneered, "I don't believe your nonsense." As she spoke, she tugged the silver rope. "If you struggle again, this silver rope will not be so lenient with you."
"You're trying to scare me."
Hearing this, the Wolf Demon turned to look at the dagger, "She's telling the truth. This silver rope truly has the potential to kill you."
"I am not a demon soul, you are going against..." the dagger couldn't finish.
Mu Anxiao: "Against what? Speak," she said, lifting her chin.
"You..." the dagger couldn't finish.
Mu Anxiao: "You might as well stop struggling in vain. Any demon bound by my silver rope with my own hands is considered a sinful demon. Furthermore, you can forget about making excuses for yourself, because," she recalled the beggar's dead appearance, her eyes darkening, and said coldly, " your hands are already stained with blood, so even if you want to escape, it's impossible now."
"..." The dagger lowered her head.
Mu Anxiao: "Go check on her," she said to the Wolf Demon.
Wolf Demon: "She's fine." Saying this, he still walked to Xie Xin's side, then crouched down and felt her pulse, saying, "She's just fainted."
Upon hearing this, Mu Anxiao breathed a sigh of relief.
The dagger cautiously looked at Mu Anxiao's profile, black light flashing in her eyes, and called out, "Master."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao frowned, turned to look at the dagger, and was stunned for a moment, "What did you call me?"
"Master," the dagger said, baring her teeth in a sinister smile.
"...." Mu Anxiao sensed something was wrong and quickly turned to the Wolf Demon, "Quickly take Xie Xin and go."
Hearing this, the Wolf Demon didn't react immediately, turning to Mu Anxiao, "Why?"
"They are coming."
"Who?"
"Hurry back to the broken temple," Mu Anxiao instructed, looking down at the ground and frowning, "There is indeed a problem."
"Master, you ordered me, so why are you binding me with an item from the underworld?" the dagger said aggrievedly.
However, what the dagger said was also terrifying to Mu Anxiao.
Then, she sternly urged, "Go quickly, don't just stand there."
The Wolf Demon, hearing Mu Anxiao's anxious shout and seeing the dagger smiling sinisterly at Mu Anxiao, said, "It seems you've fallen into her trap." Saying this, he quickly grabbed Xie Xin's arm.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao stopped urging them.
The next moment.
The Wolf Demon carried Xie Xin on his back and said, "I will save you." After speaking, he leaped upwards and disappeared.
Then, Mu Anxiao breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the dagger, who was shorter than her, and said, "Your master really knows how to teach you."
"Yes, I can do so well because you teach well."
"...." Mu Anxiao snorted coldly, then turned to look at the underworld emissaries and the beggar who had suddenly appeared, speechless.
Dagger: "Master."
Mu Anxiao, hearing the dagger's address to her and looking at the underworld emissaries glaring at her, sighed, "You've come to arrest me?"
Emissary One: "You are her master," he pointed at the dagger.
Mu Anxiao: "Do you think so?"
"I..." Emissary One shifted his gaze to the dagger's face, "You have a soul sword, so this bloodthirsty dagger must also be yours."
Hearing Emissary One's words, Mu Anxiao thought there was no room for explanation.
So, she changed the subject: "You can actually see that she is a bloodthirsty dagger, not bad."
"She has his soul's essence on her," Emissary One said, turning to look at the beggar staring at Mu Anxiao, and asked, "Do you recognize her?"
"Yes," the beggar nodded.
Mu Anxiao had noticed the beggar from the moment they arrived, but due to the dagger, she hadn't felt it appropriate to greet him. To her surprise, he was honest.
"I know," Emissary One suddenly said.
Mu Anxiao was confused, "Know what?"
Emissary One: "You are her master." He looked at the dagger.
Mu Anxiao, hearing Emissary One's confident words and seeing his determined gaze, said helplessly, "If she calls me master, then I am her master. By your logic, if you call me master," she said, "then I also become your master."