Seeing this, Feng Qishi looked up and asked, "Where are you going?"
Mu Anxiao lowered her head. "This place doesn't tolerate me, and staying here is pointless. Going out to see the Yin Messengers and help them out a bit, and leaving this troublesome place sooner rather than later, wouldn't be bad either." As she spoke, she tugged at the silver rope. "Get up, you've gotten used to sitting."
Wan Sha felt disdain for Mu Anxiao's attitude towards her, but looking at the silver rope bound to her hand, she had no choice but to cooperate and stood up.
For a moment, upon hearing Mu Anxiao's words, Feng Qishi's heart sank, but remembering his promise to Lin Yan, he could only continue his pretense. "Go on, then."
"You don't need to tell me," Mu Anxiao shot Feng Qishi a glare, then took Wan Sha by the hand and turned to leave.
If it were in the past, Mu Anxiao would have been thrilled for Feng Qishi to speak like this, even feeling a sense of relief from a burden.
But, for some reason? Now, his speaking like this gave her a sense of emptiness!
Meanwhile, upon hearing Mu Anxiao's words, Xiao Zeng immediately began to worry for himself. "Big Brother, she's gone, what about me?"
Feng Qishi: "..." He turned to look at Xiao Zeng, stunned for a few seconds, then said, "I'll go ask for you."
Xiao Zeng smiled.
Then, Feng Qishi stood up, walked around the table and chairs to the door, glanced at Mu Anxiao who was approaching the Yin Messengers, and called out, "Silly Mu, what about Xiao Zeng?"
Hearing him, Mu Anxiao stopped with Wan Sha. As she turned, Wan Sha's face came into her sight, so she waved her hand. "Move aside."
Wan Sha was truly displeased with Mu Anxiao's commanding tone, but she still acted, moving aside.
Then, Mu Anxiao looked at Feng Qishi. "What did you say?"
Feng Qishi: "I said, you're leaving, what about Xiao Zeng?" He had no intention of crossing the threshold.
Mu Anxiao: "As long as he doesn't speak ill of me and says ten good things about me every day with sincerity, he will recover in three days."
"...." Feng Qishi was speechless.
Mu Anxiao knew Feng Qishi would be speechless, so she turned without another word and continued towards the Yin Messengers.
Wan Sha was equally speechless and followed her.
Feng Qishi watched Mu Anxiao's retreating back, sighed in utter speechlessness, turned back into the ruined temple, and said, "I heard."
Xiao Zeng: "I heard." His face was full of gloom.
Feng Qishi looked at Xiao Zeng's troubled face and said, "Is it difficult to speak well of her?"
"Yes."
"It's fine, just think of her in the best possible light."
"You're speaking from a position of privilege," Xie Xin said, sitting down.
Feng Qishi glanced at Xie Xin. "You look better standing."
Xie Xin pouted.
Feng Qishi said nothing and sat down.
The courtyard.
Mu Anxiao approached the Yin Messengers and crouched down. "How is it?" She picked up a wooden stick, drew a few lines on the ground, and then threw the stick away.
The Yin Messenger propped his chin with one hand, staring at the ant nest on the ground. "Could it be this place?" He pointed to the ant nest.
Mu Anxiao: "Here." She followed the Yin Messenger's finger, looked down at the ant nest, the size of a fingertip, and said, "Let's forget it."
"Do you think I'm a Yin Messenger who gives up easily?" The Yin Messenger turned to look at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao's lips twitched. She turned to meet the Yin Messenger's determined gaze and said, "You are not a Yin Messenger who gives up easily; your catching me proves that."
Immediately, as if encouraged by Mu Anxiao's words, the Yin Messenger nodded and said, "Okay, with you saying that, I'll try."
"You try." Mu Anxiao forced a smile.
Wan Sha looked down at the Yin Messenger's determined look as he was about to throw himself into the ant nest, then at Mu Anxiao's foolishly cooperative appearance. She said, "That's just an ordinary ant nest. Even if you turn into an ant and reach the end, it's either another ant nest or a dead end. I advise you not to do it."
Upon hearing this, the Yin Messenger was stunned. He turned to look at Wan Sha, who had spoken, and asked, "How do you know?"
"I've been inside."
"What did you go in there for?" the Yin Messenger asked.
Wan Sha: "I'm not telling you. What if I want to go in?" After saying that, she didn't forget to glare at Mu Anxiao.
However, this scene was caught by the Yin Messenger. "It wouldn't be because of her, would it?" He pointed at Mu Anxiao.
Wan Sha averted her gaze. "...."
Seeing Wan Sha deliberately shifting her gaze, the Yin Messenger pouted, turned back to the ant nest, and said, "I'm going."
"You..."
As Mu Anxiao uttered the first word, a gust of wind came, and then Xu Lan appeared behind them, saying, "She's right, even if you go in, you'll just be entering an ant nest."
Upon hearing this, the Yin Messenger's heart sank. He turned to look at Xu Lan, who was standing behind him, and exclaimed, "How did you get here?"
"I didn't intend to come, but seeing how stupid you are, I had to," Xu Lan said, looking down at Mu Anxiao. "You're an experienced minor immortal, yet you're supporting him."
"Everyone needs encouragement. I think," Mu Anxiao pointed at the Yin Messenger, "he needs it too."
Hearing this, the Yin Messenger turned to look at Mu Anxiao, his face darkening, and asked, "Are you just encouraging me?"
"Yes."
"You're not sincere."
"I never said I was sincere. Of course, if you let me go with you," Mu Anxiao smiled, "I wouldn't encourage you, because I don't want to go."
Wan Sha: "How wicked of you, Mu Anxiao." She looked down at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao looked up at Wan Sha. "I never noticed you talked so much before."
Wan Sha smiled. "As I said, we weren't close back then. Now, in my eyes, you are my..." She turned cold. "...my enemy."
Mu Anxiao expected Wan Sha to say something that would leave her speechless, but it turned out to be the same old tune.
So, she sighed and said, "Can you say something different?" As she spoke, she inadvertently dangled her fingers just above the ant nest.
Then, a few ants climbed up along Mu Anxiao's fingers.
Wan Sha rolled her eyes, then lowered her head, coincidentally looking at the three or four ants on Mu Anxiao's hand, and then at the ants slowly emerging from the ant nest. She said, "I advise you to withdraw your hand." As she spoke, she was afraid the ants would climb over to her side along the silver rope.
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao looked back at her hand and quickly withdrew it, standing up. She looked at the four ants on her hand and said, "You really know how to climb up a ladder."
One of the ants said, "Let us go."
"You can talk?" Mu Anxiao was surprised, but she didn't know which ant was speaking.
Wan Sha: "The Yin Messengers have been squatting here for so long, naturally, some ants have also absorbed a bit of their magic, so they can speak a little human language. Idiot!"