Woman Number Four: "Please spare us, please."
"Perfunctory," Mu Anxiao said, tugging the rope hard.
Inside.
As Mu Anxiao pulled the rope, Woman Number Four leaned forward, face down on the ground.
Seeing this, Lü Hua stopped swinging her fists, straightened up, and looked down at the women she had beaten into pig heads. "I've stopped. Come in!"
At the next moment, Mu Anxiao and Feng Qishi entered the room together.
Immediately, Mu Anxiao pretended to be surprised as she looked at the bruised and swollen women before her, then glanced at Lü Hua who was watching them coldly, and asked, "Are you tired?"
Lü Hua: "Not tired. Beating them was exceptionally satisfying."
Before this, Lü Hua had wanted to deal with them countless times.
But she was afraid that they would attract Yin Cai and harm herself, so she had never dared to act.
Now that she could beat them like this, it was a wish fulfilled for her.
"That's good, as long as you're satisfied," Mu Anxiao said, walking gracefully to the front of the women. A smile touched her lips, and she looked down at Woman Number Four, who was slowly lifting her face. "Tsk, tsk, look at your face, it's turned into this ghastly state."
"Let us go..." Woman Number Four's eyes were glazed over.
Mu Anxiao: "You wish for me to let you go. Dream on."
"You..." Woman Number Four, lacking strength, slumped back to the ground.
Woman Number Five also lost her previous arrogance. She sat by the wall, not daring to look at Mu Anxiao. "..."
Mu Anxiao glanced at Woman Number Five and said, "Alright," she spread her hands and conjured several pieces of paper. "Next, we need to talk about your other crime."
Woman Number Three was completely exhausted, her eyes vacant as she looked at Mu Anxiao and asked, "There's more?"
"Those original wives, their fate was to grow old with their husbands, but because of you," Mu Anxiao handed the paper to Feng Qishi, "those threads of fate were all broken, thus affecting my path to promotion and wealth. Therefore, you owe compensation."
Woman Number Five: "You are Yin Cai, you're not the one who ties the threads of fate?"
Mu Anxiao smiled: "To be honest, I was moonlighting as a thread-tier back then. Because of you," she put on a stern face, "my reputation was ruined. Everyone who saw me said I tied threads of fate carelessly, even calling me a bringer of misfortune. These are all because of you. If you don't admit it, then don't blame me for being impolite."
Woman Number Five: "...." She was completely terrified of Mu Anxiao after that.
Woman Number One asked, "We are only spirits, how can we compensate you?"
"If my memory serves me correctly, you should have..." Mu Anxiao's lips curved. "Buried some silver somewhere, right?"
Woman Number Two: "You want our money too? You..."
"Because of you, I lost a full two hundred taels of silver! You must return this money, whether you admit it or not!" Mu Anxiao interrupted sternly.
Seeing this, Woman Number Two was startled and said, "I'll tell you."
Mu Anxiao smiled: "That's more like it." As she spoke, she turned to Feng Qishi, who had been holding the paper for a long time, "What are you standing there for? Catch it!"
"What do you want?"
"I don't want to write. Next, write down their crimes on this."
"I don't have a brush."
"Conjure one." Mu Anxiao said impatiently, glaring at Feng Qishi, then turning back to them, "Speak one by one. If you don't, then I'll make him create more crimes for you."
They: "..." Their faces stiffened.
Immediately, they told Mu Anxiao the locations where they had buried their silver, one by one.
Mu Anxiao quickly memorized them.
A quarter of an hour later.
Feng Qishi wiped the sweat from his forehead and handed the five written confessions to Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao took the papers, squatted down, and spread them out on the ground. She then looked at each of them and said, "Don't just stand there. Stamp your handprints!"
"We don't have blood."
"It's alright," Mu Anxiao said, turning to Lü Hua who was standing obediently. "Come here."
Lü Hua understood Mu Anxiao's meaning, conjured a leaf, broke it in half, bent down, and handed it to Mu Anxiao. "Here."
Mu Anxiao nodded, took the leaf, and said, "Smear this juice on your thumbs and stamp."
Subsequently, they still did not dare to disobey Mu Anxiao's instructions and began to stamp.
A few minutes later.
Mu Anxiao collected the papers, stood up, and said, "Alright, all of you, come back with me."
Woman Number Five: "Our feet are bound, how do we walk?"
"That's easy," Mu Anxiao said, pointing to their hands.
A blue light flashed, and after a moment of confusion, they were once again bound by silver ropes.
However, Woman Number Five had thought that after stamping their documents, they would be as unrestrained as Lü Hua.
But, to her surprise, Mu Anxiao did this again.
This made her feel dejected. "Can you stop binding us?"
Mu Anxiao didn't bother to respond. She coldly uttered one word, "Move."
Hearing Mu Anxiao's indifferent tone, they dared not speak.
Half an hour later.
Mu Anxiao stopped outside the inn, placed one hand on her hip, looked at the inn's entrance, then turned sideways to Feng Qishi, who was exhausted behind her, and asked, "Are you that tired?"
"I used a great spell, and I didn't sleep well last night. You walked so fast, of course, I..." Feng Qishi took a few breaths, "Of course, I'm exhausted."
"I'm so sorry."
"Huh?" Feng Qishi's lips curved. "Mu silly girl, you've grown a conscience."
Mu Anxiao: "..." She gave Feng Qishi a very fake smile, then looked at the five women and Lü Hua standing behind Feng Qishi, and said, "Let's go in."
Lü Hua: "...." Her eyes darkened.
Mu Anxiao asked, "What's wrong?"
"Once I go in, I'll lose my freedom."
"Even if you go out, you may not gain true freedom. On the contrary, you will be trapped here forever. Also, you have killed many demons. May I ask," Mu Anxiao smiled, "can you, a lone soul, really fight against them?"
"...." Lü Hua hesitated for a few seconds, then gave a bitter smile. "Alright, I'll go in now." Saying this, she walked past Mu Anxiao into the inn.
Mu Anxiao tugged the silver rope in her hand. "You few, let's go."
Woman Number Four: "We don't want to go down."
Mu Anxiao sighed. "It's alright if you don't want to go down."
Woman Number Four's eyes lit up.
"..." Mu Anxiao spread her hands and conjured the confessions they had stamped. "Think carefully. I'll destroy them for you now."
Woman Number Five's brow furrowed. "Would you be so kind?"
"Of course. You've told me where you hid your silver, so it would be a bit unkind of me to arrest you again, wouldn't it!"
"You know it's unkind." Woman Number Five pressed her advantage.
Mu Anxiao smiled down. "Of course, I know. As the saying goes, whoever gives me silver, I help. I am just such a mercenary little immortal, don't you agree?" She looked at each of them.
Feng Qishi said urgently, "Mu silly girl, don't do anything foolish." He was serious.