Then, Mu Anxiao looked up at Piao, who was floating in the air, and asked, "What are you doing?"
"I..." Piao uttered a single syllable, then looked back at the figure in front of him and said with a sigh, "Damn it, it got away." He then turned and flew back to Mu Anxiao's side.
"What are you doing?" Mu Anxiao, thinking Piao hadn't heard her, repeated the question.
Piao replied, "Nothing much."
"Nothing much? Then why were you flying so high?"
"It's too dirty here."
Out of pride, Piao didn't want to tell Mu Anxiao that he had let the demon soul escape, so he gave this evasive answer.
"....." Mu Anxiao was momentarily speechless, then said, "Alright, then come inside with me!"
Piao shook his head. "I won't."
Considering Chen's precarious health, Mu Anxiao, in the instant Piao refused, reached out and grabbed his arm. "I take back what I said about not letting you in. Let's go." With that, she forcefully dragged Piao into the dilapidated temple.
Piao was astonished by Mu Anxiao's reckless move.
Following her lead, Mu Anxiao pulled Piao around the screen and, ignoring Feng Qishi, went straight to the bedside. "Help me take a look." Her hand was still holding Piao's arm.
Across from them, Feng Qishi deliberately glanced at Mu Anxiao's hand and said, "Since you've pulled him in, let go!" He cast a sidelong glance at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao immediately released his arm.
Piao looked at Mu Anxiao, then lowered his gaze to Chen, who lay on the bed, and asked, "Who is she?"
"I..." Mu Anxiao dared not let Piao know Chen's identity for the moment. With a flicker of her eyes, she said, "She's a monster friend of mine. Because of... the demon soul, she's injured. Please save her."
"She's your friend, not mine," Piao said, glancing at Mu Anxiao.
Feng Qishi added, "Only you can save her here."
Hearing this, Piao shifted his gaze to Feng Qishi's face and asked, "What do you mean, Brother Shen?"
Feng Qishi lowered his head and looked at Chen. "See for yourself."
"See for yourself," Piao muttered. He bent down and took Chen's wrist.
Watching Piao's actions, and then looking at Feng Qishi, Mu Anxiao's heart was filled with anxiety.
A few seconds later, Piao released Chen's wrist and said, "Yin energy and resentment have invaded her body. I'm afraid..."
The moment Piao was about to utter "I'm afraid," Mu Anxiao's expression became exaggerated. "You must save her! I believe you have the ability." She grabbed Piao's arm again.
Feng Qishi looked at the anxious Mu Anxiao, who hadn't waited for Piao to finish speaking, with a look of disdain. "Let go. Don't be so jumpy. Can't you let him finish speaking?"
Mu Anxiao: "....."
At the same time, Piao glared at Mu Anxiao, flung her hand away, and said, "I'm afraid it won't be easy to save her."
As expected, it was such disheartening words.
"Then what should we do?" Mu Anxiao asked, trying her best not to sound panicked.
Piao glanced at Mu Anxiao and then pulled Chen up. "What else can we do? We have to take her back to be healed."
Mu Anxiao asked, "Can't it be done now?"
As Piao bent down to put Chen's arm over his shoulder, he said, "We need to go back for me to have a way. I can't do anything here." With that, he picked Chen up.
Before encountering Chen, Piao hadn't thought much about the demon soul. However, after seeing Chen's physical condition, he realized that the surroundings were filled with Yin energy and resentment. Ordinary immortals might not sense it, and even if they did, they wouldn't pay it much mind, just as he hadn't before meeting Chen.
Seeing that Piao was willing to help, Mu Anxiao quickly moved aside to make way.
Piao, without even looking at Mu Anxiao, carried Chen out of the dilapidated temple.
However, based on Mu Anxiao's understanding of Piao, he was a demon who wouldn't save anyone. Seeing his enthusiastic actions now, she gained a new perspective on him.
"I didn't expect him to agree so easily," she said, standing still in her original spot.
Feng Qishi watched Mu Anxiao's gaze fixed on Piao, then glanced at Piao walking towards the door and said, "Silly Mu, you're already smitten? Your affections are too easily swayed!"
The moment Feng Qishi spoke these inexplicable words, Mu Anxiao snapped back to reality.
"Hey, tell me," she said, unfazed by Feng Qishi's words, turning to him calmly and asking, "What did Piao eat? Why is he so gentle?"
Feng Qishi had thought Mu Anxiao was smitten with Piao at that moment, but she was merely expressing surprise.
He breathed a sigh of relief and replied, "He's like this with patients." With that, he turned and walked ahead.
Mu Anxiao curled her lip. "Never mind. As long as he can save Chen, I'll be grateful." Saying this, she had just reached the door when she stopped again.
Outside the door, Feng Qishi walked down the steps and looked sideways at Mu Anxiao, who had stopped at the entrance. "Why aren't you walking?" he asked.
"I think I forgot something," Mu Anxiao said, turning to look. Lin Yan was still lying on the bed.
Seeing Mu Anxiao turn back, Feng Qishi shouted, "What are you doing?" and walked back up the steps.
Meanwhile, Piao had already left.
Inside the temple, Mu Anxiao walked gracefully to Lin Yan's bedside and said, "I should have known not to knock him out." As she spoke, she turned to look at Feng Qishi, who was approaching.
Feng Qishi said, "From what Chen said, those demon souls were looking for him."
Mu Anxiao asked, "What should we do?"
Feng Qishi's lips twitched. "What else can we do? We'll take him with us!"
"You carry him."
"Who else?"
Thus, Feng Qishi picked up the encumbrance.
As dusk fell, Mu Anxiao and Feng Qishi stopped outside Piao's residence.
"We're here," Mu Anxiao said, taking out a handkerchief and dabbing the sweat from Feng Qishi's forehead. "Why aren't you using your magic?"
"You've been asking that all the way," Feng Qishi said, panting.
Lin Yan lay motionless on Feng Qishi's back, his arms dangling in front of him.
Mu Anxiao glanced at Lin Yan and said, "I'm just curious, why didn't you let me use my magic?"
From the moment they left the dilapidated temple, Feng Qishi had sensed the Yin energy and resentment around it. To prevent this energy from affecting himself and Mu Anxiao, he had sternly warned Mu Anxiao not to use her magic.
However, he hadn't revealed the reason.
Thus, Mu Anxiao had been asking the same question all along.
"Can you stop asking?" Feng Qishi said, raising his head slightly. "In the time you've been talking, I could have already gone inside."
He still didn't want to tell Mu Anxiao the reason.
"After we put him inside, you'd better tell me why," Mu Anxiao said, quickly walking to the door and knocking.
Feng Qishi breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at Lin Yan behind him. He thought, "Strange. How long has he been unconscious? He should have woken up by now!"
As Feng Qishi pondered this, Lin Yan stirred.