At the same time, the evil spirits landed one by one opposite Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao looked at the distance between the evil spirits and herself, then glanced back at the woman looking up at her, and shouted again, "Back away."
In the past, no one ever stopped the evil spirits from acting, not even Ouyang Ye turned a blind eye. Now, Mu Anxiao was actually someone who didn't shy away from trouble. Looking at her, the first evil spirit, remembering Mu Anxiao's weakness to the wind, sneered, "Mu Anxiao, you are Ouyang Ye's friend, we won't harm you, but you should also understand the rules."
"...." Mu Anxiao tightened her silver rope, turned to look at them, "I've always detested guys like you who don't value human lives. With me here, you won't be able to touch a single hair of hers."
The woman stood up at the moment Mu Anxiao said this.
The first evil spirit sneered, "Since that's the case, then don't blame us for being impolite."
"What do you want to do?" Mu Anxiao frowned.
The first evil spirit smiled, "What else can I do? You're afraid of the wind, aren't you? If that's the case," he paused intentionally, turned to look behind him, and at the evil spirits in the trees, and shouted, "Make some wind, brothers and sisters."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao hurriedly shouted, "You dare."
The first evil spirit laughed, "Do you think I don't dare? Mu Anxiao, I'll wait for you to flee in panic, and then I'll hand her over to us," he glanced at the expressionless woman behind her, and laughed twice, "hand her over to us."
"Dream on," Mu Anxiao said, and immediately swung her silver rope.
Seeing this, the first evil spirit quickly shouted, "Begin."
In the next moment, as the silver rope landed with a 'pat', silver light enveloped them. Then, their faces went blank.
Mu Anxiao looked at the group of bewildered evil spirits through the silver light and smiled, "You can't see me, but I can see you. No need to look for me."
As Mu Anxiao had said, they couldn't see anything. The evil spirits in the trees also fell to the ground the moment the silver light dispersed. Wails echoed from within.
The first evil spirit looked at the fallen evil spirits and then towards the source of the sound, shouting, "Mu Anxiao, what have you done to us?"
"It's just a small spell, but... I'll say it upfront, prolonged exposure to this silver light will blind your eyes." She gripped the silver rope tightly.
This spell was something Mu Anxiao had just learned from Hei Feng. She had initially thought this spell could only be used on vine spirits, but who knew... the evil spirits tried it out for him first.
However, the evil spirits all closed their eyes the moment Mu Anxiao said this.
The first evil spirit also closed his eyes and said, "What exactly do you want?"
"What do I want? As long as you promise not to kill that woman, I'll let you go," Mu Anxiao said calmly, looking down at the silver rope emitting silver light.
The first evil spirit: "But, we're hungry."
"If you're hungry, gnaw on tree bark. Humans can't be eaten anymore."
Then, the second evil spirit said aggrievedly, "Ouyang Ye doesn't care about us, but you do. Aren't you interfering too much?"
"Too much," Mu Anxiao repeated, and sneered, "I'm just telling you not to do evil, and you say I'm interfering too much. You truly are a bunch of people who haven't seen the world. When I have time, I'll take you to see real interferers, the underworld officials, and then you'll think I'm good."
The third evil spirit shouted, "No underworld official is a good person, you are a good person, let us go." He covered his eyes, afraid that the silver light would blind him.
Mu Anxiao smiled, "You call me something, and then ask me to let you go. You really think highly of yourself."
The third evil spirit grinned upon hearing this, "You are a fairy. I misspoke. Let us go, please."
"Let... " Mu Anxiao smiled, "I didn't say I wouldn't let you go. I'm just negotiating terms with you. As long as you promise not to eat this girl."
"No. Nowadays, fewer and fewer people come in. From beginning to now, we've only eaten less than ten people. We are always hungry. You don't understand this feeling," the fifth evil spirit played the victim.
Hunger.
Mu Anxiao used to eat only one meal a day. She understood the feeling of gnawing hunger better than anyone.
Hearing the fifth evil spirit's words at this moment, she couldn't help but recall her past. Taking a deep breath, just as she was about to speak to him, the woman spoke, "You're not a good person either."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao frowned, turned sideways to look at the woman who inexplicably said this, and said, "I'm saving you, and you're scolding me." She pointed to herself.
The woman held her short knife and looked at the evil spirits in the silver light. "If you really wanted to save me, you wouldn't do this," she said, looking at Mu Anxiao again.
Mu Anxiao frowned, "Then what do you want me to do?" She felt like she was about to be bitten back.
The woman: "If you want to truly save me, you should kill them all without mercy." Her eyes were filled with killing intent.
Mu Anxiao looked at the woman's eyes, then thought of her fragile appearance squatting there not long ago, and sneered, "Indeed, you can't judge a person by their appearance, nor can you measure the sea with a dipper. I thought you were a weak woman, but it turns out you are... a killer."
"You're calling me an idiot," the woman said, raising her short knife.
Mu Anxiao glanced at the woman's short knife and said, "I suggest you clean your ears. I said 'sha' as in to kill, not 'sha' as in idiot. Also," she sneered, "I can trap these guys. Do you think your short knife can really... kill me?" As she spoke, she deliberately took a step forward.
Seeing this, the woman took a step back and said, "Don't come any closer, or I'll kill you."
"Young lady, it's not good to have the word 'kill' on your lips," Mu Anxiao said, scanning the woman's attire from top to bottom, and continued, "Why did you come here?"
"I came to find the evil spirits."
"What?" Mu Anxiao had always thought the woman had stumbled in by mistake. But it turned out... she came on her own. Hearing this, Mu Anxiao felt that she was indeed meddling.
"I want to kill the evil spirits, and then the men will stop looking down on me," the woman said with a grim expression.
Mu Anxiao looked at the woman's naive face and thought of her waiting to die earlier, and laughed, "Just now, a gust of wind scared you like that, and you..."
"I was faking it," the woman interrupted.
Mu Anxiao was stunned and laughed, "You faked it quite well, you even fooled me."
"Let them out, I want to kill them," the woman said brazenly.
Mu Anxiao shook her head, "I won't."
"My life is my own. If I die, it has nothing to do with you. Hurry up," the woman said excitedly.
On one side was 'wanting life', on the other side was 'giving life'. On one side were humans, on the other side were ghosts.
Thinking about it, Mu Anxiao laughed.
The woman: "You are mocking me."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao withdrew her smile and retorted, "Do you think you can really fight those evil spirits? Or in other words, are you sure you can even touch them?" After speaking, she stared at the woman's face.
The woman frowned.