The dagger heard no response from Mu Anxiao and pondered Mu Xi's words as he jumped down: "Actually, your brother was also a victim."
"I know," Mu Anxiao replied, snapping her fingers as she reappeared.
The dagger's eyes widened the moment it sensed celestial energy. "What do you want to do?"
Mu Anxiao spread her hands, conjuring her soul sword. "Since that Xi'er falsely accused me, I must kill more of her monsters to make her remember me more profoundly."
"No, if you stir up trouble like this, she'll come after you."
"I haven't seen this person in decades. This indicates," Mu Anxiao thought of the demonic energy emanating from Xi'er, a smile curling her lips, "that her current ability is only enough to deal with that fool Mu Xi. If I'm not mistaken, she's gone to cultivate demonic energy, and it will take her at least a hundred years."
"What do you mean by all this?"
"I have celestial destiny, which means Mu Xi has his own secrets. Naturally, he..." Mu Anxiao couldn't bear to look at the indescribable mess. "His soul essence can definitely boost her cultivation. If I kill just two of her monsters, her power will weaken a bit, so when we meet in the future, I won't have to work so hard."
"You're done talking," the dagger stated.
Mu Anxiao, accustomed to the smell of blood, nodded. "I'm done."
"If you're done, we can leave."
"No, I want to..." Mu Anxiao trailed off, her gaze falling on the spot where the monsters had been. She froze. "Where did the monsters go?"
"They were scared away by your soul sword," the dagger replied.
"Soul sword..." Mu Anxiao said, looking down at the soul sword emitting a brilliant blue light and sighing. "It can't be helped, my soul sword is still very powerful."
"Indeed," the dagger conceded.
Suddenly, Mu Anxiao raised her soul sword above her head.
The dagger immediately noticed this and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Without a torch, I have to use my soul sword to light the way," Mu Anxiao said, walking gracefully towards Mu Xi's body.
"You're going over there?"
"Why not? No matter how foolish he was, burying him is the greatest respect I can give him," Mu Anxiao said, raising two fingers. "It seems I'll have to waste some magic."
"Don't be stingy with it here," the dagger advised.
Mu Anxiao nodded. "You're right." As she spoke, she looked down at the large pool of blood at her feet and the scattered remains beside it, sighing, "He died quite tragically."
"Yes," the dagger responded.
Mu Anxiao sighed again, then turned towards the cliff, her eyes darkening. "If he hadn't jumped, he probably would have been eaten by those monsters."
"Those monsters don't seem interested in souls."
"What do you mean?" Mu Anxiao hadn't noticed what the dagger had observed.
"It means I feel they deliberately forced Mu Xi to jump. It was all arranged by Xi'er."
"Xi'er..." Mu Anxiao uttered the two words, her eyes darkening. "Does this mean everything was orchestrated by that Xi'er?"
"It's possible."
"Mu Xi is also foolish. He wrongly accused me without even seeing what happened," Mu Anxiao clicked her tongue. "It's clear that Xi'er has always been by his side."
"It seems so."
"What do you mean by 'it seems so'?"
The dagger pondered. "I always feel a demonic aura around Mu Xi. That aura is slowly eroding Mu Xi's soul. I have a feeling... that aura is deliberately hiding something."
"Is that so?" Mu Anxiao said, also thinking for a moment. "Then it explains why we'll see that Xi'er again when we return."
"It's so complicated," the dagger said blandly.
"You have the nerve to say that! You followed Mu Xi around for so long, yet all you learned was a bit about Mu Xi's inner thoughts. You even did so many bad things with him," Mu Anxiao shook her head slightly. "While people call him stupid, I think you're even more foolish."
"..." The dagger was rendered speechless by Mu Anxiao's words.
Seeing the dagger silent, Mu Anxiao deliberately nudged it. "I'm going to buy a coffin."
"Can you buy one?"
"I don't know," Mu Anxiao shook her head, thinking for a moment. "I'll try." With that, she glanced around and vanished in a blue light.
Two hours later.
Mu Anxiao stood, drenched, beside her soul sword stuck in the soft, wet earth. She looked down at the grave belonging to Mu Xi. "A straw mat, a coffin... it cost quite a bit. Not only that, I had to conjure the coffin with magic. It wasn't easy for me."
"It's not good to sneak away with someone's coffin like that," the dagger said.
"It's not like I didn't leave silver by his bedside," Mu Anxiao said, sighing. "To avoid suspicion, I deliberately didn't level the soil. You help me remember this place."
"Ah?"
"What 'ah'? Remember this place. When we go back," Mu Anxiao's eyes darkened, "I'll bring that guy here."
"Got it."
"Good that you got it." Mu Anxiao said, looking up at the sky that was gradually clearing, and clicked her tongue. "It was raining just now, and now it's sunny. That's just great." She then glanced down at her completely soaked clothes, and wiped water droplets from the dagger with her hand, saying, "Aren't you going to catch a cold?"
"You should ask yourself that."
"I am an immortal," Mu Anxiao emphasized, bending down to casually pull out her soil-stained soul sword. "Let's go."
"What about that girl?"
The girl?
Mu Anxiao had completely forgotten about the girl until the dagger suddenly mentioned her. Mu Anxiao's heart skipped a beat. "Oh no, how long has it been raining?"
"Probably for several hours."
"We're doomed. That girl must have caught a cold," Mu Anxiao said, retracting her soul sword, leaping upwards, and disappearing.
A quarter of an hour later.
Mu Anxiao returned to the alley and scanned the surroundings. Her gaze landed on the girl still sitting on the stone, and she froze.
"Your barrier has disappeared, yet she's still here," the dagger observed.
"She's truly a lunatic," Mu Anxiao said, rushing to the girl's side. She bent down and quickly pulled away the red handkerchief. Squatting down, she saw that the girl was completely soaked. Even so, she was asleep.
"She's asleep," the dagger said.
"What should we do?" Mu Anxiao asked, suddenly at a loss. She knew... she couldn't change anything. If she took the girl out, everyone would see her, and then... things would become complicated, and she might even become... the murderer of Mu Xi.
In short, the situation was very complicated.
Hearing Mu Anxiao's question, the dagger also began to feel anxious.
Just then, the girl woke up. "Husband," she said, without looking up.
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