"Are you moved by us?" the small demon asked, looking at the face of the Yin Messenger in a suit.
"Moved by what? My dear mother, this demotion of mine is all your fault." The Yin Messenger in a suit pointed his finger at the two of them and said.
The two of them lowered their heads in shame.
"It's not that serious, is it!" the small demon said, holding onto a sliver of hope.
Mu Anxiao glanced at the Yin Messenger in a suit, who didn't speak and still had a dejected look, not like he was joking, and said, "It is that serious."
"How could it be?" The small demon looked at the expression on the Yin Messenger in a suit's face, then at Mu Anxiao's serious demeanor about the matter, and said, "Did we perhaps oversimplify it!"
"Many things that appear simple have an unimaginable complexity behind them," Mu Anxiao said with a serious expression.
Seeing Mu Anxiao's solemn side, the small demon and the big-headed fat demon couldn't help but feel a pang of apprehension. The small demon asked in a hoarse voice, "Then what should we do?"
The Yin Messenger in a suit sighed and said, "What can we do? This was my oversight, so naturally, I have to bear the bitter consequences myself."
"You're quite calm about it," Mu Anxiao remarked.
The Yin Messenger in a suit turned his head to look at Mu Anxiao and smiled.
Mu Anxiao stared at the Yin Messenger in a suit's inexplicable smile and said, "This is your problem, don't look at me like that."
"Do you want to undertake a grand mission?" the Yin Messenger in a suit raised an eyebrow.
"A grand mission," Mu Anxiao scoffed, "What grand mission could you possibly have for me?"
"Do you still remember the matter of the second evil spirit?" the Yin Messenger in a suit asked.
Mu Anxiao rubbed the tip of his nose and said, "I remember, what about it?"
"Do you remember those monsters you collected at the bottom of the cliff back then?"
"I remember, you found out?" Mu Anxiao asked.
"Yes, thanks to you, we saved a lot of trouble. However, as far as I know, they have a master," the Yin Messenger in a suit said.
Mu Anxiao couldn't help but recall the scene of subduing the monsters that night, and his mouth twitched as he said, "Those monsters were so ugly, their master must be even uglier."
"Monsters?" the small demon suddenly interjected.
Mu Anxiao turned to look at the small demon and asked, "You know?"
"Monsters, the demon who tricked us more than a hundred years ago, he called his subordinates monsters. They were all particularly ugly, and their eyes seemed to be red," the small demon said, his eyes involuntarily flickering.
Mu Anxiao asked, "You know those wretched demons?"
"I do, but we never directly confronted them," the small demon said, deliberately avoiding eye contact.
Mu Anxiao no longer clearly remembered the incident of subduing those red-eyed monsters at the bottom of the cliff that day. Of course, if she wasn't asked to elaborate, she could still recall the general outline.
"Do you remember what happened that night?" the Yin Messenger in a suit suddenly asked.
Mu Anxiao sighed and said, "I don't remember very clearly, but, if that's the case, it all started with that demon who tricked them. However, I heard those red-eyed wretched demons say that they liked the soul aura of evil spirits. May I ask," he looked at the small demon, "does the demon who tricked you have such a peculiar habit?"
"Yes, he taught us a demon art, saying that absorbing the bad luck from the villagers' bodies would make the demon art more powerful. But..." the big-headed fat demon couldn't help but recall the villagers' reactions at the time and shuddered, falling silent.
"What's wrong?" Mu Anxiao inquired.
"It was too terrifying, I don't dare to recall." The big-headed fat demon shook his head.
"Terrifying," Mu Anxiao repeated, glancing at the small demon and asking, "After you absorbed the villagers' bad luck, did their eyeballs turn red?"
"How did you know?" the small demon asked in surprise.
"I guessed," Mu Anxiao said, then turned to look at Hu Yuan, who was chatting with his mother in the pavilion, and asked, "Was this matter ever recorded?"
"Recorded..." the Yin Messenger in a suit repeated, then suddenly seemed to realize something, narrowed his eyes at the small demon, and asked, "Why do I feel like you're acting strange?"
"No," the small demon shook his head.
Mu Anxiao also sensed something amiss with the small demon and asked directly, "Are you still in contact with that demon?"
"I..." The small demon abruptly looked up at Mu Anxiao, "I am still in contact with him, but I cannot tell you where he is?"
"As far as I know, all those bodies have disappeared," the Yin Messenger in a suit added.
Mu Anxiao glanced at the Yin Messenger in a suit, then at the small demon, "After the incident, did he ask you to look for Hu Yuan's past life?"
The small demon fell silent.
Mu Anxiao looked at the big-headed fat demon.
The big-headed fat demon glanced at the small demon and said, "We admit our guilt. If..."
"A sinful demon has no right to save people," Mu Anxiao suddenly stated.
The big-headed fat demon and the small demon were both startled. The small demon asked, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"Because I didn't know the matter was this complicated earlier. Now I do," Mu Anxiao said calmly.
The Yin Messenger in a suit remained silent.
The small demon continued to avoid eye contact and asked, "Then what should we do?"
"I advise you to tell the truth, otherwise," Mu Anxiao said, "Hu Yuan will truly be beyond saving."
"We can give up all our spiritual energy," the small demon said excitedly.
"You are too naive. May I ask if your spiritual energy is still clean? And what if," Mu Anxiao said with a serious face, "your spiritual energy contains that demon's bad luck, and then Hu Yuan reincarnates and is controlled by him, what then?" xxs one
"You worry too much," the small demon said.
Mu Anxiao stared at the small demon with a cold, angry gaze and said, "Initially, I trusted you, but now," she shook her head, "I truly cannot trust you anymore."
The big-headed fat demon looked at the small demon, remaining silent.
Mu Anxiao looked at them both and said, "Listening to you, Hu Yuan treated you very well in his past life. So I want to ask, if he treated you well, why did you still harm and frame her? You would rather listen to a demon than your savior. You are truly heartless."
The big-headed fat demon exclaimed, "I didn't know about this matter."
"You wouldn't know?" Mu Anxiao narrowed her eyes.
"My elder brother truly doesn't know," the small demon said in a low voice, "It's all my fault."
"Your affairs are indeed quite complicated," Mu Anxiao remarked.
The Yin Messenger in a suit glanced at them both and said, "Not only complicated, but I've been inexplicably dragged into it. Chihuahua, I didn't expect that despite your small size, you have quite a bit of skill, managing to trick your elder brother so thoroughly."
The big-headed fat demon's eyes sank.