Immediately, Mu Gui casually called out, "Hong'er." Then he walked forward and stood before Hong'er, saying in a low voice, "You said you wanted to kill Mai Xia, but I gave you a chance. Since you didn't succeed, then..."
"Mai Xia is just a decoy. There's someone else I want to kill," Hong'er said, turning her head to look at Mu An Xiao.
The Madam listened to Hong'er's words, and recent days of Hong'er's abnormal behavior flashed through her mind. She sneered, "So, I fell into your trap."
At the same time, Jia Bu walked up to Mu An Xiao's side, confused, "What's going on?"
"This Hong'er must have infiltrated," Mu An Xiao said, deliberately squatting down.
Jia looked and exclaimed, "What are you doing?"
"This way, I'm less conspicuous. I just remembered, this Hong'er is the female tree demon who poisoned me when I was harmed before," Mu An Xiao whispered.
"Female tree demon..." Jia repeated, and instantly recalled... on a dark and stormy night, Mu An Xiao was being chased by a female demon emitting red light. He suddenly understood, "It's her."
"It was also her who made me use the Zhong Zhao Shu for the first time after recovering from a serious illness."
"So, your potential was also stimulated by her."
"I suppose so. Anyway, I was happy for a long time after that one time. Unfortunately... since then, my spiritual energy has never been that powerful again," Mu An Xiao said, glancing at Hong'er, who was still coldly looking at the Madam without saying a word. He curled his lips, "I never expected that after attacking me, she would actually have the nerve to be reasonable."
"I think she should thank you," Jia said seriously.
"Why?"
"If it weren't for you, she wouldn't have met Mu Gui."
"It's all a conspiracy," Mu An Xiao said in a low voice, his eyes fixed on Hong'er's face.
"Not necessarily."
"Don't say not necessarily," Mu An Xiao inadvertently glanced at Mai Liang, who was still clutching her chest, and quickly said, "Hurry and heal Mai Liang."
"She's quite badly injured," Jia reacted and rushed towards Mai Liang.
At the same time, Mu An Xiao stood up with a worried expression.
Over there, the Madam felt very uncomfortable under Hong'er's gaze. Just as she was about to gather her courage to speak, Hong'er said coldly, "It seems your hatred for Mai Xia is just that little bit."
"..." The Madam's eyes sank.
"You're quite ruthless to me," Hong'er said, reaching out and grabbing the Madam by the neck.
The Madam's body stiffened, and she immediately tilted her chin up, "You think I'm afraid of you?"
"You..."
"My family is a family of demon hunters. Although I haven't learned the art of demon hunting, but..." the Madam sneered, "I have many divine artifacts for subduing demons. If you continue to stalemate like this for a while longer, I guarantee you will turn to ashes."
"Stop trying to scare me," Hong'er said, widening her eyes.
Seeing the situation turn for the worse, Mu Gui quickly said, "Hong'er, she's telling the truth. Let go quickly." He grabbed Hong'er's wrist.
Then, Hong'er's body stiffened, and she turned to look at Mu Gui, "Are you concerned about me?"
"You are the one I brought back, so naturally I care about you. Now... I promise to give you a home. Let go quickly."
"Then will you marry me?" Hong'er asked as she released her grip.
Immediately, the Madam seized this opportunity, quickly retreated a few steps with Xiang'er, and then looked at Shen Lü, calling out, "General."
"You all go down first," Shen Lü said, stepping forward and blocking Hong'er, who was looking at the Madam, saying coldly, "You'd best be careful."
Hearing this, the Madam quickly took Xiang'er and left.
Mu Gui listened to Shen Lü's words, looked at Hong'er's unwilling expression, and said, "General, this is my family matter. Please don't scare her."
"This demon is bewitching people and even tried to use demonic arts to make you all see..." Shen Lü said, looking back at Mai Liang, and continued, "things you shouldn't have seen. Not only that, but she also made the wild claim to kill Mu Xiao. This matter, I'm afraid, cannot be so easily dismissed."
"You..."
"I seriously suspect that you killed Xiao Fei and deliberately framed Mai Xia for her crime," Shen Lü said sternly.
Hong'er's eyes widened, "How dare you slander me." She glared at Shen Lü.
Shen Lü's lips curved, "You are a demon, you can do anything. If you're talking about slander, you're more likely to be the one slandering."
"You..."
"Stop with the 'you'. Admit it, did you do it? Speak," Shen Lü became extremely serious.
Hong'er frowned.
Mu An Xiao watched Shen Lü forcing Hong'er to confess her crimes in such a manner and suddenly remembered Shen Lü's prejudice against demons. Then, seeing Hong'er's sudden bewilderment, and recalling Hong'er's threat to kill her, she curled her lips, walked forward, and said, "Xiao Fei wasn't killed by her." She stood beside Hong'er.
Immediately, Hong'er's gaze turned to Mu An Xiao, "You don't need to speak for me."
"You chase, I run, you hurt me, I hurt you. We're even, right?" Mu An Xiao said calmly.
Mu Gui was completely baffled.
Hong'er snorted, "If it weren't for you, my hundred years of cultivation would have been destroyed. Now..." Halfway through her sentence, her expression suddenly became ferocious.
Mu An Xiao saw this, sensed something was wrong, and immediately reached out and grabbed Hong'er's wrist, exclaiming, "You're pregnant."
Hearing this, Mu Gui was also startled, "Mu Xiao, you can't just say things like that."
"If you don't believe me, feel her pulse yourself," Mu An Xiao said, handing Hong'er's hand to Mu Gui.
"How could I possibly do that?" Mu Gui said anxiously.
"That's true," Mu An Xiao reacted, lowered Hong'er's hand, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, you've always wanted to get rid of me, but you didn't expect me to leave the mansion. So, you thought of using Mai Xia to lure me out. But you're not familiar with this place, so you used the Madam to abduct Mai Xia from prison. It was also at that time that you saw Mai Liang..."
"Stop talking," Hong'er interrupted sharply.
Mu Gui looked astonished.
Mu An Xiao snorted and continued, "You knew the Madam knew about souls, so you deliberately let them all see Mai Liang. But you didn't want to take the blame yourself, so you threatened Mai Liang with Mai Xia to kill me. Furthermore, by doing so, you could openly become the Madam of the Mu Mansion. Tsk, tsk, tsk, what a clever scheme."
"I didn't expect you to be as cunning and resilient as the Madam said," Hong'er growled.
"It seems the Madam really spoke ill of me to you," Mu An Xiao said, sneering. "However... I must say, you've hidden your demonic aura quite well. You've been in the Mu Mansion for so long, and I haven't detected even the slightest trace. Impressive, impressive." After saying that, she patted Hong'er's shoulder.