I didn't expect that I was the heartthrob.

The last protective spell emitted a faint light in mid-air.

The flickering light was like a weak candle flame in the wind and snow.

This was their last line of defense.

They didn't even know what the person behind them looked like; the difference in their levels of understanding was profound.

Despair filled the hearts of the crowd, and they huddled under the protective spell.

The only hope now is that Master Kumu will arrive soon, or there may be a glimmer of hope.

"What kind of demon dares to launch a sneak attack!" A voice that was neither male nor female suddenly roared, and the Dharma Body and Heaven began to shake and rotate with the roar, and the figures of several ghost-faced bodhisattvas also began to distort.

"Is it Master Kumu?" Shao Yu's green face lit up as he spoke urgently.

Shanling and Ji Yanli, who were still struggling to hold on, looked around and saw a fire phoenix fly through the gray mist and spew out flames as it flew, burning the four ghost-faced bodhisattvas to ashes. The gray mist then dissipated.

After the fog cleared, they saw Master Kumu, who was sitting on an old tree root, fighting with a person dressed in a black robe.

"Take them quickly!" Master Kumu interrupted his thoughts and quickly shot out several pills. The group hurriedly took them themselves, and also gave them to the unconscious Gu Lan, Ruan Feifei, and the disciple.

"Sit quietly and regulate your breathing, then wait." Master Kumu said succinctly, and then he couldn't spare any attention to his disciples.

"Oh? So it's Senior Sister? Heh, when did you become Master Kumu?" Yin Luo Guisha stopped what she was doing, chuckled twice, untied her robe, smiled effeminately, and said in a coquettish tone, "Senior Sister, it's me, A Luo."

The black robe was removed, revealing her true form.

Unexpectedly, Yin Luo Gui Sha was actually a beautiful woman.

She wore a black gauze dress, and as she moved slightly in mid-air, her long, slender, snow-white legs were faintly visible. Her feet were simply wrapped with vines a few times, which made her look extremely casual.

“Ah Luo…” Master Kumu glanced at Yin Luo Gui Sha, then closed her eyes slightly. With just that one glance, she already knew that she was in too deep a trap.

Master Kumu sighed, "For so many years, I have been searching for you, hoping to pull you back onto the right path, to cultivate diligently, and not to sink deeper and deeper into the wrong path... But... but after the destruction of the Yinluo Sect, I could no longer find you."

Yin Luo Gui Sha sneered, extremely impatiently, "Senior sister, save your breath. What is the right path and what is the wrong path? You were very disdainful of it back then, and you did it much crazier than me, didn't you? Oh right, you had another name back then, what was it again?" She tapped her forehead, seemingly thinking, but in reality, her eyes gleamed with a cunning and playful light.

"Ah, I remember now, it's called—Jade—Face—Wolf—Spider, hahaha, back then, the Jade—Face—Wolf—Spider was the most beautiful woman in the world, captivating countless cultivators and killing countless others." She was very excited, and her tone rose considerably. "Do you know? The Jade—Face—Wolf—Spider loved to massacre villages. The desperate faces and eyes of those unarmed villagers were so exciting."

She had barely finished speaking when a voice interrupted her.

"Don't you dare insult my master!" Ruan Feifei had only been taking the pill for a short while when she woke up and was circulating her qi to regulate her breathing. When she heard Yin Luo Gui Sha speaking of her master like that, she couldn't hold back any longer and immediately shouted, "You demon, stop talking nonsense! My master is the most kind and benevolent person. She never makes things difficult for the common people. She even requires us disciples to always be considerate of the hardships of the people. How could she possibly kill them, let alone massacre a village!"

Yin Luo Guisha raised an eyebrow. "How long has your disciple been with your master? How do you know your master wasn't that kind of person?"

"I know it!" Ruan Feifei glared at her defiantly, her eyes practically spitting fire.

Master Kumu raised his hand to stop Ruan Feifei, "Continue to regulate your breathing, and do not get angry." Her voice was weary, as if she did not want to say anything more for herself.

"Senior sister, you've kept your disciple in the dark for so long! Hahaha, what a 'Master of Dry Wood'! Don't make people laugh to death."

“Junior sister… I betrayed you back then and abandoned you. I’m so sorry. If you’re still angry, you can take my life. But the path of cultivation is the only long-term solution. The crooked and evil path will only lead to your death. Why bother?”

Yin Luo Gui Sha laughed even louder this time. Her eyes turned sinister, and she suddenly attacked Master Ku Mu.

As she had predicted, Master Kumu remained completely still.

The sharp sound of a weapon piercing flesh pierced everyone's ears, startling them.

Seeing that she was truly determined to die, Yin Luo Gui Sha clapped his hands. "Good, good, you still have backbone. But you're wrong. I don't care about your betrayal or abandoning me. I'm not angry. You know what? I should thank you."

"Didn't you teach me that everyone has to look out for themselves? We cultivators are blessed by the heavens, so naturally we should make good use of it. Not to mention not caring about human lives, I don't even care about the laws of heaven. You've been diligently cultivating the righteous path, but after all these years, your appearance has aged, your body has weakened, and even your cultivation has regressed. It's laughable. What right or standing do you have to tell me to repent and reform?"

"Me? I'm perfectly fine now." She opened her arms, stroking her flawless skin, reveling in her own beauty. "Although I cultivate an evil art, my cultivation has improved, and my appearance remains eternally youthful. This body is young and beautiful, how perfect! Do you know how many female cultivators I've consumed to achieve this state of eternal youth? How can I give up so easily?"

Ruan Feifei and Shanling had both witnessed that hellish scene. At the time, they only saw countless human skins hanging from the beams, but they had no idea that these were female cultivators she had been consuming. There were also puppets that were being controlled crawling all over the ground, neither human nor not human.

This beautiful woman was not a human cultivator; she was practically a demon from hell.

No, it's more demonic than the devil himself.

"Aro, what will it take for you to listen to my advice?" Master Kumu closed his eyes in despair.

Yin Luo Gui Sha flicked her fingernails, her heart as cold and hard as stone. "Senior sister, I advise you to save your energy. That attack I just made contained deadly poison."

Master Kumu took a deep breath, gathered her energy, and leaped down. With a flick of her sleeve, she brought Gu Lan and the others onto the tree roots in the air, and they flew away quickly. Her voice followed behind, "Fellow Daoists, the rest is in your hands. I will take these disciples back first."

Yin Luo Gui Sha and Gu Lan were truly surprised by this turn of events. By the time they came to their senses, Master Ku Mu had already vanished like an arrow, while Yin Luo Gui Sha was surrounded by several formidable enemies.

"You old bald monk, do you think you can stop me with just a few of you?"

"Why don't you give it a try!"

These people all harbor deep hatred for her and were just looking for creditors when Master Kumu sent her an invitation. Now it's a good time to join forces and rid the people of this scourge!