Bound to Mary Sue, I am against involution in the world of immortal cultivation

"They probably don't have any ill intentions," Ling You added in a low voice.

Fan Ning glanced at him, and the thoughtful expression on his face gradually returned to calm.

"It's best if they don't mean any harm. I just need a small favor from them," she said. "But that's for later."

"Now, I still want to know the true face of this lady."

"Haven't you guessed it already?" Jiang Yunsheng, whose facial expression had been forcibly reversed by a pill, climbed up from the ground and looked at Fan Ning, whose eyebrows were curved, with a very bad expression, "You have no spiritual power and are a frivolous person by nature. You are simply the perfect target for robbery."

"Fan Ning...I failed miserably. I won't be targeting the sacred tree again."

"Is that all?" Fan Ning turned around, her skirt lifted by the wind, drawing a sharp arc in the air. "Shenmu? When did I ever tell you that this was the reason you came here?"

"I have spread the news. I plan to have a long conversation with Miss Qin Mingzheng tonight, so the security will naturally be tighter."

"Miss Qin Mingzheng even came here specifically for this purpose... If you really just wanted to steal the sacred tree, you would be like those people lying on the ground."

Jiang Biehe's reputation is not well known, his cultivation level is neither high nor low, and he is a medicine cultivator who does not focus on his own attacks.

This time when she stayed in Qin Mingzheng's house, except for Gu Yuanzhou, who came with information channels and a clear goal from the beginning, the information received by everyone else should have been wrong.

Jiang Yunsheng paused in his argument. Fan Ning slowly approached, but his tone suddenly changed. "Your only target is me. Why?"

"I've got the wrong way," Jiang Yunsheng insisted, his tone becoming stiffer and stiffer. "I'm not familiar with this place. I just took the wrong road."

"It's a good reason, but I don't believe it," Fan Ning pinched her chin. Although there was no fluctuation of spiritual power, Jiang Yunsheng's face turned pale and she subconsciously couldn't think of resisting.

"Ms. Jiang, are you really such a deceitful and dishonest person? This doesn't seem to align with the opinions circulating three years ago," Fan Ning said, gazing at her clenched, almost trembling hands hanging in her sleeves. "Let me guess, what changed you?"

"Is it the friend who died young?"

"Don't mention her!" Jiang Yunsheng's expression became agitated, almost shouting at the bottom of his throat, "It has nothing to do with her!"

Ling You grabbed her excited shoulders and warned her coldly, "Calm down."

"Otherwise, I'm not sure I can save your life."

He looked at Jiang Biehe who was standing behind Fan Ning, and felt tired from the bottom of his heart. He was supposed to be the most dangerous demon cultivator, but he had to worry all the time that the two people around him would be the first to do something that was intolerable in the world of immortal cultivation.

For example, "murdering fellow disciples", "deceiving and cheating on a large scale", and "directly killing people to get to the top"...

Ling You: ...

As a demon cultivator who really needs to hide his identity, it is really difficult for him.

Fan Ning: "Haven't you decided whether to tell me yet? I'm still very curious about you, like your sudden change in personality... or that dead companion."

She slowly held down the man's increasingly stern face and said calmly, "There aren't many rumors about her, but judging by your attitude towards the Jiang family, she must not be very good, right? At least not in the eyes of the Jiang family."

Jiang Yunsheng's face was tense, and he managed to squeeze out a sentence: "This is just your guess."

"It's just a guess. I didn't hurt anyone," Fan Ning said with a smile, relaxing the pressure on his hands a little, as if he had everything under control. "It seems I guessed a little correctly... Jiang Yunsheng's companion, who is rarely mentioned in the legend, might be the trigger of everything."

"The lack of news probably stems from the Jiang family suppressing it, but it's strange that they chose to suppress the news instead of ruining their reputation... It's almost like they're trying to avoid something."

Jiang Yunsheng's breathing became increasingly heavy. She closed her eyes, but her body was trembling.

The beautiful pale face looked even more pitiful under the cold white light, and it was even more pitiful to see her.

Unfortunately, no one in this room is a soft-hearted person.

Fan Ning was even more direct, casually asking a rhetorical question: "With that expression on your face, are you feeling sad about the secret I exposed, or are you thinking about the person who will never come back?"

"I think I already know something about her identity. Do you need me to continue?"

Jiang Yunsheng opened his eyes again, and without any restraint, he raised his hands to look up at the ceiling above his head. When he spoke again, his tone was wet with sadness that had been lingering for three years.

"You guessed it, someone would have guessed it... She is my sister."

Jiang Yunsheng didn't look at anyone, and his tone was unclear whether it was cold or he had lost more perception.

"We were supposed to grow up together, but she inherited her mother's bloodline. She was a cat demon. So, because of this impure blood, she was abandoned." Jiang Yunsheng paused before continuing, "We met. She deceived me many times. She was a complete liar. But in the secret realm of life and death, she... died for me."

Fan Ning narrowed his eyes: "What's her name?"

Jiang Yunsheng was stunned, and when he uttered the name, he felt a sense of stagnation as if his neck was being strangled.

"Yan Luo," she said, "the cat demon who loves to lie is called Yan Luo."

"That doesn't sound like a lie," Ling You commented calmly, explaining, "Some noble families place special emphasis on bloodline inheritance. It's not surprising that a young child with mixed demon blood would be abandoned."

"But Miss Jiang is considered a leader among geniuses. The relationship between aristocratic families and sects is not particularly friendly, and is even filled with open and covert struggles... They won't let go of such a genius easily."

Jiang Biehe chimed in: "It's a very meaningless practice, but it does exist."

It exists...but there are still some incongruities.

Fan Ning, whose statement was verified by her companions, did not comment. She just looked at Jiang Yunsheng's averted eyes, and happily chose to question him when he looked at her with an expression that said "I have said everything I need to say".

"It's always easier to doubt than to trust, but since you've said that..." She clapped her hands, "I'll just reluctantly believe a third of it."

...Not even half the magnitude.

"You don't seem to like this sister very much?"

Then why make all the preparations to leave the Jiang family?

If you say there is no connection at all, Fan Ning will definitely not believe it.

Jiang Yunsheng felt irritated, his fingers curled unconsciously around his sleeves. "She sold me to a debt collector the first time I met her."

"Jiang Yunsheng would be better off without her."

"Is that what you think?" Fan Ning smiled meaningfully, his eyes falling on the other person's hand that was hooking the corner of his clothes again, without missing any trace of confusion in his eyes.

How interesting! Jiang Yunsheng, who keeps calling everyone a "liar" and a "cheat", is actually doubting his own "attitude".

Fan Ning smiled, turned around and sat on the chair behind her.

The space in front of Jiang Yunsheng was completely unobstructed.

Seeing this, Ling You also let go.

"Let's go," he said in a faint voice, his eyes complicated for a moment, "don't come again next time."

Jiang Yunsheng didn't respond, but after confirming that it was safe, he didn't slow down at all.

"Ling You, you're so kind..." Fan Ning took out three cups and poured herself a cup of hot tea first, speaking in a steady tone, "But she didn't listen at all. She might even cause more trouble."

Ling You was suspicious: "...You've almost stripped her naked, haven't you?"

Fan Ning shook her head and smiled: "That doesn't matter. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that her next step will be even crazier."

"Want to make a bet?"