Female lead: No, it's me again??

Xuan Li found it hard to accept, "But, Fan Hua Village isn't far from Qian Shui City, there can't be no villages or towns around here..."

Feng Siyue murmured, "Perhaps a thousand years ago, Fan Hua Village really was isolated from the world?"

"To them, cultivators and magical beasts are things beyond their comprehension. Although they are warm and hospitable, they only treat their own kind."

So after their daughter was born, she was discovered by the villagers for unconsciously attracting spiritual energy and getting close to the Ice Cat, and was burned to death as a monster.

The two fell into silence.

The longer they stayed, the more they discovered that the truth was far from what they had imagined.

Time slowly approached midnight, and seeing that the two women hadn't been ejected yet, Feng Siyue roughly understood what was happening. She stood up.

"Let's go. Our speculation needs more clues to prove it."

Xuan Li gave a disgruntled "hmm" and slowly climbed onto Feng Siyue's back.

Some of the stories they already knew in their hearts.

At noon, the familiar white light appeared, and the illusion reset.

Feng Siyue was on her way to the house as usual.

"You... are the masterminds behind this?"

Tang You's tentative voice suddenly came from behind her. Feng Siyue turned around and saw Su Ziyi and the other person appear on the country road behind her at some point.

Xuan Li pretended to be asleep.

Feng Siyue's heart sank slightly. These people were following her?

It will probably not be long before we discover that this is an illusion.

Recalling their conversation last night, she asked, "What mastermind?"

"I don't know you. What do you want?"

Question questions to reduce skepticism.

Su Ziyi and Tang You exchanged a glance.

These two people were unfamiliar faces.

They heard the other person say again, "If there's nothing else, we'll go home."

She continued carrying Xuan Li forward, and the person on her back whimpered, "Chu Han, where are we?"

The girl was slightly out of breath. "Miss, we've arrived at Chunyuan Village at the foot of the mountain. Please sleep a little longer, and you'll see the master soon."

"okay."

Su Ziyi and Tang You did not pursue them.

As a man carrying a hoe walked towards them from the left, Tang You instinctively greeted him, "Brother Li, going to work this morning?"

The burly young man looked at him strangely upon hearing this, "How do you know my name?"

Tang You's lips froze. "Brother Li, it's me, Tang You!"

The man frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head. "I'm sorry, I don't remember knowing you."

Tang You: "?"

He thought the other person was joking and was about to say something when Su Ziyi stopped him, saying, "Sorry, we've mistaken you for someone else."

Su Zi also apologized.

The young man didn't pay any attention and went to the field with his hoe.

After everyone left, Tang You looked puzzled and asked, "Su Ziyi, what's wrong?"

Su Ziyi's expression was somewhat cold. "This village has a big problem."

The man they met earlier was the first villager they met after entering the village yesterday afternoon. He was the one who told them about the strange things that happened in the village last night, which is why they ended up there.

But now, she's saying she doesn't know him?

"Ignore them for now, let's try to find the people who saw us yesterday."

Tang You also realized the seriousness of the problem, "Okay."

Meanwhile, after Xuan Li and the other person disappeared from Su Ziyi's sight, they turned a corner and slipped into the room where the Ice Cat was trapped. They found the painting on the wall again, opened it, and wiped it clean.

The painting is exactly the same as yesterday's.

Feng Siyue swept it up and threw it into the space. As expected, the same half of the painting appeared again that night.

The clues overlapped.

"Feng Siyue, are they also after the Sword Saint's Key?"

Xuan Li whispered.

"I don't know, but the key can only be mine."

So don't blame her for making things difficult for you.

"Ah Li, we need to speed up."

"Ah."

"Hehe...hehe...persimmons...I want persimmons..."

Feng Siyue suddenly looked up at the window and saw a ragged old man with a hunched back passing by the door.

"That old man??"

"No, he showed up today? Huh?"

Xuan Li was confused.

Feng Siyue carried Xuan Li on her back, got up, and chased after them.

A dozen or so breaths later, Tang You and Su Zi also arrived, passing by Feng Siyue.

Feng Siyue followed the old man all the way to Granny Hua's tiled house and watched him knock on the door.

Grandma Hua welcomed him inside and gave him a few green persimmons.

"My daughter...likes...persimmons, wait for me..."

Do you like persimmons?

Does this old man's daughter also like to eat persimmons?

What a coincidence.

The old man walked along the familiar path, slowly arriving at the persimmon tree. He squatted down, holding a handful of green persimmons and eating them one by one. "Keep me company..."

Isn't this Grandma Flower's persimmon tree?

Why did he come here?

The old man's daughter liked persimmons... Granny Hua's daughter also liked persimmons...

Could he be Granny Hua's husband?

No, no!

Feng Siyue immediately dismissed her absurd guess; it was probably just someone from the same village...

After eating the persimmons, the old man drifted off to sleep.

Feng Siyue slowly approached the old man.

Only when you get closer do you realize that his tattered, thin clothes barely cover his body, and his exposed skin has many burn scars.

The two scars on my wrist are oddly shaped crescent moons.