Poisonous Goddess: I'm just lazing around in the mortal realm.

"Xie Qiao and the others are watching over there. I came here specifically to find you."

Shen Mu's voice was slightly hoarse. He hadn't even paid attention to his footing when he came this way, and he accidentally slipped and fell. There was some dirt on the hem of his black robe.

At this moment, he had no interest in thinking about right and wrong; he was only eager to know Thirteen's identity.

"Why does Lord Shen want to see me?"

Shisan pretended to be calm as she walked to the table and poured herself a cup of hot tea. Turning around, she saw Shen Mu standing in front of her. She instinctively took a half step back, and the hot tea spilled out of the cup, instantly scalding her fingers red.

Seeing this, Shen Mu quickly took the hot tea from her hand, drank it all in one gulp, and then stared intently at her.

He didn't know where to begin, and looking at her scalded hands, he felt flustered and at a loss.

"What exactly do you want from me?"

Thirteen sensed that the atmosphere was somewhat subtle. She hid her scalded hands behind her back. Everything that had happened today was strange.

First, she changed her true form to enter the palace in order to capture the Taoist priest. Unexpectedly, when she bumped into those people in Mingyue Palace, she subconsciously thought that they were the Taoist priest she had been looking for for a long time. Only when she made a move did she realize that they were actually Zhou Jinghuai.

As a result, Zhou Jinghuai saw her face while she was running away. Just as she was worried that Zhou Jinghuai might report her afterward, Shen Mu arrived again.

If you're going to kill me or torture me, at least give me a straight answer.

Thirteen felt a little uneasy under the gaze, but due to the vast difference in strength between her and Shen Mu after switching back to her male form, she did not dare to make a move against him for the time being.

After rehearsing in his mind several times, Shen Mu finally asked.

"You went out tonight?"

A hint of panic flashed in Thirteen's eyes, but he forced himself to remain calm.

"I haven't gone out."

"But someone said tonight that they saw you in the palace."

Shen Mu looked down at her, meeting her dark, bright eyes. Thirteen could vaguely sense a crack in Shen Mu's usually cold expression.

Although Thirteen appeared calm on the surface, he was actually quite nervous inside.

Did Zhou Jinghuai betray her? Or was it one of his bodyguards?

She didn't dare think too much and quickly replied.

"I didn't go out; someone must have mistaken me for someone else."

Thirteen looked up at the other person, whose brows were filled with an overbearing and imposing aura. The increasingly heavy sense of oppression seemed to make it hard for her to breathe.

She frowned slightly, her hands hanging at her sides slowly clenching into fists. If Shen Mu really saw through her, she would have to think of a way to escape.

Seeing that Shen Mu remained silent, she hesitated for a moment.

"Does this mean you Jinyiwei use such deceptive methods to solve cases?"

She felt that everyone tonight was acting strange.

One of them blurted out her real name.

A person ran up silently and stared at him.

She really didn't understand what had gotten into those two tonight.

"Then I have offended you greatly."

Before Thirteen could even react to what Shen Mu had said, he raised his hand and slashed at her.

She instinctively raised her hand to catch it, but little did she know that Shen Mu's slap was not something a man like her could withstand.

As their palms clashed, she was thrown against the wall.

The force was so great that she coughed up blood instantly. Before she could speak, Shen Mu attacked again. She rolled over to dodge, but Shen Mu seemed to have her in his grasp, giving her no chance to breathe.

"Shen Mu! What do you want to do?"

While dodging, she questioned him while barely managing to avoid his attacks.

Having exhausted most of her energy fighting Zhou Jinghuai tonight, she no longer had the strength to fight Shen Mu again.

Shen Mu remained silent and did not respond to her question. Instead, he slapped the spot where the thirteenth stop had been, and the wall of the courtyard collapsed instantly.

The falling bricks and tiles raised clouds of dust. In the midst of the chaos, Thirteen suddenly remembered that she had exchanged several blows with Zhou Jinghuai in the palace. She vaguely guessed that Shen Mu was testing her like this in order to force her to make a move.

Thinking of this, she suddenly withdrew her grip.

"Why don't you just kill me?"

Thirteen climbed over a corner of the wall, then suddenly stopped, standing still as if resigned to his fate.

As she expected, Shen Mu's palm came straight at her, but stopped firmly in front of her face at the last second.

The sharp gust of wind from the palm lifted the hair on her forehead, and cold sweat seemed to trickle down Thirteen's forehead, dripping onto the ground.

She gripped the hem of her clothes tightly with both hands, secretly cursing that Shen Mu had almost really killed her.

Shen Mu's deep, dark eyes revealed no emotion.

He looked at the motionless Thirteen, his eyebrows slightly raised, seemingly with a smile in his eyes, but the smile never reached his eyes.

His probing was merely to prove whether the girl who shot the arrow in the palace was her.

Unfortunately, even if Thirteen had dodged the palm strike, he would still have harbored doubts and guesses that the girl who shot the arrow in the palace was not her.

But if one deliberately stands still

That proves that Thirteen already knew about my test and deliberately stood there motionless.

Shen Mu suddenly felt a surge of long-suppressed emotions within him. He withdrew his hand, determined not to beat around the bush with her anymore.

The moonlight was hazy when a gentle breeze suddenly swept by, blowing away the strands of hair that were stuck to their faces.

The turmoil in Shen Mu's eyes could no longer be concealed, revealing the panic in his heart.

"Thirteen, you descended to the mortal realm to capture the Demon Lord, didn't you?"

Thirteen's bright face could no longer hide her astonishment. Her thoughts were interrupted, and she was frozen in place.

She stared blankly at Shen Mu, lost in thought, unsure how to react.

Where did things go wrong? How did Shen Mu find out about this?

She had all sorts of doubts, but she never doubted that Shen Mu, like her, came from the realm of gods.

Seeing that she didn't react, Shen Mu broke the silence first.

Are you trying to ask me how I know?

Thirteen nodded blankly. She now wished she could crack open Shen Mu's head and see where she had slipped up.

Shen Mu suddenly smiled, a smile that carried no hint of sarcasm.

"I poisoned the Third Prince; I brought the poison from the Medicine King Valley in the Azure Feather Divine Realm."

Thirteen frowned and hastily wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve.

"The Azure Feather you're talking about, is it the Azure Feather that's one of the four kingdoms of the God Realm?"

She stared at the man standing in front of her. Moonlight shone from his back, making it difficult to discern the expression on Shen Mu's face.

"Yes, I am from the Azure Feather Divine Realm."

Shen Mu seemed to exude a powerful aura that instantly enveloped her.

Her mind went even more confused, and she stared at Shen Mu before suddenly bursting into laughter.

"Are you lying to me?"

"I do not have."

Shen Mu lowered his eyes. He had been keeping an eye on her ever since Thirteen entered the capital. Several tests, plus the incident at Zuixianlou, made him more and more certain that Thirteen's identity did not belong to the Demon Realm, and that she might even be Shi Wanyan.

Thirteen stood there stunned, suddenly remembering that she had heard about the Four Kingdoms Divine Realm before on Mount Cangqiong.

Those were four kingdoms established in the realm of gods, ruled by four emperors who forged the glory of the divine realm generation after generation.

People from both the divine and demonic realms yearn to enter the divine realm and become true god-kings.