Even hybrid monsters have their day

At this moment, he was only a dozen centimeters away from Peng Yuxian. At such close range, coupled with being completely unprepared, even a top-notch expert would be caught off guard. However, the spell vanished before his eyes. It seemed to be blocked by something a few centimeters away from Peng Yuxian's body, paused for a moment, and then disappeared.

Despite this, Peng Yuxian stopped as he had wished, turned around and looked at him, but his face showed no displeasure whatsoever, not even a trace of expression. He just looked at him as if he were looking at a lifeless puppet, or as if he were looking down at a scurrying ant.

After a long silence, he coldly uttered a sentence: "If you hadn't made her beg me for help, she wouldn't have gone to such lengths."

Jin Mo watched Peng Yuxian walk further and further away. The moonlight was hidden behind the clouds, making it impossible to see the expression on his face.

Geng Miaowan opened her eyes and looked around. She found herself in what appeared to be a cave. The cave was large, and besides her, there were more than a dozen young girls, all around fifteen or sixteen years old, scattered throughout. She recognized some of them as the candidates for the Rain Sacrifice Fairy that day; so this was what was meant by not being selected and being able to cultivate under Master Jingtian.

These women were either filled with fear and anxiety, or weeping with sorrow. Several others sat there expressionless with dried tear stains on their faces, probably knowing that crying themselves blind would be of no use.

She wanted to find someone to ask about the current situation, but because her hands and feet were bound, she could only move towards the girl closest to her on her left. However, the girl kept crying and crying, and she waited for a full quarter of an hour without seeing her stop. She had no choice but to risk being ignored and speak up, "Were you all captured because of the Rain Festival Fairy?"

The girl continued crying and ignored her.

She thought she might have been too quiet to be heard, so she raised her voice, "Were you all captured because of the Rain Festival Fairy?"

The girl still ignored her and cried even more bitterly.

Geng Miaowan was frustrated. Was her voice still too soft? Thinking of this, she raised her voice and asked, "Were you all captured because of the Rain Sacrifice Fairy?"

This time, she was sure the girl had heard her, because even the girls sitting a little further away looked up at her. And the girl didn't disappoint her; she finally stopped crying and started sobbing. "Who would be so unlucky as to become the Rain Fairy? My father and I just happened to be passing through Shangxing Town and planned to stay overnight before continuing our journey. Who knew that when we woke up, we would end up in this godforsaken place?"

Her words were full of grievance, and after she finished speaking, she began to cry quietly.

Upon hearing this, Geng Miaowan immediately felt that although the girl seemed to be crying incessantly, she appeared to be a straightforward person.

She thought for a moment and then said, "Speaking of which, I just happened to be passing through Yonghe Town these past two days. I heard that Yonghe Town was going to hold its annual Rain Festival, so I thought I would stay and see the scenery before setting off again, but I didn't expect to be caught up with here." Geng Miaowan said with a depressed look, "By the way, my name is Geng Miaowan. What's your name? It's fate that we met here."

"Pfft..." The girl burst into laughter through her tears. Although tears still clung to her face, her entire face suddenly brightened. Perhaps feeling that her behavior was somewhat undignified, she feigned anger and said, "I've been here for over ten days now, and every day I see new girls come in, and they all cry and whine like they're dying. You're quite interesting, though. You weren't flustered or flustered after being dragged in, and you even have the mood to talk about fate. You're really a strange person."

Seeing that her expression was quite amusing, Geng Miaowan covered her mouth and laughed.

She gave Geng Miaowan a coquettish look, but her tears had stopped. "My name is Yin Xiuping."

Geng Miaowan extended her hand, "Hello, Miss Yin."

Yin Xiuping rolled her eyes at her, slapped her hand away, and said, "What's so good about it? In such a godforsaken place, who knows what those people want to do to us?"

Geng Miaowan laughed again, causing everyone else in the cave to stop crying and cast strange glances at her. She quickly covered her mouth and stopped making a sound.

A moment later, everyone else went back to their own business. Only then did she move closer to Yin Xiuping and start a quiet conversation with her. From the conversation, she gleaned some fragmented information, but she needed to sift through it and think it over before she could determine its usefulness.

Among these people, besides her and Geng Miaowan, there were four other girls who were captured by them when they passed through the area. The others were candidates for the Rain Sacrifice Fairy in the nearby towns.

Although Yin Xiuping didn't know where they were, Geng Miaowan guessed that they were probably in Longtan Mountain. She had been captured more than ten days ago, and one or two girls were captured every other day. Now, including Geng Miaowan, there were exactly fifteen girls in the cave.

She also said that the day before yesterday, those people took fifteen girls from among them and they never came back.

It's the fifteenth again...

Thinking that the Rain Festival in Shangxing Town was also held on the fifteenth, she couldn't help but wonder if there was any connection between the two, or if it really was as Peng Yuxian had said. Just thinking about what Peng Yuxian had said to her that night made her feel a chill run down her spine.

The candlelight here was dim, and the sun was nowhere to be seen. I had no idea what time it was, how many days I had been captured, or what the situation was like outside.

She couldn't help but look around a few times, and a sense of unease crept into her heart.

After an unknown amount of time, Aunt Ying led several girls from Yuntian Pavilion into the cave. She swept her brows across the girls inside, and that single glance made them all cower and hide behind her, as if they foresaw some terrible consequence.

Aunt Ying turned and winked at the girls behind her. Two girls went inside, grabbed one of the girls, and tried to pull her out. The girl was terrified and cried out, "No, no, don't grab me..."

She struggled to lean back, but she was no match for the strength of the two Yuntian Pavilion girls, and was quickly dragged to the cave entrance. Aunt Ying stepped forward, slapped the girl across the face, and said fiercely, "Cry, cry, all you do is cry! Look at your pathetic state!"