My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

The three of them immediately tensed up and couldn't help but stand up straight.

In an instant, a myriad of thoughts arose, each harboring their own ulterior motives.

Constant monitoring?

The tall woman thought to herself, "Could they see that I secretly admire him? And even my thought that he has a nice butt? Could they see that too?"

I'm a Taoist practitioner!

How can one be so lustful towards men?

How could I possibly be attracted to my fellow cultivator?

The short woman thought to herself, "Will anyone know that I like his biceps?"

Ahhh, so embarrassing! I'm a woman, and I'm not even as strong as a man. I've disgraced all women!

And also, I wonder if he knows about my longing to be protected by him?

I'm a woman!

The love tree felt even more sorrowful.

Because he had the strongest mental fortitude, he stayed by Jozan's side from the very beginning.

He was inwardly criticizing the two Taoist nuns, complaining about his older brother, and even criticizing Qiao Yi.

He had only one feeling: he was doomed.

However, Qiao Zan quickly said, "If you're going, hurry up. This spell has a time limit. I can only see what you're doing from my perspective, from above."

Upon hearing this, the three of them exclaimed in unison, "Great!"

Then he left quickly and bought new clothes for Joezan in a very short time.

And based on their judgment, the tailor shop owner seemed perfectly normal and treated them warmly.

As the group ventured deeper, Qiao Zan began to sense something was amiss.

He stopped directly in the middle of the busiest area and didn't move any further.

The tall woman asked, "Senior Brother Qiao, what are we going to do now?"

"Don't go, something's wrong."

"Huh? What...what's wrong..."

"Don't you find it strange? How come no one comes up and surrounds me when I walk down the street?"

Love Tree couldn't help but complain.

"Brother, it would have been better if we hadn't looked after you; it would have saved us a lot of trouble."

But the next moment, Qing Shu also felt something was wrong.

“When we came in, there were people constantly watching you at the entrance of the town. But now… now that we’ve reached the center, no one is watching us anymore, and we can’t say… that they’ve all informed each other…”

Qing Shu pinched her chin and suddenly widened her eyes.

"That's it! They are all..."

Sure enough, as soon as the Love Tree finished speaking, fog rose up around them.

At first, the Love Tree could still see Qiao Zan and the two women, but later the fog became so thick that the Love Tree could not see more than a meter away.

He cried out, "Big brother, big brother! I want to hold your hand!"

When he arrived, Jozan had already disappeared.

There was nothingness before me.

"Hey? Where's Big Brother? Taoist Nun Sister, Tall Guy, Shorty Guy! Oh my god... where did you all go!?"

He ran and ran, but found nothing.

It was as if he had arrived in a new place, and he was all alone.

Meanwhile, Qiao Zan heard a voice in the fog.

"Brother~"

"Big brother, it's been so long, I've missed you so much..."

Qiao Zan was stunned. Even after more than a decade, he still remembered that voice.

This is Qiao Yu's voice.

Actually, back then, when it came to the final battle against the Shadow Monster, Jozan knew that his sister had changed.

However, he hadn't paid much attention to it. He asked Qiao Yu, "Has anything entered your dream? We've been investigating this kind of thing for so long, we probably know the Shadow Monster's tricks. Don't fall for it."

Qiao Yu said at the time, "Nothing is in my dreams, brother, don't worry."

Qiao Zan thought he should find some time to talk to Qiao Yu.

Before he could finish speaking, Qiao Yu attacked Qiao Yi when he saw him again later.

Until Qiao Yu's death, the two of them never spoke another word to each other.

At that time, Qiaozan's soul was sent into Zhulong's body, and he spent more than ten years in peace.

Joey also asked Joezan, "If I make you an immortal being, will you hate me?"

Qiao Zan shook his head. "You saved me again. I should thank you. Without you, my soul would have nowhere to go, and might have even been scattered to the winds."

He paused for a moment, then said, "As for Qiao Yu, that outcome was the path she ultimately chose, and she has no one to blame but herself. Perhaps she was never meant to be saved in the first place."

Thinking of this, Qiao Zan, who was currently shrouded in mist, recalled his first life.

Since he acquired the body of the Candle Dragon, he has gradually come to remember some things that happened before that.

In his first life, he and his sister were the children of male prostitutes in a brothel.

Because their original mother didn't acknowledge them and didn't want to take their father, who was a male prostitute, with her, the two children grew up in a brothel, running errands for the brothel's owners.

The male prostitute's father was always worried that his handsome son would follow in his footsteps.

Unfortunately, before that day could come, a murder occurred in the brothel, followed by a series of strange events.

Everyone in the brothel except him and his sister, including his own father, was dead.

It's the kind of story where someone dies every day, and you're given a heads-up, with blood-written warnings on the cabinet telling you who will die.

Everyone in the brothel was destined for this fate.

Even those who escaped the brothel, but were destined to die at the hands of vengeful ghosts that day, did not escape.

The blood-written words on the cabinet were written on the words belonging to the brother and sister.

Qiao Yu gave up first.

She held the knife to her throat, but Qiao Zan snatched it away, saying, "Ayu, don't give up until the very last moment!"

"But we have no other choice, we can only wait to die! Everything happened because the madam killed the top courtesan, and her vengeful ghost wants revenge on everyone in this brothel! Brother, we can't escape!"

As Qiao Zan recalled this, he was interrupted.

Because of the voice in the mist, that same sentence was spoken.

"Big brother...we can't escape..."

"Big brother, big brother...you grew up with me since we were little. We siblings suffered together and ate candy together. Do you still remember when we were harassed by customers, and we knelt down and kowtowed to them together?"

"Do you remember when they deliberately made me drink, and you took the drinks for me?"

Jozan felt something was already behind him.

Her hands were already on his shoulders.

Jozan was trying his best to suppress the urge to eliminate that guy.

Then I heard the guy getting closer and closer to my ear.

He exhaled a cold breath.

"Big brother... so, come with me... We siblings will be together forever. Joey isn't your real sister, I am! Come with me..."

Qiao Zan closed his eyes slightly, grabbed the hand on his shoulder, and exerted force so that flames erupted from his palm.

Then I heard a scream from behind me.

In an instant, it turned into a paper figure.

Qiao Zan turned around and vaguely saw a huge paper figure in the mist, as tall as a mountain.

But it disappeared very quickly.

"Could it be that the paper figures left behind by Qiao Yu have merged into one?"