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

After thinking about this, Qiao Yi turned around and ran outside, but after running a few steps, she came back to deal with Hua Ran.

She couldn't let Hua Ran stay here.

"Get up! Come with me! I need to take you with me to keep an eye on that female ghost's movements."

Hua Ran lay on the ground, panting.

Joey then realized that Hua Ran was completely free of dirt.

The two of them rolled around on the ground for quite a while.

Ahem! It's just a normal roll!

The reason why she is free from worldly dust is because she is a Taoist nun, a Taoist nun who is focused on cultivating Taoism and whose yang energy is extremely high.

Everyone in the sect says that they are the most likely to break through the human lifespan limit and ascend to the position of immortals or gods.

In their minds, only immortals and gods have clothes that are free from dust.

But Joey knew she wasn't.

Any powerful aura, once it reaches a certain level, will remain untouched by dust.

Therefore, the flower dyeing technique has reached a certain level of exquisite and bizarre quality.

Joey had never seen this before.

Her face was damp with sweat, and the corners of her eyes were red.

He lay on the ground, panting, with tears still streaming down his face.

Joey suppressed a breath and said, "Get up!"

"I can't afford it!"

Then Hua Ran said coquettishly, "I can't get up... You scratched my legs, and I'm injured on my chest. You hit me and pushed me. I can't get up..."

Joey frowned, raised her hand, and swept a wisp of yang energy onto his leg.

The wound disappeared very quickly.

Joey removed the talisman from the wound and said, "Your leg is fine now, can you get up?"

"No... my body still hurts. Please untie my hands and heal the wound on my chest before I can barely get up."

Although Joey saw his past and knew he wasn't a man-eating monster, the past doesn't define the present.

Just because he didn't eat people in the past doesn't mean he doesn't want to eat the ghost of this infant this time.

So Joey immediately said coldly, "If you don't get up, I'll put your wound back on and stop the bleeding!"

Upon hearing this, Hua Ran quickly stood up, her hands still bound, looking completely dejected.

"I...I have chest pain..."

"go!"

"Hey!"

Hua Ran was pulled and staggered forward, almost bumping into Qiao Yi's back.

"Can't you be a little gentler? Even though you're a grown woman, you're so young, yet your face is as cold and hard as ice, and your attitude is so rude. Don't you know that not every spirit or ghost is bad?"

Joey couldn't help but scoff.

"I don't know, and I don't even know how to write the word 'gentle'."

Hua Ran immediately opened her mouth slightly.

"You...you, did some spirit kill your whole family? How dare you generalize like this!"

Joey turned back again, her face cold, and said, "Yes."

A single, simple sentence, yet it struck a chord deep within Hua Ran's heart.

Hua Ran's expression changed to one of surprise, her mouth agape.

And instantly, a whole host of tragic events involving the annihilation of the Manchus came to mind.

The little baby was adopted by a Taoist nun in a Taoist temple and raised from a young age. She was determined to never forget the murderer of her mother.

That's probably why she's so cold!

Ahhh~ Looking at it this way, she's even more pitiful than that little baby ghost.

Moreover, the ghost of the little baby is a baby of a few months old, while the Taoist nun, Joey, is an eighteen-year-old... baby.

No problem, after all, I'm over a thousand years old.

Whether you're zero years old or eighteen, you're still a baby.

Upon hearing this, Hua Ran's heart immediately softened.

"that……"

"Hurry! Who knows what might happen at that house!"

"Ouch, that hurts! My wrist hurts so much!"

Big blocks of ice are just not cute!

Joey pulled the rope, and with Hua Ran, they quickly returned to the house from the small cave in the suburbs.

Before even entering the door, one could see bloody handprints on the pillars by the entrance.

Hua Ran immediately exclaimed, "Oh my god, that female ghost is even more sinister than before, it's so scary... Luckily I hid the baby."

Speaking of this, Joy couldn't help but ask, "Where did you hide the baby?"

"Hmph, if you're so capable, female Taoist priest, why don't you go and see where I hid the baby?"

Joey did see it, but she didn't even notice.

Using the area around Hua Ran as a breakpoint, nothing was found.

Therefore, Qiao Yi was also wary and cautious of Hua Ran in her heart.

After all, it takes skill to keep Joey from finding you.

But Joey didn't want to admit it, so she pulled the rope and said directly, "Come in with me!"

"Hey you...you really don't understand jokes. You still suspect that I'm in cahoots with the female ghost? I just wanted to protect the ghost of the baby, I wasn't on your side!"

Joey didn't turn around, but she kept talking, saying, "But what about her saving you? Why didn't she save you at other times, but only when I was about to execute you? How do you explain that?"

"How could I know? Maybe she wasn't trying to save me at all, but rather to hurt you when you were confronting me and lowered your guard! I was just a decoy!"

"I……"

Joey was suddenly speechless.

Hua Ran pressed his advantage.

Do you think what I said makes sense?

"No, you are a fox spirit, and the yin energy on your body is increasing day by day, so it is possible that you are eloquent and persuasive."

Hua Ran frowned. "Then do you think that with the yin energy on my body, eating the ghost of a tiny infant would help me? Would I be able to improve? In other words, do I even need to eat it?"

Joey choked up again.

This guy is sharp-tongued.

Indeed, men are often unruly.

Bah! The male ones are unruly too!

"What if you're giving it to your woman—no, to a female ghost—to increase her cultivation level?"

"Please, if that female ghost were my lover, why wouldn't I increase his cultivation level myself? Why go through all this trouble to create a tiny baby?"

Hua Ran took two more steps forward, flipped down her collar to reveal the chastity mark below her collarbone.

"Look, I'm clean, I haven't been touched by anyone, now I'm cleared of suspicion, right? Let me go, I... ouch!"

Joey didn't let go, but pulled her forward again and took out two talismans from her bosom.

One was pasted on my head, and the other was pasted on Hua Ran's head.

"Don't stray too far from me. We're both invisible right now. I need to make the female ghost reveal some things without her knowing I'm here."

"Oh……"

"If you dare to deliberately attract her attention, I'll send you straight to meet Buddha!"

Hua Ran swallowed hard, indicating that he wouldn't; he still needed to prove his innocence.

So the two of them went inside.

The night is not yet over.

The house was terrifying; almost every pillar had bloody handprints on it.

Joey clearly saw the lady of the house quietly approach the spot where Joey had been standing.

"She...she's actually cleaning up the bloodstains?! It was a female ghost who attacked me with her blood! Could it be that she entered my barrier just now, broke the barrier, and allowed the female ghost to attack me?"