Not following the expected path? Reborn and unexpectedly married to a demon.

"Zhuxi, the people at the city gate say they've already left the city. What should we do?"

"What do you mean, 'what can we do'? Can you stop them, or can I? Just let them go."

Zhu Xi continued drying the herbs in the sun.

"Don't forget why you're here."

Zhu Xi said confidently, "I know, don't worry, they will come back."

The Fei family has a large medicinal herb cultivation area here, which would make it easy for them to return, but now is not the time.

Jin Wuchen rode out at breakneck speed for a day, and the matter was resolved.

Chu Luo has endured another round of torment.

Fei Zhiyou watched as Jin Wuchen crushed a cup, letting the shards pierce his palm. He knew that Jin Wuchen was blaming himself and feeling guilty.

Jin Wuchen felt sorry for him, and so did he.

If this continues, it's uncertain how many more times Chu Luo can endure the pain and torment.

After the two had fed the horses enough, they continued on to Sensha.

After Chu Luo woke up, she told Shen Wei that she was going to Peiyuan Ridge.

Shen Wei was a doctor and was familiar with Peiyuan Ridge, but he didn't know why Chu Luo wanted to go there as soon as she woke up.

"I've been studying the Eight Trigrams sacrificial array these past few days. There are two places I only know the general locations of, but not the exact places. I dreamt of a place full of medicinal herbs, which seems to be somewhat related to Feng Zhe."

"The place marked by Daoist Qi Tianqing is a place full of medicinal herbs, Peiyuan Ridge," Shen Wei realized.

Speaking of this place full of herbs in her dream, Chu Luo thought of two people.

In one of her past lives, she devoted herself wholeheartedly to her work, when she was innocent and naive, without any sense of caution.

After many twists and turns, they rescued a man named Mu Panrong.

Mu Panrong is a person who specializes in finding rare and precious medicinal herbs for Feng Zhe. He possesses extraordinary talent and can find things that others cannot.

Chu Luo didn't know this when she saved him. She only felt that he was on the verge of death, with longing in his eyes, and that he was pitiful because he wanted to live but couldn't.

But Mu Panrong felt he wouldn't survive, and while Chu Luo was feeding him water, he begged Chu Luo for a favor.

"I've found a place with many rare and precious herbs. No one else knows about it except me. Please tell them about this place for me..."

Chu Luo interrupted him, "Don't tell me. I don't want to know. Wealth and status are like fleeting clouds to me. I'll give you some medicine. Just hold on and survive. Take care of yourself."

Mu Panrong was stunned; she showed absolutely no interest.

How could there be such a person? He didn't believe it. She must be trying to gain his trust now.

Chu Luo used her homemade medicine powder on him.

Mu Panrong did indeed survive and recovered well under Chu Luo's care.

To Chu Luo's utter surprise, saving someone would lead her into a desperate situation.

Having survived and improved day by day, he murdered Chu Luo the very next day when he was able to stand without his crutches.

He killed his savior.

After he killed Chu Luo, he whispered about the secret place in her ear as she lay dying.

"This is the secret to wealth for several lifetimes; this way, your death won't have been in vain."

"It would be perfectly reasonable for me to kill you; I did it to keep a secret."

"I had no choice."

The person kept talking to himself, it was unclear whether he was trying to persuade Chu Luo or himself.

After killing the person, he intended to leave immediately, but after a day, he returned.

Holding Chu Luo's cold body, they arrived at a high-ranking temple.

The temple got its name from the high steps it has.

Those who sincerely seek something will go to great lengths to visit this high-ranking temple and pray to Buddha.

Even more extreme, some people would kowtow three times as they climbed the mountain gate, just to have their wishes fulfilled.

He refused to eat or drink, and carried Chu Luo to the temple.

He told the high monk Chu Luo that she was kind-hearted, died saving someone, and was a rare good person. He asked the high monk to perform a Buddhist ceremony for her and to cremate and properly bury her.

May she have a smooth and happy next life, free from suffering.

"Don't blame me, you'll die if you find out this secret."

As the man left, he kept repeating those words when no one was around.

The place where Chu Luo met him was near Peiyuan Ridge.

It was because of Mu Panrong that Chu Luo retained the toxicity of the hemostatic drug after her rebirth, and spent time and effort researching an antidote.

Her only memory of Mu Panrong after her rebirth was that he killed her.

The other thing was that Peiyuan Ridge had been stimulating her during her research on the Bagua sacrificial array map. If it weren't for Jin Wuchen causing her to momentarily lose her focus and fall into her past life's dream, she wouldn't have remembered it.

She didn't want to talk much about Mu Panrong and his affairs, but she couldn't avoid the topic.

She only mentioned Mu Panrong's matter to one person.

On a rainy night, she saved the masked man who had killed Feng Zhe.

At that time, she talked to him about repaying kindness with enmity.

He thought he had met another Mu Panrong.

But this is not the case.

The masked man reminded her that if she didn't want to be repaid with ingratitude, she shouldn't do good deeds.

It's far more useful to put aside your compassion and not indiscriminately save strangers than to preserve the toxicity in medicine.

He was also the only one among those she saved with the hemostatic powder who left without asking for the antidote.

He has courage, ability, and boldness; he is contradictory and wicked.

Mu Panrong saw the person's face, but she could only know his face, not his heart.

She didn't see the masked man's face on this rainy night; they were just strangers who had met by chance, not close enough to know each other well.

But his actions and words were so forceful that it was clear to everyone.

Now that she remembered, regardless of whether Peiyuan Ridge is truly one of the Eight Trigrams Sacrificial Arrays.

She had to go to Peiyuanling; that place couldn't fall into Feng Zhe's hands.

Judging from the timeline, that person hasn't found that place yet.

She has to take this place back.

Shu Tong doesn't care why she goes; if she wants to go, she'll go with her.

Chu Luo changed her appearance and set off with Shu Tong.

Shen Wei continued to manage an increasing number of people in Sensha.

Shu Tong and Chu Luo's horses were extremely fast, and they brushed past Jin Wuchen and Fei Zhiyou's horses.

Chu Luo was riding too fast and didn't notice the two people who had passed by.

Several hours later, as Jin Wuchen and Fei Zhiyou were watering their horses by the stream, Jin Wuchen suddenly realized something was wrong.

Those two people riding fast horses, leaving everyone else in the dust, looked somewhat familiar, as if I had seen them somewhere before.

"Where have I seen him before?" Jin Wuchen asked himself.

Fei Zhiyou knew that Jin Wuchen's eyes were extremely sharp; he could retain an impression after just one glance.

Why do you care where we've met before? Haven't you met countless other people? Why bother with two passersby?

Fei Zhiyou tried to help him clarify his thoughts.

"I'm noticing, it must be someone I contacted before, or someone who left a deep impression on me."

After saying this, Jin Wuchen suddenly remembered, "I've seen those two people in Kangjintai. The look in the eyes of the one riding in front is very memorable."

Fei Zhiyou, however, was curious. "To make you remember someone for so long just because of a glance, you're no ordinary person. Don't you think you're a bit too sentimental?"

Fei Zhiyou did not see the person on horseback and assumed it was a woman.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Jin Wuchen disliked his words.

"Besides beauties, you have too many people on your mind. You remember the person who saved you back then, and you've been searching for them for so long. Now you've also remembered that fleeting glimpse you had at Kangjintai."

"But it doesn't matter, the beauty doesn't care, you can remember a few more."

Fei Zhiyou's follow-up remarks were like a stab in the back.

"By the way, when Zhuxi asked if your wife was the woman you loved, you didn't answer. Could it be that you were really hesitant and had developed feelings for your savior?"