Master, don't tease me, you can't handle three of them.

Jing Shu took a pill from his storage ring and returned to his original state. "This is a long story. Where are you? I'll come find you now."

After Shi Chuan told Jing Shu the location of the inn, Jing Shu arrived shortly afterward.

However, before Shi Chuan could ask any questions, Jing Shu suddenly brought up the rabbit on the table.

Gu Meng, who was standing nearby, was startled. "Senior brother? What are you doing?"

Jing Shu looked at the bright red spiritual energy fluctuations inside the rabbit's body and directly released his spiritual energy to probe inside. The spiritual energy, which had been calm, suddenly became agitated and even clung to Jing Shu's spiritual energy, like a scarlet maw that quickly devoured Jing Shu's spiritual energy.

Jing Shu acted decisively, throwing the rabbit away to cut off the spiritual energy detection.

The rabbit hopped onto the table, and the red spiritual energy subsided again.

"Senior Brother, when you found this rabbit, did you notice anything strange?" Jing Shu asked.

"No, I found it when I was playing in the flower field with Meng'er. Is there something strange about this rabbit?" Gu Meng caught the rabbit, and Shi Chuan always thought it was an ordinary rabbit. Seeing Jing Shu's reaction, he knew something was wrong and protected Gu Meng behind him.

"This rabbit has a spiritual energy within it, and it can devour my spiritual energy. Senior Brother, don't use your spiritual energy to probe it," Jing Shu emphasized.

"Is it a bad rabbit?" Gu Meng wondered, seeing her two senior brothers' wariness of the rabbit. She still liked the rabbit very much.

“Yes, it’s still a dead rabbit.” Jing Shu saw through Gu Meng’s little scheme and said mercilessly. “It died a long time ago, so we can’t keep it.”

Gu Meng was startled, "Dead?!"

"Yes. It can only move now because of the spiritual energy within its body." Although some of its spiritual energy had been absorbed, Jing Shu could still sense that there was no life left in the rabbit's body.

"Junior brother, how did you know there was something wrong with this rabbit?" Shi Chuan asked in confusion. Even he hadn't noticed anything amiss with the rabbit, so how did his junior brother spot it at a glance?

"Intuition," Jing Shu brushed it off. "Senior Brother, I've thought of a way. Can you help me?"

"Sure," Shi Chuan readily agreed.

Hearing Shi Chuan agree so readily, Jing Shu was skeptical.

Seeing Jing Shu's puzzled expression, Shi Chuan explained, "The difficulty of your mission this time is beyond your capabilities. My master has asked me to protect your safety."

Jing Shu didn't react immediately. Huh? Wasn't this something his master had specifically chosen for him? He thought his master already knew...

Jing Shu rubbed his temples. Oh well, he realized he hadn't asked clearly enough.

"What about me? What about me!" Gu Meng raised her hands to get their attention.

“Meng’er also has an important task,” Jing Shu said with a smile.

"What is it!" Meng'er exclaimed excitedly.

Jing Shu picked up Meng'er and gave her his standard smile. "Of course, go to sleep! If you don't go to sleep, you won't grow tall."

"Ah~ No~"

late at night.

A dark figure stealthily slipped into the inn and approached the cage containing the rabbits. Just as its hand was about to touch them, the magic circle on the cage was activated, filling the entire room with blinding light. The figure was so startled by the sudden light that it stumbled back several steps, unable to open its eyes.

After the bright light passed, the candles in the room were lit.

Jing Shu slowly walked out, and was not surprised when he saw who it was. "We meet again, Yu Miao'er."

Yu Miao'er snorted coldly, her eyes, now recovered, clearly seeing the person before her. He was just a boy, but that familiar voice…

"It's you?" She guessed that the person must have changed his appearance, but she didn't expect that he would be a child.

Jing Shu frowned slightly.

Yu Miao'er had no intention of fighting here. Taking advantage of Jing Shu's inattention, she picked up the rabbit and escaped through the window.

"Aren't you going to chase after them?" Shi Chuan suddenly appeared and asked.

"Chase it." Jing Shu had already tampered with the rabbit, so he wasn't afraid of losing it.

Yu Miao'er, who had escaped, dared not relax for a moment, as she could sense that there had been more than just the two of them in the room.

But it'll be soon, very soon. Just a little more time, and Xue'er will be back!

In just a few breaths, Yu Miao'er arrived at a house outside the city, where a huge magic circle lit up in the courtyard. Seven clumps of blood were floating around the edge of the magic circle.

Yu Miao'er's hands trembled slightly as she held the rabbit; only one last step remained... Yu Miao'er's eyes slowly turned into vertical pupils, and the tail behind her appeared and disappeared.

"It seems the government of Sanhe Town is really incompetent; seven people have clearly died."

Jing Shu's voice suddenly rang out, and Yu Miao'er looked up abruptly.

Shi Chuan and the other person sat on the roof, watching the bizarre scene before them without any reaction.

"So it was a fox demon," Shi Chuan said calmly.

Jing Shu rested his chin on his hand. "Tell me, what were you trying to do after killing so many people?"

Yu Miao'er wanted to walk to the center of the magic circle, but the pressure released by Shi Chuan prevented her from taking a single step.

"They deserve to die! They clearly have families, yet they're fickle and insist on putting on a good reputation!" Yu Miao'er's voice gradually became sharp. "Especially that Ren Qiu! He's already married, yet he still pretends to be, seducing my newly transformed sister. After his parents found out, he even poisoned my sister with a cup of wine! He deserves to die!"

"So, you created this thing to revive your sister, the rabbit in your hands?" Jing Shu pointed to the magic circle on the ground and asked.

"Yes, I've already killed them anyway. Do whatever you want with them." Yu Miao'er knew she couldn't escape. "But please, I beg you, let me revive Xue'er. She's innocent."

Yu Miao'er knelt down with a thud, sobbing softly. She was at her wit's end; she couldn't beat that person. No matter what, she just wanted her sister to come back to life.

"Then tell me, if you're not an evil cultivator, who taught you the method of extracting human essence and this magic array?" Jing Shu had seen it at the inn; her spiritual power was white, and there was someone behind Yu Miao'er.

"I...I don't know." Yu Miao'er was suddenly stumped by the question. She couldn't remember. It seemed like someone had preserved Xue'er's body and taught her this method. But who was that person? This part of her memory seemed to have been erased; she couldn't remember it at all.

When Jing Shu saw her expression, he knew he wouldn't get anything out of her.

"You've been fooled. This isn't a resurrection array at all. Although it's been modified strangely, it's still essentially a teleportation array. The rabbit in your arms isn't a living creature either; it's more like a trigger for this array."

"Impossible! You're lying to me!" Yu Miao'er rushed towards the magic circle with the rabbit in her arms, as if she had gone mad.

This time, Shi Chuan did not stop him.

"Ding--"

The magic circle was activated the instant Yu Miao'er ran into it.

In Jing Shu's eyes, the spiritual energy within the rabbit's body was extracted and merged into the magic array. In that instant, the rabbit's body turned into a dried corpse, and with it, the essence and blood of the seven people vanished.

"No! Xue'er! No!" Yu Miao'er broke down.

But the magic array didn't stop; it was absorbing Yu Miao'er!

Jing Shu frowned. What a sinister magic array.

"Hahaha, he lied to me! He lied to me!" Yu Miao'er suddenly realized that there was no way there could be a magic array that could bring the dead back to life!

A resolute glint flashed in Yu Miao'er's eyes. "Since that's the case, you can forget about getting my demonic power!"

Just when Jing Shu and Shi Chuan thought the matter was over, Yu Miao'er suddenly peeled off her demon core and threw it at Jing Shu. Before Jing Shu could react, the demon core, according to its master's will, merged into his body. Shi Chuan only managed to catch the unconscious Jing Shu.

Without the demonic power, the formation stopped.

It's too good for him... Without the demon core, Yu Miao'er is also gradually heading towards death.

As the first rays of sunlight touched the earth, Yu Miao'er seemed to see that white figure again in a daze.

"Sister, let's go home."

Okay, let's go home...