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

Although this place is usually very quiet, it's never like this before, where there isn't even the sound of insects chirping or birds singing.

Upon hearing this, Jing Shu did not stop walking. Instead, he took Jing Ran's hand, gently squeezed Jing Ran's little finger, and led him forward.

Jingran understood immediately and did not resist Jingshu's actions. He was led forward and they turned into a deep alley.

A moment later, a dark figure appeared where the two had just stood. Watching the two turn into the deep alley, the dark figure followed them again.

The dark figure, who had just entered and found it to be a dead end, roared in fury, "Damn it! Where did everyone go?!"

The shadowy figure unleashed its spiritual energy, and the black mist surrounding it vanished, revealing the man's true face.

His appearance was extremely ordinary, but he was very pale and cold. On the left side of his face, there was a very deep scar that almost covered half of his face.

"Sir, are you looking for me?"

Jing Shu suddenly appeared behind the man and placed his hand on the man's shoulder.

A dark red glint flashed in the man's eyes, and he channeled his spiritual energy to strike the head of the person behind him.

Jing Shu was prepared and dodged the attack. He then took out a spirit sword from his storage bag and adopted a defensive posture.

"You are also a cultivator, why are you following me and trying to take my life?"

"Because you deserve to die!"

The man also summoned a spirit sword, instantly releasing his aura.

Late stage of Golden Elixir!

The man gave Jing Shu no further chance to speak, and channeled his spiritual energy to strike Jing Shu on the head.

Surrounded by walls and with the space too small, Jing Shu had no way to dodge and could only take the hit head-on.

"Click——"

A crisp sound rang out, and the spirit sword in Jing Shu's hand shattered. The ensuing surge of spiritual energy and sword energy cleaved Jing Shu in two!

Looking at the gruesome corpse before him and the constantly overflowing blood, the man laughed wildly, looking up at the sky.

"Hahahaha! He's dead! He's dead! Hahahahaha!"

A subtle spiritual energy flowed through the deep alley.

When the man opened his eyes again, he was back to the moment he entered the alley.

A hand with distinct knuckles landed on the man's shoulder once again.

"Sir, are you looking for me?"

Once the man saw blood, his reason was completely overwhelmed, and he once again launched a deadly attack on Jing Shu.

Jing Shu dodged the attack again, and took out his spirit sword to defend himself against the man.

"You are also a cultivator, why are you following me and trying to take my life?"

"Because your name is Jing Shu! You deserve to die!"

The man once again drew his spirit sword and killed Jing Shu with it.

The spiritual energy flows once more...

Jing Shu held Jing Ran's hand and stood on a tall tree beside the alley, coldly watching the man in the illusion array kill "himself" again and again, as if he had gone mad.

"You noticed it a long time ago, didn't you?" Jing Ran held the Yuanbo that Jing Shu handed him in his other hand. The Yuanbo, which should have been snow-white, was stained bright red by the spiritual energy released by the man.

Jingran realized that the person who had been following them since some unknown time was an evil cultivator.

"Hmm." Ever since they left the wonton stall, the man had been concealing his presence with his spiritual energy and following them.

Jing Shu hadn't noticed him at first, but the man released his spiritual energy on his own initiative. The bright red color made it hard for Jing Shu not to notice him.

So he led Jingran, who also sensed something was wrong, into a closed dead end and set up an illusion array there.

The moment the man stepped inside, the formation was activated.

"At first, I only sensed that someone was following us, but I wasn't sure if they were benevolent or malevolent, so I didn't want to alert them and instead set up this illusion array," Jing Shu explained.

"This illusion array will construct the actions that the person entering the array wants to do based on their thoughts, and it will keep looping. It's not a high-level array; as long as the person entering the array lets go of this thought, the array can be broken. But it seems that he still really wants to kill me."

Jing Shu watched as he was repeatedly tortured and killed in various ways within the illusion array, but his eyes remained completely unmoved.

Before he transmigrated, countless people wanted him dead. This person was decisive, killing him without any hesitation. He had already killed him seven times, yet the information he revealed was still too limited.

Hmm...that's difficult...

Jing Shu unconsciously pinched Jing Ran's fingers in his hand. Because of years of holding a sword, Jing Ran's fingertips had a thin layer of calluses and were not very soft, but Jing Shu liked them very much.

Jing Ran had no time to pay attention to Jing Shu's little actions. Looking at the scene in the illusion array, Jing Ran's brows furrowed.

"Stop the illusion array, I'm going to kill him."

As Jing Ran watched the increasingly frenzied way the men in the formation were killing each other, a rare murderous intent arose within her.

Even though she knew it was fake, Jingran was still furious, so furious that she wanted to inflict all of these methods on this man.

"Aran, let's wait a little longer." Jing Shu rejected Jing Ran's suggestion.

"Wait for what?! Wait for him to try every single cruel method of torture on you?!"

Jing Ran was provoked by Jing Shu's nonchalant tone, and her voice unconsciously rose, almost shouting at Jing Shu.

After saying that, Jingran realized what she was doing. She froze for a moment, then slowly took a deep breath.

"I'm sorry, Jingshu. I didn't mean to yell at you, I just..." I didn't want to see this scene again.

Before Jing could finish his sentence, Jing Shu interrupted him.

"Ah Ran." Jing Shu was startled by Jing Ran's words, but after realizing what she meant, his joy was almost overflowing.

"Aran, don't apologize or be angry. There's a reason I didn't stop the illusion array. It's related to what I need to deal with here, and I want to get some other information from him."

"But I'm glad that Aran is angry because of me!" Jing Shu's eyes sparkled, and the corners of his mouth kept turning up, revealing a bright smile.

Master actually cares about him a lot!

Jing Ran gradually calmed down and turned her head slightly as she listened to Jing Shu's words.

"Are you staying here because of any evil cultivators?"

"Okay, we'll explain to Aran later. Let's listen to the information this man has revealed first."

The man conjured a whip with his spiritual energy and lashed it repeatedly at Jing Shu.

"Hahaha! Han Luo! Did you ever imagine that your disciple would fall into my hands! I still remember that sword strike from back then!"

The man touched the scar on his left cheek. If he hadn't been lucky enough to dodge that sword strike, he would have been reduced to ashes long ago! But the sword energy had slashed his face, leaving a permanent, indelible scar in his flesh.