No Way to Clear It?

The pharmacy owner continued slowly, "This place was set up by several Body Integration Realm cultivators, who established the rules. The formation has a gate of life and a gate of death, and the Heavenly Dao has left a glimmer of hope. Therefore, the rules set up here must have a way out."

"But the cultivators at the Body Integration Realm were unwilling to actually let anyone leave, so they set up this ambiguous rule."

"It aligns with both interests and adheres to the principle of leaving room for maneuver, as is the Heavenly Dao."

Lu Yang suppressed the urge to curse and continued writing, "Then how do we kill the town mayor?"

The pharmacy owner said, "He can't be killed. The mayor is immortal. How do you plan to kill him?"

Meng Jingzhou clenched his fists, inwardly cursing the group of Nascent Body Integration Realm who set up the rules.

It would be better not to set up Rule 21 at all; what's the difference between setting it up and not setting it up at all?!

Lu Yang's expression wasn't good either, but he remained relatively calm. Knowing that swearing wouldn't solve the problem, he continued writing: Where is the mayor?

The pharmacy owner chuckled, "Do you really intend to kill the mayor? Unfortunately, I don't know the mayor's location, but you can ask the officials, since they are the closest to the mayor. As for whether they will tell you or not, that's none of my business."

Before leaving, the pharmacy owner called out again, "Since you really want to leave, let me remind you, the mayor knows everything that happens in town; that's his power. Be careful."

Meng Jingzhou was about to politely say thank you, but then remembered that he shouldn't talk to the pharmacy owner, so he could only nod to indicate that he understood.

Lu Yang remained unmoved throughout.

"Do you think the pharmacy owner is telling the truth?" Meng Jingzhou asked quietly.

Lu Yang didn't answer. After walking some distance from the pharmacy, he sneered, "Due to the rules, what he said is naturally the truth, but it doesn't necessarily mean he's on our side."

Do you know what the biggest difference is between him and the innkeeper?

"What?"

"The pharmacy owner tried every possible way to get us to speak."

Meng Jingzhou was startled and realized that when communicating with the innkeeper, both sides used written language, but when communicating with the pharmacy owner, it was always the innkeeper who wrote and the pharmacy owner who spoke.

When one person speaks, the other person might respond with their voice if they're not paying attention.

"That old fox," Meng Jingzhou muttered under his breath, then realized something was amiss. "If he wanted to harm us, why did he remind us that the town mayor knew everything that happened in the town?"

Without hesitation, Lu Yang said, "Seeing that we were trying every possible way to leave this place and couldn't stop us, he gave us another important piece of information: to let us know that the town mayor is unbeatable."

"This will likely lead to two outcomes: either they give up and leave, or they fall into disarray and collapse without a fight."

Meng Jingzhou clicked his tongue, feeling increasingly troubled. "The biggest problem now is that the mayor knows what happened to us. Even if we figure out a way to leave, the mayor can stop us!"

How can one secretly escape right under the mayor's nose?

Lu Yang pondered for a moment, then suddenly a flash of inspiration struck him, and he came up with a solution.

He took out a pen and paper and wrote on the paper: Let's communicate in writing; maybe that will reduce the mayor's attention to us.

Meng Jingzhou nodded.

Lu Yang continued writing: Do you remember the jade pendants the sect gave us? Each jade pendant is a symbol of status. Once a jade pendant breaks, the sect will send someone to check the situation. The jade pendants are too hard for us to crush, but we can throw them into the exit. The strong wind at the exit will break the jade pendants.

Meng Jingzhou's eyes lit up. He did some mental calculations and realized that this was indeed a good idea.

Meng Jingzhou also wrote: So how should we deal with the town mayor?

Lu Yang wrote: To figure out the town mayor's methods, start with the yamen runners.

The two scribbled and drew a detailed plan on a piece of paper, then burned the paper to ashes, pretending nothing had happened.

As Lu Yang walked, he arrived near the private school. As always, there was the sound of reading aloud. However, according to the Immortal Fairy, it was actually the sound of dogs barking, but under the influence of the rules, it was transformed into the sound of reading aloud.

If someone can't contain their curiosity and tries to enter the private school, the sound of reading will turn into the barking of dogs, and something bad will happen.

The private tutor came to Lu Yang and continued to persuade Lu Yang to enter the private school, but Lu Yang lowered his head and ignored him.

The private tutor spoke eloquently and fluently, "My friend, we meet again. You came alone, which means you've fallen out with your companion. This shows that you still believe what I say deep down. Don't believe the rules; nine out of ten rules are true, and one is false. You can't tell the difference..."

Just as the private tutor was about to launch a surprise attack on Lu Yang, he bent down abruptly to meet Lu Yang's gaze, only to suddenly find everything going black, not knowing what had happened.

The private tutor focused all his attention on Lu Yang, while Meng Jingzhou secretly went around to the back and put a sack over him.

The two were itching for a fight. They had been terrified by the private tutor last time, but this time they weren't afraid of his gaze and were determined to get revenge!

The Demonic Cult is full of passionate individuals who are always ready to seek revenge, a trait exemplified by Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou.

"Beat!"

The two men punched and kicked, showing no mercy to the private tutor.

The private tutor had never encountered anything like this before, and cried out repeatedly, "Stop hitting me! Stop hitting me!"

[Article 9: The person wearing the gray robe is the private tutor. If you encounter a private tutor, you should pretend not to hear whatever he says.]

Both of them were soft-hearted and would stop hitting the other if the other begged for mercy. Unfortunately, due to the rules, the private tutor had to pretend not to hear anything the tutor said.

There was no other way but to keep playing.

Finally, the two breathed a sigh of relief, feeling much better after the fight. Before leaving, Meng Jingzhou spat out a mouthful of phlegm. "Pah, scumbag, don't let me ever run into you again."

The two returned to the inn arm in arm. The private tutor broke free of the sack and watched their retreating figures with a fierce look in his eyes.

"Don't let me run into you again!"

On the fourth day at 9:00 AM, the two arrived at the restaurant downstairs, which was the only place in the whole town that served meat buns.

[Article 11: All food in the town is provided free of charge and you may take it yourself, but meat buns are not allowed.]

Considering the meat buns were free, and they could take them with them even if they couldn't eat them, the two of them packed up all the meat buns and took them with them, using the same burlap sack that had been used to smother the private tutor yesterday.

When the constables in black arrived at the restaurant as usual, they found that there were no meat buns left.

"Who did this?!" the constables roared.

According to the [Rules of the Buyi Town Yamen], they are only allowed to eat meat buns every day. Now that the meat buns are gone, what will they eat?!

"Boss, look at those two, aren't they carrying our meat buns?" A constable with a keen sense of smell caught a whiff of it.

When Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou saw the constables looking at them, they knew they had been exposed and hurriedly fled.

What was initially just a suspicion has now become certainty. "It's definitely them, go after them!"

The residents of Buyi Town noticed that the usually quiet town was unusually noisy today.

"You two bastards, stop right there!"

Lu Yang replied as he ran, "No, rule number twelve says [if you encounter government officials, run away immediately]. I'm just following the rules, don't make things difficult for the two of us."

The head constable flew into a rage. "The rules didn't say you could take the meat buns!"

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou moved with incredible speed, and the constables couldn't catch up with them at all.