"Alright, I'll stop teasing you. Let's get out of here." Meng Xuanji released Hu Liena's chin.
"Get out? But aren't there guards outside? How are we supposed to leave?"
"Easy."
Snap!
Meng Xuanji snapped his fingers, and the shadows behind him immediately swallowed him and Hu Liena. When Hu Liena opened her eyes again, she and Meng Xuanji had somehow returned to the guard station!
"I set an anchor point here at the guard station ahead of time. Coming back is just a matter of a thought. I only agreed to go into the prison to get information out of Qin Xiao. Otherwise, who'd want to go to that godforsaken place?"
"But what if the guards find us? They're bound to find Qin Xiao's body."
"Are they? Not necessarily." A Blue Silver Emperor tendril sprouted from Meng Xuanji's foot and settled lightly in his palm.
"My Martial Soul has a natural advantage when it comes to making bodies disappear. In the end, all they'll know is that the three of us vanished. Whether they can find Qin Xiao is another matter. Heh."
Meng Xuanji slowly walked over to the wooden table in the guard station and saw the coins and shards of porcelain scattered across it.
"Looks like Uncle Wu has already been here."
"If I'm right, he should be on his way to report this to the Spirit Hall Branch now."
"What about us? What do we do now?" Hu Liena stepped forward and asked.
For some reason, ever since Meng Xuanji had been by her side, Hu Liena had rarely used her own head. Little by little, she had begun to depend on him from the bottom of her heart.
Meng Xuanji picked up a shard of porcelain from the table. In the faint light, he saw the