Seizing the Demoness, the Situation Spirals Out of Control

Dozens of corpses lay before the inn.

Wen Caishang's beautiful eyes were warm, hiding joy and relief. She could easily have broken the formation when the others had surrounded her just now, but then she had thought, Li Xian is clever and cautious. He'll quickly notice something strange here. I'm badly wounded now, and it's inconvenient for me to do many things. I'm weak and unsteady, and I'll need him to look after me along the way. If he's disloyal and harbors ulterior motives, that would be a huge problem.

So she had pretended she couldn't hold out, testing Li Xian's reaction. As expected, he had come to her aid. While entangled with Xi Shanjian, Wen Caishang had felt secretly pleased and deeply touched, with a hint of sweet joy mixed in. She had then struck to break the formation and cut Xi Shanjian down with her sword.

After the dust settled, Li Xian asked, "Madam, have your wounds healed?"

"Don't bring that up." Wen Caishang shook her head and lowered her voice. "Those scoundrels made me circulate my Inner Qi again, throwing my injuries into disarray and making them slightly worse. But dealing with them was still easy."

As they traveled, she had felt things growing increasingly ominous.

Li Xian said gravely, "This is no place to stay. We'd better leave at once!"

Wen Caishang nodded. Just then, a loud shout rang out: "Who dares cause trouble here!"

Dozens of constables came to surround them in layers. Their leader was quite young and tall. He was the local Martial Commandant Lang, Zhang Biao.

Zhang Biao looked calm and composed. Seeing the blood covering the ground, his expression grew somewhat grave. Then he spotted a skeleton lying there, its bones gleaming and smooth, still giving off heat, like an exquisitely