The moment Situ Hao heard the bell, he told Guang Zhen, "It's nearby. This could be a difficult opponent. Let's move together."
Guang Zhen also felt that acting alone today would be unwise, mainly because Qian Ziyan was absent. Their iron triangle felt as though it had lost an arm. He asked worriedly, "What about Miss Ninth?"
Without thinking, Situ Hao replied, "Naturally, we'll send her back to the Thousand Family."
Dongfang Minghui widened her eyes and protested, "Senior Brother, what if someone is trying to lure the tiger away from its mountain? They could draw all of you away, then come after me." To make her argument more convincing, she shook the silent bell at her waist. "Look, my bell hasn't rung at all."
"Well..." Guang Zhen glanced doubtfully at her bell, then at his own. He remembered that outside the Thousand Family's gates last time, Miss Ninth's bell had seemed to ring before theirs. "Brother Situ, I think Miss Ninth could be right."
They remained at an impasse, but the ringing grew louder and louder.
"Junior Sister, come with us."
"I..."
Dongfang Minghui wore an expression of bitter resentment, but it vanished without a trace after just three breaths. She had discovered that the route Situ Hao had chosen led straight to the Mo Family. "Little Lecher, what do you think is going on?"
"Watch and wait." Little Lecher extended a vine tendril. "How strange. Isn't this the road to that pervert Mo's house?"
"Yes."
When Qian Wanyu slipped into the Mo Residence with Ding Ding and Pig Immortal Grass, the Mo Family's guards immediately spotted them, as though they had been lying in wait for them right there.
"Ding Ding, hold them off for now."
"Okay."
Ding Ding enlarged the Longevity Cauldron, making it taller and