Wuwang Hill

"Long time no see, Marchosius."

Qiu Bai and Zhongli looked at Guoba before them.

"Lulu(*^▽^*)."

Guoba happily ran back to Xiangling's side.

When Qiu Bai and Zhongli returned to Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, it was already evening.

Qiu Bai pushed the door open and entered. Hu Tao was currently sitting on a stool, looking out the window.

The sun slowly descended. Hu Tao walked down from the chair and greeted Qiu Bai.

"Let's go, Qiu Bai, come with me to Wuwang Hill."

"Zhongli, stay and watch the house with the Mortuary Assistant."

After bidding farewell to the two of them, Hu Tao headed straight to Wuwang Hill with Qiu Bai, while Zhongli arranged the affairs within Wangsheng Funeral Parlor.

Hu Tao and the other were on their way to Wuwang Hill.

Walking halfway, Qiu Bai patted Hu Tao's back. Hu Tao turned around in confusion to look at Qiu Bai.

"Director, walking like this is too slow for us. I happen to know a little spell."

Qiu Bai said unhurriedly.

"A little spell?"

"What kind of little spell? Could it be that it can fly us straight to Wuwang Hill?"

Hu Tao looked at Qiu Bai speechlessly. It was already dark.

They had to reach Wuwang Hill before dawn; not a single moment could be wasted.

"Pretty much. Please hold tightly onto me, Director."

Qiu Bai smiled as he looked at Hu Tao beside him.

Although Hu Tao felt some doubt, she still grabbed onto Qiu Bai tightly.

Hu Tao felt the world spin, and when she opened her eyes, she had already arrived at Wuwang Hill, one of the borders between yin and yang.

"You, you, you!"

"You call this a little spell?!"

Hu Tao widened her pretty plum-blossom eyes in shock, looking curiously all around at Qiu Bai.

Good grief, she had to know that Wuwang Hill was a million miles away from Liyue Harbor!

Qiu Bai brought her here in an instant, so how could she not be shocked?

Hu Tao now seriously suspected that the Qiu Bai before her was an adeptus. Clearly he didn't look much older than her, yet why did he give off the feeling of an old antique?

"And why didn't you tell me if you have this kind of spell!"

"You even made me walk such a long way."

Hu Tao grumbled, looking at Qiu Bai before her.

"Hahaha, the Director didn't ask me."

"How would I know whether the Director likes walking or not?"

Qiu Bai looked at the cute Hu Tao before him and couldn't help teasing her.

"Forget it, forget it. With you around in the future, this Director finally won't have to walk back and forth like this."

"Walking like this out of nowhere is going to exhaust me to death."

Holding the ancestral divine weapon Staff of Homa, Hu Tao walked through the mountain forests of Wuwang Hill, with Qiu Bai following closely behind her.

This was the boundary of yin and yang; the sky was gray and gloomy year-round. There was no daytime here, and eerie ghost fires could be seen everywhere.

Hu Tao had been able to see things ordinary people couldn't since she was a child. As the seventy-seventh director of Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, in a few days she would have to come here to guard this boundary of yin and yang.

Qiu Bai scanned his surroundings and spotted some Treasure Hoarders in the distance. A archon's ears naturally heard very clearly what they were saying.

"What kind of ghost place is this? How come we can't get out?"

"Ain't that the truth? We keep going in circles. Even after carving a mark, we still return to the starting point."

Eight or nine Treasure Hoarders were now nearly starved to skin and bones; they had been trapped here for three days and three nights.

"And that elusive little girl-she scared the life out of me."

"Sigh, do you guys think we've run into ghosts?"

A Treasure Hoarder member collapsed onto the ground, speaking to the others with a face full of terror.

Before they entered, a little girl had said there was treasure inside, and then the few of them followed behind her. The little girl before them suddenly vanished.

Ever since then, that little girl would walk past them every day, yet whenever they ran over, there was nothing.

The forest also kept echoing, Uncle, there's treasure over there, there's treasure over there too, scaring them half to death.

"Stop scaring me, I'm faint-hearted."

"I don't want to find any treasure anymore. I want to leave this ghost place quickly."

Qiu Bai in the distance found it amusing to watch the Treasure Hoarders being tricked around by a ghost, and told Hu Tao what he saw.

"Hahaha, you're going to laugh this Director to death."

"But that little girl should be a ghost."

Hu Tao suddenly fell into contemplation. Maintaining the boundary of life and death was an important part of Wangsheng Funeral Parlor's work.

That little girl must have had some unfulfilled wish, unwilling to head toward that "ordinary place."

She had to admit that Qiu Bai's eyesight was truly good. Such a distant place-it would take quite a while just walking over there, right?

As for right now, however, the first order of business was to send these few Treasure Hoarders out.

"Qiu Bai, we have to find a way to send those Treasure Hoarders out."

"Then find the little girl they mentioned and send her back to where she belongs."

Hu Tao and Qiu Bai then walked toward the location of the Treasure Hoarders.

Qiu Bai naturally knew where the place Hu Tao mentioned was.

Not to mention that he had already completed Hu Tao's Story Quest, secondly, as the Adeptus of Yin-Yang and the Two Principles of Liyue, he had already visited Wuwang Hill a millennium ago.

When Hu Tao and Qiu Bai walked near the Treasure Hoarders, Hu Tao brandished the Staff of Homa, intending to drive those Treasure Hoarders away. Qiu Bai stopped Hu Tao.

"Qiu Bai, don't stop me. I'm going to chase them off."

Hu Tao looked at Qiu Bai beside her in confusion, not understanding why he was stopping her.

"The Director doesn't need to go to such trouble."

Qiu Bai said softly, then waved his hand. The group of Treasure Hoarders instantly vanished, and Qiu Bai looked over at Hu Tao.

At this moment, Hu Tao's jaw dropped so wide from Qiu Bai's move that an egg could fit in it.

Good grief, this Qiu Bai had already given her a huge surprise-a wave of the hand and people were just gone? What kind of operation was this?!

"You-where did you send that bunch of Treasure Hoarders?!"

"You didn't get them killed, did you?"

Hu Tao looked at Qiu Bai beside her in shock, thinking to herself, What little spell is this again?

This guy Qiu Bai was truly mysterious, just like that fellow Zhongli.

"Hahaha, how could that be?"

"I sent them out of Wuwang Hill."

Qiu Bai smiled and explained to Hu Tao. It seemed his actions had caused no small amount of psychological trauma to Hu Tao.

Qiu Bai's move shocked Hu Tao for a whole year. Sent-how did you send them?

Just waved his hand and sent them out?

At this moment, the Treasure Hoarders outside looked at each other in blank dismay.

"How did we get out?"

"Never mind that. Now that we're out, hurry up and leave this ghost place. I don't want to stay for even a single second."

Those Treasure Hoarders headed straight for their camp the moment they got out. Having gone three days without food, they now had only eating on their minds.

Inside Wuwang Hill at this moment, Qiu Bai and Hu Tao were searching for the little girl mentioned by the Treasure Hoarders.

Hu Tao searched for traces, walking step by step in that direction.

Qiu Bai followed behind Hu Tao, quietly watching the girl before him. She was also a strong yet pitiful little girl.

Usually so quirky and mischievous, who knew what unknown stories were hidden behind it all?