Above Heavenly Rank

Peach petals drifted through the mist, falling onto the water and adorning the beauty's hair.

One also landed on Xiao Bai's nose.

It was itchy... but he had to endure it.

Only when he could endure no longer did he drowsily mutter something, then impatiently reach out and brush it away.

All while concentrating on the encrypted divine-sense conversation between the demoness and the Demoness.

Xiao Bai's Remote Sensing function encompassed more than sight and hearing; it included divine sense as well.

On the surface, the two seemed merely to be drinking tea, admiring flowers, their delicate hands gently caressing as they bathed their bare bodies.

In truth, right before Xiao Bai's eyes, they were doing something exceedingly wicked.

Mu Yun:

"After the Sect Tour Ceremony, I suspect the Dao Alliance will certainly send experts to monitor Xiao Bai in secret... Will Demon Alliance's Plan proceed as usual?"

Master Yuhu:

"Of course."

Mu Yun:

"With an extra variable like Xiao Bai, aren't you afraid of risks?"

Master Yuhu:

"If someone at Qi Refining could sway the course of battle, then it would be a calamity fated by heaven. Who could stop it?"

These past few days, Xiao Bai had been so preoccupied with the Sect Tour Ceremony that he had nearly forgotten the Demon Alliance was about to invade the Snow Flame Sect.

He was actually rather looking forward to it.

As long as he thwarted the Female Lead's wicked undertaking, he could draw a Heavenly Dao Grand Gift Bag at random.

Thwarting it did not mean he had to defeat the villain's enterprise all by himself.

As long as his influence ultimately led to the villain's defeat, he would be able to draw a reward.

In other words, he did not need to personally stop the Demon Alliance army. He only needed to warn the Sect Leader in advance, strengthen the defenses, request reinforcements from the Dao Alliance... As long as the Demon Alliance ultimately lost because of it, he could draw a reward!

That was merely one idea he had casually come up with.

No matter what he did, as long as it could directly or indirectly cause the villain's defeat, it would work.

Of course, Xiao Bai had no idea what sort of Grand Gift Bag he might draw, since he had never drawn one before.

When he had written the Modifier, the so-called Heavenly Dao Grand Gift Bag had really just been about exploiting loopholes in the game to stir up trouble.

If it were compared to the ranks of heaven, mystic, earth, and yellow in the Cultivation World, then whatever he drew would surely be...

Above Heavenly Rank!

Just thinking about it made Xiao Bai excited.

At that moment, faced with the Demoness's probing, Master Yuhu casually muddled through it with a bit of tai chi, then asked Mu Yun in return:

"Over the past ten days, you seem to have gone to Chaoge City far less often to kill Dao Alliance officials. If you do not gather medicine, you will soon be unable to suppress your devilish qi... Is it because of him that you have restrained your killing intent?"

Master Yuhu cast Xiao Bai a sidelong glance.

It frightened Xiao Bai so badly that he did not dare move at all. At the same time, he had to keep his breathing even and his spiritual pressure steady.

Using Remote Sensing face-to-face was truly too difficult...

Mu Yun:

"I only kill corrupt officials and evil officials. How could the Dao Supervision Palace have so many lone corrupt officials for me to kill? I did want to kill Qi Shan, but that old Dao Supervision Envoy is too powerful. I'll let him live a few more days first."

Xiao Bai was left utterly bewildered.

A Demoness was assassinating corrupt and evil Dao Alliance officials, eliminating scourges for the Dao Alliance...

What an Unforeseen Path.

If Mu Yun was killing corrupt officials and he engineered a coincidence to "accidentally" stop her, could he draw a Heavenly Dao Grand Gift Bag?

That would be much easier than repelling the Demon Alliance.

Xiao Bai's imagination ran wild.

Mu Yun continued:

"Besides, I just killed two Dao Alliance Spies lurking within our sect. Both had Foundation Establishment cultivation. Their blood is enough to sustain me for a while."

Master Yuhu:

"It seems there are even more Dao Alliance Spies in our sect than Demon Alliance Spies."

Mu Yun:

"Only from what they said did I learn that Qi Shan was the one planning to assassinate Xiao Bai—the Dao Alliance originally intended for you and Qi Shan to become cultivation partners so they could monitor you. Then Xiao Bai got the advantage instead. It is perfectly reasonable that they want to kill Xiao Bai."

Master Yuhu:

"Perhaps I am the one who got the advantage."

Qi Shan...

Xiao Bai was stunned.

He had thought the Supervisor wanting to kill him was merely judging a gentleman's heart with a petty man's mind. Who would have thought the Dao Alliance truly wanted him dead!

As the leader of the righteous factions, the Dao Alliance that had single-handedly built the Tianyuan order would actually stop at nothing to achieve its aims, with no bottom line whatsoever.

And Senior Brother Li had indirectly died at the hands of Supervisor Qi Shan...

Xiao Bai made up his mind: Qi Shan had to die!

Master Yuhu:

"I never expected the rumors about my research into Demon-Monster Fusion to spread by word of mouth for so long, even making the Dao Alliance go to such lengths to investigate me... Who exactly spread something so obviously impossible?"

Mu Yun:

"Don't look at me... It definitely wasn't me."

Master Yuhu:

"From the way you specifically kill Dao Alliance officials, it seems you want to provoke conflict between the Dao Alliance and the sects or imperial court... Is this the Devil Race's current course?"

"This is merely a personal vendetta."

Mu Yun shook her head, then explained:

"My mother consort died in the Sect-State War. I was prematurely born from her corpse and barely saved through a forbidden art, becoming a Demoness. So long as I live, I will never forget the instigator of that war... the Dao Alliance."

Xiao Bai could not help sighing at what he heard.

Mu Yun's background seemed quite tragic. Falling into the demonic path had not been her own choice either.

He immediately decided that when the time came to deliver justice's iron fist upon Mu Yun, he would certainly be very gentle.

Mu Yun:

"As for the Devil Race's course—although the original forms of the Devil Race were all human, everyone's visions for the future are deeply divided. We are not a monolithic block. Instead, the myriad races that became demons were the first to form the Demon Alliance."

Xiao Bai, who came from twenty-first-century Earth, understood this point all too well.

The necessary condition for an alliance was that everyone always shared the same goal, not that they came from the same race.

Master Yuhu said the same:

"Because the Demon Race's thinking is simple: they only need to reclaim what they lost. If they can enslave humanity in turn, even better... What does the Devil Race want?"

Mu Yun:

"Some want to exterminate humanity, some want to transcend and become immortals, and some merely want to live."

Master Yuhu:

"And you?"

Mu Yun:

"It is enough for me to keep my eyes on you."

Xiao Bai relaxed slightly.

It seemed Mu Yun was not some ambitious demoness with towering aspirations. She was not that bad.

Her main purpose was to carry out her superior's tasks, kill a few corrupt Dao Alliance officials, provoke conflict between the Dao Alliance, Snow Flame Sect, and the imperial court, and incidentally keep watch on Master Yuhu.

On the contrary, Master Yuhu, who drew countless gazes and came with an innate obsessive-love disposition, always gave him the feeling that she hid herself deeply and plotted something immense.

So scary.

Chaoge City.

Dao Supervision Palace.

Every streak of the setting sun over the Cambrian Kingdom fell upon the dark, blue-black tower of the Dao Supervision Palace, brilliant as blood.

The second-highest floor of the Tower Palace.

A level floor by a window.

Before a purple-jade desk more than a zhang long, Qi Shan wore a black robe embroidered with sword-cloud patterns and sliced the wife cake in his hand as he ate.

A short Dao Alliance inspector with a dark face entered respectfully.

"How did the Sect Tour Ceremony feel? Will your assassination plan continue, sir?"

Qi Shan glanced at the short inspector and used the small knife that had cut the wife cake to scrape his fine-velvet beard.

"Do not spout nonsense. I have never planned any assassination. It is merely that those below refuse to obey."

The short inspector was so frightened that he did not dare mention the matter again.

"My lord... what should we do next?"

Qi Shan thought for a moment, seriously chewing the wife cake sliced into vermicelli-like strips, the taste in his heart never quite right.

"Use both favor and authority on Xiao Bai. Issue a One-Star Dao Alliance Order, then offer him generous pay and invite him to serve as a supervising constable in the Dao Supervision Palace. Under the pretext of an employment examination, inspect him thoroughly... If there is no problem, then a genius like this must still be brainwashed and cultivated into a Dao Alliance insider, planted at Master Yuhu's side."

A Dao Alliance Order was an iron command that member states and sects of the Dao Alliance had to obey. It was divided into three grades: one-star, two-star, and three-star.

The higher the grade of the Dao Alliance Order, the more swiftly its recipient had to obey.

The short inspector recalled that when the Dao Alliance had captured Lin Xizi, the Myriad Laws Elder of the Snow Flame Sect, they had directly issued a Two-Star Dao Alliance Order.

However, Chun Xiaozi had exchanged One Sword Fox for her, thus preserving Lin Xizi and allowing him to remain in the Snow Flame Sect to undergo secluded healing.

"What if... Xiao Bai has a problem?"

The short inspector asked cautiously.

Qi Shan grinned. His smile mingled with the chewing muscles biting through the sliced cake, forming a chilling expression.

"Then we shall use him as evidence and order the arrest of Master Yuhu!"