Above Heavenly Rank

Peach petals drifted in the mist, landing on the water and adorning the beauties' hair.

Some also landed on Xiao Bai's nose.

It itched... but he had to endure.

Only when he couldn't bear it anymore did he mutter groggily and impatiently reach out to brush it away.

He was concentrating intensely, listening to the encrypted divine sense communication between the Demoness and the other Demoness.

Xiao Bai's Remote Sensing ability wasn't limited to sight and sound; it also included divine sense.

On the surface, it seemed like the two were just drinking tea, admiring flowers, gently caressing each other's hands, and bathing their bodies.

In reality, they were doing something extremely wicked right in front of Xiao Bai.

Mu Yun:

"After the Sect Tour Ceremony, I predict the Dao Alliance will secretly send experts to monitor Xiao Bai... Is the Demon Alliance's plan still going ahead as scheduled?"

Yu Hu:

"Of course."

Mu Yun:

"With the added variable of Xiao Bai, aren't you afraid of the risk?"

Yu Hu:

"If the outcome of the battle can be swayed by a Qi Refining cultivator, then it is a destined calamity. Who can stop it?"

Xiao Bai had been focused on the Sect Tour Ceremony these past few days and had almost forgotten about the Demon Alliance's impending invasion of the Snow Flame Sect.

He was actually quite looking forward to this.

As long as he thwarted the Female Lead's wicked scheme, he would be able to randomly draw from the Heavenly Dao Grand Gift Bag.

"Thwarting" didn't necessarily mean he had to defeat the villains' scheme single-handedly.

As long as his influence ultimately led to the villains' defeat, he could get a draw.

In other words, he didn't need to personally stop the Demon Alliance army. As long as he tipped off the Sect Master in advance, improved the defenses, and requested reinforcements from the Dao Alliance... as long as the Demon Alliance was ultimately defeated because of this, he could get a draw!

This was just a random idea he came up with.

You could do whatever you wanted, as long as it directly or indirectly led to the villains' defeat.

Of course, Xiao Bai didn't know what kind of grand gift bag he would get specifically, since he had never drawn before.

When he wrote the Modifier, the so-called Heavenly Dao Grand Gift Bag was actually just exploiting game glitches.

If compared to the Cultivation World's Heavenly, Mysterious, Earthly, and Yellow ranks, the items drawn would definitely be...

Above Heavenly Rank!

Just thinking about it made Xiao Bai excited.

At this moment, facing the Demoness's probing, Yu Hu easily deflected with a casual Tai Chi move and countered Mu Yun:

"In the past ten days, you seem to have rarely gone to Chaoge City to kill Dao Alliance officials. If you don't gather medicine, you'll soon be unable to suppress your demonic energy... Is it because of him that you've restrained your killing intent?"

Yu Hu glanced sideways at Xiao Bai.

This scared Xiao Bai so much he didn't dare to move, while also maintaining a steady breathing rate and stable Spiritual Pressure.

Remote Sensing in person was just too difficult...

Mu Yun:

"I only ever kill corrupt officials and wicked officials. Where are there so many lone corrupt officials in the Dao Supervision Palace for me to kill? I did want to kill Qi Shan, but the Dao Supervision Envoy old man is too strong, so I'll let him live a little longer."

Xiao Bai was dumbfounded.

The Demoness was assassinating corrupt and wicked Dao Alliance officials, eliminating pests for the Dao Alliance...

Truly an Unforeseen Path.

If Mu Yun was killing corrupt officials, and he "accidentally" created a coincidence to stop her, would he be able to draw from the Heavenly Dao Grand Gift Bag?

This was much easier than repelling the Demon Alliance.

Xiao Bai's imagination ran wild.

Mu Yun continued:

"Besides, I just killed two Dao Alliance spies who were lurking in our sect. Both had Foundation Establishment cultivation, and their blood is enough to sustain me for a while."

Yu Hu:

"It seems our sect has more Dao Alliance spies than Demon Alliance spies."

Mu Yun:

"From their words, I learned that the person planning to assassinate Xiao Bai is precisely Qi Shan—the Dao Alliance originally wanted you to form a pair with Qi Shan to monitor you, but Xiao Bai ended up benefiting instead, so it's quite reasonable for them to want to kill Xiao Bai."

Yu Hu:

"Perhaps, I was the one who benefited."

Qi Shan...

Xiao Bai was shocked.

He had thought the Sect Supervisor wanting to kill him was just him being overly suspicious, but he never expected that the Dao Alliance actually wanted him dead!

The Dao Alliance, as the leader of the righteous path and the architect of the Heavenly Origin order, would stoop to any means and had no bottom line for achieving its goals.

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

Xiao Bai made up his mind: Qi Shan must die!

Yu Hu:

"I never thought that the rumors about me researching Demon-Monster Fusion would spread for so long, even causing the Dao Alliance to go to such lengths to investigate me... Who on earth started such an obviously impossible rumor?"

Mu Yun:

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

Yu Hu:

"Judging by how you specifically target Dao Alliance officials, it seems you want to stir up conflict between the Dao Alliance and the sects or the court... Is this the current strategy of the Demon Race?"

"That's just personal vendetta."

Mu Yun shook her head, then explained:

"My mother died in the Sect-State War. I was born prematurely from her corpse and barely saved by a Forbidden Technique, becoming a Demoness. As long as I live, I will never forget the instigator of this war... the Dao Alliance."

Xiao Bai listened, sighing with emotion.

He felt that Mu Yun's background was quite tragic, and her descent into the demonic path wasn't her own choice.

He immediately decided that when he eventually had to deliver a righteous iron fist to Mu Yun in the future, he would be very gentle.

Mu Yun:

"As for the Demon Race's strategy—although the Demon Race were originally humans, everyone's ideas about the future are severely divided, and the internal structure is not monolithic. Instead, the myriad races that became demons were the first to form the Demon Alliance."

Xiao Bai, being from 21st-century Earth, understood this perfectly.

The necessary condition for forming an alliance is having a shared goal, not being from the same race.

Yu Hu said the same thing:

"Because the Demon Race's idea is simple: just take back what they lost. If they can turn around and enslave humanity, that's even better... What is the Demon Race thinking?"

Mu Yun:

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

Yu Hu:

"What about you?"

Mu Yun:

"Just keeping an eye on you is enough."

Xiao Bai breathed a slight sigh of relief.

It seemed Mu Yun wasn't a Demoness with grand ambitions; she wasn't that bad.

Her main goal was to carry out her superior's orders, kill corrupt Dao Alliance officials, stir up conflict between the Dao Alliance and the Snow Flame Sect and the court, and incidentally keep an eye on Yu Hu.

On the other hand, Yu Hu, who was the focus of countless gazes and had an inherent yandere-like quality, always gave him the feeling that she was deeply hidden and had vast ambitions.

He was scared.

Chaoge City.

Dao Supervision Palace.

Every ray of the Cambrian Kingdom's setting sun that fell upon the dark tower body of the Dao Supervision Palace was as brilliant as fresh blood.

The second-highest floor of the Tower Palace.

A flat level near a window.

In front of a purple jade desk over ten feet long, Qi Shan, dressed in a black sword-cloud robe, was slicing and eating a Wife Cake he held.

A short, dark-faced Dao Alliance Supervisor walked in respectfully.

"How did the Sect Tour Ceremony feel? Is the Lord's assassination plan still on?"

Qi Shan glanced at the short Supervisor, and used the short knife he was using to slice the Wife Cake to scrape his fine, downy beard.

"Don't talk nonsense. I never planned any assassination. It's the people below who don't listen."

This scared the short Supervisor into not mentioning the matter again.

"Lord... what should we do next?"

Qi Shan thought for a moment, carefully chewing the Wife Cake he had cut into strips, feeling a constant unease in his heart.

"Be both firm and lenient with Xiao Bai. Issue a One-Star Dao Alliance Order, then offer him a high salary and position, inviting him to the Dao Supervision Palace to serve as a Supervising Constable. Then, under the guise of an entry physical, thoroughly examine him... If there are no issues, a genius like this must also be brainwashed and trained to be an internal agent for the Dao Alliance, lurking by Yu Hu's side."

"Sir… what do we do next?"

Qi Shan thought for a moment, carefully chewing the wife cake cut into strips, a knot in his stomach.

"We must use both carrots and sticks with Xiao Bai. Issue a One-Star Dao Alliance Order, then offer him a high salary to invite him to the Dao Supervision Palace to serve as a Supervising Constable. Then, under the guise of an entry physical, thoroughly examine him… If there are no issues, such a genius must still be brainwashed and trained to be an informant for the Dao Alliance, lurking by Yu Hu's side."

Dao Alliance Orders are absolute commands that member states and sects of the Dao Alliance must obey. They are divided into three levels: One-Star, Two-Star, and Three-Star.

The higher the level of the Dao Alliance Order, the faster the recipient must comply.

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

However, Master Chun Xiao exchanged One Sword Fox to protect Lin Xizi, allowing him to remain in seclusion at the Snow Flame Sect for treatment.

"What if Xiao Bai has issues?"

The short supervisor asked cautiously.

Qi Shan grinned, the smile mixed with the chewing muscles working on the cut cake creating a chilling expression.

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