Double Agent

Things happened rather suddenly, and Xiao Bai felt uncertain about the future, his heart wavering.

After Zhang Yufeng left, he wanted to ask Mu Yun for her opinion on the Supervising Constable, to see if he could glean any information.

"Why did you step on my foot?"

Mu Yun's small face was stern as she threatened Xiao Bai:

"The Sect Overseer wants to kill you!"

Wants to kill me directly?

Xiao Bai thought about it and felt something was off.

"If the Sect Overseer wanted to kill me, he wouldn't need to invite me to the Dao Supervision Palace to do it himself. Besides, what value is there in killing me? His goal is probably still the Elder. My intuition is that the Sect Overseer doesn't seem like someone troubled by emotions. It appears the Dao Alliance is genuinely concerned about the Elder's research."

Mu Yun's small face froze, surprised that this kid wasn't stupid and hadn't been blinded by his own talent.

"Let's go discuss it with Master."

The key word: we.

By proactively suggesting they discuss it with Yu Hu together, she could enter their small circle of three and learn some of Yu Hu's strategy.

Having watched Yu Hu for ten years, frankly, she was still completely clueless about Yu Hu's plans.

"Alright."

Xiao Bai immediately went with Mu Yun to the Pill Room to discuss the matter with Yu Hu.

Passing through the winding, muddy goat trail, the view suddenly opened up.

In the Pill Room, where the furnace fire flickered, shadows danced on the walls, constantly shifting.

On the rush mat in front of the Pill Furnace, the Demoness in her green robe and cloak had already prepared tea cups, quietly waiting for them.

"I already know about the matter."

Having spent the entire morning learning to plant herbs, Xiao Bai's mouth was dry from talking, and coupled with his anxiety, as soon as he entered the Pill Room, he sat down on the floor and took a sip of the Peach Petal Tea.

"What should I do next?"

Mu Yun, who had entered with him, glanced at the tea but didn't sit down or drink it. She just stood there.

She was afraid it might contain an aphrodisiac...

Regarding the Dao Alliance's invitation, Yu Hu was unusually calm. She asked Xiao Bai:

"Do you want to go?"

"Of course not!"

Xiao Bai replied without hesitation.

"I belong to the Elder in life, and I'll be the Elder's ghost in death. I will never betray the Elder at any time!"

Even false words can be pleasant to hear, but Yu Hu had her own thoughts.

"What if I can guarantee your safety?"

Xiao Bai said:

"Even if the Sect Overseer doesn't want to harm me, he wants to use me to harm you."

Yu Hu smiled gently, like ripples spreading across a calm lake under the moonlight.

"If you can maintain your true intentions, no one can use you to harm me."

But my true intention is to harm you, you idiot!

Seeing that Yu Hu's motives were impure, Xiao Bai started looking for other reasons to refuse.

"I just don't want to work. Who doesn't know that Supervising Constables work nine-to-six every day, and overtime is commonplace, without even overtime pay? I want to stay on Hundred Herbs Peak and grow old slowly with the Elder, planting herbs, refining pills, cultivating, enjoying flowers, fishing..."

Mu Yun found it sickening and directly interrupted Xiao Bai.

"You mostly want to fish, right?"

Xiao Bai rolled his eyes at Mu Yun, his face flushed, and said angrily out of embarrassment:

"I just don't like the job of Supervising Constable!"

Yu Hu took a sip of tea, her tone becoming exceptionally soft.

"The stipend for a Supervising Constable is even higher than mine as an Elder. That's why Ling Zhou went to the Dao Alliance back then."

Xiao Bai was startled.

"Who is Ling Zhou?"

Mu Yun reminded him from the side:

"One Sword Fox's surname. No one knows her specific name, so Master just calls her Ling Zhou."

One Sword Fox, the traitor of Hundred Herbs Peak?

Xiao Bai immediately distanced himself from her:

"How could I be such an ungrateful person!"

Yu Hu took a calm sip of tea and said indifferently,

"She doesn't have the concept of kindness or righteousness in her mind at all, so how can there be any talk of forgetting kindness and betraying righteousness?"

Realizing that Yu Hu wasn't blaming One Sword Fox, Mu Yun immediately chimed in,

"Although Senior Sister killed quite a few people indiscriminately during the Sect-State War because she drank too much, she also single-handedly sped up the peace talks between the two sides, ending the war early. If not for Senior Sister, the Snow Flame Sect and the imperial court would have become dogs of the Dao Alliance, just like other countries... Although they are still dogs now, at least they retain the ability to bite."

Xiao Bai listened thoughtfully, yet felt completely lost, as if he had encountered a similar plot somewhere before.

"I didn't expect you to be a politician..."

Mu Yun tilted her small face and said crossly,

"Idiot, I'm a princess!"

Xiao Bai thought about it and still didn't want to be a Supervising Constable.

"After One Sword Fox caused such a scene, the Dao Supervision Palace clearly won't trust anyone from Hundred Herbs Peak anymore. If I go, I'll be ostracized, and it won't be fun... Only a fool would go."

Yu Hu gently put down her teacup, her clear and shimmering face suddenly turning cold as she stared directly at Xiao Bai.

"My monthly Spirit Stone stipend is all used to buy rare medicinal plants or Spirit Beast medicinal ingredients... Do you think a man doesn't have to do anything after getting married?

"As a man, isn't it only right and proper to earn money and support the family?"

"..."

Xiao Bai was utterly defeated.

He was trembling with anger, his whole body cold with sweat and his hands and feet icy despite being near the warm Pill Furnace.

The cultivation society was filled with oppression against young male cultivators. Could things get any better?

Not only Yu Hu, but Mu Yun was also fanning the flames from the side.

"Do you know how much the Earth Rank Spine Gu Pill Master gave you is worth? You can't just freeload just because you're handsome."

Xiao Bai had nothing to say.

For some reason, he always felt that Yu Hu was trying to pull off a double-agent scheme.

As a senior agent of the Demon Alliance, she clearly wanted to keep track of the Dao Alliance's movements at all times.

And it was difficult for demons to go undetected in the Dao Supervision Palace, so it was necessary to cultivate human informants.

Perhaps One Sword Fox had even joined the Dao Alliance for this reason.

Both sides were playing a grand game of chess!

And he was about to become the new spy among spies, a double agent for both the Dao Alliance and the Demon Alliance!

Codename: Transmigrator.

Thinking about it this way, it felt quite exciting.

These past few days, Xiao Bai had also seen the amount of medicinal ingredients consumed by the Elder when refining pills in the Pill Room...

As the Pill Elder of the Snow Flame Sect, the Elder's monthly stipend of one hundred Spirit Stones was indeed not quite enough.

And the Dao Alliance invitation letter given by Zhang Yufeng clearly stipulated that the stipend for a Class C Supervising Constable was one hundred and twenty Spirit Stones per month.

The Class C Special Stipend given to Xiao Bai reached one hundred and fifty Spirit Stones per month.

One Spirit Stone was worth one hundred taels of gold, or ten thousand taels of silver!

In Chaoge City, Xiao Bai had used his 21st-century knowledge to game the system for two years, and he had only earned five hundred taels of gold, which was equivalent to five Spirit Stones.

Currently, Spirit Stones were useless to Xiao Bai.

But if he handed these Spirit Stones over to his wife, and she used them to buy medicinal ingredients and refine them into Pills and Elixirs to nourish him in return, it could indeed speed up his cultivation progress.

Beside him, Mu Yun also seemed happy to see Xiao Bai become a Dao Alliance Supervising Constable and continued,

"It's necessary to give you a heads-up. I investigated Zhao Hanwu a few days ago and found that the mastermind is likely related to the Dao Alliance. I just didn't tell you because I was worried about affecting your Sect Tour Ceremony—if you can work in the Dao Supervision Palace, it will be easier to find the culprit who wants to kill you."

"I don't have that kind of courage."

Xiao Bai said this, but inwardly, he was furious and wanted to kill Qi Shan as soon as possible.

Thinking carefully, once he entered the Dao Alliance, his outward stance would be consistent with the Modifier, completely on the side of the righteous path. This way, he could justifiably subdue demons and monsters, thwart his wives' schemes under the guise of "not knowing," and wouldn't be blamed.

What's more, once he became a Supervising Constable, he would definitely come into contact with all sorts of powerful and evil women...

Xiao Bai had seen plenty of similar police and gangster films in his previous life.

In this way, he would essentially be a mole lurking in the Dao Alliance, fighting for his own strength.

With a clink, Xiao Bai put down his teacup.

"I will go find Zhang Yufeng tomorrow."