Suspicion

"Brother Bai, you and Escort Chief Meng should rest first. I'll keep a careful watch on our surroundings!"

Channeling her Origin Power, Lu Mingyue blasted a deep pit in the ground and kicked Guo Ding's corpse into it. After burying him, she turned and walked over to Yang Qin's corpse, smiled at Bai Zishan, then wrapped up Yang Qin's body and lifted it.

"How about... I help you?"

Bai Zishan asked with a somewhat awkward expression. As he spoke, he made to stand up, looking as though he was too embarrassed to strike up a conversation with Lu Mingyue.

That was exactly the expression!

The suspicion in Lu Mingyue's heart deepened, but none of it showed on her face. She smiled and shook her head.

"No need! It was only thanks to you that Escort Chief Meng and I were lucky enough to survive, Brother Bai. You should focus on recovering your cultivation for now. I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you to look after me quite a bit on the rest of the journey!"

With that, Lu Mingyue turned around and carried Yang Qin's corpse straight toward the other side.

Although Yang Qin had been the love of Guo Ding's life, and the couple's feelings for each other had been as sweet as honey, Lu Mingyue did not intend to bury them together.

Setting aside the blood of over a hundred people that had stained their hands over the years, burying the two together would draw more attention than burying them separately.

The reason she had just given was not merely an excuse to let her collect their corpses. She genuinely had that concern.

"Young Master Bai, Fairy Lu is right. Why don't you rest first? This old man will stand watch. If anything happens, I'll wake you immediately!"

Seeing Lu Mingyue stop several dozen meters away and earnestly dig another pit, Meng Hai also smiled and spoke to Bai Zishan.

Bai Zishan turned to glance at Meng Hai. Although his expression remained just as awkward, Meng Hai caught the flash of coldness deep in his eyes.

Meng Hai hurriedly put on a look of reverence and gave Bai Zishan a sheepish smile.

"All right, then. Thank you for the effort, Escort Chief Meng!"

Bai Zishan came back to himself and gave Meng Hai a bashful smile before entering the only intact carriage.

He was in no hurry. Now that things had reached this point, he could not afford to grow impatient over a little more time.

That young girl must have been moved by his saving her life. Meanwhile, the Evergreen Escort Agency had only the old man surnamed Meng and three others left, leaving them unable to escort the two of them to Taiping City.

And there were still about three days ahead!

As the saying went, affection grew with time. With an unattached man and woman traveling together, he refused to believe that young girl would not fall for him!

"Qi Refining Stage, Fifth Level, Netherworld Qi Condensation Art, Netherworld Yin Soldiers, Wind Array Wall, Fireball Technique."

Inside the carriage, Bai Zishan had no idea that, at this very moment, Lu Mingyue had already obtained Yang Qin's opportunities and fortunes.

"Wind feeds fire. Since she knew the Fireball Technique, why didn't she use the two spells together against Bai Zishan?"

Lu Mingyue was somewhat puzzled, but as Yang Qin's life experiences poured into her mind, she soon understood.

Wind did indeed feed fire, but Yang Qin's Netherworld Yin Soldiers would be suppressed by the Fireball Technique, preventing them from unleashing much power.

Thus, forced to choose between the two, Yang Qin could only leave the Fireball Technique unused.

Most importantly, she had believed that she and her husband were absolutely certain to take down Bai Zishan and Lu Mingyue.

After all, aside from Bai Zishan, who was at the Qi Refining Stage, Fifth Level, Lu Mingyue was only at the third layer of Qi Refining. How could she fight the two of them?

Yet the final outcome had defied Yang Qin's expectations and claimed her life.

Yang Qin's life had not been very different from Guo Ding's.

It was just that, as a woman, she had suffered even more miserably than Guo Ding after their home was destroyed and their family slaughtered all those years ago.

In particular, the evil cultivator who had noticed that she had opened a houtian spirit mansion and taken her as his disciple had been after her herself...

That evil cultivator had intended to cultivate Yang Qin so that, through dual cultivation with her, he could break through the bottleneck of the seventh layer of Qi Refining. He had never expected Yang Qin to severely injure him at such a critical moment!

Originally, even those severe injuries would not have endangered his life. But he had been at the crucial point of his breakthrough, and as his vital essence leaked away, his blood would not stop flowing. Just like that, he had died an ignominious death in his cave abode...

Yang Qin had seized the opportunity to flee and met Guo Ding along the way, leading to the happy life that followed.

Lu Mingyue had already seen these experiences once, so she focused her attention on when Bai Zishan had approached the couple of his own accord over ten days earlier.

"May I ask you two a question? I'm new here. How would someone like me go about leaving through the pass?"

The wording was exactly the same. Yang Qin's memories did not differ from Guo Ding's in the slightest, except that her observations had been more meticulous than his.

She had clearly seen a trace of pride on the white-robed young man's face when he said "someone like me," as though he were openly telling the two of them that he was a cultivator.

After Bai Zishan left, Yang Qin had told her husband, Guo Ding, about her doubts, but Guo Ding had replied unconcernedly:

"Heh, which of these younger cultivators doesn't have eyes perched above his head?"

"This lad is probably out gaining experience. With his cultivation, he naturally noticed that you and I are cultivators. Aside from showing off just now, he was probably warning us, too. There's no need to overthink it, my dear!"

Hearing her husband say this, Yang Qin had stopped being suspicious, mainly because her feelings for Guo Ding ran too deep.

Thus, she never doubted Guo Ding's judgment.

Only at the moment of her death had Yang Qin realized that her husband's judgment had been wrong this time.

This white-robed young man was not setting out to gain experience for the first time. He was pretending to be a pig to devour a tiger!

Unfortunately, she had understood this too late and could only muster her last shred of strength to warn her husband to flee...

"She certainly was devoted."

Lu Mingyue sighed. Had this couple not killed so many innocent people, she would not have minded burying them together.

But now, she had better forget it.

She had at least collected their corpses. Compared with their attempt to kill her, she could be considered broad-minded.

"Bai Zishan... There's something wrong with him!"

But after burying Yang Qin's corpse in the deep pit, Lu Mingyue could not help furrowing her slender brows.

She had thought Bai Zishan was like her, "prey" chosen by Guo Ding and his wife.

Yet now, through the couple's memories, it was clear that Bai Zishan had approached them of his own accord!

Then had it also been no coincidence that she and Escort Chief Meng had happened to see the three of them heading to the Evergreen Escort Agency?

But if Bai Zishan harbored sinister intentions, he really had fought with all his strength just now and killed Guo Ding and Yang Qin...

"Father!"

"Master!"

In the middle of the night, several calls came from the distance, interrupting Lu Mingyue's thoughts.

It was Meng Qing and the other two, whom Meng Hai had driven away earlier, returning.

And they had not returned alone. Behind the three of them followed a group numbering a full hundred people!