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"You're dreaming." Mu Xiaoling laughed coldly and said, "Please leave. You are not welcome here."

"Whatever I, Xiao Yu, decide on, I'll never give up." Xiao Yu naturally wasn't in a rush, he immediately left after speaking.

"Nutjob." Mu Xiaoling thought that Xiao Yu's head was spinning as he threw these dirty words out of his mind.

Just as Xiao Yu left, Meng Yifan came in, "Miss Mu, I have something to say."

Mu Xiaoling organized her thoughts and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I just got the note." Meng Yifan took out a piece of paper and handed it to her.

Mu Xiaoling took it and glanced at it. The contents of the slip of paper were very simple. He was told to retrieve a length of rope from a fake cave within the Imperial Gardens and hide it in Meng Lun's room.

She read and reread the note, musing for a moment. "Did Meng Lun leave his seat on the way?"

Meng Yifan thought for a moment." He left for the latrine, but when he came back, he was a bit flustered and his face looked bad. He told me that he was scared by a night owl and that Meng Shijie and I had even mocked him for a while.

From Meng Yifan's description, it was likely that Meng Lun had either caught up to the murderer when he went to the latrine, or had seen the corpse of the Li Family's Patriarch.

She said to Meng Yifan, "Let's go take a look."

Meng Yifan nodded. The two of them went out of the window and followed the note to the imperial garden.

After all, two major cases had occurred in the palace and involved two influential families. Perhaps it might be a military mutiny, so the palace was under martial law, and there were piles of guards and guards patrolling the palace.

Mu Xiaoling and Meng Yifan dodged to the left and right, finally getting to the fake cave described in the note. Sure enough, they found a length of rope with blood on it.

"This time, I can be sure that the Li family's Patriarch was strangled to death." Mu Xiaoling picked up the rope and examined it.

Meng Yifan did not understand. "But since he is the Clan Leader, his strength is naturally not weak. How could he be so easily strangled to death?"

"What if an acquaintance committed the crime?" Mu Xiaoling had experienced something similar, one of the assassination missions before she teleported to this world. However, when she arrived, the person was already dead, and the culprit was determined to be the person's eldest son. However, after an investigation, she found out that it was the person's second son who killed her father and hid the weapon in her big brother's house.

Based on Mu Xiaoling's information, he knew that the man was strong and had bodyguards with him. However, he died in the hands of his loved ones when he was on guard against outsiders.

Looking at it from a different perspective, only the Du Family knew that Meng Yifan was a fake, but did not know that she had already exchanged the real Meng Yifan for him. If that was the case, then when the other party sent a note, it was clear that both the Du Family and the Li Family's ghost had been involved in this matter.

After figuring out the key point, Mu Xiaoling placed the rope back into her spatial ring. Then, she pulled out another type of rope and handed it to Meng Yifan. "Do as they say."

Meng Yifan took the rope, "Sure, what about you, Lady Mu?"

"I'm going to find a good owner for this real murder weapon." Mu Xiaoling revealed a faint smile. It was a drop in the sky beauty. Meng Yifan couldn't believe his eyes. After a while, he snapped out of his daze and hurriedly ran away.

After waiting for a while, Mu Xiaoling felt that Meng Yifan was almost there. She quietly flew in the opposite direction.

The Li family's Patriarch did not come to the palace to attend the banquet himself, but had brought the Li family's young master and his three sons with him.

However, there was no need for Young Master Li to do so. After all, he was already the Young Lord, and when the Li Clan Chief abdicated, he would become the new Patriarch. Excluding Young Master Li, only his third son remained.

The third son of the Li family was called Li Dong. His appearance wasn't outstanding and he didn't look like someone who would cause trouble. It was said that he didn't have much skill and was only at the second level of the Fighter realm.

Mu Xiaoling secretly snuck into the Li Family's palace. However, there were strict security guards below so there weren't any holes for her to pass through.

Gu Xiu said, "Master, do you know of a martial skill called Star Wars?"

Mu Xiaoling was slightly startled. "What martial skill is this?"

Gu Xiu said, "This is a martial skill that only those with beast driving talent can train in. This kind of martial skill does not have a common style, and the emphasis is on a method that allows the master and the beast pet to have a temporary empathy, to the point that the power that the master can use is completely different. My attribute is wind, and I can let the master hide in the wind."

Mu Xiaoling quickly asked, "How?"

Gu Xiu said, "The key to this martial skill is empathy. I've observed the situation of master and Tao, and you've already done it. It shouldn't be too difficult for master to empathize with me."

Upon hearing these words, Mu Xiaoling immediately thought back to when she contracted with Tao Tie for the Taotie competition in the Soul Refining Sect. She had indeed entered a strange space. Could it be that the three-year-old baby Taotie was Tao Tie?

Having found a target, Mu Xiaoling immediately sat down cross-legged and closed her eyes to meditate.

The noise around them gradually disappeared, leaving behind only silence. The sky was filled with stars, and it was impossible to count just how many were there, but two of them were extremely eye-catching. One of them was shining with a dense black light, and it carried an uncountable amount of ruthlessness.

Mu Xiaoling thought for a moment. Perhaps the black light was the Taotie Beast. Then, the other should be the Ancient Cultivator Fox.

She held out her hand to the little white star.

In the blink of an eye, the stars in the distance seemed to have appeared on her palm. Soon after, the sound of falling leaves being blown up could be heard.

The wind was blowing...

It was a mysterious feeling, a wave of cold, bone-chilling elemental energy that suddenly seeped into her body. She was so cold that she subconsciously shivered.

If this wasn't her strength, then it should be Gu Xiu's.

What Mu Xiaoling didn't notice was that in the Beast Repellent Space in her sea of consciousness, Gu Xiuhu was unable to maintain his human form and quickly transformed into a two-tailed fox. His eyes were filled with shock as he said, "My master is actually this powerful.

Taotie sneered, "If she wasn't powerful, how could I still be lying here? I would have already run away, but this martial skill is also good. Although the soul force has been temporarily drawn away, it will not harm us.

Gu Xiu was very satisfied. "It's our fortune to have such a master."