The next day, in the afternoon.
The streets of Song Dragon Town were crowded with people and vehicles, and everywhere were strangely dressed demonic cultivators, men and women.
In front of a window on the third floor of the Red Rock Pavilion, Ye Anping, wearing a silver mask, played with Gu Mingxin's left hand to kill time as he waited for Kong Huayuan to bring the Ghost Spirit Sect disciples to meet him.
Feng Yu Die, dressed as a maid, gnawed the roasted chicken that Ye Anping used to seal her mouth. Occasionally, she glanced at Ye Anping who was standing with his hands behind his back at the window, and smiled sweetly.
"Hehe..."
Not long after, Xiao Tian, who was keeping watch from the top of the wine shop, flew in through the ceiling in a hurry and shouted, "Anping, Kong Huayuan brought a ghost cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul into the pavilion! I just looked into that woman's storage bag and saw that she is an Elder of the Ghost Spirit Sect, named Chen Rugu."
"Chen Rugu..."
Ye Anping frowned slightly when he heard the name.
His original plan was to set a trap with Kong Huayuan outside Song Dragon Town, and then lead Gu Mingxin into the trap.
When Gu Mingxin diverted Kong Huayuan's attention, he would team up with Feng Yu Die to attack Kong Huayuan from behind, destroy his Nascent Soul, and with this, bury all the Ghost Spirit Sect's confidence brought by Kong Huayuan in the yellow sand.
In this way, he could conceal the truth and use Kong Huayuan's identity to enter Brilliance City to wreak havoc.
The fact that Kong Huayuan brought a Ghost Spirit Sect Elder here, meant that Kong Xiangmo probably still had doubts about his identity as an Elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect, and let Chen Rugu come with him, just to be Kong Huayuan's bodyguard.
It's a pity that Kong Xiangmo greatly underestimated their combat power.
Chen Rugu was indeed difficult to deal with, but against Feng Yu Die, Gu Mingxin, and himself, she didn't stand a chance...
"Got it."
Ye Anping stood up and used a knife to make a small cut in Gu Mingxin's left hand. She pinched him back immediately to protest against the pain. Then, he wrapped Gu Mingxin's murderous aura around his body.
Seeing Feng Yu Die still eating, he walked over and wrapped up the half-eaten roasted chicken she hadn't finished before putting it into the storage bag. "Stop eating... someone is coming."
After saying that, Ye Anping took out a handkerchief to wipe the oil off her mouth and put the mask back on her face. "Stand aside and don't mess around..."
Feng Yu Die glanced at Ye Anping's thigh, blinking. "Well... why don't I lie on your lap like last time? This makes you look more badass, more like a demonic cultivator, hehe..."
"Don't..."
"It's okay... I want to lie down."
"I don't want you to lie down..."
Xiao Tian watched Yu Die being so proactive, and she was very pleased, but she didn't just watch. She quickly floated to the door and looked outside the house through it. Seeing that Kong Huayuan and Chen Rugu had already arrived, she turned her head and shouted, "Anping, they are at the door!"
Hearing her voice, Ye Anping did not push Feng Yu Die away anymore. He let her kneel beside him and lie on his lap, and he even raised his hand to stroke the back of her head like last time.
Knock knock—
Two knocks on the door came. Ye Anping slightly tensed his throat and lowered his voice. "Come in."
Kong Huayuan pushed the door and led a woman wearing a red ghost mask into the room. When he entered the room, he saw Ye Anping, like last time, pressing his human furnace on his lap and stroking her like a pet, and the human furnace showed no sign of resistance at all, and there was even a playful look on her face.
He said, "Wow, I wanted to say it before. This immortal girl is very well-behaved after being trained by you, Brother Liang."
Ye Anping was speechless, then snorted coldly. "Heh... It's still the same reply as before. I won't sell this girl."
"Too bad..."
Kong Huayuan shrugged slightly. He reached out to the ghost-masked woman beside him and introduced her. "Elder Chen, this is Liang Liu, the Elder of the Prison Hall of the Heavenly Demon Sect. That girl is the immortal human furnace he captured from the Jade Girl Sect in the Southern Region."
Through the eye holes in the ghost mask, a pair of eyes briefly examined Ye Anping, and when she felt the murderous aura around Ye Anping and his current playboy attitude, she nodded and said nothing. Then, she found a chair and sat down.
Seeing her action, Ye Anping slightly relaxed. After all, Chen Rugu was not as easy to fool as Kong Huayuan. He had thought that he would be tested again, but now it seemed that he was worrying too much.
After Kong Huayuan sat down, he took out an aged wine from his storage bag without saying a word, poured it for the three people present, and said, "Brother Liang, Elder Chen doesn't like to beat around the bush, so please get down to business first, and I'll have a few drinks with you after that."
Ye Anping nodded and took out the map of the Song Dragon Town's surrounding area that he had made yesterday, spreading it on the table.
"This is the valley south of Song Dragon Town. I will set up the Thousand Killing Formation here. When Gu Mingxin enters the formation, I will bind her up inside, and then Elder Chen and Master Kong will work together to kill her. Master Kong, you've seen Gu Mingxin before, so you should know her abilities. You must not underestimate her."
Chen Rugu, who was standing by, looked at the map and narrowed her eyes slightly. "Elder Liang, Gu Mingxin is a traitor of the Heavenly Demon Sect... Isn't it inappropriate for you to stand aside and let Master Kong and I face her head-on?"
Ye Anping met her gaze without looking away. "Is it inappropriate?"
"I have heard about Gu Mingxin's abilities..."
Ye Anping narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "What do you propose then?"
"Let Master Kong set up a formation outside."
After hearing this, Ye Anping understood that it was probably Kong Huayuan's father who said something like "Don't let my son take risks when the time comes".
Gu Mingxin took a breath and unconsciously wanted to rub it, but unfortunately, she couldn't.
However, Ye Anping seemed to know that she meant "I've arrived". Gu Mingxin felt her fingers being pried apart by Ye Anping, and then his index finger gently scratched on her palm:
—The valley south of Song Dragon Town.
Gu Mingxin pouted in disappointment.
They had agreed to meet in Brilliance City before, but when she was about to arrive, Ye Anping asked her to come to Song Dragon Town, and now he asked her again to go to the valley south of Song Dragon Town...
So annoying.
However, she only complained for a moment. With one last look at the pedestrians around her, her body directly transformed into a ray of bloody light and shot into the air from the street.
"Hey? Mingxin... what's wrong?"
"Ye Anping said to go to the valley south of Song Dragon Town."
"Eh?"
Xue'e froze for a moment and quickly took out the map to look at it, but Gu Mingxin didn't wait for her. Summoning her flying sword, she stepped on it and took off toward the valley in the south.
"Hey! Mingxin, don't be anxious!!"
Gu Mingxin flew ahead, and Xue'e chased behind. They arrived at the valley Ye Anping mentioned in less than the time it took for an incense stick to burn.
Xue'e panted and kicked Gu Mingxin's forehead a few times with a resentful look before taking out the Heavenly Demonic Scroll from under her skirt and flipping through it.
"Mingxin, this is Void Origin Valley. Twelve thousand years ago, it was the location of a sect called Void Origin Sect. However, due to the war between the demonic cultivators and the Immortal Family, the spiritual vein of the land was destroyed, and this place became a desert. That sect moved to the Southern Region..."
"Hmm..."
Gu Mingxin didn't listen to what she said at all. She looked around and didn't see anyone, so she simply descended on the sword and landed on a cliff in the valley. Her eyes moved back and forth between the thousand-foot-high pillars and sandstone walls around them.
Birds and beasts did not live here, and the crescent moon in the night made it look a little desolate.
Still not seeing Ye Anping, Gu Mingxin was a little impatient. She looked around and simply controlled her left hand to pinch Ye Anping's butt again.
However, she found that her left hand seemed to be hung up by Ye Anping again.
"Hmm?"
Gu Mingxin frowned slightly, not knowing what was going on. Above her head, Xue'e, who was using her spiritual sense to explore the surroundings, suddenly opened her eyes wide as if she saw something.
"Mingxin!! It's a trap!! Run!"
"What trap?" Gu Mingxin asked in confusion.
The next moment, a blood-red light shot up from the valley and condensed into a blood-colored energy shield that covered the entire valley in an instant.
"Mingxin!! Behind you!"
Hearing Xue'e's reminder, Gu Mingxin, although still a little confused, reacted quickly. She summoned her blood-colored sword almost instantly, turned around, and raised the sword horizontally in front of her.
Ding—
Sparks burst.
A woman with a red ghost mask, holding a long curved snake sword, had appeared behind her at some point.
Gu Mingxin looked at the woman with the ghost mask in silence. She immediately distanced herself, flew up into the air, and looked around in disbelief.
It was Ye Anping who asked her to meet here.
Why was an Elder of the Ghost Spirit Sect here?
And what's the deal with this formation?
Xue'e was also confused, and she quickly flew to Gu Mingxin's side, helping her to monitor the surroundings. "Mingxin, didn't he ask you to come here? How come there are cultivators from the Ghost Spirit Sect here..."
Gu Mingxin looked at the ghost-masked woman who did not choose to catch up with her. She frowned and glanced at the energy shield that trapped her here, finally coming to a conclusion.
Ye Anping sold her out again...
He had taken her kiss! And her hand!!
Then, he sold her to the Ghost Spirit Sect.
Gu Mingxin squeezed the sword in her hand until it creaked. Fuming with rage, she gritted her teeth, immediately wanting to shout Ye Anping's name, but before she could do it, Ye Anping's cold voice came from behind. "Young Miss Gu, how are you?"
Startled, Gu Mingxin turned her head and saw a young man in a black robe and wearing a silver mask, floating with his hands behind his back about a hundred feet away from her...
Confused, she looked at the Ghost Spirit Sect Elder below, and asked, "Ye..."
Ye Anping interrupted again. "I wonder if Miss Gu still remembers me, Liang Liu."