After spending two days together, he felt that Shen Suyong didn't quite seem like the type to oppress others with power; the matters at Baihua Palace didn't seem to be his doing.

"What do you mean? Of course I can't provoke the Jiang Family, but I do have some personal charm, okay?"

Xu Guang: ...

He was too lazy to talk much with this person. The Shen Family's reason for sending Shen Suyong was none of his business. Being able to travel with the Shen Family would save him a lot of trouble.

He just didn't know what exactly that Marquis Hei was up to?

...

In an unnamed small village.

A shadow, like flowing water, slowly became three-dimensional and then appeared.

"The Kui Snake is dead."

A weak female voice came from a room in the courtyard.

Soon after, the door was pushed open, and the Illusion Woman walked out. Her aura was almost completely gone, as if her realm had suddenly fallen entirely.

"So, your... daughter, is also dead?"

Marquis Hei's expression was solemn.

He knew a bit about the background of the Illusion Woman.

The Illusion Woman had a peculiar talent and was the most valued disciple of Shi Moyun, apart from the Ghost Cry; however, he didn't like this woman in front of him at all.

This woman practiced some unknown cultivation technique, and together with her inherently bizarre Celestial Register blessing, it formed an incredibly strange method; she could sever much of the flesh on her body and turn it into a doppelgänger!

But it wasn't perfect; the doppelgängers seemed to have their own wisdom and didn't completely obey her will.

Moreover, the doppelgängers seemed to inherit her madness, easily falling into a state of excitement.

When a doppelgänger died, her main body would lose all power, needing to cultivate anew and break through to the Innate realm.

This was also why there were rumors in the Jianghu that no one had ever recognized the Illusion Woman!

Because even if you recognized her and killed her, you would only have killed a doppelgänger. After some time, once her cultivation was restored, she could once again gather another, and the Illusion Woman would return to the Jianghu.

Marquis Hei speculated secretly that she might have practiced some kind of Demon Sect's spiritual technique, causing her to be erratic while the Celestial Register blessing gave her an almost undead-like recovery ability.

Allowing her to produce such an uncanny method.

He even occasionally suspected whether the Illusion Woman's true body was actually Shi Moyun since he had never seen the Illusion Woman and Shi Moyun appear together.

Moreover, her Celestial Register's grade was obviously unusual. It had to be at least Fourth Grade or higher to possess such near-undying blessings.

Even in the Celestial Destiny Sect, a Fourth-Grade Celestial Register was a very high level.

But he never dared to mention these thoughts to anyone.

"What are you planning to do? Continue?"

Marquis Hei asked in a low voice.

A manic smile appeared on the Illusion Woman's face, filled with joy and excitement.

"I don't know what she experienced, but I know she was very excited, just like I am now...

I want to... I can't stand it, I can't help but want to...

Want to..."

As her excitement grew, her body began to twitch as if she was experiencing some extremely pleasurable sensation, with blood gurgling out from beneath her.

Black mist emerged from her body, and an indescribable feeling of evil slowly emanated outward, accompanying the fluctuations in her spirit.

Marquis Hei stood in place, his steps slightly retreating. He had an impulse to kill the woman before him, but he dared not.

This woman claimed that after her doppelgänger died, she would fall into a weakened state.

He didn't believe it.

...

Outside the village, Xu Guang was slowly walking, his heart vigilant, the Yin Qi in this place was indeed heavy.

It was as if there was a great unseen fear here.

In his heart, instead of being frightened, he was pleased; such a degree of fear was definitely not caused by a Fifth-Grade or higher ghost.

Now traveling with Shen Suyong, he no longer worried about the safety of his subordinates. Using the Qi Observation Technique, he would resolve solitary wandering ghosts he encountered, yet found no traces of Spirit Crystals. However, he did obtain quite a few Ghost Treasures that could be refined into Celestial Merit.

This village's situation was somewhat bizarre, with not a single living person, as if it were a Ghost Village.

He immediately called for General Wei, heading towards the village, and to avoid alerting any Fierce Ghosts, Xu Guang even set up a Feng Shui Array on General Wei, making his movements quieter.

However, this place indeed was very suitable for Feng Shui Arrays; the imbalance of Yin and Yang, as if assisted by the heavens, worked better than he had imagined.

Until he stopped in front of a small courtyard.

The door opened, and he saw a man approaching a woman bleeding from her lower body...

Silence reigned, a characteristic of the small courtyard.

An indescribable awkwardness spread among the three of them.

"You... continue?"

Xu Guang felt somewhat embarrassed, as he could clearly see both were humans.

He just didn't understand what kind of hobby would draw them to such a place, rumored to harbor Fierce Ghosts, to engage in such activities, and that man, truly ruthless...

"Wait!"

"Aren't you dead?"

Xu Guang's gaze suddenly fell on the bleeding woman.

This person...

Was the Illusion Woman?!

The Illusion Woman acted as if she didn't recognize Xu Guang, yet Marquis Hei's face changed dramatically, shouting towards the Illusion Woman.

"He's Xu Guang!"

The Illusion Woman's face changed slightly; she hadn't lied, she was indeed in a weakened state at the moment.

The intention to retreat arose immediately.

"Marquis Hei, stop him!"

This was her true body, and no one had ever found where her true body was before, but Xu Guang found it today.

Although her mental state was not normal, she dared not be careless at this moment.

She could not die here, absolutely not!

Previously, she hadn't left because, firstly, another version of herself couldn't stray too far from the main body, and secondly, because after the Illusion Woman's death, she fell into an inexplicable bleeding state, making it unsuitable to move around carelessly.

So she simply let Marquis Hei return, without leaving herself.

Who would have thought that Xu Guang would actually come looking!?

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