All this is based on reliable judgment, but whether it actually exists is not certain, and as for knowing how to use it, that's even less certain. It's all just a bluff in front of you two.

Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang were indeed a bit stunned. If such a great thing really existed, what risk had they taken before?

But these two were not so easily fooled.

Besides, having killed their opponent's men, how could they easily admit to anything?

Shi Chun said, "Xiang Laner, I don't understand what you mean. You're talking about Sun Shigang from Moon Valley, right? Didn't he used to harass you? Didn't you have a grudge against him? How come it's now that you know how to use his stuff? What exactly are you talking about?"

Wu Jinliang added, "Yeah, we're both confused by you."

Xiang Laner retorted, "You've been away for so long and didn't respond to our contacts. Where did you go?"

Shi Chun replied, "I was about to break through my cultivation, so I went into closed-door cultivation. You all wanted to search for Insect Extreme Crystals, and I wanted to cultivate without being disturbed by your errands, so naturally, I didn't reply."

Wu Jinliang said matter-of-factly, "I had to be his protector, I couldn't go work with you."

Xiang Laner was taken aback, "Your cultivation broke through?"

Shi Chun nodded, suddenly leaped into the air, and jumped very high, then floated down gently, using the height of his jumps to prove his current cultivation level. This was proof with reason.

Xiang Laner frowned. If this were true, taking the talisman and disappearing did seem reasonable. Could it be that Sun Shigang's disappearance really had nothing to do with these two guys and was due to some other accident?

But their disappearance on the same night seemed too coincidental.

If those two had done something but stubbornly refused to admit it, she had no evidence.

She could only continue trying to bluff them and changed the subject: "Where did you get that Wind Scale? Sun Shigang's Wind Scale had a secret mark." She reached out her hand, indicating she wanted to examine it.

The two nearly laughed. Sun Shigang didn't have any Wind Scale on him. Those five guys were too poor to have anything valuable.

With this revelation, both of them knew she was bluffing them.

Wu Jinliang readily handed over the Wind Scale for inspection, "We picked this up at a murder scene. It has nothing to do with any Sun Shigang. Don't slap false charges on us."

Upon taking the Wind Scale and examining it, Xiang Laner became somewhat puzzled. From their willingness to hand it over, she knew the Wind Scale was indeed not Sun Shigang's. She glanced at it briefly and then threw it back to Wu Jinliang, looking over his clothes and asking, "You didn't have these clothes on before you came here; where did they come from?"

The clothes on him, which fit perfectly and had a reserved and noble color coordination, looked high-end and classy. Even this big guy with a large sword seemed less foolish and instead had a kind of elegant and unconstrained demeanor. It really suited the saying "clothes make the man."

Wu Jinliang laughed, "Don't even say these were Sun Shigang's clothes. He wouldn't have been able to fill them out. These were stripped off a dead body and picked up along with the Wind Scale."

Shi Chun, having watched for a while, figured out that this woman didn't have any evidence and was just rambling, so he said, "What's the deal with Sun Shigang anyway? From your behavior, is he one of your people?"

Xiang Laner lied, "At first, I didn't know, but after coming here, I found out he was one of us. His previous harassment was just to have an excuse to get in touch with me later."

Shi Chun made a noise of acknowledgment and then asked, "It's not just Sun Shigang, right? Where are the rest of your people?"

Xiang Laner, "Without Sun Shigang's stuff, everyone's idle."

Shi Chun inquired, "How many are there?"

Xiang Laner said, "Do you think I need to tell you that clearly?"

Shi Chun chuckled and looked around, "Standing on the mountaintop is too conspicuous. Let's go down and find a place to talk slowly."

He glanced back at Wu Jinliang and made a gesture, and the latter immediately followed him down the mountain.

They did not fly down but walked down the slope instead. Sure enough, Xiang Laner, impatient with this act, flashed ahead toward the bottom.

Once they were away from others, Shi Chun immediately asked in a low voice, "Was there anything special among Sun Shigang's things?"

Now that his cultivation had entered High Martial, he had the confidence to cause trouble. He had come back this time to engage Xiang Laner, intending to use the power of the Demon Path to obtain the Insect Extreme Crystal. Now, with this new development, if there truly was a risk-free way to find Insect Extreme Crystals in the Moon Sea, only a fool would risk his life fighting.

Wu Jinliang, "Didn't you throw all his things into the bracelet? You've seen it all, and there was nothing special."

Shi Chun asked, "You searched their bodies. Did you clean out all of Sun Shigang's things?"

Wu Jinliang, a little startled, recalled, "I searched them all. I took everything from them, but I couldn't just carry everything on me, could I? My pockets aren't bottomless. I just picked a few important things to keep..."

"Wait." Shi Chun interrupted, skeptical, "How could you tell what was important?"

Everyone had just been released from prison and didn't have much experience. Don't try to fool me; the meaning was clear.

Wu Jinliang explained, "How is there a distinction? Isn't it just picking up whatever looks a bit valuable? As for the various useless junk, there's no need to carry it and take up space, right?"

Shi Chun rubbed his forehead, feeling tired but not blaming him, and continued in a low voice, "She wouldn't expose her connection with Sun Shigang to us unless it was indeed urgent. It's possible that Sun Shigang really had something significant, and if there truly is an easy way to the Moon Sea to find Insect Extreme Crystals, then there's no need to risk our lives. Our lives may not be worth much, but we shouldn't throw them away. Where did you throw those 'useless junk' anyway?"

Wu Jinliang: "Where else could I toss it? It was in the very gorge where you were in seclusion, in the cave I dug out."

After considering for a moment, Shi Chun nodded slightly: "That's fine, it just so happens to not be far from where Bian Weiyin is hiding. It's the perfect excuse to go back and check. I'll reveal some of Sun Shigang's belongings when I return, find an opportunity to mix them with the trash in that cave, and let that woman take a look. If it's something she mentioned, she'll naturally recognize it."

"Hmm," Wu Jinliang nodded in agreement, then immediately shook his head, "No way, if she really recognizes it, wouldn't that expose our killing of Sun Shigang?"

Shi Chun asked him, "Depends on what we're comparing it to. If it's nothing important, we'll naturally deny it to death. But if it can help us secure the first place, how someone died can be whatever we say it was. If she doesn't believe us, we just need to convince her. If that still doesn't work, we'll silence her. We can't easily give up on our previous goal just because it's troublesome."

"Hmm," Wu Jinliang, carrying his great sword, nodded deeply in agreement again.

Shi Chun then added: "The key issue is that those people from Heavenly Court saw us kill. Can he keep a secret for us?"

"Ah? Don't ask me that, you should ask them."

The two weren't the kind to look back and fret over inconveniences; trouble or not, they focused on solving problems first.

Shi Chun immediately took out a mother-and-child talisman to contact Bian Weiyin, telling her he had found Xiang Laner and asking if she wanted to see her.

How could Bian Weiyin not want to see her?

So, after meeting with Xiang Laner below, Shi Chun immediately said to her: "I just told Bian Weiyin that I found you. She misses you terribly and wants you to come and meet her."

Xiang Laner hesitated: "Isn't it a bit too much trouble running back and forth?"

"Eh, not at all. I have a Magical Treasure, it's very fast to come and go. I'm very happy to serve a great beauty like a laboring ox or horse."

Wu Jinliang took out his Wind Scale with a show of airs and, without caring whether Xiang Laner would refuse, first used magic to control the Wind Scale and whisked all three up into the sky before anything else, off to a far distant place.

When the two of them found their way back to where Bian Weiyin was hiding, it was already late at night. Bian Weiyin never expected to see Shi Chun again so soon, and upon seeing him, she ignored him completely.

After the reunion, Bian Weiyin and Xiang Laner did have things to exchange.

Xiang Laner realized that Gan Tangyu was missing and couldn't help asking about it. Bian Weiyin felt very guilty and could only say that Gan Tangyu was damaged inside Moon Sea; the things of that dark world were not to be mentioned.

Since they were there, and it was inconvenient to move around late at night, everyone had to stay for the night.

In the deep of the night, while meditating in a cross-legged position, Bian Weiyin suddenly stood and said, "Shi Chun, come out for a moment."

Shi Chun was slightly taken aback, but still got up and followed her out. Stepping out of the cave, he saw the sky full of dazzling stars, with the Milky Way spreading its enchanting brilliance.

Bian Weiyin suddenly pulled his hand and flew off into the distance with him in tow.

Inside the cave, Xiang Laner listened intently and then spoke out: "It seems they've gone quite far, what are they doing?"

Wu Jinliang snorted: "What else can they be doing? They're off smooching, obviously."

"Smooching?" Xiang Laner didn't understand, "What does that mean?"

Wu Jinliang didn't want to explain the truth: "Come on, why worry so much? If they step aside to talk, they're surely trying to avoid us."

Far from the gorge, they landed on an isolated rocky peak in the wilderness. As soon as Bian Weiyin set foot down, she eagerly wrapped her arms around Shi Chun and murmured with a content look on her face: "Are you mad at me?"

Shi Chun, with both hands down and not touching her, asked: "Mad? Why would I be? Sister Weiying, there's quite a difference between you during the day and at night."

Weiying: "I don't know, in broad daylight and in front of people, I just can't do it."

Shi Chun suddenly turned his head: "Someone's coming."

Weiying tensed up noticeably, quickly letting go of him and looking around. Once she noticed that Shi Chun had settled down comfortably, she realized she'd been fooled. Feeling both angry and amused, she crouched down and bumped her head against his twice. After knocking Shi Chun over, she then took the opportunity to pounce on him, half-lying on his chest.

Shi Chun rested his arms behind his head, looking at the star-filled sky, while Weiying laid on his chest to listen to his strong heartbeat, feeling his breath and body warmth.

A gentle breeze blew from time to time.

After a while, Weiying murmured: "Who exactly are you?"

Shi Chun: "A person with no home."

Weiying looked up at him for a long while before lying down softly again.

After a quiet moment, Shi Chun suddenly asked, "Do you really have to be the Sect Master of Wukang Mountain?"

Weiying extended a hand upwards, touching his cheek, then his lips, and murmured: "Give me a reason not to."

Shi Chun fell silent. He understood her words, but he couldn't say some things because he couldn't take that responsibility.

Weiying waited a long time without getting the answer she wanted, and a painful expression crossed her face as she murmured again: "Whether it's due to your own reasons or the reasons involving my father and the others, we both know that for Wukang Mountain, you're just a passerby. You won't take me with you. If I'm master of myself, I won't feel bad…"

Shi Chun freed one hand to also touch her cheek, a finger gently sealed her lips as if to stop her from continuing. So she bit down hard. Seeing no resistance from him, her tears started to fall because she knew she was right.

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