Chapter 1011: Scam and Deception Services

"So you came for me? You rushed here at the end of the Heavenly Human senior's battle, cleaned up the aftermath, and drove away that guy with sealing abilities?"

After a prolonged inquiry, Meng Po summarized, a hint of emotion mixed with a look of suspicion.

"Not so."

The Water Ghost shook his head and said solemnly, "Everything you said after that is correct, but the crucial part isn't 'for you'."

"Then what was it for?"

"For the big picture, the plan, and this entire game of sacrilege."

Meng Po was speechless.

That hint of emotion in her heart instantly dissipated. As for favors, she owed too many to ever repay them; she was completely at his mercy.

"Just tell me what you want... Hmph, men!"

Meng Po said nonchalantly, manifesting clear water to wipe the blood from her face while trying to extract a trace of spiritual energy from her sealed aura sea.

Unfortunately, she failed. She had now become the only mortal in the Yunlun mountain range. Any random trial-taker could probably kill her in a single move. Let alone the Water Ghost?

Neither wealth nor beauty could sway this man's heart, nor could power disturb his resolve. Meng Po felt like a comical doll; besides being amusing, she couldn't extract any semblance of "benefit" from the Water Ghost.

The Water Ghost looked at the woman, whose injuries had healed after taking the pill and who had then washed her face with clear water, revealing a charming and mature face. Without a ripple of emotion, he said:

"Your abilities are sealed now, so you can't go anywhere. If you try to walk through Yunlun, you'll either starve to death on the way or end up in a beast's belly. You might as well stay here; at least I can still protect you."

Hearing this, Meng Po was moved again. She truly wondered if knowing the Water Ghost was a blessing she had cultivated over several lifetimes. In a sudden instant, the thought of offering herself to him reappeared.

"Perhaps..."

"No."

The Water Ghost refused bluntly before she could finish speaking, causing Meng Po's face to darken again as she shot him a reproachful look.

"Oh, right."

Dispelling the thought of not having to repay favors by becoming the "Ghost Mistress," Meng Po looked around and noticed that someone seemed to be missing.

"Where's the Heavenly Human senior?" she asked.

"What Heavenly Human?" The Water Ghost paused.

"Heavenly Human Five Decays, a senior among our Yama members, distinguished by the color orange..." Meng Po paused as she spoke, looking at the Water Ghost's puzzled expression, her eyebrows shooting up. "You didn't see him when you saved me?"

The Water Ghost looked sideways in thought, then after a long pause, shook his head and said, "I haven't seen him. When I rushed to the battlefield, I only drove away a ghost beast host whose power had significantly diminished, and incidentally saved you. There was no third person on the field."

"Is that so..."

Meng Po hesitated, glanced at the Water Ghost, then lowered her head in thought. Suddenly, she looked up, glanced at the Water Ghost again, and suspicion crept into her eyes.

"Heh!" The Water Ghost smiled. "You may as well..."

"No! Stop, there's no need for 'you may as well'! Isn't it enough that I believe you?" Meng Po waved her hands hurriedly, looking as if she had a headache.

Perhaps the Heavenly Human senior saw the situation was bad, abandoned her, and ran off ahead of time? That shouldn't be right, should it? The Heavenly Human senior, as Lord Huang Quan described him, was indeed a good person, despite his strange abilities...

Meng Po shook her head, no longer dwelling on it; after all, overthinking was pointless. She found a large stone and sat down, cross-legged, beginning to try and break through the seal within her body. As long as her spiritual energy in the aura sea didn't recover some power, her spatial ring, communicator, and everything else would be unusable, making her truly a helpless, weak woman. And being unable to use any ability in the perilous environment of the Yunlun mountain range meant she could only entrust her safety to the man beside her who wasn't interested in her in the slightest.

Was he reliable?

Meng Po opened her eyes and secretly glanced at the Water Ghost beside her, who had taken out his communicator. She didn't know whom he was about to contact, but seeing as he clearly had no designs on her, she had her answer.

Completely unreliable!

"Du..."

The communicator only rang once before the other side connected.

Meng Po pretended to close her eyes and rest, focusing intently on breaking through her aura sea, but her ears were keenly perked up. She was genuinely curious about such a mysterious man, and her thought of offering herself to him was not a joke; if the Water Ghost took it seriously, she would be serious too.

"Yes, yes, there's a lead on the person you're looking for. I'll send you the specific information later..."

Meng Po couldn't hear the voice from the other end of the communication bead, but the Water Ghost's suddenly humble tone made her curious. Who was on the other end? Who could command such reverence from the Water Ghost? His master, perhaps? Someone like Lord Huang Quan, or... a Demigod? The Water Ghost's combat strength was rarely matched in the world! If not a Demigod, it wouldn't be enough to make him so reverent, would it?

Meng Po's curiosity was piqued, and she leaned slightly to the side. Since the Water Ghost was clearly not paying attention to her, this "useless person," he didn't even have basic spiritual energy shielding, allowing her to eavesdrop on more private content. Her eyes secretly opened a slit, and her gaze darted over.

"Yes, yes, not only the location, but I've already secured two people. One couldn't defeat me and jumped down the Solitary Sound Cliff himself, seemingly chasing their leader's figure. The other one is currently in my hands."

When Meng Po heard this, her heart leaped, and she almost jumped up. No way, no way? He's not talking about me, is he? She looked around; besides herself and the Water Ghost, there was truly no one else around.

Meng Po couldn't hold it in anymore. She opened her eyes and glared at the Water Ghost, pointing at herself as she asked incredulously and silently, "Me? Are you talking about me?"

The Water Ghost suddenly glanced back and glared at her but didn't respond. He also didn't activate his spiritual energy protection, continuing to speak into the communication bead: "Mm-hmm, okay, okay. You probably won't have to wait a day. If you're free, you can come over now. It's guaranteed to yield results."

Meng Po felt much more at ease. A day? She remembered the sacrilege plan the Water Ghost told her about was limited to half a day. Also, if the Water Ghost intended sacrilege, how could he be contacting that Demigod? Most importantly, this guy clearly knew she was eavesdropping and still treated her as a friend, not blocking the sound. Wasn't this the best assurance and explanation?

"What nonsense am I even thinking?" Meng Po sat back on the large stone, feeling bewildered. Even if her guess was wrong, she couldn't resist now; everything could only be left to fate. She couldn't help but sigh, and that guy with sealing abilities reappeared in her mind. She, an intelligence agent, had actually fallen victim to incorrect intelligence, directly confronting a master of sealing abilities. Truly, utterly ridiculous!

While she was still lost in thought, the Water Ghost on the other side was still speaking respectfully into the communication bead: "Excellent. If you can come directly, that would save a lot of time. I can mediate a bit; perhaps when you arrive, you might even receive a big surprise."

"Okay, that's really possible, but I must remind you, Solitary Sound Cliff is not like other places. Your primary target has already gone down. As for the forbidden spell barrier..."

"Then I'm relieved. I'll await your arrival."

After saying the last sentence, the Water Ghost cut off the connection, his gaze stretching into the distance as the corner of his mouth curved up.

"Who was that?"

Meng Po's attention was no longer on the Water Ghost's communication; she merely asked casually.

"A friend."

The Water Ghost had no intention of explaining further and looked over with a smile. Suddenly, as if remembering something, he quickly walked to Meng Po's side, sat down with her, and asked curiously, "Oh, right, I have a question. How many Crying Children has your Yama group acquired? Does every member have one?"

Meng Po rolled her eyes. "Is this something I can tell you?"

"Can't say?" The Water Ghost's tone was a bit helpless. "Honestly, if I really wanted to investigate, I could find out quickly with my connections. But it wouldn't be as fast or accurate as information from you, the person involved. I did save your life again, you know."

Meng Po was speechless. Who demands repayment for a favor like that? However, what the Water Ghost said was true. As they were both in intelligence, she believed that if the Water Ghost applied himself, he could quickly uncover these secrets. It's just that, privately selling organizational intelligence didn't seem very good...

"Forget it if you won't say. I'll just consider myself to have saved an ungrateful wretch." The Water Ghost stood up.

Meng Po looked at his stance and sighed helplessly. "It's not that exaggerated, really. At least I don't have a Crying Child. The new generation members are all equipped with them, but I find them a bother, and my combat strength isn't enough to protect one, so I refused."

"You can refuse?" The Water Ghost stopped and looked at her. "It seems Lord Huang Quan is good to you. Then what about your Heavenly Human senior? Does he also have a Crying Child? If you call him 'senior,' he shouldn't be part of the new generation, right?"

"Of course not. He's someone even Lord Huang Quan is wary of..." Meng Po hesitated for a moment, thinking that since she owed so many favors, it would truly feel bad not to say anything. She immediately said, "He was originally like me, refusing to bother with them. But recently, we acquired a more powerful one, so Lord Huang Quan equipped him with it..."

"The Three-Aversion Child Eye?" the Water Ghost interrupted.

"You know quite a lot?" Meng Po was surprised. However, she remembered the final action summary of the Underworld Visitors and the Night Parade of One Hundred Ghosts, which stated that one of the Three-Aversion Child Eyes had been taken by a Holy Slave. She instantly realized and felt a surge of dissatisfaction. But at this moment, she was utterly powerless. The Water Ghost was an intelligence anomaly with absurdly strong combat power, so Meng Po didn't even dare to utter a single complaint.

"Your Huang Quan group acquired Crying Children, and you don't equip them yourselves? You gave them all to your subordinates? That's truly rare!" The Water Ghost maintained a slightly surprised expression.

*Lord Huang Quan doesn't need them at all, does he?* Meng Po muttered silently. Her attention diverted, she muttered silently. But regarding Lord Huang Quan, she didn't dare to reveal any information and could only respond with silence.

The Water Ghost hadn't expected that by a stroke of luck, he had thrown a Yama member with a Crying Child into the water. This truly is... Wonderful! Unintended actions bring unexpected success! Now, underwater there's the Three-Aversion Child Eye, Xu Xiaoshou's fake Huang Quan, temporal-spatial power, and Xu Xiaoshou's girlfriend, the Divine Demon Child. He wasn't afraid that the Jiang clan's Demigod wouldn't be tempted.

He didn't show any of this, still asking seemingly casually, "The Three-Aversion Child Eye is very powerful. How could your Heavenly Human senior abandon you?"

"It's not that simple," Meng Po shook her head. "The Three-Aversion Child Eye is simply too powerful, and he acquired it too recently. The Heavenly Human senior hasn't fully adapted to it yet; he can't even open the eye or use its abilities..."

At this point, Meng Po paused, suddenly feeling she had talked too much and too deeply, and grew somewhat wary.

"Why are you asking so much?" She glanced sideways, staring oddly at the Water Ghost.

"Crying Children, who wouldn't be curious?" The Water Ghost chuckled. "If I were to get one, I'd put one in each eye and then dig an eye socket in my brow for another. Then I'd have three abilities, wouldn't I?"

*Heh heh...* Meng Po scoffed inwardly. *You think it's quite wonderful, but if it's not compatible, a person could die on the spot!*

The Water Ghost, realizing Meng Po had grown wary, immediately stopped asking further questions. For him, this fellow intelligence agent in front of him was truly just a subordinate in the same field. Whatever information he wanted, he didn't even need favors; he could get it out of her just by casually sounding her out.

"Once upon a time, I was also this naive..." The Water Ghost chuckled inwardly. He came from a proper major power; in terms of combat strength and intelligence training, there was simply no one in the world who could compare. Meng Po might also be a figure in the intelligence world. But she was, after all, hidden in the shadows, and there wasn't much she could learn. Plus, he had already done her a favor; if he wanted internal information, there was no need for much effort—he could easily obtain it.

Comparing the two... The Water Ghost chuckled and shook his head. As different as heaven and earth! There was no need to compare him and Meng Po at all. In this world, the only one who could compare to him in intelligence was perhaps the Head of the Peculiar Department; the Head of the Dark Department could barely count as half. But the Peculiar one was dead, and the Head of the Dark Department was out of control. He, the Water Ghost, was invincible worldwide.

"Sorry..."

Thinking that the next phase of the plan might require sacrificing the woman in front of him, the Water Ghost first offered an apology in his heart. But he knew that as an intelligence agent, one absolutely couldn't leave handles for others, let alone Meng Po, who had virtually offered herself to him! Too irrational! If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for owing too many favors and having no ability to repay them!

The Water Ghost lingered at the Solitary Sound Cliff ruins, calculating the time. Soon, he made up his mind and came before Meng Po, who was cultivating with her eyes closed and trying to break the seal, patting her cheek.

"No need to try anymore. The seal is binding; you can't break through it now," he said, leaning down with a smile.

Meng Po's eyelashes trembled, her cheeks flushed, and she said with a hint of annoyance, "How would I know without trying?"

"Call your Lord Huang Quan to come get you. I've arranged a time to meet him here, but it seems danger will soon occur, and I might not be able to protect you. Lord Huang Quan needs to come earlier," the Water Ghost said seriously.

"I don't have spiritual energy..." Meng Po's expression was awkward. Without spiritual energy, she couldn't open a spatial barrier, couldn't take out her communicator, and even if she took it out, she couldn't activate it.

"I do."

The Water Ghost took out his own communication bead, pressed to open Lord Huang Quan's contact, and handed it to Meng Po.

"Du... du... du..."

The communication bead rang three times before the other side connected.