Chapter 109: Is it very fair?

Pei Chuyun’s heart was filled with despair.

If someone had told her that saying things like "last time" was a jinx and you shouldn't say it lightly, she definitely wouldn't have come.

But she thought that Meng Guan wouldn't participate in the battle against Huo Bing. She couldn't figure out what other power Lu Xingzhou could use, but she hadn't considered that her appearance would cause Meng Guan to participate again, and that this power had always been there.

World affairs change with circumstances; there's no such thing as something that won't happen if it wasn't going to originally. This was a truth the junior demoness had learned at the painful price of being captured, but the junior demoness didn't know if she would have a life left to apply this understanding.

Her key points had just been sealed. A Nuo excitedly took out a hemp rope and tied her up tightly, conveniently shoving a taro into her mouth.

Pei Chuyun bit the taro spitefully, glaring at A Nuo without speaking.

This isn't how you humiliate someone. Shoving a taro in my mouth to block it, what do you take me for?

A Nuo said, "Sister, you misunderstand. I'm offering you something to eat. Are you hungry?"

Pei Chuyun moved her mouth to eat the taro, then "hmphed" and turned her head away as if facing death.

On the other side, Lu Xingzhou had sealed her points but didn't pay attention to her further. The first thing he did was grab the rolling Huo Bing from the ground and punch him in the chest.

"Crack, crack, crack," the sound of bones breaking echoed. Huo Bing's eyes widened in pain; all his bones were broken, his dantian shattered, and he was clearly crippled.

"Is this all Fourth Brother has?" Lu Xingzhou smiled wickedly and patted his face. "You were so impressive bullying children, why are you so weak fighting adults?"

Huo Bing's mouth was full of blood, and he glared at him hatefully, murmuring indistinctly, "You... don't fear... Father..."

"Oh..." Lu Xingzhou slapped his face again, knocking out two teeth. "Take care of yourself first."

Huo Bing was in too much pain to speak.

Above, Uncle Lin saw the sudden change below and frantically shook off Jing Ge, rushing down, but it was already too late.

Meng Guan captured the infant ghost, using one hand to hold back Uncle Lin. The surrounding prefecture guard teams were shadowy, completely surrounding the area. "Mister Lin, don't be too agitated. You and Huo Bing colluded with a demon cultivator; with ten thousand witnesses, you can explain it slowly in the big prison."

Huo Bing still couldn't speak. Uncle Lin's eyes were wide, and he angrily said, "We fundamentally don't know this demoness!"

"So the infant ghost has nothing to do with you either?"

Uncle Lin opened his mouth but couldn't answer.

Denying it now was easy, but the infant ghost had already been captured. Once a soul search was performed, everything would be exposed. At the very least, Huo Bing instructing the infant ghost to kill Lu Xingzhou was a certainty.

Meng Guan sneered, "Take them all away! Before His Majesty, this official will properly ask Huo Taishi how he raised his descendants!"

Lu Xingzhou smiled wickedly and searched Huo Bing's body, finally taking off his ring. He threw the limp Huo Bing to Meng Guan. "The spoils of war belong to me, no problem, right?"

Meng Guan looked at him deeply. "Mister, don't be in a hurry to leave. This official still has matters to discuss with Mister Lu."

Lu Xingzhou laughed. "I originally had matters and couldn't leave anyway. Can the prefecture guard arrange a residence?"

Meng Guan's expression was strange as he glanced at Pei Chuyun. In theory, he should also take away this kind of demon cultivator, but at this moment, everyone knew Lu Xingzhou wanted to "enjoy the spoils of war." Only a fool would contend with him over this. So he smiled slightly. "I will leave a guard to bring Mister Lu to a quiet room. However, Mister Lu might want to take it easy; women from the Huanxi Sect are not so easy to enjoy... Perhaps by the time this official wants to find Mister, Mister will be gone..."

"Ahem, rest assured, Prefecture Guard adult..."

Huo Bing, Shadow, Uncle Lin, as well as the guards who couldn't help at all during the battle, were all captured and taken to the big prison.

Jing Ge landed in front of Lu Xingzhou, his expression complex. "It really is true that I can see the infant ghost again by helping you fight Huo Bing. This old man believed you. I didn't bet, otherwise my underwear would be gone."

Lu Xingzhou smiled. "Brother Jing, what are your plans for the future?"

"You don't want to trick me into joining the Tianxing Jian Sect, do you?"

"I won't hide it from Brother Jing, that is indeed my intention."

"Forget it, I have a wanted status, which would be unfavorable to you... Moreover, I don't want to be trapped in one place just for cultivation, it's not what I desire."

Lu Xingzhou nodded, not forcing him, and cupped his hands. "Then I wish Brother Jing travels the world and fulfills his own path. We may meet again in the future Jianghu. At that time, I will invite Brother Jing for a drink again."

Jing Ge laughed heartily. "At that time, I will invite you for a drink. See you later!"

"See you later."

Hanzi carried his long saber and leaped away. Lu Xingzhou watched him disappear into the sky, then smiled wickedly and turned his head to look at Pei Chuyun.

Pei Chuyun was tied up tightly and indignantly turned her head away.

The prefecture guard's personal guard beside them smiled wickedly. "Mister Lu, the quiet room is ready. Please follow me."

Inside the quiet room, incense candles were warm.

Pei Chuyun was tied up and thrown onto the bed.

Lu Xingzhou smiled wickedly and sat beside her, reaching his hand into her embrace to grope around.

Pei Chuyun bit her lower lip, glaring at him hatefully.

Lu Xingzhou fumbled out the poetry collection, flipped through a few pages, and gently shook his head. "It really is very ordinary."

Pei Chuyun didn't speak.

Lu Xingzhou casually placed the poetry collection by the pillow, tilted his head, and sized her up for a while. "Your original appearance is even better looking than A Ruo. A Ruo is already considered exceedingly charming, but your original appearance... saying you could topple a country is not an exaggeration."

Pei Chuyun rolled her eyes and simply said charmingly, "Since I've fallen into your hands... the weak are prey to the strong. Concubine is willing to offer herself."

"Huh? What do you want me to do?" Lu Xingzhou's hand swept over her "mountain peaks." "Like this?"

Pei Chuyun gritted her teeth and said charmingly, "Could it be that Mister doesn't want to?"

Lu Xingzhou said, "You're dreaming."

Pei Chuyun: "?"

"You want to trick me into joyous union, and then either be controlled or turn into a dry husk?"

Pei Chuyun felt strange.

You're afraid of this? Then you could just cripple me first. Don't tell me someone as smart as you didn't even consider this?

As if he had seen through her thoughts, Lu Xingzhou leisurely said, "I really didn't consider it... not willing."

Pei Chuyun: "..."

"Hey, I ask you, in that battle in the temple courtyard, why didn't you act?"

Pei Chuyun's feigned charm finally disappeared, and she said dully, "You were prepared."

"Well, I was prepared for this battle too," Lu Xingzhou laughed. "Is it because you also feel that a person like the infant ghost shouldn't live?"

Honestly, Pei Chuyun didn't know why, but she actually couldn't help but ask, "Did you judge Hongfa Temple to be the infant ghost's lair just because I casually said I wanted to visit Hongfa Temple?"

"Of course. Even if you understood the sights beforehand, with your identity as a demoness, how could you possibly choose to visit a temple first? Buddha light has some restraint on you, you should subconsciously avoid it. Saying you want to visit famous buildings or gardens would be much more normal than this. As soon as I heard it, I thought there was mostly a problem."

"But that's based on the premise that you knew A Ruo was me. Where did I expose a flaw?"

Lu Xingzhou took out an embroidered shoe. "It told me."

Pei Chuyun's face was red as blood. "Give it back to me!"

"Then I might suffer a loss. What do you want to exchange it for?"

Pei Chuyun had already given up. In fact, from the moment she was caught, she didn't expect to remain pure. "I can't resist you anymore. What I can stop you from doing what you want?"

Lu Xingzhou did indeed just put his hand towards the hem of her clothes and reached up.

Pei Chuyun's body trembled, and she bit her silver teeth tightly.

But she found that Lu Xingzhou was reaching towards her back, loosening the tie of her bellyband, and then pulling it around to the front.

Pei Chuyun: "?"

A bellyband was quietly pulled out, pink in color.

"Exchanging it for this is about enough." Lu Xingzhou seriously put away the bellyband and put the shoe back to her. "Here, returning it to you."

Pei Chuyun: "..."

She didn't know why, but she actually wanted to laugh a little, but her face was red and burning, even her neck was red through.

Lu Xingzhou stretched lazily, very naturally leaning shoulder to shoulder with her against the head of the bed, casually wrapping his arm around her shoulder, like a young couple chatting. "I've had people investigate you, but I've wasted my money so far. The information I got is very unsatisfactory. This only proves one point: even within the Huanxi Sect, your information is a kind of secret, and most people are unclear about it."

Pei Chuyun was hugged and had no choice but to lean on his shoulder, feeling inexplicably strange in this natural chatting atmosphere. "What do you want to say?"

"This is not the attitude of a cultivated saintess... You repeatedly take risks alone, which is even less like a high-level figure in power." Lu Xingzhou said, "Do you have any thoughts about this matter yourself?"

Pei Chuyun's expression was inexplicably strange. "Your meaning is, you want to help me succeed?"

I'm tied up in five flowers, my hands are still tied behind my back, and then you, with a very good relationship with me, hug me and say you want to help me?

Are you sick?

Lu Xingzhou answered very naturally, "First I need to know your situation, then I can say what ideas I have."

Pei Chuyun was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "The sect is cultivating me in the name of a saintess. My identity is noble, and I have resources, but they haven't given me any power. I can't command anyone, nor can I build authority. For example, our chat during the day about making poetry and so on, originally I intended to forge the identity of a talented woman, behind which is the joyous union saintess, which was a common method in previous years... But I proposed this, and yet was rejected by Master. I don't understand why."

Lu Xingzhou looked at the ceiling and pondered, "This kind of operation can only be understood as not wanting you to be too conspicuous... Do you know your own background?"

"I don't know, my memory from several years ago is very vague."

"Have you considered that you might be a daughter of the Pei family, stolen by the Huanxi Sect?"

"I have. I also secretly checked the Pei family, they didn't lose a child."

Lu Xingzhou shook his head. "That's not necessarily true... Like the story of the raccoon replacing the crown prince, the Pei family themselves might not necessarily know."

Pei Chuyun said, "What's the point of doing that? Moreover, if that's the case, they should change my name even more. Why still keep the surname Pei?"

"We need to investigate, random guessing is meaningless." Lu Xingzhou said, "I'm going to the capital this time and need to stay for quite a while. You can go investigate with me."

"Isn't it..." Pei Chuyun really couldn't help but ask, "What exactly is our relationship?"

Lu Xingzhou finally laughed. "You want to take revenge on me, but you always lose. Actually, I've thought about it from left to right, and I feel like we don't have any deep enmity."

Pei Chuyun gritted her teeth.

Wrong, there is.

Lu Xingzhou turned his head, his lips lightly kissing her ear. "Actually... if you hadn't just held my shoulder well but had directly used a killing move to kill me, I might not have been able to cope. My hard strength is far worse than yours."

A wave of numbness and itchiness spread, and Pei Chuyun's breathing started to quicken. "I... I should have just killed you..."

"No matter how you think, whether you want to capture me or tame me, since you didn't use a killing hand, you showed mercy, and I will naturally appreciate it." Lu Xingzhou gently stroked her body and slowly said, "You only wanted to capture me, and I also only captured you. Does that count as even?"

Pei Chuyun's whole body was soft from being stroked, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Then what are you doing now?"

"It's so difficult to catch a demoness who can topple a country. I have to earn something, right? Do I look like a fool?"

Pei Chuyun was speechless.

Lu Xingzhou asked again, "Hey, if you caught me, would you harvest me for nourishment?"

"No!" Pei Chuyun gritted her teeth. "My purity won't be wasted here!"

"Then rest assured." Lu Xingzhou continued to stroke her. "Since you wouldn't, I won't either. Isn't that very fair?"

Pei Chuyun was so angry she almost wanted to break free from the sealed points. "I'd rather you would!"