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"Since this river leads to the Northlands, many children born with a double pulse pass through here on their way up. Quite a few had fallen victim to the frost poison. We found a couple of disciples of the Grand Master's house dropping poison into the source of the stream. We killed one, and this is the other one that ran away."

"Disciple of the Grand Master's house?" Kongming raised his eyebrows and snorted.

"Heh, the Grant Master sure indulges that witch, even getting his own disciples to carry out these cruel tasks..."

"Yes. In recent years, the Grand Master's house has been in a shortage of people, so his disciples have also started taking in disciples. I heard earlier that this kid's master is Ji Chengyu." Kongming shifted his eyes to the oryoki upon hearing the name.

"Hmph. These guys are rotten to the core!" Luo Jinsang landed a fierce punch on the side of the bowl. The loud and lingering buzz made everyone's ears uncomfortable. Kongming threw her a scolding look.

"All right, they've been caught, and that punch was enough to suffer them for a while. Baldy, put your things away and let's get going. There are still many kids in need of our help" Luo Jinsang turned and left. Kongming pinched a spell between his fingers and the huge bowl slowly shrank back to a normal size.

"Don't kill the disciple. Take him back to the Northlands and see what information you can get out of him."

The big man was shocked. Kongming was famous for being ruthless and killing evil without hesitation, now he wants to spare this disciple's life. But the big man did not dare to question him, and just nodded "yes". The oryoki bowl that had just shrank to a few inches suddenly exploded out and was tossed aside.

The crowd was forced to shade their eyes from the black wind that blew at them. Kongming was very quick to react. He turned the zen staff in his hands and instantly formed a shield to block the demonic wind. Then he narrowed his eyes at the one standing in the center of the black gas.

"Fox demon?"

Aji had summoned her demonic energy to protect herself and Ji Ning who fell unconscious from the outburst. Now that they were outside again, the black gas slowly dissipated.

Kongming studied her. She looked back at him and felt a slight headache. Numerous images flashed through her mind again, but she could not make sense of any of them.

And in this moment of confusion, she abruptly felt a chill on the back of her neck. She looked behind and did not see anyone there, then she grew dizzy and fell to the ground. Before passing out, she saw the woman who had left earlier slowly fade into view.

Invisibility...

This woman could stealth? Aji then completely lost her consciousness.

Seeing that her eyes were now closed, Luo Jinsang patted her chest in relief. "Luckily I didn't go far, this demon is quite powerful." Luo Jinsang squatted down and pushed back the hair covering Aji's face.

"He doesn't look like this little demon master's demon slave, why is he protecting him?" Kongming walked over, grabbed Aji's wrist, held it for a moment, then released it.

"A very powerful demon indeed. Take him back to the north too."

....

When Aji woke up, she was inside an extremely cold dungeon. She rubbed her temples, sat up, and realized she had been captured. She touched her chest then the top of her head... Luckily, she had managed to preserve her transformation at the last moment and did not reveal anything...

She breathed a sigh of relief, then quietly surveyed the surroundings. In front of her were cold iron bars and the walls to the side were frozen. She touched the wall and suddenly felt like imprisonment was very familiar…

She turned her head again and was surprised.