hat old man makes things difficult for me, I won't be able to come back for a while. Why don't you just go after you've had the baby"... Let me know if you'd like me to translate anything else!Althou..."Tell me the truth, why did you get involved in all this!"

"I, I'm so unlucky!" Daqiang stubbornly refused to say more, like a duck with its beak stuck shut.

"Come on, this happens to me over and over again. It's not bad luck, it's a sign of impending doom." I said frowning.

"Master... I, I really didn't do anything wrong. I just helped a friend by introducing someone to come and play, taking a little commission."

"Sell yourself" my brother asked.

"That's about it... I have an older brother who runs an underground gambling den in the provincial capital. They have poker, mahjong, dice—everything. He says he'll give me a commission if I bring people to play there."

I frowned inwardly. It needed no saying, it must be the place with the pearl of mirage.

These people have hard lives and would love to get rich quick. So they use their social connections to recruit people to gamble.

“This woman, I knew her from my previous construction site. She was the boss's wife. She was very flirtatious and came on to me. Back then she had money, so I took her to that underground gambling den. She got addicted, and later on she gambled more and more. She rarely came to see me… At its worst, she probably went bankrupt and came here to mooch off me.” Daqiang said.

What about next door

“2-4” Daqiang’s face turned pale, his lips trembling as he said, “That man 2-4… I did tell him about that underground gambling den, but I never took him there… I don’t know if he went himself. I’m not close with him, so I have no idea why this murder happened. This is the truth, the police questioned me and verified what I said.” Daqiang spoke truthfully.

He looked at me without speaking and knelt down, saying: “Master, I swear I didn’t lie to you. Apart from introducing a few people to go in, I myself haven’t gone inside! I don’t gamble well! The official won’t let me leave now, so I’ve been staying here honestly!”

"I understand." I told him. "I think you should find somewhere else to stay, this place isn't safe."

"Why"

“That casino is going bankrupt, and the people you introduced there might come looking for you.” I tactfully made up an excuse.

This shouldn't count as a breach of confidentiality, right I can't just tell him the truth.

I put an exorcism and purification talisman on that woman's forehead. Fortunately, she was unconscious throughout the entire process, making the exorcism very smooth.

"I found that as long as the main body faints, the control ability of that mirage pearl weakens - of course, maybe it's because it's too far away," my brother said.

“If we encounter someone controlled by the mirage pearl in the future, wouldn’t we have to knock them unconscious one by one” I sighed. What I feared most was encountering walking corpses because there was no way to win against their sheer strength. Not to mention living people! I couldn't bring myself to strike them down. What would I do if I killed them”

My brother patted my shoulder and said, “I'll figure something out... Your husband just hinted at something. Let’s just listen to him and not wander around anymore. Let's go home quickly.”

"How is Old Chen doing" I worried about my younger brother who was imprisoned.

"Hmph, what can that old fox do Even when he's caught, he still hesitates to leave! He said the food was decent and he even made some connections with people in the underworld," my brother scoffed.

"This old fox, I was really worried about him for nothing."

》》》

My brother and I both drove here. I continued to take Chong Mo back to Shen's family, while my brother drove directly back to the provincial city.

At the rest stop off the highway, my brother stopped the car and came over to me, saying, "Based on past experience, Jiang Qiyun's words always carry deep meaning. Even if we don't understand them right away, we should follow through."

"I know, once I return to the Shen family, I will be secluded from the world." I nodded.

He went to the upper realm, something must have happened.

"I'm rushing home now, and I'll immediately tell Yan Qin and Lin Yanhuan not to run around. I'll also call Dad back. Only when the whole family is together will I feel at ease." My brother frowned and said.

"Have you heard any rumors, too" I asked.

My brother has always been someone who remains unfazed by praise or criticism, taking whatever life throws at him in stride. Although he's matured a lot in the past two years, there's still a bit of recklessness in his nature. He rarely takes things seriously or prepares for potential problems beforehand.

Jiang Qiyun couldn't reveal celestial secrets. He had a vague feeling about certain things, but he couldn't speak plainly about them.

My brother patted me and said, "Don't look so serious. Jiang Qiyun said he would be back soon, he'll definitely be back quickly. I'm here at home, you just need to keep the Shen family stable."

"Okay." I nodded heavily.

On the deserted highway under the cover of night, there were few cars. I drove silently, following the road back home.

I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but the small hills and trees on either side seemed particularly numerous, whizzing past the car window one after another, giving me a heavy, ghostly feeling.

I sneakily glanced at the silent figure in the passenger seat. He was propping his face up with one hand, leaning against the window and looking outside.

Next to him sat a zombie, and it was still a ferocious demon from the lower realms...

"...I thought you would cry and call out to Emperor Beitaidi like a whimpering child."

Chong Mo suddenly spoke, scaring me so much I almost twisted the steering wheel.

"What, what"

He grinned. “With someone like the Northern Heavenly Emperor as your backer, I thought you could run rampant between the yin and yang realms. Didn’t expect that not only did you not have him intervene on your behalf, but you were also quite unwilling for him to do so”

"Rubbish," I frowned. "I've experienced his state of forgetting-existence! Even immortals need to go through tribulation and bear karmic burdens!"

Speaking of sitting and forgetting, crossing tribulations... I glanced at Chongmo: "Do you demons also need to sit and forget, cross tribulations"

“Of course, but… we are not discarding evil thoughts, but pointless good intentions.” He sneered, “In a world of survival of the fittest, good intentions are like jokes. Besides making oneself's cultivation destroyed and vanish into ashes, they offer no benefit whatsoever.”

"Hogwash…" I muttered under my breath.

As long as it is cultivation, good intentions cannot be useless.

Why didn't Yin Su Bai personally take action and, after expending great effort to break out of the Demon Realm, hide himself in the crevices, reducing his impact on the worldly aura

If his heart holds no kindness, why would he act so quietly, like the wind in the night, leaving no trace

"He... where is he Your esteemed Demon Lord." I tentatively asked.

I don't know.

"Huh"

“What If we were in the Demon Realm, of course we’d know where to find the Demon Lord. But here in the human world... I don't know where he's hiding. Maybe somewhere tucked away in a gap between spaces He'll be looking for us, waiting for us to summon him with spells.” Chongmo stared out the window at the pitch-black night.

"So you're just wandering around the world What do you eat, where do you live Have you done anything illegal" I was a little surprised. These demons were just hanging out so casually in the human world

"You're meddling too much!" Chongmo shouted impatiently.

“If no one cares about you, just stay under house arrest at the Shen residence. As long as you don’t cause trouble, the Shen family is still very tolerant.” I sighed.

I didn't want to leave a bomb at the Shen family. Besides them, I really don't know where else to put the hush money.

If Yin Su Bai is in charge of these people, let him find his own leader. But Yin Su Bai himself is elusive and hard to find.

Chongmo looked at me coldly, without saying a word.

I felt like I was slapping my hot face on a cold ass, so I didn't continue talking.

A chill, like a phantom breath, crept in at my collar. I thought it was the oppressive aura of rage.

Gradually, you begin to realize something is amiss. That breath feels like a skin, silently clinging to your back...

I was just about to sneak a peek back when Chong suddenly reached out and pressed his hand against my head. The touch and force startled me so much I almost jumped out of my seat!o ash!”“And that was a toy factory. The toxic fumes from burning plastic caused these workers unimaginable pain, their faces contorted in agony as they died. Some even acted like lunatics, strangling...