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Chapter 94 The Insidious Man

The newcomer emerged from a cloud of black mist, dressed entirely in black, with makeup that resembled smoky eyes.

"Are the villainous elements really that obvious?" Cheng Mai whispered to Shang Xingjian.

"The acting is a bit over the top." Shang Xingjian played along with her and whispered in her ear.

The person being criticized felt ignored and squinted at them, saying, "You killed Longhair!"

"Yuanyi, after all these years, your look is still... indescribable." Shang Xingjian directly complained to the man in black, "It's the 21st century, fix your bird's nest-like hairstyle."

Yuan Yi was originally a sour and fierce bird from the Taihang Mountains. However, it was not a pure sour and fierce bird. The real sour and fierce bird was a three-legged monster that was neither snake nor bird. It looked like a snake, but had two pairs of wings, three legs, and six eyes.

What's in front of us is at most a mutated acid and bird, not even a ferocious creature.

"Shang Xingjian, you're still alive?" Yuan Yi narrowed his eyes and finally recognized the well-dressed man in front of him. It had been a thousand years since they last met.

A thousand years ago, Shang Xingjian was just a wandering Taoist priest, but a thousand years later, he hasn't changed at all.

“What a coincidence, it’s me again.” Shang Xingjian smiled slightly. “Last time, I broke two of your legs and destroyed four of your eyes. My intention was to make you repent and stop causing harm to the world. But now it seems that even if you become like a human, you still can’t do human things.”

Shang Xingjian was still a little angry after saying this. He didn't care about the good or evil of any living beings in the world, and he would save them if he could. But there were always some disappointing ones who made him angry.

"You bastard, kneel down!" Before Yuan Yi could lay a hand on him, the hand slapped Yuan Yi down, forcing him to kneel. "Even your ancestors wouldn't dare yell at me like that. Who gave you the audacity to be so rude and uncouth?"

Cheng Mai and Xiao Wang felt like they took a step back, because their boss was like a headmaster who had just caught a boy trying to climb over the wall to go online, and he was extremely disappointed in him.

Yuan Yi never expected that he, an ancient divine beast, would be forced to kneel down by Shang Xingjian with a single slap, unable to move at all.

"Who exactly are you?" Yuan Yi seemed to realize at this moment that this stinky Taoist priest might not have simply achieved enlightenment through cultivation.

“He is naturally a good person,” Shang Xingjian said naturally. “This place has good feng shui. Since you have gone to so much trouble to bring us here, I will accept it without hesitation.”

Looking at Shang Xingjian, Cheng Mai realized for the first time that someone could be so brazen and self-righteous in their thuggishness.

However, this is indeed the style of the business.

"If you want my territory, you'll have to see if you have the guts..." With a thud, Yuan Yi was slammed to the ground, face down.

Yuan Yi: "..." He hasn't even made a move yet!

Shang Xingjian pulled out a chair, sat down, and put his toes on Shang Xingjian's back. "From now on, if you want to fight, just fight. Don't do all this fancy stuff. Didn't I teach you that?"

Shang Xingjian stepped on his back and moved slightly closer to him. "It must have taken a lot of effort to find so many ice arrows. You know the people around me quite well, but you don't seem to know me that well."

Yuan Yi was unable to move, and couldn't even see Shang Xingjian. He seemed to have done nothing, yet he could hunt down half a mountain of monsters with the flick of his finger.

"I'm giving you two choices: one, abandon the darkness and embrace the light, and from today onwards assist the people of Xuanhe Technology in cleaning up this mountain; two, die."

Yuan Yi lay on the ground, silently furious. "Don't you want to ask who made me do this?"
Why is this man behaving unpredictably? He even had his answer planned out!
"What's the point of answering a question with a predetermined answer?" Shang Xingjian flipped his hand, and a bowl of pitch-black medicinal soup appeared in his palm. "One or two?"

Yuan Yi smelled the medicinal soup; he knew what it was: Meng Po's Soup.

He really is a treacherous man!
He could casually pull out the Meng Po soup from the underworld.

"Don't overthink it. I can hear you. Tell me your choice." Shang Xingjian seemed determined to get an answer from him, even though he already knew what it was.

"I'll ask one last question: why didn't you just kill me?"

“I had a brief encounter with your ancestor. She gave me a chance, and I promised her that if I were to encounter her or her descendants in future generations, I would not kill them.”

After finishing his brief explanation, Shang Xingjian seemed to know what Yuan Yi was thinking and added, "When I said I wouldn't kill you, I only meant I wouldn't take the initiative. If you cause harm to the world, I have plenty of ways to make you disappear from this world."

After thinking it over, Yuan Yi still chose the Meng Po soup, because he knew that the person was no match for Shang Xingjian.

Seeing that the person had made a choice, Shang Xingjian withdrew his foot and straightened his clothes. "You should have chosen this earlier. It's a waste of time."

"One last question, who exactly are you? Anyway, I'll forget soon enough, and even if you tell me, I won't tell anyone else." Yuan Yi searched through his memories but couldn't find any god or immortal who looked like Shang Xingjian.

"Since it's something to forget anyway, why bother knowing?" Shang Xingjian gestured for him to drink quickly, as he still had errands to run afterward.

Seeing that he couldn't get any information from him, Yuan Yi tilted his head back and drank the Meng Po soup.

Cheng Mai: "You drank it all? You didn't resist at all?"

"Hmm, spineless." Shang Xingjian looked down on him, even though he was the one who had just threatened someone.

Xiao Wang huddled to one side, trembling. Wasn't he intimidated by the boss's intimidating presence?
Yuan Yi was dazed for a moment, and when he opened his eyes again, he was still confused. He even asked the classic three questions in a row: "Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?"

"Ah, your name is Yuan Yi. You're an employee of Xuanhe Technology, mainly responsible for clearing out mountain demons and spirits. You just encountered a powerful monster. You couldn't defeat it, but I chased it away." Shang Xingjian's lies came out smoothly, skillfully and confidently.

Yuan Yi was confused for a moment, but he believed Shang Xingjian's words without a doubt.

"Thank you, boss. I think there are some things I can't remember clearly."

"It's alright. You need to go into the mountains and find a cicada. Go ahead and go find one. We'll wait for you here."

"By myself?" Yuan Yi remembered that the boss had just said that he had never fought the monsters in here.

"This is your territory, you know it best. Don't worry, anyone stronger than you has been taken care of."

“Okay, I’ll go now.” Yuan Yi said, turning and leaving, his body shrouded in black mist.

Cheng Mai sighed, "The truly brilliant are not obvious, while the foolish are too direct."

"That's because the person opposite him is me. If it were someone else, you would have been his food long ago," Shang Xingjian said.