The Ninth Lady is a rebellious person.

Chapter 289 I'll be happy if my arch-enemy isn't doing well.
Upon hearing the words "refusing the marriage," even Lang Jiuchuan, whose murderous aura was stirring, couldn't help but suppress it, his eyes shining brightly. Could this refusal of marriage mean refusing the marriage of the young master of the Rong family?

As expected, Yang Mingzi's expression turned slightly cold as he said, "Marriage between two families is meant to foster goodwill, not enmity. Young Master Gong has no interest in marriage, and the Rong family will not pester him. There is no question of humiliation."

"That's good. I thought you were going to stand up for your young master." Gong Shiliu said with a smile, "Actually, rumors stop with the wise. Instead of those rumors, why not let your young master come out of seclusion and travel around? There's no need to suppress him with a marriage alliance."

Yang Mingzi's face grew increasingly grim, and anger surged in his eyes.

Lang Jiuchuan and Fu Qi exchanged a glance. It seemed that the matter they had previously agreed to deal with the Rong family had really been spread by the ghost. The truth could not be hidden forever, and the Rong family now desperately needed good news to stabilize people's hearts.

That's great news!
Lang Jiuchuan's hostility dissipated somewhat; since her mortal enemy was having a hard time, she was having an easier time too.

Gong Qi caught a glimpse of Lang Jiuchuan's expression out of the corner of her eye. Seeing the smug smile on her lips, her eyes flashed, and she knew what they were talking about.

This person has an extraordinary number of secrets!

The Taoist priest from the Feng family then said, "Enough. We are all fellow practitioners and should not fight amongst ourselves. We came here for that Gu Master. We wonder where he is?"

Yangmingzi frowned, glanced at him, and thought, "No, he's already lost face so badly that it's been trampled on the ground. Are we just going to let it go like this?"

Master Qiuzhen glanced over indifferently, as if the other party was clearly protecting their own. These two young men from the Gong family would not get any better by continuing to entangle themselves with them. Especially since the Rong family was in a precarious situation, it was best not to offend them too much. Otherwise, if the rumor that Young Master Rong had gone astray and lost his Dao roots was true, it would be hard to say whether the Rong family could still hold onto their position as the youngest brother of the Xuan clan!
Even their Enforcement Hall will be the same; once it is merged into the Supervisory Department, it will no longer be able to act as arbitrarily as before.

When Master Qiuzhen thought of this, his brows furrowed, and he looked up at the sky, feeling as if the sky had already changed, and the Xuan Clan might be about to return to their original intention of cultivating the Dao.

But returning to simplicity and authenticity is not so easy.
It is unknown how many like-minded people will be able to stay true to their original aspirations and cultivate the Great Dao in this transformation, and how many fellow practitioners will be defeated in the tide and return to the mortal world as ordinary people.

The glory days are over!

These words suddenly came to mind, and Master Qiuzhen felt a sense of desolation and melancholy.

Fu Qi originally intended to bring the person out, but considering how despicable the people from the Enforcement Hall were, he took them directly to the woodshed. Sure enough, both of them were driven out by the stench and rotten smell of the woodshed and ran out, gagging a few times.

"What's going on? Why does it smell so bad?" What is that smell? It's like rotting meat, like excrement and urine, like stale and fishy smell. In short, all sorts of smells are mixed together, enough to make you feel like you've been pickled.

The woodshed door was opened, and the smell wafted out. Even Gong Qi and the others who hadn't gone in smelled it from outside the door, and their faces paled as they covered their noses and looked at Lang Jiuchuan.

What a talent! He could remain unfazed by such a stench.

Lang Jiuchuan knew long ago that the spirit witch's scent wouldn't be pleasant, so she had long since sealed off her sense of smell; she wasn't stupid.

"Bring the person out," Yangmingzi instructed Fuqi.

Fu Qi said, "I am not a member of the Enforcement Hall."

"you!"

Master Qiuzhen, his face dark, cast two purification spells inside, then dragged the spirit shaman, who was barely breathing, out. Yangmingzi, seeing her, sensed something was wrong. He lifted her face with his foot and saw her vacant stare, as if she had lost her soul, and her body covered in wounds. He glared at Lang Jiuchuan: "You've used torture?"

“I’m not taking the blame for this. It was a contest of magic, and she was just not as skilled.” Lang Jiuchuan glanced at him. “There are winners and losers in a contest of magic. If you lose, this is what happens. Unlike some lucky evil people who have people who uphold justice and enforce the law to help them turn the tide, the result is obvious.”

Yangmingzi and Qiuzhen: "..."

This is definitely a veiled insult to them!
Yangmingzi squatted down, suppressing his nausea as he carefully examined the spirit shaman, and said, "Even his soul is damaged."

"Of course, her natal Gu died, and she suffered a backlash, so naturally she was harmed." Lang Jiuchuan sneered, "She's lucky to be alive, but her soul was severely damaged. Most people would have been dead long ago after suffering such a severe backlash!"

The Taoist Master Qiuzhen asked, "Were you the one who fought her?"

Lang Jiuchuan said calmly, "What merit do I have? It was my master who helped me in secret."

The two men's expressions changed several times. They looked at each other and realized that this was more likely. What kind of reclusive master was he?
Gong Qi didn't expose her.

Lang Jiuchuan then said, "The person is now in your hands. Take him away."

Yangmingzi asked, "What about the person she secretly poisoned with Gu? And how was the Gu worm removed?"

Lang Jiuchuan's face showed disgust, and his eyes were cold as he said, "The person is with me. Do you want me to take you to see how badly she harmed that child? As for how she got rid of him, what, are you trying to steal my sect's secret techniques?"

Yangmingzi was so angry that his eyes rolled back. How could this woman be so deserving of a beating!

Lang Jiuchuan asked Fu Qi to take them to see Song Yuedie. After they went to the side room, she said to Gong Qi, "The so-called Law Enforcement Hall is just a place where the major Xuan clans have planted their own people. I don't think it's very righteous."

Gong Qi said sullenly, "It belongs to the Xuan Alliance and can be considered as a constraint on several Xuan clans. Of course, there are also some people from other clans, but that will have to be over by now. So the people in the Enforcement Hall are a bit angry now. You should bear with it."

Lang Jiuchuan raised an eyebrow; there's a story behind this.

However, she felt good seeing her arch-enemy suffer!

Seeing the two return with grim expressions, Lang Jiuchuan said, "The two immortals have already met with the aggrieved party. With your cultivation levels, you should be able to see the suffering that child has endured. And I'm not exaggerating. This person's actions are worthy of death, but I'm a good person and won't kill indiscriminately. How to deal with her is up to you righteous people!"

Yang Mingzi and the other person choked, feeling nauseous as if they had swallowed a fly. This Gu Master, who was almost marinated, was indeed not dead, but with so much exhalation and so little inhalation, how was it any different from being dead?
Who knows, on the way back to the Enforcement Hall, the person might have died at their hands. Wouldn't we then have to bury the body for them?
So this time, they came to do thankless and arduous work?

The two law enforcement officers, feeling cheated and taken advantage of, looked at Gong Qi and his group with a somber expression. They had been set up in a trap for them.

But since they've already come this far, they can't just ignore it, otherwise their previous statement about capturing evil spirits to set things right will be invalid.

The two grabbed the spirit shaman and were about to leave when Lang Jiuchuan said from behind, "That evil Taoist priest who fought with the Red Maiden, you two immortal masters aren't just going to let him go, are you? He's an evil Taoist priest, you know. Whether he really did something against the will of Heaven, like burying the living and arranging ghost marriages, can be found out with a simple investigation. What, is he not worth mentioning?"

The two froze again. "Immortal Lord, this disciple can't get out of this pit!"
When I was chatting with my friends about updates, I mentioned that I manage to keep up with daily updates thanks to my anxiety disorder, which shocked them and left them with countless question marks! What a novel yet terrifying energy...