After infiltrating the main characters' group, I became the most beautiful woman in the world.

"You've gone to all this trouble, just for this knife?"

"Now, I give you this knife, but on one condition: you must leave."

Upon hearing this, Yin Ye didn't react much, but Chen Wujin and Xue Shazi behind him had their eyes shining.

Chen Wujin even preemptively replied, "Give us the knife now, and we can leave immediately."

But as soon as he finished speaking, he realized he had misspoke. He then saw the person wearing the ghost mask turn slightly to glance at him, the warning in his eyes quite obvious.

"Su, Su Su, no!"

The boy lying in Su Ning's arms was as if he had been soaked in blood; his pale face was still stained with undried blood, yet he still gripped Su Ning's sleeve with all his might, his voice weak but stubborn:

"This knife must never fall into the hands of the demonic sect..."

Su Ning looked down at him, her fingertips gently wiping away the bloodstains from the corner of his eye. Her tone was calm yet carried an undeniable strength: "Zijin, listen to Uncle Tang. The dead cannot be brought back to life."

"Both you and the people of Lingzhou City are far more important than this sword at this moment."

During this brief respite, Tangxi pulled over a young girl, saying, "Miss Qi, please treat him quickly."

Lou Xianyue's case was initially taken over by Song Hengxue, so he couldn't leave at the moment. Therefore, Doctor Su from Baihua Valley asked Qi Linglong to come with her to treat Yue Zijin.

The people from the Wuxiang Sect were determined to kill Yue Zijin. Although she, Pei Yunlian, and Lin Ci tried to stop them, the other party was elusive and always found an opportunity to attack Yue Zijin.

Therefore, his injuries were the most severe.

"Miss Qi, I'm begging you."

Su Ning glanced down at Yue Zijin, who was unwilling to accept the truth, and gently placed him on the ground.

Although Qi Linglong had a bit of a spoiled and willful temperament, she was very decisive when it came to serious matters. She immediately took out silver needles and ointment from her medicine bag, squatted down, and carefully examined Yue Zijin's injuries.

Yin Ye's gaze also fell on the Dragon Sparrow Blade in Tang Jingshan's hand. Although he had failed to kill the chosen one, the Dragon Sparrow Blade was indeed his biggest objective for this trip.

But his attitude was much calmer than Chen Wujin and Xue Shazi. He even seemed quite interested in negotiating with them, "Master Tang, you expect me to spare the lives of all the people of Lingzhou City, and the Chosen One, with just a mere Dragon Sparrow Blade?"

"That's not how business is done."

But Tang Jingshan wasn't intimidated at all. He immediately flicked his sleeves and said, "If you don't agree to my conditions, I can destroy this knife right now, and none of you will get it."

"Surely this outcome is not what Lord Youtai desired."

Yin Ye choked on his words, and his fingertips under his black robe curled up almost imperceptibly.

He stared intently at the Dragon Sparrow Blade that Tang Jingshan held across his chest. The blade reflected the sunlight, gleaming with a cold golden light—he was all too familiar with the patterns on the blade.

If the other party really resorts to desperate measures and destroys the secret techniques of the Sword Forging Manor, he will have no chance of explaining himself when he returns.

"Okay, I can agree to that."

"We can leave the people of Lingzhou City alone after obtaining the knife."

"But you still have to agree to one condition."

Tang Jingshan's gaze fell on Yue Zijin, a flicker of sorrow crossing his eyes, but his resolve remained firm: "I will never let you hurt him."

"No," Yin Ye said, a hint of amusement in his voice, "I can forgo the life of the chosen one."

"So what are your conditions?"

Instead of being reassured by the other party's words, Tang Jingshan frowned even more deeply.

"I want--"

"she."

His finger lightly touched Su Ning, but before the others around him could panic, he moved on to another target.

The finger finally landed on Qi Linglong.

"What...me?"

Qi Linglong had just finished giving Yue Zijin the last acupuncture needle when she noticed that everyone's eyes were on her. Only then did she realize what everyone had been talking about.

Everyone was at a loss because of this Master Youtai of the Wuxiang Sect. Only Suxin Fairy, who was sitting on the platform and was Qi Linglong's birth mother, gasped for breath for a moment.

But then they heard Yin Ye laugh, his voice hoarse as he tried to hide it: "Don't worry, everyone, I have no ill intentions and will not do anything to this young lady."

"It's just that this young lady is related to the head of our Wuxiang Sect by blood. Today, I'm only here at his request to bring his daughter back to the sect."

Upon hearing this, almost everyone's eyes widened in surprise.

The silver needle in the hand of the Fairy Suxin suddenly fell. If Song Hengxue hadn't helped her up, she probably wouldn't have been able to stand up.

"You're talking nonsense! How could I possibly be the daughter of your so-called shamanic master!"

Qi Linglong's voice was shrill and cracked, all the composure she had shown while administering the acupuncture had crumbled, and she was now shaking her head incessantly, even her breathing was trembling.

But the person who exposed the truth remained calm and composed, simply stating a fact: "Why should I lie to you?"

"More than a decade ago, when the Wuxiang Sect was besieged, the Pure Heart Fairy of Hundred Flowers Valley saved the Wuxiang Sect's Witch Master. Back then, the Witch Master was disguised as a woodcutter and fell in love with the Pure Heart Fairy."

"Later they had a daughter."

"But the Master of the Witch Platform was ultimately a member of the Formless Sect. After learning the Master's true identity, Fairy Suxin angrily left with her daughter, and this past event gradually faded into obscurity after Fairy Suxin returned to Hundred Flowers Valley."

"Now that the Wuxiang Sect is about to make a comeback, I merely agreed to their request to take their daughter back. Is that not allowed, Master Tang?"

Yin Ye's gaze swept around the room before finally settling on Tang Jingshan.

"I……"

"No, I will never let you take my daughter away!"

Su Xin Fairy suddenly shoved Song Hengxue aside, staggered down from the stands, her white skirt sweeping across the stone steps, creating a gust of wind.

She stood in front of Qi Linglong, arms outstretched like a mother bird protecting her chicks, her eyes filled with a resolute determination: "Linglong is my child, whom I carried for ten months and raised myself! She has absolutely nothing to do with the Wuxiang Sect or that man!"

Qi Linglong hid behind her mother, her fingertips gripping Su Xin Xianzi's sleeve tightly until her knuckles turned white.

Looking at her mother's reddened eyes and listening to the gasps around her, her previously muddled mind became frighteningly clear—the old wooden hairpins her mother had hidden at the bottom of the trunk, and the sighs in the dead of night, all had now come to an end.

Su Ning, standing to the side, naturally saw everything clearly.

Qi Linglong's numbness, Su Xin Fairy's grief.

But time didn't give the mother and daughter a chance. Gasps of alarm rang out from all around: "Fairy, step back!"

It turned out that Yin Ye had disregarded all martial ethics and attacked the two of them directly.

This was his first time showing up, and everyone who fought him just now knew that he had an extremely strange movement technique.

In no time, he darted in front of the mother and daughter. Just as his fingers were about to grab Qi Linglong's shoulder, Su Ning blocked him.

At the same moment the opponent's palm strike lifted the girl's veil, Su Ning also simultaneously used the second level of the Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns - Bewitching Mind.