After the destruction of the Immortal Realm, I took in the fallen fairy.

But... never mind.

Although somewhat surprised, the snow-maned lion demon quickly averted its gaze.

Compared to any immortal slave, he knew better that Cao He had brought Lin Heng and the others here today to get rid of this troublesome guy.

"It's just a celestial slave, we can just replace her with another one."

Cao He said something indifferently, and the Snow-Maned Lion Demon nodded and continued to walk into the room.

"This way, please."

When Lin Heng and the other two arrived, the guard merely bowed his head symbolically, signaling them to go inside.

"This...was originally a garden?"

After entering the room, Mu Tinglan subconsciously looked around.

Having spent many days in the city lord's mansion but never before visiting this place, Mu Tinglan never expected that behind the fairies' prison was a well-maintained little courtyard.

"wrong."

Lin Heng shook his head, his gaze falling on a few stones in a corner.

Yun Qinghe stepped forward and asked, "Master, is there anything different here?"

Mu Tinglan also looked over.

"This garden is actually arranged in a pattern."

Lin Heng turned his gaze to the corner of the wall on the other side.

There were several stones, seemingly piled haphazardly on the ground, but he could discern some patterns in them.

"Constructing an array..."

Upon hearing this, Yun Qinghe and Mu Tinglan immediately became alert.

Almost simultaneously, the two had already quietly prepared to conjure immortal techniques at any moment by hiding them in their sleeves.

"But this array is not dangerous."

Lin Heng shook his head and said, "Although I don't recognize this array, judging from its arrangement, it should be used to release some kind of signal."

"Signal?"

Yun Qinghe and Mu Tinglan were puzzled.

"From now on, just be careful."

Lin Heng did not offer much explanation.

Although he knew that this formation was not an offensive formation like the Spirit Suppressing Tower Formation, Cao He would not have brought them to the center of this formation for no reason.

"This is it."

Cao He turned his head and pointed to a flower bed next to Lin Heng.

The snow-maned lion demon came to help, using its brute strength to lift the entire flower bed.

To conceal this, the soil in this flower bed is specially sourced from Caohe.

Apart from their innate brute strength as snow-maned lion demons, ordinary humans or demons simply cannot move them an inch.

But after he moved the flower bed, a locked wooden door appeared on the ground where the flower bed had been.

"The fairy is down there."

Then, Cao He suddenly changed the subject: "Lin Heng, are you really not going to reconsider the position of granary clerk?"

"No."

Lin Heng smiled easily and said, "My answer remains the same: I don't like being an official."

Cao He nodded without saying anything, but instead squatted down and opened the wooden door himself.

"Since you don't like being an official, how about we make a normal deal?"

Cao He looked at Lin Heng and said, "The grain reserves in Linxian City are almost empty. You just need to give me some grain, and I will exchange the fairy below for you."

Lin Heng maintained his smile: "Food is no problem, my granaries are almost full anyway."

On the surface, the two seemed to be having a calm conversation, but in reality, they each had their own thoughts.

The last time Cao He asked Lin Heng about his willingness to become an official, it was the last chance he could give Lin Heng.

As for wanting that fairy to become his fairy slave?

No one in this world has that kind of power.

Lin Heng's thoughts were quite simple.

Whatever you want to exchange it for, you're already here, so how can you go back empty-handed...?

"Let's go then."

Cao He and the Snow-Maned Lion Demon were the first to enter the tunnel.

However, after waiting for a while, Lin Heng gave Mu Tinglan and Yun Qinghe a look, signaling them to be ready at any time after they went in.

"Um."

The two nodded and escorted Lin Heng down the road, one on each side.

Compared to the tunnel under the ancestral graves of the neighboring Zhang family, the tunnel in the city lord's mansion was significantly more spacious.

Furthermore, lights were lit on both sides of the tunnel, so the surrounding environment did not appear dark.

However, the passage leading down was much deeper than expected.

After walking for a long time, the bottom of the abyss remained unseen.

The only change is that the passage is becoming wider and wider, more like entering an underground cave.

Faintly, one could hear the pattering sound of underground water dripping onto the ground...

Suddenly, Mu Tinglan and Yun Qinghe stopped in their tracks simultaneously.

"Senior sister?"

The two looked at each other, and Mu Tinglan nodded slightly.

At this moment, they clearly shared the same feeling.

"Um?"

At this moment, Cao He and the Snow-Haired Lion Demon also turned around.

Cao He calmly said, "We're almost there, why did you suddenly stop?"

"I'm tired, let's take a break."

Lin Heng knew that Mu Tinglan and Yun Qinghe must have discovered something.

At this moment, Mu Tinglan leaned over and whispered in Lin Heng's ear, "Master, do you remember that tunnel across from our house?"

"Um."

Lin Heng nodded.

Mu Tinglan said warily, "My junior sister and I also sensed the dangerous aura of that demon deep underground."

Yun Qinghe added, "Furthermore, it was accompanied by a violent spiritual energy spreading up from below."

"Are you confident this time?"

Lin Heng asked directly.

After thinking for a moment, Mu Tinglan said, "If we take into account the spiritual herbs that Master gave us, and have Junior Sister also take the Gathering Yuan Grass to improve her strength... it shouldn't be difficult to escape unscathed."

Yun Qinghe nodded gently: "Yes, this passage is easier to navigate than ours. Even if we encounter that powerful demon, my senior sister and I can still escape with our master."

Tap, tap tap—

Just then, a series of crisp footsteps suddenly came from the side of the passage.

Mu Tinglan and Yun Qinghe immediately became alert, their fingertips hidden in their sleeves already forming a magical spell.

But Lin Heng narrowed his eyes slightly.

wrong……

Even if Cao He really wanted to kill him, he wouldn't do it here.

And you can tell just by looking at Cao He's expression.

His face also showed some surprise.

"How come there's someone here?"

Cao He frowned and subconsciously looked in the direction from which the footsteps came...

"Strange, I clearly saw my uncle bring a fairy servant in yesterday, so why is there not a soul in sight down here?"

In the dim light, a small lion demon was walking towards the passage from the side.

"It looks like someone's coming?"

He stopped and hid behind a boulder.

It was his father and his uncle.

And what follows is...

"Fairy Slave, that's the fairy slave my uncle gave me! I want her! I haven't even played with her yet!"

The little lion demon's eyes widened immediately after its gaze fell on Mu Tinglan.

In an instant, the lion's eager, bestial nature was revealed in its eyes.

The little lion demon braced itself on its hands and ran off in its lion form, darting away from the side.

And the direction he lunged towards was directly aimed at Mu Tinglan, who was next to Lin Heng!

puff--

Just as he leaped into the air above the passage, a sharp blue light pierced through his thin body.

"ah?!"

Upon realizing that the other party was a little lion demon, Yun Qinghe immediately lowered her raised hand.

original……

The other party wasn't some kind of demon, but rather an immature little imp?

At this moment, the little lion demon, who had fallen heavily to the ground, struggled to raise its head, looked towards Mu Tinglan, and said with its last breath, "I... I want to play with her, I want to raise her in the cattle farm, and give her milk..."

puff.

The next moment, the little lion demon collapsed to the ground, completely lifeless.

Yun Qinghe's expression turned cold again.

The other party was indeed not a monster, but she did not feel that she had killed anyone by mistake.

But at that moment, an angry lion's roar came from in front of them!