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The next day, a formal clarification meeting was held.

The middle-aged man knelt on the stage, sobbing uncontrollably, slapping himself repeatedly. He said, "It's all my fault! I was blinded by greed. Seeing the Demon Sect's considerable profits, I became resentful and wanted to ruin its reputation. So I deliberately spread rumors and stirred up trouble. Everything I said about the Demon Sect before was fabricated by myself, sob sob sob..."

The audience sighed and threw whatever they were holding at the middle-aged man, calling him a bastard who had deceived their feelings!

Seeing this, Lin Yaoxie thought to himself, "Three men can make a tiger; some things, once said, will always be believed. Blaming others for spreading rumors, why don't you think about how you spread them yourself?" Fortunately, the matter was now settled.

Chapter Fifty-Six: A Galaxy of Stars

Lin Yaoxie traveled through various worlds, and one sentence always stayed in his heart: If things don't go as planned, then let time prove it.

After this incident, Zhao Ling'er had a completely different opinion of Lin Yaoxie. She had always thought that Lin Yaoxie was incapable of handling things, but now it seemed that he not only was capable, but also extremely capable.

In fact, Zhao Ling'er should have returned to the Southern Frontier long ago, but on the night before her departure, she felt the Nuwa inheritance within her body and fell into a deep sleep.

In her dream, Zhao Ling'er could sense an endless vastness...

It was the beginning of time, when all things were nothingness, and there was only endless silence in the vast world. Zhao Ling'er walked in this endless dust, and a huge sense of emptiness rose in her heart. It was a feeling that could not be described in words, like a child who loves excitement being suddenly locked in a dark room.

Feeling frustrated and wanting to vent, Zhao Ling'er realized she had nowhere to do so. In this vast world, she couldn't even hear an echo. She began to doubt her own existence.

Looking around, nothing could stimulate Zhao Ling'er's senses except for the wind howling in the distance.

However, after wandering aimlessly for 043, Zhao Ling'er discovered a sound ahead that wasn't hers. Her heart raced with excitement, like someone who had wandered half a lifetime in a place of endless yellow sand and then discovered an oasis.

Driven by curiosity, Zhao Ling'er approached the source of the sound and discovered that it was a "thing" similar to herself, with two arms and two legs, and was quite cute.

These little creatures would even approach me and keep calling "Mommy, Mommy".

The delicate, bell-like sounds of the toys gently jingling captivated Zhao Ling'er's heart. She carefully cradled the little creatures in her arms, and ever since encountering them, she has been constantly thinking of these little guys.

She protected the little creatures from the harm of the external environment. Later, influenced by the tides of heaven and earth, all things began to develop and multiply in the world. At this time, Zhao Ling'er had more to worry about because these little creatures had competitors.

So Zhao Ling'er began teaching the little creatures how to sow grains, how to make fire, how to defend themselves from wild animals, and how to reproduce, and she began to call these little creatures "people."

And so, under Zhao Ling'er's protection, these little creatures multiplied very quickly.

These people did not disappoint Zhao Ling'er's expectations. They were very intelligent, hardworking and brave, and had the courage and determination to conquer the world. Zhao Ling'er was very happy to see this.

But the good times didn't last long. One day, Mount Buzhou collapsed, and heavenly fire and earthly water began to spread across the human world. The little creatures suffered great harm. Seeing all this, Zhao Ling'er, who regarded the little creatures as her own children, was heartbroken. First, she taught the little creatures how to survive on water, then she extinguished the heavenly fire, collected the earthly water, and then refined stones to mend the sky.

From then on, the world began to be peaceful, and the little creatures began to live on this land again. However, as all things continued to evolve, some evil species began to take advantage of this opportunity to wreak havoc on the earth. They used the spiritual energy of heaven and earth as their means of survival and the flesh and blood of other creatures as a ladder to become powerful.

Witnessing all this, Zhao Ling'er decided to stop this behavior. She told the wise man among people how to establish his own order among people and how to establish his own behavioral patterns.

Under her guidance, people began to grow stronger and stronger, able to fight against other evil creatures. In gratitude for everything Zhao Ling'er had done, people built temples to worship the deity who had always helped them.

Zhao Ling'er wanted to see how these little guys would travel further and further on this land, but it was too late. She could clearly feel her spiritual power getting weaker and weaker, as if she had left her life source. Her body was gradually withering away.

Finally, once again for the sake of the little ones' future, in an epic battle, Zhao Ling'er nearly exhausted her spiritual power. However, still worried about people's safety, she used all her remaining spiritual power to propagate generation after generation of her descendants. The task of her descendants was to maintain peace in the human world, so that even if she left the human world she knew, she would not leave with a heart full of trepidation.

The moment she closed her eyes, Zhao Ling'er looked up at the sky. A girlish figure was expanding. Zhao Ling'er could clearly feel that the same bloodline flowing through that figure was exactly the same as hers. One after another, the figures kept changing, but the feeling of spiritual energy resonating with each other was always there.

Finally, Zhao Ling'er saw a very familiar back. Gradually, the back turned around, and it was Zhao Ling'er's own back. No wonder it was so familiar. Zhao Ling'er in the sky smiled at Zhao Ling'er on the ground.

The familiar voices and sensations returned, ones that I could feel even more clearly after inheriting Nuwa's power.

"Ling'er, the Nuwa clan has existed for the safety of humankind for generations, since the primordial era. What you have experienced is what Nuwa experienced in the primordial era. And the many figures you just saw are descendants of Nuwa from the first generation. I hope that you, this generation of Nuwa descendants, can be like your ancestors."

"We take the responsibility of protecting all living beings as our own, because this is the destiny of you, of me, and of our entire race!"

"Ling'er, Ling'er..."

Amidst this ethereal and otherworldly voice, Zhao Ling'er awoke, the scenes from her mind still vividly appearing before her eyes.

What she had just done must have been what Nuwa and her descendants experienced during the primordial era. Zhao Ling'er thought to herself.

From that night on, Zhao Ling'er valued her sense of mission even more, because she realized that after inheriting Nuwa's legacy from the snake cave, her life no longer belonged to herself, but to all living beings and to every pure and kind person in this world.

This is why Zhao Ling'er delayed her departure for the Southern Frontier, because she could clearly sense that evil spirits were causing trouble in Suzhou City, and eliminating these evil spirits was her only duty as a descendant of Nuwa.

As the ancients said, "The Milky Way is so bright, it seems to come from within it." Only in the vast and ever-flowing river of humanity can the descendants of Nuwa better understand their responsibilities and better serve the people. This is also why Zhao Ling'er is now following Lin Yaoxie.

Chapter 57 The Hidden Intelligence Agency

There is one thing, and that is why Zhao Ling'er was willing to run this seemingly useless Demon Shop for Lin Yaoxie.

To those around her, Zhao Ling'er was not someone who loved money. Not only did those around her think so, but in fact, when Lin Yaoxie first opened this Yaoxie Workshop, Zhao Ling'er was very opposed to it.

After the incident at the pool, Zhao Ling'er had become a woman. She knew that the people who ran the Demon Shop were women who sacrificed their bodies to make money. In Zhao Ling'er's mind, the Demon Shop also had the flaw of being greedy for money.

So, the day before the opening, Zhao Ling'er unusually entered Lin Yaoxie's room.

"I thought that since you were a peerless martial artist, you would be like other great heroes who regarded money as dirt. I never expected that you would love money so much that you would build a brothel to make money for yourself," Zhao Ling'er said excitedly.

Lin Yaoxie looked at Zhao Ling'er, whose face was flushed red from excitement, but made no comment.

"Say something! Why won't you speak? Did I touch on your weakness? You're so greedy for money, yet the people of Suzhou still consider you their savior."

"Then do you know why I opened the Demon Shop?" Lin Yaoxie stared at Zhao Ling'er and asked.

"Hmph, isn't it all for money?" Zhao Ling'er immediately chimed in.

"Do you know of any other reasons?" Lin Yaoxie asked again, unhurriedly.

"Oh?" Zhao Ling'er looked puzzled.

"So, my dear Miss Ling'er, next time please ask me first before questioning me, okay?" Lin Yaoxie said helplessly.

"You didn't explain things to me clearly first, so how can you blame me? By the way, what was the reason?" Zhao Ling'er asked again.

"Suzhou is located at a key transportation hub, and all sorts of people move around here. In other words, Suzhou is a huge intelligence hub. If we build a brothel here, firstly, we can avoid our lack of intelligence gathering capabilities, and secondly, we can cover up our purpose at the same time. Who would know that Yaoxiefang is a huge intelligence agency?"

After hearing this explanation, Zhao Ling'er realized that she had really misunderstood Lin Yaoxie, and at the same time, she felt very reassured about Lin Yaoxie's ability to handle the situation.

Therefore, Zhao Ling'er strongly supported the opening of the Demon Sect and personally participated in the opening ceremony. She also spared no effort to help the Demon Sect when it was in trouble.

After a period of operation, the departments within Yaoxiefang were also very well organized.

Leading the group were the top courtesans, including the beautiful Ru Hua. Because Ru Hua and her ilk were very skilled at understanding people's hearts, they were able to extract information from the mouths of high-ranking officials and nobles.

Just as everything was progressing as expected, an unexpected event interrupted the course of events involving Lin Yaoxie.

That is, a perverted serial killer appeared in Suzhou City. This person took pleasure in torturing and killing ordinary people. His purpose was neither to take their money nor to satisfy his sexual desires, but only to satisfy his desire to kill.

For a time, Suzhou was in chaos again.

Generally speaking, if you encounter a robber, it's easy to run away, since you only need to give them the money you have. If you encounter a womanizer, you can just endure it for a while and it will pass. But this perverted murderer is determined to take lives!

Furthermore, this psychopathic killer's methods were extremely cruel. He didn't kill with a single blow, but left the victim barely alive before slowly torturing them to death. The cruelty of his methods was appalling!

After hearing about it, Lin Yaoxie went to the scene to take a look. Even though he had experienced many major events, the scene of blood splattering everywhere was still too disgusting, and it made Zhao Ling'er frown.

Zhao Ling'er and Lin Yaoxie wanted to rid the people of Suzhou of this scourge. It turned out that before this, the wealthy people of Suzhou had issued a recruitment order to recruit warriors to capture this perverted killer, but after many days, they had made no progress, which gave everyone a headache.

Although these warriors possessed considerable martial prowess, they lacked effective methods, resulting in this situation. Like a headless fly, how could they possibly capture this deranged killer? Lin Yaoxie thought.

First, Lin Yaoxie marked the locations of these victims on a large map of Suzhou City and found that when they were connected, they roughly resembled the shape of a flower, but this flower was made up of the lives of countless people.

0oo is asking for flowers....

Following the direction of the flowers, the next location should be in the southern suburbs.

So Lin Yaoxie sent people to stake out the southern suburbs, hoping to capture this perverted killer.

At midnight, the lights in this place had been turned off long ago due to the rampage of a deranged serial killer. But now there was a person hurrying along the street. It turned out that he had been drinking with a friend at a hotel and had gotten so drunk that he hadn't woken up. When he woke up, he found that it was midnight, the hotel was full, and it was almost closing time, so he hurried home.

Because his home was far from the hotel, there was no one around when he arrived in the southern suburbs. Thinking of the rampant activities of the psychopathic killer, a cold sweat broke out on his back.

Just as he was hurrying home, a masked man in black appeared, carrying a knife! In the darkness, it was impossible to see the man's general build or estimate his height, but he could sense that this was the deranged killer. The man panicked and hurriedly shouted, "I have a few taels of silver left over from drinking, sir, take it!"

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“Oh, no, I don’t need money,” the man in black replied in a slightly hoarse voice.

"What do you want?" the man asked.

"I'll take your life," the man in black said.

He rushed forward with his knife, but in that instant, the lights around him flickered. It turned out to be a trap set by Lin Yaoxie, and this person was also someone Lin Yaoxie had found.

The man in black panicked and tried to run away with his knife, but Lin Yaoxie blocked his escape route and looked at him mockingly. Seeing that he could not escape, the man in black wanted to fight Lin Yaoxie to the death, but Lin Yaoxie dodged the attack with a sidestep and flicked his finger, sending the man in black's sword flying far away.

The man in black, dragging his right hand which was numb from the shock, said, "I never expected there to be someone in Suzhou City with such high martial arts skills and intelligence. I concede defeat."

After further investigation, it was discovered that a commoner named Zuo Yan had a dispute with the government over urban redevelopment. Feeling resentful, he became an apprentice and learned martial arts, vowing to slaughter everyone in Suzhou. The truth came to light, and Zuo Yan paid the price for his crimes.

Lin Yaoxie thought this was aimed at him, but now it seems he was overreacting. Of course, that's a story for another time.

Chapter Fifty-Eight: Grand Strategy

Recalling Lin Yaoxie's words, Zhao Ling'er was shocked by the vast scale of his scheme. Lin Yaoxie's seemingly reckless words and actions now appeared to Zhao Ling'er as having a subtle but profound scheming and plot.

"With such high martial arts skills and outstanding political wisdom, even someone as treacherous and cunning as Lin Yaoxie, as long as he stands on our side, we can definitely bring down the Moon Worship Cult Leader." Zhao Ling'er was filled with the motivation and expectation to realize her long-cherished wish.

However, no matter how noble, magnanimous, and upright Zhao Ling'er's thoughts were, the Lin Yaoxie she imagined and created had absolutely no resemblance to the Lin Yaoxie in reality.

First, Zhao Ling'er viewed Lin Yaoxie's actions of establishing brothels and extensively collecting evidence as "a well-intentioned effort to secretly overthrow the Moon Worship Cult Leader." However, in the mind of Lin Yaoxie, this major villain, establishing his own intelligence network was perfectly normal.

Only those who are evil leaders like the Moon Worship Cult Leader and Lin Yaoxie can truly appreciate the value of intelligence: good people and righteous people have the support of various divine predecessors and fortuitous encounters. As long as they occupy the mainstream of society, their strength will be overwhelmingly powerful.

The villains, in order to defeat these protagonists who have inexplicable protagonist auras, can only take advantage of their weakness of not caring about information, gain small advantages through the imbalance of information, and then do their best to expand them.

Look at Zhao Ling'er right now. Since she inherited the earth energy of the ancient goddess Nuwa, her overall strength has been rising continuously. She has improved several levels in both internal strength and aura.

On the other hand, since the leader of the Moon Worship Cult was injured and came here, Lin Yaoxie has not received any news from him. He must have been practicing and recuperating.

Therefore, the villains all attach great importance to the ability to gather intelligence. Lin Yaoxie established his own Yaoxie Workshop, and the Baiyue Cult Leader also had his own Baiyue Cult members. Both of them possess the intelligence gathering ability that the so-called righteous should have but disdain to do.

For example, Zhao Ling'er spent ten years on the island in vain, yet she knew absolutely nothing about the carefree brother she had been waiting for. Even though the Witch King was treated as a puppet, as the monarch, he only had a few trusted confidants. And Lin Tiannan, the leading landlord in Suzhou City, couldn't even keep track of the major events happening in his own territory.

All of this reflects how incompetent the righteous faction is in terms of intelligence, which is one of the reasons why Lin Yaoxie hates the righteous faction the most.

Secondly, Zhao Ling'er thought that Lin Yaoxie wasn't in a hurry to go to Nanzhao Kingdom because he wanted to eliminate the leader of the Baiyue Cult through a "bloodless coup," but Lin Yaoxie had no such intention.

This is the kind of thought only a truly benevolent person would have. He just wanted to play around with the Moon Worship Cult Leader and see what interesting things he would be forced to do in this desperate situation.

Lin Yaoxie was naturally not as naive as Zhao Ling'er. Even if he brought down the Moon Worship Cult Leader on the surface of the political arena, this person would still use all sorts of means to make the entire Southern Swamp Kingdom a mess.

It's the same everywhere and in any country. Even if you bring down a political strongman on the surface and kill him outright, his supporters, fanatical followers of his ideology, and those with shared interests will do everything in their power to protect their own interests and will openly or covertly plot to harm the so-called upright people who brought down that person.

After all, in the eyes of these villains who only pursue their own interests and desires, only their own interests are the most important. So the reason why the various evil forces in the Southern Swamp Kingdom allow the Moon Worship Cult Leader to do whatever he wants is simply because the filthy environment created by the Moon Worship Cult Leader is most suitable for their survival.

This ugly environment, maintained by dirty interests, will truly transform into a swamp-like chaos once Zhao Ling'er, who openly and righteously uses her status as the Witch King's Princess and a descendant of Nuwa, defeats the Moon Worship Cult Leader, the agent of these dark interests.

Zhao Ling'er, being so naive as to be beyond comprehension, naturally couldn't see the consequences. All she could see was what she wanted to do, without giving it any thought.

Therefore, the best solution in Lin Yaoxie's mind was to force the Moon Worship Cult Leader to gather all the resources at his disposal, just as weeds in a pond would become entangled.