Film & TV: Public Enemy of Justice

Seeing its appearance, Hua Qiangu realized that this little bug was different from other bugs, and gradually she stopped being afraid.

"What's your name?" Hua Qiangu asked.

"Me? I don't have a name yet!" The little bug shook its head.

"Well, I like to eat candy, and you're such a cute little darling, how about we call you Sugar Baby?" Hua Qiangu thought.

"Brother Yaoxie, can we call it Sugar Baby?" Hua Qiangu asked Lin Yaoxie.

"Call me whatever you want, whatever makes you happy!"

"Yay! I have a name now! My name is Tang Bao! I have a name!" The little bug suddenly disappeared from Hua Qiangu's hand and appeared in front of Qing Shui, then jumped to Ni Mantian's hand.

"Spirit insects all possess certain minor magical abilities, and this one can now protect Miss Hua Qiangu!" Dongfang said. He immediately felt he should put a silencing talisman on himself! Otherwise, he'd be discovered very soon!

"That's great, I want one too!" Qing Shui and Ni Mantian were extremely envious.

Chapter Nineteen: Discovering the Secret

"What is this?" Meng Xuanlang noticed a dancing little green worm on the table at the inn as soon as he returned!

“This is Hua Qiangu’s child!” Dongfang said.

"What?!" Yin Shangpiao was so shocked that his mouth was practically agape.

"This really is Hua Qiangu's child, named Tang Bao. If you don't believe me, ask it yourself!" Dongfang said again, nodding firmly to confirm his words.

"You mean it can talk?!" Shuofeng asked.

"Hmm..." He nodded firmly again!

"Your name is Lingbao?!" Meng Xuanlang asked, looking down.

"You're called Lingbao! My name is Tangbao!!" the little bug said angrily! It couldn't let its newly acquired name be called wrong!

"Wow! It really can talk!" Meng Xuanlang exclaimed. This little pet is really great; I want to raise a "193" too!

"Dongfang, you're saying this is Hua Qiangu's child?!" Luo Shiyi asked.

Dongfang nodded again, feeling that he didn't need to do anything else; a nod would suffice!

"Could this be the legendary spirit insect?!" Luo Shiyi stepped forward and examined the little insect closely.

"If this spirit insect has a great opportunity, it might even be able to cultivate into human form!" Luo Shiyi's eyes were practically glued to Tang Bao!

"Daddy, that person keeps looking at me!" Tang Bao vanished from the table in a flash, and then pounced on Lin Yaoxie's arms.

"It's nothing, that's Luo Shiyi. He thinks you're too precious, so he wants to see you!" Lin Yaoxie felt that he had spent all his patience on this insect.

"Tangbao, come here to Aunt Qingshui, I'll give you some pastries!" Qingshui called Tangbao over in a low voice.

"Have you found out anything crucial?" Lin Yaoxie asked.

"We haven't discovered anything crucial, but it seems like none of the people in this town have any memory of yesterday," Luo Shiyi said.

“I’ve made a discovery here,” Shuofeng interjected. “I had a minor altercation with someone. He was about to make a move, but as soon as he touched me, he probably realized I was a cultivator, and then a wisp of black smoke appeared from his body.”

"Black smoke?!" Hua Qiangu exclaimed. "How can people produce black smoke?"

"It should be Black Wind!" Lin Yaoxie took out a small bottle from his pocket. It was black, and it was impossible to tell whether the bottle or the contents were black.

"Come out!" Lin Yaoxie said, opening the lid.

Tang Bao nervously crawled back into Hua Qiangu's palm, staring at the bottle opening with a mixture of curiosity and fear.

"The immortal black wind floated out, and because there was little wind, it condensed into a very small sword."

"Speak up, what happened?!" Lin Yaoxie adopted an attitude of "I already know everything, confess and you'll be treated leniently, resist and you'll be punished severely!"

"Immortal, I really don't know what happened. I only possessed a human body because I was playing around!" Black Wind explained.

"Did Bao Si go out today too?" Meng Xuanlang asked.

Dongfang changed from nodding to shaking his head. He didn't go out. He had been playing the role of an old man all morning, with three girls taking turns feeding him water and pastries, plus massaging his back! He was really fed up!

"Then where did he get this from?!" Meng Xuanlang asked in confusion.

“Reporting four is just reporting four. It always allows us to do things that ordinary people cannot do,” Yin Shangpiao said.

"Keep making this up!" Lin Yaoxie rubbed his hands together. He had almost been fooled by Hei Feng's acting skills earlier, but luckily he had been careful and had kept a strand of it hidden.

"Immortal, I really didn't know! I was wrong, I shouldn't have taken over someone's body. You can do whatever you want with me." Black Wind gritted his teeth and refused to talk about the memory issue.

"Looks like you're really determined to see the light at the end of the tunnel!" Lin Yaoxie looked at Hua Qiangu. "Little Bone, what happened to the Heartless Pool water I told you to pretend to be before leaving Changliu?"

Hua Qiangu quickly turned over her small pocket and took out a series of small jars.

"Brother Demon, how many bottles do you want?!"

"Take one bottle first."

Hua Qiangu handed over a small bottle, which Lin Yaoxie opened, then put the black wind inside and closed the lid.

"Come here, Tangbao, come and roll this bottle around!" Lin Yaoxie called Tangbao over to play.

Luo Shiyi suddenly realized that Lin Yaoxie was really cunning, even using a small insect!

Moreover, when did they take the water from the Pool of Heartbreak from Changliu?! And why are there so many bottles?! What are the disciples guarding the Pool of Heartbreak for?! No, he has to write a letter to his master later, tell him about this, and have him punish the disciples guarding it. He also needs to thoroughly search Changliu again to see if anything else is missing!

Hua Qiangu saw the look in Luo Shiyi's eyes, "Eleventh Senior Brother, we didn't pretend on purpose. We just thought it was amazing, so we pretended a little to see..."

Hearing her explanation, Lin Yaoxie objected, "If you like it, that's fine! Even if they know, can they stop me?!" Just do what you want; what's the point of explaining? And why should she explain? If she doesn't want others to touch her, she should show enough strength to protect her!

When Luo Shiyi heard Lin Yaoxie say this, he nodded helplessly, "It's alright, it's alright, we're just ordinary people!" When you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.

"Daddy, it has something to say." Tang Bao rolled the bottle back to Lin Yaoxie's side.

You couldn't hold on any longer?!

"Speak up. If you don't satisfy me this time, you might never come out of here again."

"Yes, yes, yes! Immortal." Black Wind curled up into a ball, looking like he had just been injured. "It's like this, in our Poor Town, there is a divine artifact."

Everyone couldn't help but prick up their ears.

"It is indeed the Xuanzhen Ruler."

"It's actually the second-ranked Xuanzhen Ruler!" Ni Mantian exclaimed excitedly.

"The Mysterious Ruler can seal everything, whether it is people or objects, cultivation or memories, emotions or memories. It can seal everything and cannot be unsealed. It represents 'despair' and 'oppression'. When it was guarding the town, it broke through once, directly sealing the memories and emotions of all the people in the entire Qiongluo Town, turning them all into mentally challenged people."

Later, the Xuanzhen Ruler was resealed. When the person who sealed it tried to save the people, the best opportunity had already passed. Therefore, this was ultimately the only way for the people to continue...

Life. It just lets them repeat the same days over and over again, forgetting the past, with no new future to come!

"So that's how it is!" Luo Shiyi said.

“No wonder no one remembers what they ate yesterday!” Meng Xuanlang said loudly.

"In that case, no wonder everything in this town seems fine, yet something strange is going on everywhere!"

Everyone was talking at once, saying it was the first time they'd ever seen anything like it, and that the people in this town were truly pitiful. Even Tang Bao listened with a serious expression.

Chapter Twenty: Torture and Forced Confessions

"Immortal, I've told you everything I know, please let me go!" Black Wind pleaded, his face flushed with embarrassment, wanting to escape this place as quickly as possible.

"There's still something very important I haven't said!" Lin Yaoxie said coldly.

Everyone watched Hei Feng with bated breath, while Lin Yaoxie casually shook the small bottle filled with the water of the Pool of Heartbreak.

"I really don't know anything else!" Black Wind stubbornly refused to say anything more.

"It's okay, it's fine if you don't want to talk about it. Sugar, was that fun? Want to play a little longer?"

"Daddy, it's so much fun! This is my first time playing this, and it's really interesting to roll around like this!" Little Sugar Baby blinked and said.

"Immortal! I really don't know! Please spare me!" The black wind spun around, as if begging for mercy.

"Report four, maybe he really doesn't know," Luo Shiyi advised, after all, it really was just a passing breeze, it's normal if he doesn't know.

"No, no, Eleventh Senior Brother, the wind is formless and can go anywhere. It can reach places that many people cannot enter," Dongfang said, shaking his head.

Dongfang has been speaking rather recklessly these past few days, but thankfully the girls didn't think too much of it or suspect anything. Now, however, he's much more cautious in his speech, hoping Lin Yaoxie won't find out.

"Dongfang is right. The wind can reach many places, and naturally it will know many secrets!"

"So, Black Wind isn't unaware, but rather afraid to speak out."

Black Wind was already somewhat flustered, and Lin Yaoxie was slowly putting it into the bottle of the Heartless Pool at a snail's pace.

"Black Wind." Hua Qiangu reached out, wanting to touch it.

"If you know, tell Brother Yaoxie, and Brother Yaoxie will protect you!"

When Lin Yaoxie heard Hua Qiangu say that, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and then he patted her head.

"It won't shed a tear until it sees the coffin, so let Tangbao play a little longer!" After saying that, he collected the last strand of water into the bottle.

Tangbao pushed the little bottle and went off to play again.

"Report four? Are we really counting on this wisp of wind to tell us?" Yin Shangpiao asked anxiously.

"Then wait until you tell me?" Lin Yaoxie retorted.

“That’s not what I meant,” Yin Shangpiao explained. “I just think that the artifact is so important, can we really believe what a wisp of wind says?”

"Then why did you believe it when it said the divine artifact was the Mystic Ruler?!"

“I…” Yin Shangpiao, “This is different.”

Ever since Hei Feng said that the artifact here is the Xuanzhen Ruler, which ranks second among artifacts, Yin Shangpiao has become somewhat agitated and even dared to talk back to Lin Yaoxie!

Qing Shui gently touched Ni Mantian and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with Yin Shangpiao?"

"Who knows? Maybe it's because of the magical artifact; people are just envious."

"Yin Shangpiao! Don't be rude!" Luo Shiyi reprimanded.

Although Yin Shangpiao's performance was not remarkable before, he knew when to advance and retreat. But today, for some reason, he not only questioned Lin Yaoxie, but also seemed a bit impatient.

"Ahem, what kind of divine artifact is the Xuanzhen Ruler? How come it's ranked second?" Meng Xuanlang asked, trying to lighten the mood.

“According to my father’s account, the Xuanzhen Ruler can seal everything, and it’s even rumored to be able to seal the cultivation of immortals. It’s an existence that transcends levels,” Ni Mantian said after thinking for a moment.

"Can even the cultivation of immortals be sealed?!" Meng Xuanlang was greatly surprised.

"Yes, in fact, in terms of ability, it is even more mysterious and unpredictable than the number one Illusion Bell. However, because the Illusion Bell manipulates people's seven emotions and six desires, it can directly drive people. Otherwise, just this one point of sealing immortals' cultivation would be enough to make it firmly the top of the ten divine artifacts."