When Mu Qingxi heard something wrong, she quickly put the twins into the space, turned around and left the room.

Suddenly, a group of soldiers rushed into the yard.

The soldiers had already tied up the three mortals. When they saw Mu Qingxi appear, a man behind the group of soldiers quickly spoke up.

“Master Jun, I saw that woman following an old woman here that day, but I didn’t expect there were three more hiding here!”

Mu Qingxi narrowed her eyes.

She did recognize who the man was. He was a customer of the store when she bought the giant squid skewers that day.

However, with her level of cultivation, how could a mere mortal follow her without her noticing?

She made sure that no one followed her to the courtyard that day.

The leader of this team of soldiers was a Jindan cultivator. Mu Qingxi pretended to resist for a few times, then acted as if he was defeated and was also captured.

A group of soldiers began to search the entire yard.

At this moment, Mu Qingxi heard one of the two mortal women speak in a sharp voice,

"She is the one you want to catch, please let us go!"

The girl begged for mercy from the Jindan cultivator, then turned around and looked at Mu Qingxi viciously.

"You're the one who led them here, and you can't protect us! It's all your fault!"

Another girl also whispered, "If you hadn't come, Sister Zixi and the others wouldn't have left, and we might not have been caught..."

The mortal boy quickly said, "How can you say that about Miss Qingyang, she..."

"Shut up!" the girl who spoke first shouted, "You are a man who forgets his loyalty for the sake of beauty! Didn't you speak in her favor just because she was pretty? Wasn't it she who led these people here that caused us to be arrested? It's all her fault!"

The girl crawled a few steps and knelt at the feet of Jindanqi, begging,

"Sir, please let me go, I am willing to be your slave!

Also, I know there are two children hiding in that room. Please search the room carefully. Maybe that bitch is hiding there!"

The mortal boy was shocked to hear this. He didn't expect that the girl living under the same roof could be so vicious. "Aruo, you..."

"What do you mean by 'you'? Anyway, those two kids won't live long. It's worth it to exchange my life for theirs. I still have a lot of youth left. I don't want to die yet!"

When Aruo turned his head and looked at the Jindan cultivator, he looked pitiful, helpless and begging.

The Jindan stage cultivator had been watching this scene as if he was watching a play. He squatted down, looked at the pitiful girl kneeling beside his knees, and a rough big hand stroked the girl's delicate cheek.

Hope flashed in Aruo's eyes. If this immortal took a fancy to her, not only would she not be captured, but she might be able to practice in the future. At least she would have elixirs to eat, and maybe even prolong her life!

Just as Aruo was fantasizing about the future, the Jindan monk pushed Aruo's face away.

When he stood up, he wiped his hands on Aruo.

He sneered, "If the higher-ups weren't so anxious to get her, I might still be able to have some fun with her, but a mortal girl isn't worth the price I'm paying."

Aruo's hope was shattered in an instant, and he collapsed to the ground without any strength left.

The Jindan monk stood up and asked, "Have you found the two children?"

"My Lord, no."

“We didn’t find it either.”

The Jindan cultivator glanced at the several tied people with a sinister look, and finally his gaze fell on Mu Qingxi.

"What about those two children?"

"Dead." Mu Qingxi said with some fear, "He died this morning. The monks who were protecting us packed up his body and took it away directly."

Aruo suddenly sat up and shouted, as if he had come back from the dead.

"You're talking nonsense, Sister Zixi didn't take anything with her when she left!

And you just said you wanted to go see the two children!"

Mu Qingxi sighed, her eyes full of sadness.

“You are a mortal so you don’t know that a monk’s storage bag cannot hold living people, but it can hold corpses.

I just went in to pack up the two children's things so they can be burned later."

Aruo still refused to give in. She held on to a glimmer of hope that she could perform meritorious service and find the two children so that she could save her life.

"You're lying! If the two children were dead, why didn't Sister Zixi tell us? You must have hidden them!" She turned to look at the mortal boy and shouted sharply, "Wang Xian, you also live in the east wing, so tell me whether the two children are dead or not!"

Wang Xian was trembling with fear, but he still said,

"Dead, dead. I saw Immortal Lu Yan investigate with my own eyes, and then he took the two children away."

A smile flashed across Mu Qingxi's eyes, and then she continued to explain anxiously,

"Zi Xi and the others didn't tell you because they were afraid you would be sad. She went out today to bury those two children!

Don't talk nonsense just to save your own life. If Zi Xi hadn't taken the person away, where else could I have taken him?

Is it possible that as a Qi Refining Stage person, I have some kind of treasure that can pretend to be a living person?

If there really is one, will I be caught if I am the first one to hide it?"

Everyone felt that what Mu Qingxi said made sense, and they also thought that Aruo was just making up stories because she wanted to live alone.

Didn’t you just shamelessly seduce the immortal?

Only Wang Xian secretly glanced at Mu Qingxi, because he knew that when he came out of the house just now, the two children were still lying in bed.

I don’t know what method Miss Qingyang used to hide the person.

But there was no point in thinking about it now, as they were probably going to die soon.

Mu Qingxi and the other three were not locked up, but were taken directly out of the city.

After a while, a group of soldiers drove out of the city with a dozen boys and girls, including a few children.

This group of people looked like they had been locked up in prison for a long time, and their clothes were very tattered.

The Jindan cultivator looked at the group of people with dissatisfaction and asked,

"Why are there only so few people?"

One of the runners came forward, looking like a squad leader.

"Excuse me, sir. Our town is small and it took us a long time to catch these people!"

The Jindan monk snorted.

"The Queen is in poor health and relies on these people to take care of her! These people are all presented to the Queen. If you dare to neglect them, watch out for your heads!"

"Yes, yes, the Immortal is right. We will definitely continue to look for people so that the Queen can recover soon!"

The Jindan monk turned around and got on a luxurious carriage.

Mu Qingxi, like other prisoners, was driven forward by the soldiers.

There is not much spiritual energy in the secular world, nor are there any high-level flying magical instruments, so even a Jindan cultivator has to ride in a carriage.

And this Jindan cultivator is considered a remarkable figure in the secular world.

The purpose of his coming out this time was to bring the people captured from several nearby towns to the capital.

In this way, after passing through several small towns, the group of prisoners grew larger and larger.

At this moment, Mu Qingxi suddenly saw a familiar figure.

The back figure looked very familiar, but the black hair covered most of the person's face, and Mu Qingxi couldn't remember who that person was for a moment.

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