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"Really!"

Gu Sheng asked in return, looking unconvinced by Yue Qiluo. In reality, he already believed her for the most part. There was no doubt that something was wrong with Yue Qiluo’s Primordial Spirit. After all, she had pursued it through an excessive, shortcut-driven method and needed outside Essence Yuan to nourish it, so she probably was not lying.

Yue Qiluo snorted. "Believe it or not. I’m not so shameless that I’d lie to you about this."

Gu Sheng’s heart stirred as he thought of something. He slowly said, "Then! If I can solve the problem of nourishing your Primordial Spirit, will you agree to the third condition?"

"You can~"

Yue Qiluo turned to look at him, her face full of disbelief. "Anyone can make grand claims, but don’t go overboard boasting. If there really were a way, I wouldn’t have ended up at odds with Qingyun Temple like this."

Yue Qiluo’s words were not without reason. Back then, after comprehending the secret technique of the Imperishable Nascent Soul, she had considered not killing people.

It was not because she was particularly kind, but because she feared trouble. Killing people was troublesome, and killing large numbers of people was even more troublesome. Unfortunately, despite her talent, she ultimately failed to find a solution and eventually embarked on an irreversible path.

"This~"

The Bronze Mirror in Gu Sheng’s palm flashed, and a glowing scarlet-red bead appeared there. He raised his hand, brought it to Yue Qiluo’s lips, and fed it directly into her mouth.

"This is~"

After swallowing it, a gleam flashed through Yue Qiluo’s eyes. The hunger of her Primordial Spirit eased, and a surging force made her whole body feel warm and comfortable.

Gu Sheng watched Yue Qiluo’s look of enjoyment from the side, but beneath his mask, his expression was rather disdainful. This thing was not anything good. More precisely, it was also Yue Qiluo’s: the wealth she had accumulated over more than a century. The countless wisps of vital essence in the Soul Locking Array had been refined into a pill by his Crimson Flame.

The thing contained considerable energy, but neither Gu Sheng nor Liu Daimei had any desire to eat it. The moment they thought of it as the equivalent of the white meat in Dragon Gate Inn, they broke out in goosebumps.

"This is the vital essence I left in the Soul Locking Array. You refined all of it into pills."

Joy flashed through Yue Qiluo’s eyes. Absorbing this thing felt completely different from directly absorbing Essence Yuan. It was useful to her, and she felt that the same quantity was far more effective than before.

"That’s right. Speaking of which, this thing counts as~"

Gu Sheng did not say those two words directly, but Yue Qiluo understood instantly. Her expression did not change in the slightest, as if eating that thing was nothing unusual to her.

"Why are you just like my senior brothers and the others!"

Yue Qiluo wore an expression that seemed to say, I’m crooked, but I’m in the right. "The masses are but weeds in the mortal world. Humans are no different from cattle and sheep. What’s so bad about eating them?"

"What you said is correct. Heaven and earth are heartless, treating all things as straw dogs."

Gu Sheng said calmly, "In this vast world, all living beings are cattle and sheep herded by Heaven. There is no one inherently superior, including you and me."

Yue Qiluo said proudly, "I’m different from you. You still have to undergo the Six Paths of Reincarnation and forget your past, while my soul is imperishable~"

"You’ll still die!"

Gu Sheng twisted her words. "Your body will still age and die. You’ll still have to reincarnate. As long as someone captures your soul and seals it away permanently, then throws the sealed object somewhere no one wants to approach—some miasma forest, poisonous cavern, volcano, swamp, cesspit~"

"That’s enough, you—you—you~"

By the end, Yue Qiluo felt something was off. Her pretty face flushed with anger. The things he had mentioned at first were all natural places of peril, but what was that last one? Well, it was indeed a place of peril. Surely no one would go digging through the things of the Six Paths of Reincarnation for no reason.

"So, no one is different."

Gu Sheng continued, "What do you think of my conditions?"

Yue Qiluo seriously pondered it for a while before looking at Gu Sheng and saying, "I can agree to the first condition, but I can’t guarantee that you’ll be able to learn it, nor can I guarantee that you’ll be able to refine an Imperishable Soul after learning it.

"As for the third condition, as long as you guarantee that you won’t let me go hungry, I can agree not to indiscriminately kill innocents to cultivate.

"As for the second condition, there has to be a time limit, right? If you make me stay in Wen County for several hundred years, will my body even survive?"

"Don’t worry. How could I possibly let you go hungry?"

As Gu Sheng spoke, he very naturally patted Yue Qiluo’s flat little belly. A layer of blush rose across the pretty woman’s face. "Besides, I won’t make you stay in Wen County for too long. At most, it won’t exceed three years."

If Gu Sheng remembered correctly, the plot of the first part of Wu Xin: The Monster Killer should have taken place over more than a year. There seemed to have been a New Year scene in the middle. He had watched it in scattered bits a long time ago and could not remember many details. Surely the first part’s storyline could not have lasted more than three years.

"Fine! Three years it is. During those three years, all you have to do is guarantee that I won’t go hungry."

Yue Qiluo’s childish voice was very pleasant. After gesturing for a while, she said, "Also, that pill—give me one every five or ten days!"

"Fine!"

Gu Sheng agreed. He had seized more than a hundred scarlet beads from Yue Qiluo’s old hideout, so feeding her for three years would not be a problem.

Yue Qiluo said impatiently, "’It’s a deal. Hurry up and release me.’" She was genuinely anxious. After finally escaping a century of imprisonment, she had unexpectedly been immobilized by someone with a Soul Suppression Talisman. Although she was not afraid of numb hands and feet, the feeling was even more unbearable.

"We’ll talk about that later!"

Gu Sheng’s heart stirred, and several beetles crawled out of the Bronze Mirror and flew onto Yue Qiluo.

"What are you doing~"

Yue Qiluo spoke sharply, her voice carrying a sobbing note. Her limpid eyes glistened with tears. Although she was over a hundred years old, her temperament was much like a young girl’s, so she naturally could not stand bugs.

"I’m leaving you a mark, so you won’t misbehave. As soon as you leave Wen County, I’ll know, and they’ll attack you directly as well. At such close range, you won’t have anywhere to hide. Oh, and don’t even think about killing them. I can sense it."

Gu Sheng smiled. These beetles he had raised had already been refined with the secret technique he had obtained from the Three Blood Demon Bones, nearly exhausting his meager magical power. Now they were like Yue Qiluo’s future Paper Doll army, completely under Gu Sheng’s control. As their master, Gu Sheng could also sense their approximate locations at any time.

"All right!"

After setting up the scouts, Gu Sheng removed the yellow talisman from Yue Qiluo’s head. Once the little beauty could move, she hurriedly shook her body again and again, trying to dislodge the beetles. But after struggling for a long while, she had no success. If they could be dealt with that easily, why would Gu Sheng have gone to all this trouble?

"Secret technique!"

Gu Sheng quietly watched Yue Qiluo’s "performance." Only after she gave up did he finally speak.

Yue Qiluo tried for a long time but could do nothing. In the end, she could only accept having to carry the bugs around. After glaring fiercely at Gu Sheng for a while, she finally began to reveal her secret technique.