"The Divine Constable is right!" Ye Chuxiao said with a smile, seemingly shy.

His attitude was quite good.

But translated, it meant, 'Ah, yes, yes, yes!'

The demonic woman Ying Shu was not trustworthy, so Divine Constable Jin Buyi was rushing to cooperate with her?

The demonic woman Ying Shu was not a good person, but did that mean Divine Constable Jin Buyi was?

Divine Constable Jin Buyi apprehended criminals and deterred evildoers on all sides, largely because he was in the Six Doors, and everything was just a matter of opportunity.

If he had initially joined the Original Teachings, would he have become a great demon?

"You don't trust me?" Jin Buyi asked, staring at Ye Chuxiao.

If his cultivation wasn't suppressed by ninety-nine percent, and there weren't two dragons secretly watching him, he would definitely have given Ye Chuxiao a lesson.

"Divine Constable, you jest. I trust you completely, but if I say so, and you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do," Ye Chuxiao tossed the issue of trust back at him.

It was just a tug-of-war. The tactic of fighting magic with magic might not work, but it was good enough for some verbal sparring.

Ye Chuxiao didn't plan to completely break with Jin Buyi at this time, but he didn't want to flatter, fawn over, or praise him either.

For the current Divine Constable Jin Buyi, Ye Chuxiao not dying along with the other constables and erasing his 'stain' from the source was already a deep-seated hatred.

Would such 'hatred' be reduced or weakened by Ye Chuxiao's insincere compliance?

One never fears a person because of how humbly they smile.

But for how sharp the weapon they hold in their hand.

Of course, Jin Buyi was, after all, a cultivator in the Intent Realm. After this trip back to the capital, although he would be ridiculed, neglected, and even questioned and held accountable, he would never be crippled or executed.

The current Daheng was at the beginning of a great upheaval. Crippling high-end combat power was quite undesirable, unless the imperial court confirmed that this high-end combat power was completely out of control.

The key was that Jin Buyi was not Tang Sudong. He did not threaten the ruling foundation of all vested interests, nor did he have the confidence and capital to contend and confront everyone. Even if he was wrong or guilty, he would not become an enemy of the world.

If there was room for redemption, they would only deal with him in a more conservative manner.

"It seems we won't be friends!"

"Then let's talk about cooperation!" Jin Buyi was not a fool after all, and he knew how to assess the situation.

Faced with Ye Chuxiao's gentle but uncooperative attitude, he directly changed his original plan of directly inducing him with rhetoric and then suppressing him with power and switched tactics.

"What conditions do you need to stand up and testify for me that all the crimes I committed were because I was bewitched by the demonic woman Ying Shu?" Jin Buyi asked Ye Chuxiao.

Ye Chuxiao did not directly answer this question, but instead asked, "Is the truth important?"

So many Six Doors elites were lost, and there needed to be an explanation.

Scandals also needed someone to take the blame and bear responsibility.

The claim of being bewitched by a demonic woman would not only fail to convince the public but would also further tarnish the prestige of the imperial court.

If Ye Chuxiao was in Jin Buyi's position, he would choose to admit his guilt frankly and then make up for it with various visible and tangible actions, and then wait for the heat to subside before gradually manipulating public opinion to whitewash himself.

Finally, after the public had accepted that he was bewitched, manipulated, or had other inside information, he would subvert the situation in one fell swoop and complete the reversal of his reputation.

"Time is critical! There are only a little over ten years left, I can't be imprisoned, wasting such a great opportunity in vain. If you testify for me, I can mobilize my connections and relationships to create momentum and turn the tables."

"Ying Shu's idea is to have me controlled and simply be her cauldron. After all, as long as I am outside, there is a chance that I will lose control due to emotional outbursts."

"And as long as I am controlled, not only will the risk of losing control be greatly reduced, but my cultivation will also be difficult to improve due to restrictions."

"This is what she is most happy to see."

Speaking of this, Jin Buyi deliberately paused, glanced at Ye Chuxiao, and then continued, "Don't think you can escape her calculations. Once I am restricted, you will have the same ending."

"You should know that the Immaculate Celestial Maiden uses the perspective of the cauldron to truly feel and experience the world."

"But do you know how the Immaculate Celestial Maiden can completely get rid of the backlash of the Heart Pill?"

Without waiting for Ye Chuxiao to reply, Jin Buyi said, "This is a race. Whoever runs in front will win everything. Emotions are not a weakness. When one reaches the Wuding Realm, the powerful emotional outburst is an unparalleled advantage and the only thing that can be believed as proof in the realm of Wuding Wuchang."

"Ying Shu pulled you into this race, which seems to take on a greater risk, but it also indirectly shows that she greedily demands more and is not only satisfied with feedback from me alone."

"She will cultivate you now, but when you really pose a threat to her, she will try her best to restrict you, or even cripple you."

"We are natural allies, and she is our common opponent."

Jin Buyi said so much, but from beginning to end, he was only expressing one meaning.

That was that he and Ye Chuxiao were on the same side, and Ye Chuxiao must help him.

To this end, he kept pulling out Ying Shu, erecting Ying Shu as a target, and attempting to confuse Ye Chuxiao through Ying Shu's threat... forgetting where the real contradiction lay.

Assuming Ye Chuxiao really helped Jin Buyi.

What would he face?

Those constables who survived the battle in Yunmeng Marsh would regard him as a traitor and resent him.

They might not dare to resent Jin Buyi, but they could naturally transfer their hatred to Ye Chuxiao, the 'traitor.'

Even if this 'traitor' truly saved their lives.

At the same time, the fact that Ye Chuxiao was also a cauldron of the demonic woman Ying Shu would be widely exposed.

He would bear more malice that did not belong to him.

Sometimes bearing the Heart Pill is equivalent to bearing karma.

Those who could not do anything to Ying Shu and Jin Buyi would shift their target and aim their malice at Ye Chuxiao, who seemed 'easy to bully.'

At the same time, Ye Chuxiao, whose value was far less than Jin Buyi's, would be abandoned by the Six Doors for 'recanting,' be disliked by the imperial court, and official support would leave him.

From many perspectives, Ye Chuxiao had no need to exonerate Jin Buyi.

"It's getting late. I have an appointment with someone, so I won't continue to disturb Divine Constable's rest. Let's end today's conversation here!" Ye Chuxiao took a few steps back and was about to leave the room.

After sorting out the pros and cons, he also saw through the maze set up by Jin Buyi with words.

"Wait! I can teach you the Supreme Path's *Forget-Love Incantation* (*Wangqing Zhou*), which can help you sever the demonic woman's gaze. You don't want your every move, or even the thoughts in your heart, to be easily obtained by that demonic woman, do you!" Seeing that Ye Chuxiao was about to leave, Jin Buyi finally stopped babbling a bunch of nonsense and directly took out a bargaining chip.

Ye Chuxiao cupped his fists and bowed, but still turned and left.

It wasn't that Ying Shu's warning had worked.

The *Forget-Love Incantation* was, after all, one of the Supreme Path's secret incantations. Even if he didn't learn it, its reference value was extremely high.

Even if the Ship of Genesis could possibly exchange for this kind of high-end stuff, the cost would be extremely high, and Ye Chuxiao was far from being able to afford it now.

However, compared to the *Forget-Love Incantation*, the risk of helping Jin Buyi escape punishment was greater, and the price was higher.

Besides, Ye Chuxiao was also confident that, with his Mind Armor, Ying Shu could certainly communicate with him internally, but she would definitely not be able to capture his true thoughts.

"I can recommend you to be a Gold Badge Constable."

"You are already a cultivator in the Subtle Realm. Although your cultivation base is still a bit lacking, as long as I guarantee it, you can still be promoted to Gold Badge Constable in an exceptional manner."

"Within the Six Doors, only the Gold Badges are the core, and only the Gold Badge Constables are qualified to access the five supreme divine arts and seven top secret techniques stored within the Six Doors, and even borrow a trace of the power of the divine artifact Black Dragon Guillotine," Jin Buyi had no choice but to continue increasing the stakes.

Ye Chuxiao still shook his head and turned around, his pace quickening.

"Boy! If you have the guts to walk out of this door, let this matter be. Even if killing you will cause the Heart Pill to flow back, I will definitely kill you." Seeing that enticement had failed, Jin Buyi began his final violent threat.

At this time, he finally no longer appeared calm and composed, and seemed somewhat flustered.

Faced with the threat, Ye Chuxiao turned back and said, "Then come on!"

"I'll wait for you!"

After saying that, Ye Chuxiao stepped out of the door.

As soon as he turned out the door, he went to the demonic woman Ying Shu to claim credit, transmitting everything that had happened in the room, adding embellishments.

It was just that the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Was he supposed to wait for the demonic woman to rush over and feed him benefits if he didn't take the initiative to claim credit?

Sure enough, Ying Shu seemed to ignore those 'ambiguous' parts of Ye Chuxiao's conversation with Jin Buyi and directly said generously, "Seven days later, you go to the Da You Trading Company, report the name 'Li Wu', and use 'Xuanzhen Incantation, Third Chapter, Seventh Section' as the password to receive resources worth 30,000 spirit jades."

"Thank you!" Ye Chuxiao smiled happily.

Sure enough, just like Jin Buyi said, the current demonic woman Ying Shu was extremely generous to him.

The intention to cultivate and care for him could not be more obvious.

"I have to find an opportunity to go back to the Academy World."

"Two layers of Mind Armor are far from enough, and... the identity of the Joker still has a lot of room for reaping profits. I can completely use the particularity of that world to make the Joker's layer of Mind Armor thicker," Ye Chuxiao thought.

Jin Buyi said that he was intentionally influenced by the demonic woman Ying Shu, which is why he lost control in the Dragon Palace.

Ye Chuxiao agreed with half of this statement.

The demonic woman Ying Shu certainly had the motivation and possibility to do so.

The reason why Ye Chuxiao was being vigorously cultivated by Ying Shu was because he was 'weak'.

Whether she was starting from any angle of interest, it was reasonable to cultivate him.

And Jin Buyi and Ying Shu were direct competitors, so it was normal for her to dig a hole for Jin Buyi.

The official ship sped along the river, and when night fell, it was still a full six or seven thousand *li* from the divine capital city.

"The speed is a bit slow!" On the deck, Jin Sanniang frowned, looking at the turbulent river water being broken on both sides.

Since the Dragon Palace disaster, Jin Sanniang's dress has also become more conservative.

Not only did she completely gather her neckline, but she also put on a dark red cloak, completely covering her beautiful figure under the wide cloak.

After surviving the disaster, everyone inevitably felt a bit lost.

She was an 'old constable' of the Six Doors, and many acquaintances she knew had been lost in the Dragon Palace battle.

Most of them had died under Jin Buyi's twin halberds.

"The Dragon King and Dragon Queen are casting spells together to control the water. Although it is against the wind and against the current, this speed... is still a bit slow," Jin Sanniang said softly.

Another Gold Badge Constable stood aside, seemingly having an idea, but hesitant to speak.

"They're waiting! Waiting for people to come and kill us!"

"We are bait, and they want to catch the people who come to kill us and use these people as bargaining chips to negotiate with the imperial court and search for the whereabouts of the Yunmeng Great Cauldron on Yao Mountain," Cui Yu directly said what everyone was worried and suspected about.

The escort of the Dragon Queen and Dragon King was only in secret, without any overt publicity, which already explained a lot of problems.

"Are they so sure?" Jin Sanniang revealed a wry smile.

The other Gold Badge Constable was rather more optimistic and joked, "You guys guess again, if someone really comes, who will it be, what kind of people?"

"Are they people from the major guardhouses of the divine capital? Or the military? Dark Guards? Or people from the martial world who were recruited?"

He ultimately did not say it explicitly.

For example... were they people arranged by the young emperor, or the Empress Dowager who held power.

"It should be some martial world scoundrels!"

"It's very reasonable for the Six Doors constables to be retaliated against by martial world scoundrels..." Ye Chuxiao also said.

Deep in the night.

The sound of the river water slapping against the boat boards kept coming.

Thick fog suddenly rolled up on the river.

In the hazy fog, people's senses became blurred.

After entering the Subtle Realm, Ye Chuxiao saw things more 'clearly'.

There was a kind of gray 'particle' in this thick fog.

It was precisely because of the existence of these gray particles that it was difficult for cultivators' thoughts to penetrate and see the truth hidden in the thick fog.

Ye Chuxiao turned his head and glanced at Jin Sanniang and said quickly, "Be careful! This fog... is very similar to what I saw on the Han River last time."

At the same time, Ye Chuxiao drew his treasured saber, condensed the energy of heaven and earth, and imbued the saber light with 'spirituality' with his personal will.

With a wave of his treasured saber, complex saber lights condensed into flower petals, repeatedly opening and closing around Ye Chuxiao.

Faster than Ye Chuxiao was Jin Sanniang.

The cloak on her body rotated, and a large number of flying knives flew out from her waist, then crisscrossed to form a net of flying knives on the deck.

"What's going on?" Another Gold Badge Divine Constable, Yan Chong, asked.

"Be careful of the silk threads!" Jin Sanniang only had time to remind them of this one sentence.

A large number of scarlet silk threads suddenly surged out of the gray fog and directly surrounded the entire official ship.

It was Old Corpse Lord who had come!

Using the same methods, he was going to kill all the constables on this official ship.

The flying knife network set up by Jin Sanniang played a certain defensive role.

But the effect was not significant.

When a large number of blood-colored, scarlet silk threads pierced and cut through, those flying knives, which were originally made of millennium mysterious iron mixed with star steel, were quickly 'polluted'.

These silk threads were all transformed from dirty blood and were best at polluting people's magic weapons and destroying their spirituality.

"Form a formation, directly use yang-attribute spells to evaporate these blood threads!" Yan Chong shouted, his figure already transformed into the core of the formation, taking the lead in launching a spell attack.

With a shake of his body and complex hand seals, a three-headed raging fire python rushed out of the deck and burned towards the blood threads that were entwining and cutting over.

At the same time, eight constables stood in position, respectively, and together with Yan Chong, formed a simple wild goose formation.

Although the formation was simple, it carried out secondary compounding with spells, talismans, saber light, sword energy, and ranged attack methods such as flying swords and arrows.

A defensive effect was formed in a more three-dimensional space.

This was a very practical battle formation method.

Moreover, precisely because its stance was simple, it could almost infinitely add manpower to the formation.

One more person meant one more point of combat power.

One less person would not affect the overall integrity.

It had to be said that Yan Chong and his constables cooperated very well and were quite experienced.

Unfortunately... the Old Corpse Lord who had taken action was also an old-fashioned evil Dao expert.

Tens of thousands of blood-colored silk threads stabbed over, not targeting people, but targeting the official ship under everyone's feet.

If the official ship was scattered, everyone would have to fall into the river, so that they could be killed separately by the Old Corpse Lord.

Until this time, the Old Corpse Lord had not yet shown himself.

"Turn earth into steel!" Several constables who were skilled in incantations took action one after another, hitting the energy into the deck and hull under their feet.

In an instant, the official ship, which was originally made of century-old ironwood, was raised by several degrees of hardness.

The blood-colored silk threads struck the hull and deck, pulling out cracks, but ultimately did not tear the hull apart.

The powerful force, following the connection between energies, was borne by those few constables.

They all vomited blood because of the backflow of energy, but they did not have the slightest intention of stopping the spell, but instead used the blood they spat out to display even more dangerous, life-gambling methods, determined to protect this official ship from being destroyed.

"Release the water ghosts!" Yan Chong shouted.

The constables who specialized in unorthodox methods pulled on the ghost bags and ghost umbrellas on their bodies and released the subdued water ghosts, scattering them into the river.

Taking the perspective of these water ghosts as a fixed point, they used the Mysterious Light Art, and the light curtains formed by dozens of perspectives gathered above the official ship.

The perspectives of the water ghosts were quite limited, but when summed up, they seemed to be able to analyze and judge the location of the enemy.

At this time, the Dragon King and Dragon Queen had not yet taken action.

It seemed that it was because they had not yet caught the tail of the Old Corpse Lord, and they had not yet judged whether there was only the Old Corpse Lord alone who had come.

The blood-colored silk threads danced wildly in the gray fog.

After several stabs and punctures, they failed to tear apart the defenses supported by the united will of the constables.

Reversing the angle, the blood-colored silk threads began to gather and concentrate.

They converged in mid-air and then transformed into a huge blood-colored claw.

The claw grabbed the official ship, lifted the entire ship from the river, and then pulled it into the high sky.

"Help me take action!" Yan Chong's voice fell, holding a two-handed broadsword, his whole body already burning with cyan flames.

"Please let the ancestors manifest!" Yan Chong then shouted.

Then, behind him, a figure wearing cyan armor, ten *zhang* tall, burly, flamboyant, but full of yin energy emerged.

"This is... a cultivator whose yin life has not ended, whose physical body has died, and whose ghost body is condensed with the help of incense."

"Although Yan Chong summons such ancestral spirits and uses the power of ghost cultivators, he himself will also be infected by yin energy, and if he does it too many times... he may not be at risk of being possessed," Ye Chuxiao thought.

In an instant, Yan Chong and the ghost cultivator ancestral spirit merged into one, completely transformed into a giant monster with green skin and green armor, holding a similarly enlarged two-handed broadsword, jumped out of the deck, and slashed at the blood-colored hand with a sword.

At the same time, Jin Sanniang leaped into the air, her cloak completely unfolded, and hidden under the cloak were a large number of flying knives, talismans, and dense flying beetles.

They were scattered all over the sky and then combined together.

The talismans fell on the flying beetles, plating them with a layer of golden light armor.

The beetles absorbed the enormous energy of heaven and earth and grew under Jin Sanniang's spell manipulation, and within a few breaths, they all transformed into hideous and ferocious beetle warriors.

They held the enlarged flying knives in their hands and densely rushed towards the blood-colored claw, creating opportunities for Yan Chong's charge attack.

Faced with an old-fashioned, and suspected Intent Realm, evil Dao cultivator, they did not lose their courage but bravely drew their swords.

Of course, this was not a mindless counterattack.

They all knew very well that only by forcing the Old Corpse Lord to take it seriously and having to show himself in the mist.

The two dragons would take action and capture the Old Corpse Lord.

After all, without the blessing of the home field, even if the Dragon King and Dragon Queen joined forces, they could only guarantee the defeat of the Old Corpse Lord.

If they wanted to capture the Old Corpse Lord, they had to seize the opportunity and make a thunderous strike.

There was no communication, but this was already the tacit understanding between the constables and the two dragons.

Many flying beetle warriors were corroded by the dirty blood that had transformed into giant claws.

The power of corrosion was also scorching the hull, trying to rot the hull and pinch everyone on the ship to death.

Ye Chuxiao was also using practical talisman techniques to fight against the erosion of the hull by dirty blood.

The strong mastery of energy and the excellence of his energy-shaping talent allowed Ye Chuxiao to play a vital role in this defensive battle.

He alone was almost equivalent to the joint efforts of several Silver Badge constables.

"The aura of death is spreading!"

"The huge aura of death, like a deadly omen, keeps jumping around me." Ye Chuxiao clenched the saber in his hand, restraining the urge to swing it out.

At this time, Ye Chuxiao felt the demonic nature of the Long Life Saber.

The aura of death that permeated the surroundings kept approaching him and being absorbed by him.

This absorption seemed to have no limit and no end.

As long as he could hold on and pull more aura of death into the saber, he could stack this unsheathed saber to an extremely terrifying state.

"This is simply gambling."

"Under the gambler's mentality, one can't wait to stack infinitely, waiting for a better time to take action."

"But the timing is very critical. If you take action too early, the aura of death is not condensed enough, and the power is insufficient, so all your previous efforts will be wasted. If you take action too late, you will miss the good opportunity for a counterattack and instead lose your life because of suppression and restraint." Ye Chuxiao waved his left hand, drawing talismans in the air. Walls were formed by talismans, blocking the surroundings.

Boom!

Accompanied by a violent explosion.

Yan Chong's sword finally had an effect.

The claw that had grabbed the ship completely burst into flames.

The cyan flames, with sinister power, were engaged in a vicious tug-of-war with the dirty, evil blood.

In the gray fog, the figure of the Old Corpse Lord was finally revealed.