Lao Liu slammed the table?

That old coot actually slammed the table at me!

I immediately stuck out my butt, chair on my back, and twisted my head as I stood up. "You old firewood stick, had enough of living, huh? You dare to slam the table at me!"

"Shut up!" Wang Butcher's rolling pin followed like a spear, pointing at my forehead. I felt a darkness before my eyes and sat back down.

Before I could even open my eyes, I got another flick on the forehead. "Who's flicking my head? Lin Zhao, you wanna die!"

I opened my eyes and saw Lin Zhao calmly blowing into her teacup. Who else could it be but her?

"Shut up!" The sisters of the Two Realms Hall slammed the table together, their movements perfectly synchronized.

Feng Ruoxing said sternly, "Speak! What did you do on this mission?"

"Catch Hua Wuxin!" I replied subconsciously. Feng Ruoxing's eyes narrowed. "So, you're not senile yet? You still remember catching Hua Wuxin?"

Wang Butcher slammed the table. "You only have eight months left to live, did you know that?"

"Well... I guess..." I hadn't really cared about lifespan. In my eyes, it was like money—spend it, then earn more!

Wang Butcher gritted her teeth. "Also, do you know that this mission is the key to bringing Qing Tang under our command?"

"Ah ha..." I could only play dumb at this point. "If you hadn't said anything, I would have completely forgotten."

Lao Liu covered his face and said, "Is this lord still savable?"

Ling looked at Lao Liu with sympathy. "Even I would have a headache."

"No… that…" I argued, "You all saw what the relationship between me and Hua Lianqing is. I really can't bring myself to do it!"

Ling blinked. "Didn't you ever think about bringing Hua Wuxin back first, completing the mission, and then finding a way to let her go?"

Lin Zhao said, "You send Hua Wuxin to the entrance of the Yellow Springs. As long as the ones who come to pick her up aren't Black and White Impermanence or avatars of Ox-Head and Horse-Face, wouldn't it be easy to intercept a couple of ghost messengers halfway?"

"Anyway, you've already handed in the mission. It's their problem if they can't bring back the Earthly Soul. You still get your lifespan, right?"

"It'll be easier to explain to Qing Tang too!"

"Oh dear… why didn't you say so sooner!" I stomped my feet. "It's over, it's over. I didn't think enough."

Wang Butcher narrowed her eyes. "Qin Xin, pour oil, fry him in a pan. I'll make him tell the truth."

"I'm telling the truth." Before I could finish speaking, Ling said, "You're beating around the bush. Don't think we can't see it."

Feng Ruoxing roared, "Speak! What exactly are you thinking?"

I could only tell the truth. "About this matter! Actually, I really did think about it."

"But, Hua Wuxin, or rather… Hua Lianqing is, after all, an elder of my sect. Although my Shifu, the Undying Corpse, fought with her all his life, he never lied to her, let alone used her."

"It can't be that in the disciple's generation, we're playing tricks on her, right?"

"Besides, Hua Lianqing has always shown mercy to me. If she had attacked us mercilessly from the start, we might not have been able to leave North Water Town."

"Actually, if you look closely at our experience in North Water Town, hasn't Hua Lianqing been helping us all along? If it weren't for her restraint, we might have already clashed with Wu Sheng."

"I have to appreciate these things, right!"

"And more importantly, she's still my elder! It wouldn't be appropriate for me to mess with her, right!"

Feng Ruoxing gritted her teeth. "So? You don't even want Qing Tang anymore?"

I didn't even think about it. "If I lose one Wang Butcher, can't I still eat hairy pork? If I lose one rotten egg, can't I still make caozi cakes?"

As soon as I finished speaking, I felt like something was wrong!

When I saw Wang Butcher's face as if it was covered in frost, I realized what was wrong.

But before I could explain, Lin Zhao spoke first, "Butcher-jie, he said you're a rotten egg."

"I didn't mean that!" I was scared to death. You can't joke like that.

Wang Butcher narrowed her eyes. "Qin Xin, boil water and pluck his feathers!"

"Qin Xin, you spendthrift girl, don't actually boil water!" While I was protesting, Lao Liu said with grief, "Lord! Let's not talk about other things for now."

"You abandoned the Hua Wuxin mission just because you couldn't get over your own pride. Was it worth it?"

I said solemnly, "How many things in this world can be measured by worth?"

"Besides, Hua Wuxin is known as the Eternal Soul and has had her Underworld orders tampered with. If I send her back, the Underworld will definitely have heavy reinforcements to meet her, and some people may even come to kill her to silence her. If something happens to her, how will I explain it to the Undying Corpse?"

"Moreover, a sorcerer has a sorcerer's pride. How could someone of Hua Lianqing's level abandon her dignity and cooperate with me in this kind of thing?"

"So, I just let her go."

"Bullshit!" Wang Butcher slammed the table and stood up. "Ye Yang, drag him out and see which one of your cats has yellow urine, and quickly pee him awake."

"You still don't understand the key to the matter? Think for yourself, how many ghosts did you see in North Water Town in total?"

I was stunned. "Three... three!"

"That's right!" Wang Butcher said, "Besides Hua Wuxin herself, there was also a man and a woman. This shows that Hua Wuxin must have a successor. Have you met Hua Wuxin herself? How do you know that the one you let go was definitely Hua Wuxin, not her disciple Hua Lianqing?"

I was instantly dumbfounded. "That shouldn't be possible, right? Besides, why didn't you tell me earlier in North Water Town?"

Wang Butcher cursed loudly, "Drag him out and pee on him!"

Without saying a word, Ye Yang dragged me and my chair out.

I immediately became anxious. "You didn't think of it either, how can you blame me? Ye Yang, if you dare to find a cat to pee on me, I'm not done with you!"