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Chapter 32 What are they doing on the third side?

As dawn breaks, at the border between the Demon Realm and the Spirit Realm, in the city of Xiyin.

The border town located between the Demon Realm and the Spirit Realm has always been the most chaotic place. One moment someone is robbing another person of their money, and the next someone is defiling someone else's son.

In short, it's a mess, and everyone is living according to their own bottom line.

Ma Meiyun has been in Xiyin City for two days. She has dodged three thieves – once a seven or eight-year-old child, once a fifteen or sixteen-year-old youth, and once an old man pretending to fall – and then she dodged weapons thrown by two groups of people fighting on the street. Finally, she found an inn that seemed relatively honest.

After tossing a silver ingot onto the counter, the innkeeper, who had been sleeping in his recliner, jumped up and counted the silver with a beaming smile. The waiter, who had previously had a world-weary expression, immediately put on a fawning smile and led Ma Meiyun to the best room in the inn.

As soon as Ma Meiyun put her things down, a blackish-purple bird flapped its wings and flew in through the window. It cried out to the sky and then transformed into a letter, landing on Ma Meiyun.

Ma Meiyun looked at the letter and saw that it was from her master. The letter asked where she had arrived, whether she had enough to eat, wear, and use, and if not, that he could send her some more money.

Ma Meiyun quickly replied, writing that she had arrived at Xiyin City on the border and that she had enough to eat, wear, and use to reassure her master, and that she did not need his help for the time being.

Then Ma Meiyun infused the letter with demonic energy, which surrounded the letter and transformed it into a black-purple bird that flapped its wings and flew out of the window.

Looking out the window at the crowds that occasionally erupted into conflict, Ma Meiyun sighed. She had grown up in this kind of environment since childhood. At that time, her father was just a minor official. Later, he gradually built connections and climbed the social ladder, eventually becoming a high-ranking official.

Life was good until the father became acquainted with the chief eunuch of their crown prince, Zhang Min'er.

After the chief eunuch rebelled, the Ma family was investigated and all the men in the family were killed, and the women were sent to the palace as slaves.

"If I succeed in infiltrating the spirit world this time, I must rescue everyone still alive in my family from the palace and prevent them from becoming slaves again," Ma Meiyun thought to herself.

The dark purple bird flew tirelessly in the sky, all the way to where Melissa was inside Zhang Chenmian's body.

At this moment, Melissa, inside Zhang Chenmian's body, is teaching Zhang Xi'an not to easily believe what men say.

"Did you remember everything I just told you?" Melissa asked Zhang Xi'an while unfolding Ma Meiyun's reply.

“I’ve got it.” Zhang Xi’an waved her small, lotus-root-like hand and said, “A man who does everything I want and isn’t related to me by blood is definitely here to deceive me.”

"Yes, my baby is great." Melissa touched Zhang Xi'an's round little face, then handed Zhang Xi'an to Zhang Chenmian's personal maid. "I have some things to do. You take care of her first. If anything happens to her, don't blame me for not speaking well of you in front of Father."

The maid responded with a "yes," and then led Zhang Xi'an to his room.

Melissa returned to Zhang Chenmian's room and asked System 0733, "How's the progress now? Have there been any changes?"

"Host, there's been a change! And Xiyin City is a crucial plot point. We'll be able to make changes even faster now!" System 0733's voice became excited. "We're only 10% behind first place now!"

Hearing what System 0733 said, Melissa was in a good mood and picked up the wine glass on the table to pour herself a little wine.

Melissa swirled the small wine glass in her hand, thinking: Finally, I'm almost catching up with the first place. That kid Cheng Menqin, even if he found something incredibly powerful, I still managed to catch up with him, didn't I?

"Hey, wait a minute, there's been a change in third place too." System 0733 exclaimed again.

Inside the City of Liyin, next to the City of Blowing Sheep in the Spirit Realm, the midday sun was somewhat dazzling. Cheng Menqin, inside Wang Fenglang's body, was leading Mo Xing through the city.

Mo Xing rarely left Chuiyang City to go to other places, and was curiously looking at everything in Liyin City.

While listening to System 0814's words, Cheng Menqin kept an eye on Mo Xing's whereabouts to make sure she didn't stray too far from him.

System 0814: "We are now very close to the plot point. When the plot point occurs, host, you should run quickly and give the opportunity to Mo Xing."

Cheng Menqin said she would pay attention, and used her spiritual power to spread her divine sense, sensing that someone was fighting nearby. So Cheng Menqin quickly said to Mo Xing, "Brother Xing, have you heard anything?"

"A sound? Is there? Let me listen... I heard it, people are fighting!" Mo Xing heard the sound Cheng Menqin wanted him to hear, so he quickly rushed towards the direction from which the fighting sound came. "I'll go take a look first. Brother Wang, please come quickly. I'm afraid I might not be able to hold on by myself."

Mo Xing quickly arrived near the sound of the fight using a few light-footed techniques.

The sound came from behind a small wall. Mo Xing quickly jumped over and found that two groups of people seemed to be fighting over a person. Inside the cage was a girl. The embroidery on the silk fabric of the girl's clothes was very exquisite, with lifelike plants and flowers. However, there were many marks of beatings on the parts of the clothes that were not covered by the fabric.

After overhearing the conversation between the two groups and sensing that neither side was a good person, Mo Xing shouted and jumped into the middle of the two groups, starting a fight.

Because Mo Xing was a cultivator, his physical foundation was better than the other two groups, and his movement speed was faster. In addition, Mo Xing had been good at fighting outnumbered since childhood, so he could easily defeat both groups.

After Mo Xing swept both groups of people to the ground with another sweeping blow, the leaders of both sides made threats, saying they would make sure Mo Xing couldn't stay in Liyin City. Then they took off running, not even bothering with the people locked in the cage in the middle.

Mo walked over and discovered that there was a very beautiful girl locked in the cage.

The girl's face was as delicate as mutton-fat jade; her eyes were like two clear springs, and when she looked at you, you would unconsciously feel pity; her black hair was as black as ink, cascading down her shoulders like a waterfall; her skin was as white as snow, adding to her cold and beautiful appearance.

However, the blood at the corner of the lips is hard to ignore.

Mo Xing had only been squatting on the wall and hadn't really looked closely at the girl's wounds. Now that he was closer, he could see that not only were there wounds on the parts of the girl's body that weren't covered by her clothes, but there also seemed to be wounds starting from her neck. There were new wounds on top of old wounds, and quite a few scars. Only her face was still intact.

As soon as Mo Xing reached out, he saw the woman locked in the cage tremble.

Mo Xing couldn't figure out why the woman was flinching; he just felt he should release her first.

Mo Xing gripped the cage, feeling it wasn't even as sturdy as the Iron Man he usually used for training. With a little force, Mo Xing bent the cage bars, inviting the girl down.

Seeing that Mo Xing didn't intend to hit her, the pretty girl carefully looked around to make sure there was no one else before cautiously sticking out one foot and stepping on the rough ground.

Seeing that Mo Xing had already rescued the girl, Cheng Menqin came around from behind the wall and asked, "Brother Xing, are you alright?!"

"I'm fine, it's just that this girl doesn't look well." As soon as Mo Xing finished speaking, the pretty girl fell straight down to the ground.

Mo Xing was so frightened that he grabbed the girl's hair and then choked her neck, putting her down on the ground.

Upon witnessing this scene, Chengmen Qin, though also a man, remained silent.

System 0814 went even further, commenting: "The results of the assessment are in. He is identified as a top-tier straight man who is completely clueless about romance and excessively avoids any sense of propriety."

"But it's alright." The red-haired boy chuckled as he brought up the mission panel in Wang Fenglang's consciousness space. "We've already encountered one of the original male lead's harem members, and the extra mission progress bar has increased significantly, only 10% away from first place. Although we're tied for second place again with that other guy whose identity we don't know, we can rest assured—as long as Mo Xing develops a relationship with Qing Yinling, one of the original male lead's harem members, it'll only be a matter of time before it reaches 60%."

Upon hearing what System 0814 said, Cheng Menqin said to Mo Xing, "This girl is quite pitiful; we don't even know where she lives."

“Yes, let’s take her to the authorities. Maybe they can find the girl’s family,” Mo Xing said.

Cheng Menqin, whose original intention was to have Mo Xing take the girl back: ...

"Why did those two groups of people snatch this girl? I got some reliable information from the people in this city—those two groups are all prostitutes in the city. This girl is really beautiful, and they probably both wanted to snatch her from the slave trader. And that slave trader is said to specialize in selling orphaned girls with no parents to brothels." Cheng Menqin tried to tell Mo Xing that the girl was an orphan with no home, so that Mo Xing could take the girl home.

Unexpectedly, Mo Xing went directly to Wang Fenglang and asked, "Brother Wang, have you heard where that human trafficker lives? Let's arrest him and send him to the authorities."

"..." Cheng Menqin was completely silenced by Mo Xing.

System 0814, looking at the original plot, said, "Now I understand why this guy made so many enemies in the cultivation world. His moral standards are too high, he's single-minded and doesn't know how to be flexible, and he always rushes to stand up for justice whenever something happens. With that kind of personality, it's no wonder he gets targeted!"

“Why don’t we take the girl to the government office first? She has no parents. After we report the case, we can bring her back to our manor and have her do some work to earn some food. In this world, it’s really not safe for a woman to live alone.” Cheng Menqin finally chose a roundabout way to persuade Mo Xing. “We can come back to Liyin City later to deal with this human trafficker—if we can find out about him.”

Mo Xing nodded in agreement.

Although the course of events was a bit strange, the objective was still achieved. Looking at the increasing task progress, Cheng Menqin's agitated mood, which had been plagued by sleepless nights for the past few days, calmed down a little.

"Host, that human trafficker seems to be nearby. Should we tell Mo Xing about this?" Out of curiosity, System 0814 checked the original text to see if there was any description of this human trafficker. Unexpectedly, there was. His purpose was to let the original male protagonist, Jing An, avenge the female protagonist, Qing Yin Ling, and show the original male protagonist's prowess.

Cheng Menqin pondered for a while and felt that this was a good opportunity to help Mo Xing improve his favorability with Qing Lingyin: "Let's tell him in a couple of days. If we tell him now, it's easy for him to be exposed."

Turning back, Cheng Menqin wanted to ask Mo Xing how to bring Qing Lingyin home, but found that Mo Xing had already packed Qing Lingyin up—that's right, packed up. Mo Xing wove his spiritual power into a large cloth and then wrapped Qing Lingyin inside.

"..." Looking at Qingyinling, who was wrapped up like a chicken roll and floating in the air, Chengmenqin and System 0814 fell silent again: This kid is a little too much of a gentleman!

The sun was setting, and the sky turned rose-colored. Caihua found a good spot in Huaiyu Sect to watch the sunset.

For the first time, Ayaka, who didn't have to do any work, was able to relax so much and watch the sunset from a place with a great view.

Xiaobai climbed up the mountain to play early this morning, and Caihua told him to come back when it got dark. It's not completely dark yet, so Xiaobai is probably on his way back.

Caihua sat there watching the sun set, waiting for Xiaobai to come find her. To pass the time, she held a small stick in her hand and drew on the ground.

Within Ayaka's consciousness space, Lu Renkui and the system WQBYRZM finally finished organizing all the plot nodes in "The Legend of the First-Class God" and planned to hand them over to Ayaka in a while.

System WQBYRZM opened the task panel to check on the two people above, and then discovered that the remaining two were less than 10% behind him in ranking.

"As expected of the number one or two ranked systems, it's really impressive that it's bringing its host along. It's catching up with the gap between us so quickly." System WQBYRZM sighed.

“We’re still in first place for now,” Lu Renkui said, lying down. “Maybe after we complete the apprenticeship ceremony tomorrow, we’ll be able to pull ahead of them by a significant margin again.”

Listening to Lu Renkui's overly optimistic remarks, System WQBYRZM shook its head and said nothing.

Caihua had no idea what the system was talking about in her mind. She sat on the ground, drawing on a small wooden stick, unaware that Xing'er and all his disciples except Fang Yuancheng were watching her with a concealment spell.

"Master, are you sure this little girl can really be my junior sister's apprentice? She seems a bit too introverted." Qin Ping was the first to come and see Caihua, and he watched her sit there motionless for the entire afternoon. His legs were numb from standing, but Caihua was still sitting there drawing.

Xing'er said that this girl was perfect for Fang Yuancheng: "Look at this girl, she's patient and used to enduring loneliness. Isn't that exactly what your junior sister needs? Besides, this girl is also good at reading people's expressions, and sometimes she can even help Fang Yuancheng out of trouble."

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