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"Wait for me a moment, I need to use the bathroom."

As they ventured deeper into Azure Forest, Yino stopped at a fork in the path and suddenly spoke.

Leaving these words, he split off from the two girls, walking alone towards some bushes at the side of the fork.

However, after entering the bushes, Yino didn't hurry to undo his belt. Instead, he drew out a silver-white jade sword from his waist--

"Never mind, I shouldn't dirty Senior Sister's sword on roadside dogs like these."

Yino reconsidered and put away the milk-scented Frost Chant sword, switching to the black sword he got from Gu Wanglan.

As he went deeper, Yino's footsteps gradually grew lighter.

He pushed aside a curtain of trees, manifested armor on his left arm, and appeared behind three cultivators holding his sword--

"Third Brother, didn't you say those two juicy girls would be here by now?"

"How long have we been waiting? I can't hold back anymore!"

Among them, the thin tall youth with a scarred face spoke impatiently.

"I don't know! I clearly saw them up ahead earlier!"

Among them, the dark-skinned younger brother shrank his neck, "By the way Boss, why do I keep feeling like someone's watching us from behind?"

"How is that possi--"

SLASH!!!

Among them, the largest man with yellow hair had his head separated from his body by a black-red sword strike as soon as he turned around.

Right after, the remaining two cultivators got splattered with black blood in their faces. They were shocked and turned to look at the black-haired boy holding a sword.

They had ambushed many orthodox cultivators in the secret realm, but this was the first time they'd been ambushed by one.

"You are--!!"

Seeing how ruthlessly he struck, they drew their weapons. Though frightened, they still took fighting stances.

Three exchanges later, Yino struck cleanly and efficiently - the heads of Scar Face and Little Black fell to the ground.

He didn't rush back immediately. Instead, he retrieved a yellow scroll from the corpse, then dipped his sword in the blood on the ground and drew an interlocking six-pointed star formation around them.

After that, Yino gathered the bodies at the center of the hexagram and softly chanted to activate the evil sect formation. In moments, blood-colored life vines grew from the surrounding earth.

These vines were like thirsty vampires, all lunging toward the altar at the hexagram's center.

In moments, the three corpses were completely consumed.

As the hexagram's glow gradually weakened, the life force converted within flowed toward Yino, the spell caster.

"Uwah!"

"Did you come here to relieve yourself or relieve others of their lives?"

At some point, movement came from behind the bushes as the foxgirl fearfully twisted her mouth at the field of white bones.

Yino finished casting, waited for the spell marks to fade from his body, then turned to look back. His lips curved as he gazed at the foxgirl behind him with cold eyes that seemed unsatisfied.

"W-what are you going to do..."

For a moment, Jinyue was actually startled by Yino's sinister gaze.

She hugged herself and puffed her cheeks in a tsundere-style: "Fox meat is small and tough, not tasty at all!"

"That's fine, there are special ways to enjoy foxes~."

At some point, Yino smiled too.

He withdrew his earlier cold killing intent and patiently looked Jinyue's body up and down with meaningful eyes.

Jinyue felt even more nervous, her black stockinged legs pressing together under her skirt.

"So when you said you were going to the bathroom, you meant coming to kill and sacrifice people?"

She returned to the topic with curiosity.

Jinyue knew Yino was ruthless, but she thought he at least had some bottom line. She didn't expect him to kill without any reason now, directly executing strangers he'd only encountered for seconds!

Yino sighed and asked helplessly: "So when I go to the bathroom, you have to follow and peep?"

"I-I-I..."

At these words, Jinyue was suddenly speechless.

However, thinking about how she had already bet her future on Yino, the girl's alluring face curved into a playful smile: "Of course I had to look! What's wrong with checking out my future boyfriend's size in advance?"

"?--?"

This time, it was Yino's turn to be struck silent, not expecting Jinyue to make such shameless innuendos.

However, compared to his earlier leisure, Yino was now immersed in exploring Azure Forest.

He had already wasted a lot of time before, and now that he had finally returned to the main storyline, Yino temporarily had no interest in continuing to exchange suggestive remarks with Jinyue.

"Let's go, you don't need to look at some things, you'll experience them yourself eventually."

Yino said flatly.

Jinyue followed behind him, blushing.

However, she still curiously pursued: "But you still haven't said why you killed them?"

"I enjoy killing."

"Come on, how did you discover those three were going to rob us?"

Seeing she couldn't get answers, Jinyue had to ask and answer herself.

Yino took a deep breath and chose to respond with silence.

He actually couldn't explain - he could hardly say that in the game, these three nobodies were just there to give the plot's protagonist a treasure map.

Back then, just like now, they had targeted Jinyue, planning to kill the men and take the women.

Later, the two Foundation Establishment lackeys were killed by the protagonist one after another. The Core Formation yellow-haired boss, highest in cultivation, saw his chance for a sneak attack but didn't expect the protagonist to power up to stage two and get directly cut down.

Now, Yino's cultivation was far stronger than the protagonist at this point in the story. He naturally couldn't be bothered to waste words with these cannon fodder and directly took their secret realm treasure map.

Yino chose this same exploration route as the protagonist naturally because he was familiar with it. Every possible crisis and treasure along this path, even the story arcs of every character with scenes in Azure Forest including Yunjin and Jinyue, were all within his control!

"How did you know they were going to rob us?"

Yino threw the same question back at Jinyue.

Jinyue paused, then proudly snorted: "I noticed that black man peeping from the treetops long ago!"

"Oh, I noticed too, that's why I came to kill them."

"You... you noticed too?"

Jinyue drew in a sharp breath, suddenly feeling like the logic had been twisted back around by Yino again.

She turned back to look into Yino's eyes, but seeing the return path ahead, Yino walked in the opposite direction from Jinyue.

"You, where are you going now? Are there still enemies?"

Jinyue had developed anxiety from Yino's unpredictable style.

Now whenever Yino wasn't in Jinyue's sight, she would become uneasy, feeling like Yino would cause some big commotion in Azure Forest after being gone for a few hours.

After all, that's how Yino was in Northern Snow Village before.

Jinyue hurriedly caught up, only to see Yino standing by a tree undoing his belt.

Yino thought irritably and covered his belt again: "Stop following me, I really need to relieve myself this time!"

"Really just relieving yourself? Not tricking me only to suddenly disappear?"

Jinyue stood to the side as her alluring eyes fixed on Yino's crotch, seemingly lost in thought about something.

Yino was uncomfortably holding it in and clicked his tongue: "Really! Do you absolutely have to watch me relieve myself?"

"I'm afraid you'll abandon me alone in the forest again and run off with Yunjin!"

The foxgirl puffed her cheeks, still staring at Yino somewhat reluctantly.

Seeing her so stubborn, Yino simply stopped paying attention.

"Fine then, just stand back there and watch."