Chapter 25: The Full Moon Coincides with the Time of Murder

  Fang Xiaoling felt that there was no more miserable demon than herself. On the fifteenth day of the first month, on a full moon night, when the spiritual energy was most abundant for the Youling tribe, she had to follow Liu Yueyue and run around everywhere.

  It would have been fine if that was all, but unfortunately, it coincided with the assassination of Liu Yingying. The attacker had clearly received professional training, and with a swift and clean motion, took advantage of the empty space to strike with one knife.

  Fang Xiaoling couldn't directly attack the human, so she condensed her energy and cut off the beam above her head. It happened to fall beside Liu Yanyan, cleverly blocking the masked assassin's path between them.

  Two masked assassins were momentarily stunned, and after a brief exchange of glances, they threw down several smoke bombs before the commotion began, using the dense fog to shield themselves as they escaped.

  Before her vision completely failed, Fang Xiaoling felt a familiar breath approaching. "A'liu? Isn't that scoundrel Zhang Zuoyan also around here?"

  Fang Xiaolong furrowed his brow, not even bothering to look at the reclining Liu Yanyan, and directly leaned towards Ah Liu's direction. Since Zhang Suoyan was nearby anyway, he might as well take advantage of a free opportunity to get close to her.

  "Auntie?" Ah Liu's eyes were sharp and she immediately pounced on her. "What exactly happened here...... Oh no!!"

  Her big, round eyes grew even wider when she saw the large wooden beam propped up inside the room. Ah Liu looked at her aunt in disbelief, "Auntie, when did you learn this 'Dragon Breaks Wood' move? I want to learn it too, when will you teach me?"

  "... Fang Xiaoling stared at Ah Liu, who was stuck to her body, with a black line on her head. Speaking of which, isn't your focus a bit off? There's such a beautiful woman lying over there, and you don't have any reaction?"

  Finally, a normal one arrived late, but before he could enter, he was coughing violently. He didn't hesitate and quickly opened the doors and windows for ventilation while stopping a group of onlookers from entering to watch the commotion.

  As the smoke gradually dispersed, Zhang Zuoyan narrowed his eyes and finally saw the situation inside. He felt that his heart had stopped for an instant, with a sharp whistling sound screaming in his ears, making his eardrums buzz loudly. In that moment, the world was still.

  "Warbler!!"

  He only heard his own almost tone-deaf exclamation and the drum-like heartbeat, he was afraid, afraid that the face buried under his head was covered with blood, afraid that those lively eyes would never open again.

  Bang!!

  "Bang! Bang!!"

  "Bang! Bang!!"

  ……

  "She's fine, she hasn't died yet. But she was stabbed in the abdomen, three inches off from being fatal." Fang Xiaoling looked at that arrogant man who was squatting there stupidly, unsure of what to do, and couldn't help but remind him. Immediately afterwards, he wanted to slap his own mouth, as he realized the other person couldn't hear him, yet he had spoken so smoothly.

  A'luo gave her a strange look and said, "Zhang Zuoyan, if you delay any further, she will really die."

  "......" Zhang Zuoyan finally reacted, carefully picking up the person on the ground, avoiding her abdomen with his arm to prevent touching the wound and making the bleeding worse. "Thank you."

  "!!!". Fang Xiaoling was shocked and looked at Ah Liu with inquiry. Ah Liu just shrugged and said, "I'll explain when we get back."

  "Two...two instruments..." The person in his arms struggled to open their eyes, and disjointed sounds came out of their mouth.

  Zhang Zuoyan furrowed his brow and hastily stopped a certain someone who was severely injured but still restless, "Can't you just calm down for a bit? I'm begging you, madam, isn't that enough?"

  Liu Yingying seemed to have recognized the person on top, but struggled even harder, "Zhang, Zhang... you, scoundrel..."

  Zhang Zuoyan's head was swollen, "Right, right, I'm a scoundrel. Miss, just be good and stop struggling, or your life will really be in danger."

  Fang Xiaoling and Ah Liu stared at each other for a while, finally digesting Zhang Zhaoyan's miserable appearance after being dumped by the woman. Ah Liu felt that there was nothing more to see here, so she wanted to pull Fang Xiaoling back together, as it was still some time before dawn, and they still had the chance to enjoy the spiritual feast.

  "Ah, right. One last thing, I'm on Xun Qing's side, unless something unexpected happens..." With that, he casually took the beauty away with him.

  Fang Xiaoling scratched her head, thinking that Zhang Suoyan was still quite despicable at heart. Didn't he just dangle a carrot in front of someone by saying half-truths?! However, tonight wasn't a complete loss. If she could figure out the words Liu Xiangxiang muttered when she was dizzy...

  Two, two forms, two forms eight trigrams still Qian and Kun?

  ……