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Chapter 4616: 5.0368 The Unavoidable Reason

This Zither-Playing Corpse Puppet Number Sixteen is an important enforcer for the Heavenly Flight Pavilion. Keeping it could be useful, Qiao Mu thought.

The four-winged, three-eyed harpy, seeing that things were not going well, let out a piercing shriek that seemed to want to shatter everyone's eardrums. With its scream, the entire corpse puppet army, like marionettes, retreated uniformly, no longer fighting.

Qi Xuanxuan shouted, "Besiege them, besiege them! Don't let them escape!"

"Don't let a single one get away."

"If these corpse puppets are released, they'll surely become a great disaster."

Everyone intensified their efforts. Spiritual artifacts flew wildly, and the power of the five spirits collided haphazardly in the air, exploding into successive bursts of five-colored spiritual light.

Qiao Mu, seeing that she had nothing else to do, found a clean stone and sat down. Her small face was still a bit annoyed. She thought about how perfectly her plan had been laid out: if she only pretended to be captured and went back with those fools, she could pinpoint Mu Qingya in her rat hole, following the trail to catch her. This woman was too bothersome. Qiao Mu had completely lost her patience, and her desire for the woman to die a terrible death intensified with time.

"Qiao Qiao, are you hiding something from us?" Duan Yue tugged her arm, asking with a serious expression, "Is there something you can't tell us?"

"No, why would there be? Nothing," Qiao Mu shook her head.

"No, there is!" Duan Yue looked at her. "You just had a sudden idea to feign capture and go back with those people. Is it because… you have your own thoughts, an unavoidable reason to go along?"

"I hope you can be frank," Duan Yue stared at her. "Explain yourself."

"What?" Peach Blossom Immortal Venerable and Little Nuisance, among others, hurried over. Hearing this, their expressions subtly changed.

"You were planning to put yourself in danger just now?!"

"Who told you to do that?!"

"Did it really come to that point?"

"Did you have to enter the tiger's den alone?"

Everyone started chattering, talking over each other, which gave Lord Qiao Qiao a splitting headache. She immediately raised her hands in surrender, repeatedly exclaiming, "Alright, alright."

"I, I really did have that thought just now. But Duan Yue… he stopped me," Qiao Mu said expressionlessly. "I don't have that thought anymore."

"Why did you have that thought?" Everyone pressed her, insistent on getting to the bottom of it.

Qiao Mu pointed at the four-winged, three-eyed harpy flapping in the air. "If you keep pestering me, it's going to escape."

"Escape?" Feng Chen scoffed. "Where can it escape to?"

"This place is already controlled by our people. Heaven and earth, they have nowhere to run."

"Alright, alright," Qiao Mu waved her small hand. "Then you all keep catching them here; I'll go look elsewhere first."

With that, the little girl, knowing she was in the wrong, made a quick getaway, feeling guilty. Duan Yue frowned, watching her fleeing back.

"She has a purpose, but she won't say," Feng Chen sighed. "She always wants to accomplish things by herself. I really don't know whether to praise her for being independent or to worry."

"Worry, of course, it's worrying!" Little Fatty scratched his head. "Should we send someone to follow her?"

"That might be good. I'll have a Sky-Slaying Transport team follow her and see." Just in case the little one is still set on "entering the tiger's den" – who knows what else she might stir up.