Even hybrid monsters have their day

Chapter 173 Fairy

Seeing that she remained silent for a long time, Lin Qianyang's expression changed, and he said somewhat angrily, "Does even you not believe what I say?" After all, he was still just a teenager, and somewhat hot-blooded.

“I believe what you say.” She stood up as she spoke. “I already know what’s going on in my mind. Don’t tell anyone about our meeting tonight.”

"Um... will you really help me find the person who killed my master?" Lin Qianyang looked at her with hope.

"Even if I could find the person who killed your master, so what? Even your master wasn't his match, let alone you." Geng Miaowan looked at him, her dark eyes filled with seriousness. "You keep saying you want to revive your sect and avenge your master, but look at yourself. What have you done in the past year? You're always downcast and wallowing in self-pity, as if the whole world owes you something. With your current cultivation level, forget about avenging your master, you can't even leave the Green Mountain Sect."

After saying that, she left without waiting for his reaction.

Lin Qianyang stood there blankly for a long, long time...

When Geng Miaowan returned to her residence, a middle-aged man with a round head was sitting on the floor, looking around nervously. As soon as he saw her push open the door, he hurriedly called out, "Fairy, Fairy, please save me! There's a monster!"

"A monster? Where did this monster come from?" she thought with amusement. There wasn't a single human in this house except for herself.

The man pointed at Huangfu Aoran and said, "He, he is a monster!" Huangfu Aoran's eyes, which had turned back to black, glanced at him seemingly casually, startling him so much that he shuddered again.

Geng Miaowan walked in, glanced at Huangfu Aoran, and asked, "Who is he?"

"This person was lurking suspiciously outside our house," Huangfu Aoran succinctly summarized the situation in one sentence.

"I already said, I was just passing by. I only wanted to see the fairy maiden out of curiosity," the man hurriedly explained, as if afraid that he would be killed if he spoke too late.

Xu Ruwen laughed twice, pointed at Geng Miaowan, and asked the man, "The fairy you're talking about wouldn't happen to be her, would it?"

The man nodded repeatedly. "Recently, everyone in the sect has been saying that the sect leader brought back a fairy maiden from the main peak. Not only is she incredibly beautiful, but she also possesses profound cultivation and has a thousand-year-old spirit fox as her pet. I... I'm just curious. I wanted to take a look."

Seemingly afraid that Geng Miaowan wouldn't believe him, he emphasized again, "I really just wanted to come and take a look and leave, really."

Geng Miaowan didn't look at him or speak. Instead, she asked Huangfu Aoran in her mind, "What's wrong with this person? Is there something wrong with him?" because she couldn't see anything wrong with him.

"No problem," Huangfu Aoran replied.

"If there's nothing wrong, why aren't you letting him go?"

"He kept saying he wanted to see the fairy." The implication was that he only let him stay and meet her out of kindness.

Xu Ruwen coughed softly, a slight smile playing on his lips. Geng Miaowan could only think that Huangfu Aoran's sense of humor was rather strange.

"Did you find anything over there?" Geng Miaowan decided to ignore his rare sense of humor.

Huangfu Aoran's face fell, her playful expression turning serious. However, she still spoke in her mind, "Miao Renfeng is indeed suspicious. I've been following him these past few days. Every night after dinner, he stays in the main room until the next morning. But one time when I got closer, I found that there was no one in the study at all."

"Where did he go?" Xu Ruwen murmured to himself.

"Any other discoveries?"

“There was another man in black outside the garden just now. I spotted him and he ran away. He didn’t seem to be from any sect,” Huangfu Aoran continued. “He had the aura of a demon on him.”

Although it was very faint, he was absolutely certain that he hadn't misjudged it.

"A demon? I thought all the demons of the Green Mountain Sect were already here." But that wasn't the point. Geng Miaowan's expression changed. "The Green Mountain Sect has always prided itself on its strict security. When did a demon become able to move freely here? Or... is it that it has actually been lurking within the sect all along?"

Their mission was to find a demon, so why did a monster appear? Could it be that the mission system is broken...?

"I chased him to the bamboo forest, but he disappeared from sight. He seemed very familiar with the terrain of the sect. As for whether he was lurking in the sect, we don't know," Huangfu Aoran said, expressing his opinion.

Geng Miaowan thought for a moment and said, "If it had been lurking in the sect for a long time, it would be easier to explain this phenomenon. But if it came in from the outside, then there are only two possibilities for its familiarity with the sect's terrain."

"Which two?" Xu Ruwen and Huangfu Aoran looked at her at the same time.

“One possibility is that the supposedly most secure defenses on the entire continent have a loophole, and another possibility is…” She glanced at them, her expression unusually serious, “and yet another possibility is… that he has acquaintances within the sect, which is why he can freely enter and leave the sect.”

The first possibility isn't too bad; at least there's still a way to remedy it. But if it's the second possibility, that's truly terrifying. Colluding with a demon—what does that person want? And a demon—could there be something in the Green Mountain Sect that the demon desires?

Geng Miaowan felt her head was about to explode.

Suddenly, Xu Ruwen's expression changed. "Someone has broken into the results room."

To enhance security, he set up checkpoints outside the garden so that they would know immediately if anyone broke in. Geng Miaowan looked outside; apart from the faint moonlight, there was nothing there.

Before she could speak, Xu Ruwen disappeared outside the house and returned shortly after, bringing someone with him.

Geng Miaowan was puzzled as to why the person who appeared outside the house could be him.

"Ershan?" the round-headed middle-aged man sitting on the ground called out. When he saw Ershan appear, the panic in his eyes gradually subsided, and he was filled with hope as if he had suddenly seen a savior.

Ershan glanced at the person on the ground, then stopped as if he had thought of something, and turned to look at Geng Miaowan. This was the first time he had seen her so closely.

He had already learned from Miao Renfeng that the young woman before him was the one who had saved him and his brother years ago and sent them to the Green Mountain Sect. Seeing her so closely, her appearance seemed to vaguely overlap with a blurry image in his mind. (To be continued.)