“So the ghost isn’t haunting this Inn, but you mother and daughter?” Hua Jian reflexively teased.
Xia Hui didn’t know how to answer Hua Jian’s question and could only respond with silence.
“Well, don’t worry. Since we’ve seen this matter, we certainly won’t stand by. If there really is something dirty, we will definitely help you deal with it!”
“Thank you, guest. But we have also invited Immortal Masters from the Saint Sect to investigate, and they didn’t know how to solve it. How could you…”
“Speaking of the Saint Sect, I’m not tired anymore. You might not know, but our white-haired, golden-eyed Elder Sister is from the Saint Sect, and she’s a Neimen Disciple. Were the Saint Sect Disciples you invited before from the Neimen?”
Hua Jian pulled out Linglong’s identity without a second thought. Are you afraid of a Saintess from the Jade Pool?
The Saint Sect Disciples you invited before were from the Waidian; although they were powerful, they weren’t that powerful.
But Linglong was different; she was a Neimen Disciple, a super Heavenly Talent, the kind who could directly call for help if she encountered difficulties.
“No… Guest, can you really cure my Mother?” Hearing the words ‘Neimen Disciple’, Xia Hui’s gaze suddenly became fervent.
Although she didn’t know how powerful a Neimen Disciple was, she knew that a Neimen Disciple of the Saint Sect was definitely more powerful than the Waimen Disciples she had laboriously sought out before.
Her Mother might really be saved!
“Aren’t we here just to solve the problems you’ve encountered? As long as you cooperate well with us, I think we have a very high probability of solving this matter!” Hua Jian promised very seriously.
Even if Linglong couldn’t handle it, they could just call for help. She didn’t believe the problem here was so serious that even the helpers Linglong called couldn’t solve it.
“Yes, I will definitely fully cooperate with the Sanren!”
……
After using Linglong’s identity to persuade Xia Hui, Hua Jian brought Xia Hui directly back to the Linglong’s Room after dinner, intending to give Xia Hui a comprehensive physical examination.
After all, since no abnormalities could be found in the house, it wasn’t wrong to reasonably suspect the Ren, right?
Xia Hui was clearly somewhat malnourished, but her family background, even in its current state, could be called decent—much better than how Hua Jian used to live.
Under these circumstances, for Xia Hui to grow up even smaller than Hua Jian, there were definitely other reasons.
After hearing Hua Jian’s reason for doing so, Linglong and Shiqi both agreed that what Hua Jian said made sense, and they indeed had to check Xia Hui’s body first.
Although Xia Hui was a bit shy, she generally didn’t have much resistance.
This was when the advantage of gender became apparent. If there were any males on Hua Jian’s side, Xia Hui wouldn’t be this at ease.
They were all girls; Xia Hui didn’t feel at all that she would be taken advantage of. Or rather, having grown up here, she might not even know that girls who like girls existed in this world.
She wouldn’t know how much city dwellers play.
“Cough, take off your clothes first.” Hua Jian gestured with her hand.
Blushing, Xia Hui did as she was told, somewhat hesitantly.
Her body was truly pitiful. If she hadn’t known in advance, Hua Jian would definitely have suspected she was younger than her own age.
“This is too thin. Let me feel.” Hua Jian reached out, pressed Xia Hui’s arm, and squeezed it gently twice.
There was very little meat, frail and weak; she looked truly pitiful.
The special sensation coming from her arm made Xia Hui unable to help but shiver. She stole a glance at the white gloves on Hua Jian’s hands, feeling that the texture of these gloves was a bit strange.
How should she put it? When touched, it was a sensation that wasn’t skin, yet she could feel a faint body temperature transmitted through that layer of silk material.
It was very comfortable, not rough at all.
“Why am I touching while wearing gloves?”
Then she heard Hua Jian’s mutter.
She saw the layer of white fabric on Hua Jian’s hand recede toward the back, rather than being pulled off toward the front as in a normal situation.
During this process, she didn’t see Hua Jian move her hand to touch those gloves at all.
In other words, these gloves were definitely not as simple as she had imagined.
After taking off the gloves, she saw Hua Jian’s hand; it was also very fair, and it was the kind of fairness that carried vitality, revealing some faint blood color.
Compared to the lifeless snow-white when she wore gloves, this more vibrant white was more likeable.
When these hands landed on her arm, Xia Hui felt as if a strange sensation welled up within her body, causing her to let out a soft cry involuntarily.
“Eeek!”
Linglong and Shiqi suddenly looked at Hua Jian, thinking Hua Jian had used some incredible means on Xia Hui.
Hua Jian quickly let go and raised both hands to show she was innocent.
She just squeezed Xia Hui’s arm; if that could make this girl make a strange sound, she could only say this girl’s body had great potential.
Have you considered being the Main Character in some unspeakable Little Booklets?
“I really didn’t do anything reckless. If you don’t believe me, ask her!”
Xia Hui’s face turned even redder. She nodded gently, indicating that this was indeed a problem on her end.
“When the guest was squeezing my hand, I felt as if there was a warm thing circulating in my body, which is why I cried out…”
“I see. Then I’ll squeeze you again, and you point to where those circulating heat flows are.”
“Okay.”
Hua Jian grabbed Xia Hui’s hand once more. After a few breaths, Xia Hui used her other hand to move across her body.
While pointing to where the warm current was, she told Hua Jian that this warm current also branched out and flowed into her various small meridians as well.
“Alright, I’ve noted it down. This flow trajectory is somewhat familiar to me. Put your clothes back on first, and let me think.”
Hua Jian memorized the flow trajectory of the warm current and began sitting on the ground with her eyes closed in thought.
Linglong, who had watched the whole process from the side, was completely bewildered at this moment. She was not at all familiar with this trajectory.
This was very strange. Linglong definitely knew more things than Hua Jian; it was rare for something to occur that Hua Jian understood but she didn’t.
But today, such a thing had truly happened.
“It’s somewhat similar, but the details are quite different…” Hua Jian thought for a long time and finally scratched her head, indicating that this problem had stumped her.
She felt this trajectory was familiar because her Cultivation Method followed this route, but after comparing them carefully, she found that this trajectory didn’t match her own Cultivation Method.
And how could her Cultivation Method appear on a girl in a small town so far from her hometown? There was simply no way to explain it.
“Let’s stop here for today. I need to think about it carefully again.” Hua Jian sighed.
As expected of a mystery that even Saint Sect Disciples couldn’t solve, the difficulty of wanting to solve it on the first day was quite high.
Xia Hui hid her disappointment well. When the warm current rose, she really thought Hua Jian could solve her problem, but in the end, that hope was shattered.
“No problem. If the guests have any other needs, you can call me by pressing the bell at any time.”
After saying that, Xia Hui left the Linglong’s Room.
Looking at her somewhat lonely back, Hua Jian could probably guess her mood.
“It really is a bit similar, but why would it be similar?” She scratched her head, feeling like grass was going to grow on it.
Seeing Hua Jian looking so distressed, Linglong felt it was somewhat novel for a while; she had rarely seen Hua Jian act like this before.
Usually, Hua Jian would show an expression as if everything was under control, and even if she encountered something unplanned, she would just secretly curse and then continue to think calmly.
But today’s Hua Jian seemed a bit irritable, and her face also showed a rare genuine curiosity.
She really wanted to find the Mimi hidden on Xia Hui.
“What is it similar to?”
“To my Cultivation Method, but it’s only similar in general terms; there are many differences in the details.” Hua Jian explained.
The two are similar in form but not in spirit, yet this form is just too similar.
After listening to Hua Jian’s account, Linglong slowly narrowed her eyes. Similar in form?
She remembered that Hua Jian’s Cultivation Method seemed to have an unclear relationship with Wanhuagu, and Hua Jian herself was unaware of this.
And the reason why the Magic Path is the Magic Path is that its Cultivation Method is bound to be greatly different from the Cultivation Method of the Right Path.
Every Demonic Sect’s Cultivation Method is very recognizable.
As an old-brand Demonic Sect with a long history, Wanhuagu’s Cultivation Method was naturally the same.
Even if it was only similar in form, it was enough to prove that the problem Xia Hui encountered might have a relationship with Wanhuagu.
“According to what you said, I think we can place the direction of suspicion on the Demonic Sect.” She directly reminded Hua Jian to suspect in the direction of the Magic Path.
This speed of suspicion, which was like flying, made Hua Jian a bit at a loss. Why do we have to suspect the Demonic Sect?
“Shiqi, do you understand the logic of her sentence?” Hua Jian looked at Shiqi, who was showing an out-of-the-loop expression, suspecting she had missed a sentence.
Shiqi spread her hands; she couldn’t understand the dialogue between the two just now, and now that Hua Jian asked her, she understood even less.
Linglong coughed forcefully, indicating she naturally had ample reason to suspect the Magic Path.
And the most important piece of evidence was Hua Jian’s enthusiasm for that warm current!
“Hua Jian, you don’t know as much as I do, right?”
“Right, you are the super Miss of the Saint Sect, how can I compare to you.”
Ignoring the sarcasm in Hua Jian’s sentence, Linglong continued, “So there are rarely things that you know but I don’t. And now, such a thing has appeared.”
Hua Jian took some time to understand Linglong’s idea, and then she understood even less.
“Then why suspect it’s the Magic Path! Can’t you suspect in the direction of Spiritual Flowers?”
Maybe a terrifying man-eating Spiritual Flower is parasitic on Xia Hui and her Mother, constantly absorbing the energy in their bodies?
Although I, Hua Jian, have some unclear and strange relationship with Wanhuagu, isn’t the biggest label on me Spiritual Flowers?
“If it were a Spiritual Flower, it would be easy to solve. Since it’s a suspicion, then naturally we should suspect toward the difficult side.”
Ordinary Spiritual Flowers don’t pose as much threat as the Magic Path.
Since she suspected something was up, Linglong would naturally guess the conspiracy in a grander way.
Only in this way would various unplanned situations not arise.
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