Elder Kuzhu sensed something was amiss and hurried on his way, eager to reach Baiyang Mountain to see what was really happening.

He hadn't expected Shi Longgu to strike at him, and his eyes widened as he saw a cluster of flying needles flashing with silver stars shoot toward him.

With a flick of his bamboo staff, Elder Kuzhu ignited sparks upon the flying needles which burned like singed pig hair and quickly turned into flying ash, scattering as tiny iron filings.

Shi Longgu was taken aback, flipping her hands, her left hand sent a flying sword stabbing towards Elder Kuzhu's chest, while her right hand unleashed another cluster of yellow flying needles.

Elder Kuzhu lightly tapped with his bamboo staff twice, and her flying sword instantly "crackled" and broke into pieces, while the yellow flying needles also caught fire and were burned to iron scraps.

Only then did Shi Longgu realize this young man was not only incredibly handsome but also possessed great mana.

She shouted, "Try this one more time!"

This time, she released the Mysterious Lady Needle.

Her set of Mysterious Lady Needles had been refined by her mother according to ancient methods, and with them, she had roamed the world invincibly, earning her the title of Golden Needle Saint Mother.

Later, she bore nine Demon Mothers for Shi Feiyang.

Strictly speaking, she was the Great Demon's grandmother, the grandmother of the nine demons…

Conceiving demons was a great evil. In the future, when the Demon Mothers and their children committed evil deeds, every single one would be attributed to both her and Shi Feiyang.

For this reason, Shi Feiyang had taken good care of her over the years, teaching her Daoist techniques whenever they met. Hence she hadn't gone astray or caused any great disasters despite being with many men and, following Shi Feiyang's instructions, had accumulated much merit through cultivation.

This set of Mysterious Lady Needles had been nourished and refined over the years according to the methods taught by Shi Feiyang, making them even more mysterious and powerful than when they were in her mother's hands.

Her mana had increased over the years, and she had refined many flying needles, selling those she didn't like and keeping those she did. The Mysterious Lady Needle was her cherished treasure, which she seldom used lightly.

Today, she had unleashed the flying needles to defeat the handsome man before her.

There were a total of eighty-one needles, nine needles in each set, arranged according to the Acquired Eight Diagrams and the Luo Shu Nine Palaces.

She surrounded Elder Kuzhu with the needles and declared loudly, "You should know, my set of Mysterious Lady Needles can…"

Knowing the potency of her Mysterious Lady Needles and the deadly poison coated upon them, she understood that even though she had the antidote, injuring someone with them meant a considerable loss of Primordial Qi.

Reluctant to harm the handsome man before her, she intended to use the needles to force him to admit defeat.

Having lived for over thirteen hundred years, Elder Kuzhu only slightly frowned upon seeing the Mysterious Lady Needles. He raised his bamboo staff again, emitting a stream of blue light from its end.

All eighty-one Mysterious Lady Needles were enveloped by the blue light, forcefully drawn to the front of the bamboo staff, clinging like steel needles to a magnet.

Shi Longgu frantically formed hand seals to call the needles back, puffing True Qi, but despite trembling within the blue light, they could not fly back.

Elder Kuzhu, suspecting that Shi Feiyang must be hurrying back from Tu Cui Peak, didn't have time to dawdle here with her. He enveloped Shi Longgu with the blue light emitted from his staff and pressed her down to the ground, trapping her as if she were stuffed into a sack.

Lying on the ground, her heart leapt to her throat—she hadn't expected such exalted power from this demon of the Zhushan Sect!

The next thought that followed was more pressing. He didn't kill her, but pinned her down, rendering her limbs immobile. What was he planning to do? Surely he wouldn't...

Shi Longgu's heart raced with panic and deep embarrassment, her face flushed red. That demon! In broad daylight, under the vast heavens, he was about to...

Before she could finish the thought, Elder Kuzhu flung his staff and nailed all eighty-one Mysterious Lady Needles into the cliff opposite. Then, taking his staff, he stepped away and vanished in an instant.

Noticing Elder Kuzhu had left, Shi Longgu was stunned and felt slightly disappointed.

After a while, she tried to sit up with force, only to feel dizzy, as if she had been sitting all along.

She realized she was not outside but still sitting inside the cave, with Young Master Xia nearby, and Tang Shi and Sui Yin a short distance away.

She was shocked and touched her face, "Could it be that everything just happened was an illusion? Could such a handsome man only appear in the Demon Realm?"

She glanced at Young Master Xia, who looked unchanged from before, and somehow he didn't seem as handsome anymore.

If Lei Qilong's appearance was a peak in the Human World, then the silver-haired young man was of the same caliber, while Young Master Xia, at best, was one in ten thousand.

Young Master Xia was cultivating and suddenly opened his eyes. Gold light twinkled between his hands, and twenty-four Golden Snake Needles in front of him shot out like rays of golden light.

The Golden Snake Needles, two inches and eight points long and made of pure gold, in the shape of little snakes flicking their tongues, clinked as they hit the stone wall opposite.

"I've succeeded! Longgu, I've done it!" Young Master Xia was elated, for he had refined the Golden Snake Needles using the Needle Refining Method taught by Shi Longgu and, after days of relentless effort, had successfully completed the sacrificial refinement.

Yet Shi Longgu found it bland and dull. Before, she had thought Young Master Xia was an exceptionally handsome man, but now, in comparison to the young man in green, he seemed as common as a barnyard chicken next to a phoenix.

She mused sorrowfully, "It seems I was on the verge of deviation into demonhood... I fell into the Demon Realm and saw..."

Yet it was also true, how could such a perfect man exist in the world? With looks matching Lei Qilong, and a temperament far surpassing Lei Qilong by a thousandfold—if such a man really existed in the world, I would willingly die for him... even if it meant becoming demonized, I would be willing...

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