More than a month ago.

The day of the assessment is approaching, but Ye Xiyue is still shrouded in the shadows of the past, her temperament has changed drastically, and she is moody.

Until she received a letter from her mother.

In addition to expressing concern and concern for her, the letter also vaguely mentioned the hunting plan for Ye Pianran.

Therefore, after the start of the Freedom Challenge, Ye Xiyue was so shocked.

She never thought that Ye Pianran would come back alive.

But Ye Xiyue's patience had also reached its limit, and she almost didn't hesitate to start thinking of her own plan.

A plan that can completely kill the leaves.

For this reason, Ye Xiyue made a lot of preparations, she dismissed Ye Lin and Ye Miao, lived alone in the courtyard, and had frequent remote communication with her mother.

In the letter she received earlier, she already knew that her mother had hired a foundation building monk who was proficient in the art of tracking to assassinate Ye Pianran, and according to the original plan, if everything went well, after completing the task, her mother would personally kill this person to prevent future troubles.

This person's name is Buduan, not only is he quite accomplished in the way of tracking, but also good at the art of disguise, he is greedy and cruel, has a strange habit, and has a perverse temperament, making him the best choice for killers.

According to his request, Qin Xi searched carefully in the small courtyard where Ye Pianran's mother and daughter used to live, and went to the old warehouse where Ye Mansion placed discarded goods and found something.

A pillow.

Although there is no guarantee that this is the pillow that Ye Pianran slept on, Qin Xi is also a genuine Jindan real person, at least it can be determined that this pillow is indeed from that small courtyard, and it can be regarded as a thing that has been contaminated with the target's breath.

In short, she handed it to Bu Duan, and in the process of handing it over, she left a divine thought in the pillow, and the moment the cloth touched the pillow, the divine thought would enter his body.

In this way, it can be guaranteed that Buduan's life and death are all in her thoughts.

As a sixth-grade alchemist, Qin Xi's divine sense power was naturally beyond ordinary people, so after her divine thoughts entered Buduan's body, she came to her brain unconsciously all the way and noticed a trace of abnormality.

After careful investigation, Qin Xi found that the source of the abnormality turned out to be a brain-eating worm.

The brain-eating insect is a demon beast that attacks it in groups, and its edge is even unwilling to face it directly, but once she leaves the insect mother and fights alone, there is no threat at all.

In other words, with Qin's divine sense power, it was completely possible to kill this brain-eating worm directly.

However, once the brain-eating worm is implanted, it forms a parasitic relationship with the host, which can almost be said to be one and two lives, and it is beyond Qin Xi's power to kill it on the premise of protecting the owner's life.

Of course, she didn't care about Buduan's life, but in this way, after the matter was over, she had to weigh a few points when she did it.

What Bu Duan saw before his death would be known to the contractor of the Brain-Eating Worm Mother, and the Brain-Eating Worm is not common, and the Brain-Eating Worm Mother is generally at least a sixth-order demon beast.

The most tricky thing is that Qin Xi actually knows a person who treats the brain-eating insect mother as a contract beast.

That was before she married into the Ye family, and she was still doing casual cultivation, in short, Qin Xi now is not very willing to intersect with this person anymore.

After handing the pillow to Bu Duan and explaining some other matters, Qin Xi returned to her usual life as if nothing had happened.

Qin Xi's divine sense range was only enough to envelop Liangzhou City, so he quickly lost his perception of Buduan's specific movements, and could only vaguely sense that the position prescribed by Buduan was indeed the direction of Tianheng Sect.

As for Buduan's specific plan, Qin Xi didn't ask, anyway, all she cared about was the result.

But what no one expected was that the plan failed.

No one knows what happened in the Demon Cloud Cave, the only thing that is certain is that Ye Pianran is still alive.

In fact, Qin Xi had already noticed the abnormality when Bu Duan was introduced into the Sealed Land.

Because the sealed place is a small space with special rules, once you enter it, the space is separated, and the connection will naturally be disconnected, which is the same as entering the secret realm.

Because the assessment task was completely random, Qin Xi didn't know where Ye Pianran would go in advance, and the reason why he chose to carry out the assassination at this point in time was also because the latter had been closed for nearly two years and had no chance to do it at all.

But the existence of the assessment task forced Ye Pianran to leave the sect, and it was also the only time for them to do it.

In short, after the vague sense of the wisp of divine thought in Buduan's body disappeared, Qin Xi realized as soon as possible that something had happened.

But Liangzhou City is tens of thousands of miles away from the mountain gate of Tianheng Sect, Qin Ji hurried with all his might, and it would take ten days to work in the past.

In addition, she didn't know the specific location of the mission location, and she had to adjust the direction while hurrying, which undoubtedly took a lot of time in the process.

It is obviously unrealistic to rush there in person.

But it was impossible for Qin Xi to sit still like this, especially when the divine connection had not been restored for a long time, out of helplessness, she could only look for the person she didn't want to see.

Former leader of the Scattered Cultivation Alliance.

Qin Xi was born in a loose cultivation and had been in the Loose Cultivation Alliance for a period of time, at that time, she had a very close personal relationship with the former alliance leader, and it can even be said that the former alliance leader was a noble person on her life path, if there was no former alliance leader, Qin Xi might not be able to become a six-grade alchemist.

But as the two gradually got closer, many contradictions became more and more prominent, Qin Xi couldn't accept the concept of the former alliance leader, and finally chose to leave the Sanxiu Alliance and go out to work alone.

As for meeting Ye Xiyue's father and marrying into the Ye family, it's all later.

Long before the two broke up, the former alliance leader was already a Yuanying cultivator, in addition to the headquarters of the Scattered Cultivation League, several caves were also established in various parts of the Eastern Regions, one of which was not far from Liangzhou City, with Qin Ji's footsteps, it would take three days.

There is a clone of the former alliance leader in the cave mansion, and after listening to her explain her intentions, he immediately contacted the deity and asked about the situation.

Qin Xi originally only had the mentality of being a dead horse as a live horse doctor, after all, he had lost his sense for a long time, and Bu Duan had not sent a summons, so he could basically be declared dead.

In this case, only by finding the worm mother and its owner corresponding to the brain-eating worm in Buduan's body can we know what happened to Buduan before he died.

The doppelganger brings good news and bad news.

The good news is that she didn't find the wrong person, the brain-eating worm in Buduan's body is indeed from the worm mother contracted by the former alliance leader.

The bad news is that Bu Duan died at the hands of a young female cultivator, even if she hasn't seen her for many years, Qin Xi can confirm that it is Ye Pianran.

It's only been how long it has been, and Ye Pianran already has the strength to leapfrog and kill the foundation building monks, and such a growth rate can only be described as terrifying.

But the matter has come to this point, the plan has failed, and Qin Xi has no better way but to go back and think about what to do next.

She did not immediately inform Ye Xiyue of the news, after all, her daughter knew that Ye Xiyue's current psychological state was no longer stimulated.

But what Qin Xi didn't expect was that Ye Xiyue sent her a summons.

The content of the interrogation is that Ye Xiyue made a plan by herself, she wants to treat her as a person, and use the crime of snatching away to shame in front of the law enforcement hall, so that Ye Pianran will never be able to turn over.

Update 11.24

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