“You thought Yun’er was hiding some information, so you sent a spider drone to tail and spy on her?” Mu Yanxi asked, still grinding her teeth.
“I see. So you only knew that much. Then you think…”
“Sorry, I can personally apologize to Miss Shangguan about this. But since Miss Mu is the one who knows the truth, that actually makes things easier. I came here to ask Miss Mu for clues,” Lin Haochen said.
“Also, don’t call me ‘miss.’ Wait… you know my last name is Mu?” Mu Yanxi asked in surprise. She hadn’t revealed her name earlier, and Shangguan Yun never used her surname—she always just called her Yanxi.
“Forgive me. Calling you ‘miss’ was indeed a bit rude. But when I saw you, my immortal brain automatically pulled up all your information.”
“Mu Yanxi, formerly Mu Yanxin, son of Mu Huating, a farmer at the spiritual plant garden of Yangxin Hall. Your medical insurance is from Yangxintang Hospital, and you had your surgery there before entering Spiritual Moon Sect. You could say we’re from the same place,” Lin Haochen said.
“Who’s from the same place as a pervert like you?!”
Mu Yanxi stomped the mechanical spider several times in fury, a chill running down her spine. The feeling of having her information completely exposed, with no secrets left, was horrifying.
“Sorry, but I really can’t help it. As the child of a Yangxin Hall employee, your information is clearly registered in the database, and you have medical insurance records. It’s not like I maliciously tried to investigate you,” Lin Haochen continued to explain.
“Shut up!” Mu Yanxi angrily stepped on the mechanical spider and ground it under her foot a few times.
Unfortunately, with her foot strength lacking any martial techniques, she couldn’t damage it at all, even if the spider didn’t activate its barrier.
“Um, let me add one more thing. Even though you used to be a guy and might not mind, stepping on the mechanical spider like that lets me see what’s underneath,” Lin Haochen warned carefully.
For some reason, talking to Lin Haochen had made her furious multiple times. Mu Yanxi quickly covered her crotch and backed away several steps in shame and anger.
She couldn’t figure it out—it was like this guy was simply incompatible with her. Either way, her first impression of him had already plummeted to rock bottom.
Taking a deep breath, Mu Yanxi cycled the virgin fairy bathing method to suppress the rage in her heart.
She recalled her original goal: no matter how she saw this pervert, he was at least the only one who might solve the incident. Even if she hated him, she had to finish discussing the important business.
With that thought, Mu Yanxi exhaled and said coldly to Lin Haochen:
“I have nothing to say to someone like you, and we’re not from the same place. Since you want clues, I have only one thing to show you.”
She pulled out an empty syringe bottle that hadn’t been discarded and threw it directly in front of the mechanical spider.
“This is what that senior sister with muscle dissolution injected herself with before body tempering class. It doesn’t look like a standard syringe from Yangxin Hall.”
The mechanical spider’s eight eyes scanned the words “Tiger Bone Enhancing Potion” on the bottle, and Lin Haochen spoke in a grave tone:
“This is an experimental drug from Yangxin Hall! It’s still in the clinical trial phase—even the side effects from demonic beast experiments haven’t been resolved yet. How did it end up in Spiritual Moon Sect?”
“Someone told me that Yangxin High Sect and Spiritual Moon High Sect have a cooperative arrangement. Quite a few alchemy cultivator disciples from Yangxin High Sect secretly sell their failed practice pills to Spiritual Moon Sect disciples, and even some teachers participate in this private drug trade,” Mu Yanxi said.
“I know that. But that’s something disciples do on the side—it’s been happening for a while and is indeed hard to control. That’s a completely different concept from experimental drugs leaking out.”
“Moreover, the Tiger Bone Enhancing Potion has severe side effects. Under normal circumstances, this absolutely shouldn’t happen,” Lin Haochen said.
Mu Yanxi was stunned. That really seemed to be the case.
Disciples privately refining pills and trading them was one thing, but the leak of top-secret pills being developed by the sect was a matter of completely different severity.
She had confused the two things before, thinking it was all just disciples privately selling medicine. Now it seemed that beneath the cover of smuggled pills, there was likely another layer of conspiracy—one she had accidentally glimpsed the tip of the iceberg of.
“Fine, I’ve already given you the evidence. I don’t know anything else. You can get lost now,” Mu Yanxi said irritably.
Shangguan Yun was right; she shouldn’t have gotten involved in shady dealings between the two sects.
“Mm, you need to open the barrier for me to leave. Also, if I can’t call you ‘miss,’ what should I call you?” Lin Haochen asked.
“Still need a title? No, I don’t. I just hope we never see each other again. Goodbye!”
Mu Yanxi opened the bathroom barrier and pointed at the door. The mechanical spider gradually faded as it crawled, eventually becoming completely invisible after leaving the bathroom.
“Whew!”
Mu Yanxi closed the bathroom door again and sat on the edge of the bathtub.
The earlier anger had clouded her mind, and with Lin Haochen’s interruption, her urges hadn’t been relieved.
But now she had no mood to cultivate the purple star heavenly heart great art. She felt thoroughly uncomfortable.
And she had just said she didn’t want to see Lin Haochen again, but he still owed her a compensation of two hundred thousand spirit stones. A Young Master probably wouldn’t stiff her, right?
If worse came to worst, she could have Shangguan Yun help collect it. After all, Mu Yanxi herself didn’t want to meet him again.
After soaking in the bath for an hour and using the virgin fairy bathing method to calm her mind, Mu Yanxi finally climbed out of the tub and returned to the bedroom.
Shangguan Yun had already woken up. She opened her eyes and asked:
“You stayed in the bathroom extra long this time?”
Mu Yanxi told Shangguan Yun everything about Lin Haochen placing the mechanical spider on her and following her home, only hiding the part where Lin Haochen had caught her trying to cultivate the purple star heavenly heart great art.
“He went too far!”
Shangguan Yun’s face also turned frosty. No one liked being followed and spied on.
She added apologetically:
“Yanxi, I’m sorry. I was too careless and didn’t notice the mechanical spider he put on me.”
“It’s not Yun’er’s fault. That spider-type drone requires at least spirit transformation level divine sense to detect. Even if he’s still spying on us right now, we wouldn’t be able to tell,” Mu Yanxi said with a helpless sigh.
“Still, it’s a good thing he promised us a compensation of one hundred thousand spirit stones each. He probably won’t go back on his word. If he hasn’t transferred the money by tomorrow, Yun’er can go collect it for me. He also promised to apologize to you in person.”
“Alright,” Shangguan Yun said with a smile.
She didn’t mind getting a compensation of one hundred thousand spirit stones either.
Then, when class started the next day, Mu Yanxi listened in shock as the dean of teaching personally announced:
“Young Master Lin has requested that all disciples of the First Year Key Class attend his feast tonight. Everyone must be present!”
Uh oh does he like her?