Even Sui Yi wouldn’t employ such methods, yet this person did it with ease, without any psychological burden.

Sui Yi glanced at his hand, under magnetic sensation perception... what the other used wasn’t inner strength, but another system of power. However, all methods under heaven have the same origin, so Sui Yi didn’t pay much attention, only glanced at the robe in front of him and picked it up.

Although she didn’t feel anything was wrong, it wouldn’t hurt to wear it if it could influence others, after all, it’s also part of gentlemanly and noble demeanor.

"Ugh, my head hurts."

"What’s going on?"

As these people woke up, before they could scream in horror at the hellish scene before them, Wu Xie’s sword was thrust into the ground with a clang, and they all fell silent in fear.

Apparently, they mistook this man with a cold demeanor and a sharp aura as the mastermind...

"This is a black shop, and he saved you... but we’re still unsure how many there are on the other side. There’s also a mechanism here, don’t be loud, lest you attract outside attention and trigger the mechanism."

Compared to this man’s silent but blatant indifference, even though he saved them, they dared not grow close. They feared he might kill them in anger, and this voice...

It felt like a heavenly melody, clear and gently tender, yet very considerate and meticulous. Those who narrowly escaped death and whose brains were still aching suddenly found their headache less severe, and all looked over. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Upon seeing the person, oh my, completely a peerless beauty of the healing type. Was it a man or a woman?

The robe was wide, making it hard to tell gender, but the person looked exceptionally good, clearly a good person (truly a face-value era through ancient and modern times, can’t afford to offend).

But this good person was indeed good, just... why did she seem so interested in that big pot of human meat soup?

At present, Sui Yi was indeed looking at this pot of boiling meat soup being heated by the stove.

The soup had become quite thick, like a pot of slime, emitting a slightly scorched yet very rich aroma.

Sui Yi looked at the jars of various exotic ingredients placed beside it, which seemed to be of Western Regions’ biological plant materials.

Moreover, this pot seemed to have a bit of...

Sui Yi’s eyebrows furrowed as she looked at the dark red runes etched along the pot’s edge.

"Someone is raising Zhi."

The word Zhi made Sui Yi’s expression slightly change.

She knew what that word signified.

Zhi, besides witchcraft, there were actually many special existences in this world unknown and unacceptable to ordinary people, and Zhi was one of them. Legend has it that Zhi is a creature that only grows in the land of extreme Yin and Sha. In its early stage, it resembles a snake; later in its growth, it develops a baby’s head. In later stages, it evolves into snake-like legs, becoming like a Snake Dragon. But unlike tough beings like the Snake Dragon, Zhi is an extremely Yin and wicked entity that delights in devouring human essence to cultivate its own spirituality... According to records of witchcraft, there have been only three appearances of Zhi in this world. Two appeared during the mythological wars of ancient times, matured to formidable peaks, teaming up with demon spirits, capable of swallowing millions of divine weapons in one gulp... that’s a more mystical legend. The later one was more real, appearing in the post-Sino-Japanese War period... In that most renowned resistance zone, where massacres and mass graves once spawned an underdeveloped Zhi, this young Zhi couldn’t thrive in the then-contemporary environment, but due to the chaos of those times, the dead numbered far more than hundreds or thousands, tens of thousands up to hundreds, amassed corpses with immense corpse Qi and grievances nourished a Zhi almost to maturity within a year. This Zhi gained wisdom and spirituality, and as decayed flesh no longer sufficed, it began to attack the living... During that chaotic era, many of the living in that area fell prey to it... later, as things stabilized, a central organization was able to spare manpower and used various methods to destroy it... the reason not many know of this is due to little mention in unofficial histories, for few survivors remained in that area, coupled with a strong information blockade from the central authorities. The populace back then didn’t gossip as freely as people do today, so with time the event faded into obscurity.

Sui Yi knew about this due to handling documentation about Elder Ye from the central authorities, which was entrusted by the Jiang family...

At the time, Sui Yi took a few more glances at the Records of the Grand Historian due to remembering those historical events about the witchcraft, not expecting to truly encounter one in a different spacetime.