"Hey?" Seeing Rong Lan remaining silent, Qing Zhi pretended to be sad and wiped the corners of her eyes. "It's been so long since I last saw sister. Does sister really not want to say a single word to me? I was so worried about sister that I left my hometown and followed her to this world. It's fine that sister doesn't hug me, but she doesn't even want to talk to me. I'm going to be heartbroken."
Rong Lan looked at the little girl with red-rimmed eyes and couldn't help but sigh in her heart that her sister Qing Zhi had such great acting skills.
"I understand..." She finally understood why she couldn't help teasing Bai Rongran when she first came to this world. Bai Rongran disliked and schemed against her, but never bothered with putting on a show. As for Qing Zhi... on the surface, she was a loving younger sister, but in her heart, she had always been plotting how to kill her.
She hated people who put on an act the most.
Qing Zhi didn't understand Rong Lan's words and tentatively asked, "What is sister talking about? Does sister mean that she understands my concern for her?"
Hearing this, Rong Lan curled the corner of her mouth and sneered. "Qing Zhi, it's so boring to say all these pointless things. Let's have a fight, a fight where life and death don't matter."
Qing Zhi warily glanced at Si Mo standing beside Rong Lan and put on a weak fake smile. "Sister has a powerful great demon by her side. How dare I lay a hand on sister? The lord sister has befriended can crush me with just one hand."
Rong Lan took two steps forward, her heterochromatic pupils showing. "I've already talked to him. He won't interfere. This is a matter between us. We don't need outsiders to interfere."
Si Mo: "???" This was different from what they had agreed on in the fortune-telling shop, wasn't it? They had agreed that he would help her beat Qing Zhi and she would deliver the final blow!
If she really went at it alone...
Should he call Chu Hengyuan later and tell him to prepare to be single again?
Rong Lan stepped forward, but Qing Zhi took a half-step back and covered her mouth with a light laugh. "Is sister serious? You know, sister can't beat me now. If sister doesn't find a helper, I might kill her a second time. If I succeed this time, I will surely not let sister's soul escape."
Si Mo: "..." Such an obvious provocation. The little fox shouldn't fall for it, right?
As it turned out, Rong Lan wasn't a stupid fox who would be blinded by hatred.
She let out a soft snort. While saying provocative words to Qing Zhi, she secretly made a gesture to Si Mo with the hand behind her back, indicating that he shouldn't take her harsh words seriously and should follow the plan they had made in the fortune-telling shop.
Seeing the little fox's gesture, Si Mo finally let out a sigh of relief.
Thank goodness. He didn't need to call Chu Hengyuan.
Qing Zhi still found Si Mo creepy. Even though they were all standing in the sun, she still broke out in a cold sweat when she saw Si Mo. "I don't believe sister's words. Why doesn't sister ask that lord to go a bit further away? Let's sisters have a good catch-up."
Rong Lan scoffed and didn't say anything else to Qing Zhi. She channeled her spiritual power in her palm and attacked Qing Zhi.
Qing Zhi didn't expect Rong Lan to attack so impatiently. She took several steps back, looking terrified. "Wait! Isn't sister curious about how I got here? Also, isn't sister curious about why there's a ghost following me?"
Rong Lan's expression was cold as she answered Qing Zhi's questions word by word. "Not. At. All. Curious!"
It didn't matter how Qing Zhi got here because no matter how she got here, Rong Lan would kill her.
As for the ghost Bai Ronglan...
It wasn't very important at this stage.
Seeing the little fox attack, Si Mo immediately pinched the incantation and activated all the formations he had set up.
When the formations were activated, it was as if a virtual space was created. Rong Lan and Qing Zhi could fight as they pleased in this virtual space without harming any plants in the real world. Moreover, even if someone passed through this area, it wouldn't disturb the two fighting foxes.
The dragon and the ghost who were watching the fight didn't stand too far from the center of the fight, but they had to constantly dodge the spiritual power scattered by the two foxes. As they dodged, the distance between them shortened.
After all, the two foxes were getting more and more excited in the fight and were releasing their spiritual power without discrimination. There was only a small safe area each time, and they had to stay there to avoid getting hurt.
Si Mo sized up the ghost Bai Ronglan for a few seconds and finally couldn't help asking, "How do you plan to help Qing Zhi?"
At this moment, the only uncertain factor was this ghost.
Even he didn't know how to control this ghost so that she wouldn't interfere with Rong Lan.
The ghost Bai Ronglan wasn't afraid of Si Mo at all. She crossed her arms and watched the battle not far away. "When did I say I was going to help Qing Zhi?"
Si Mo: "???"
What did that mean?
If she didn't help Qing Zhi, why had she been following her?
"Don't you have any deal or agreement with Qing Zhi?"
The ghost Bai Ronglan had a cold expression. "No, never."
Si Mo: "???"
So what was going on now? Would someone like Qing Zhi always carry around a useless ghost?
"I was sitting outside bored, basking in the moonlight. That ugly fox came to me and told me that it was so pitiful that my body had been occupied. She asked me to follow her and said she would help me take back my body." The ghost Bai Ronglan simply told Si Mo the truth, lest he keep staring at her and make her feel uncomfortable. "I still remember that I voluntarily gave my body to that little fox named Rong Lan. But I was so bored on a daily basis that I thought this strange fox was quite interesting, so I just followed her for fun."
Si Mo: "..."
He sidestepped to avoid the scattered spiritual power and took a deep breath. "So... you only followed Qing Zhi for fun?"
The ghost Bai Ronglan nodded. "Yes."
Si Mo: "..." He had thought this ghost was going to deal with Rong Lan. He had even dreamed about what formations could control ghosts when he was resting at night.
"Why were you so perfunctory to me that day?"
The ghost Bai Ronglan frowned. "Most of the time, I'm alone as a ghost. After making an agreement with the little fox, I never peeked at how the little fox was living in that body. So I didn't recognize you. I didn't know you were the little fox's friend. I'm a world-weary ghost now. I don't like to have too much interaction with strangers, so I was perfunctory to you."
Si Mo was silent for three seconds. "When I was talking to Qing Zhi, the topic never left Rong Lan."
The ghost Bai Ronglan floated back a step. "When Qing Zhi first came to me, at least two out of every three sentences she said were related to Rong Lan. I really thought it was the little fox's family who had come. It wasn't until she told me that it was so pitiful that my body had been occupied that I realized something was wrong. So even if every word you said was about Rong Lan, it doesn't prove that you have a good relationship with her, does it?"
Si Mo was speechless because he also thought the ghost made sense. Thinking back to the way the ghost had treated him when they first met, she just simply didn't want to talk to him. If an unfamiliar human kept sizing him up, he probably wouldn't have a good attitude either.