Xie Zhuo curled his ink-stained fingertip into his palm, as if wanting to treasure both the ink and this name.

Watching his moved expression, my heart felt both sour and astringent.

Recalling the past I had witnessed, he had received too little of this kind of selfless kindness and warmth.

My emotions surged, and I thought, if I wasn’t going to change the course of history or touch the so-called major event points, then perhaps I could, in unnoticeable moments, bring him these bits of warmth, just like summer flowers and little dogs!

Only now, with a human body, could I be more explicit, more direct…

“Hey!”

Someone grabbed my arm.

Looking down, I saw it was the scribe responsible for registration at the gate.

He glared at me, clearly unhappy: “What about your name? You snatched someone’s brush, wrote their name, and thought you could just muddle through?”

He handed me back the brush he had just reclaimed, with irritation: “Write! Your name!”

Only then did I realize that I had been so lost in thought that I was about to follow Xie Zhuo into the city.

The scribe’s voice made Xie Zhuo, who had just passed through the city gate, turn back to look at me.

I smiled, then glanced around, seeing the soldiers all staring at me with vigilant attitudes, as if they truly considered me a suspicious person.

Not daring to cause more trouble, I obediently took the brush and wrote the character “Fu” beneath Xie Zhuo’s name, then paused.

“Fu? Fu what?” the recording scribe looked at me.

Somewhat reluctantly, I continued writing. After completing the character “A,” I suddenly had an inspiration and wrote the character “Gou.”

I wrote with satisfaction, feeling impressed by my cleverness.

“Fu A’Gou?” Principal God Ji’s gentle voice came from behind me. “So it’s this ‘gou’.”

I turned my head to glance at Principal God Ji, but saw his attitude was natural, as if he didn’t find anything wrong with what he had just said.

So I could only calmly put down the brush, stand properly to the side, and say: “Yes, God Lord, it’s this ‘gou’.”

“Miss A’Gou, this way please. I’m afraid you’ll need to undergo an inspection.” Principal God Ji raised his hand slightly.

Following the direction of his hand, I saw two soldiers guarding a large mirror, one on the left and one on the right.

Everyone entering the city had to go before this mirror.

Looking at this mirror, I found it somewhat similar to the stone mirror I had seen in Xi Wang Mu’s space behind Kunlun.

I suppose this was also one of the divine artifacts of the gods, just not usually shown to people.

I felt a bit nervous.

Xi Wang Mu’s mirror, I remembered, could directly display past events before me.

That’s why I was able to see those scenes of Xie Zhuo’s death through that mirror, so real, so heart-piercing.

And this mirror…

What would it reveal?

After all, I wasn’t the original soul of this body. I was only able to enter because of that life-or-death crisis…

Everyone around was staring at me, including Xie Zhuo.

I had no choice but to grit my teeth and stand before the mirror.

In the mirror was the image of a young woman, wearing ordinary clothes, with a somewhat dirty cloth wrapped around her injured foot.

If I hadn’t mobilized the soul energy around me to supplement my inner breath, this young woman probably wouldn’t have been able to stand right now.

But I was using Kunlun immortal techniques. If this mirror only checked for evil energy…

Just as I was thinking, suddenly, a flash of light passed through the mirror!

In the next moment, I felt my chest tighten, and my limbs instantly became weak.

I could no longer maintain the flow of inner breath, and the Kunlun immortal technique stopped. Without the soul energy supplement, this body immediately lost its balance and fell to the ground sideways.

With this fall, the people around immediately became alert. Some of the Que Mountain soldiers immediately went to separate the civilians behind, while others immediately surrounded me.

Principal God Ji’s expression showed no surprise, as if he had expected this to happen.

Xie Zhuo, looking at me, seemed somewhat surprised with his slightly widened eyes.

I opened my mouth, but before I could say anything, I felt the flowing blood and beating heart in my body instantly recede from me.

As a breeze came, the familiar feeling of being chilled to the bone came over me again.

I… had once again become a soul…

I floated in the air, dazed.

After a good while, I slowly came back to my senses and looked down.

Below, the young woman had already fainted, and the soldiers surrounding her appeared even more tense.

The registration scribe was holding his brush, trembling and shrinking in the corner, muttering: “I knew there was something wrong with this woman, she’s indeed not right, I just hope she doesn’t jump up and bite me…”

Principal God Ji stood within the circle of soldiers, with knitted brows, carefully examining the young woman on the ground.

And Xie Zhuo stood outside the soldiers’ circle.

I saw him stand outside the circle for a while, not leaving, but instead passing through the soldiers’ encirclement and walking in.

“Young master…”

The soldiers wanted to stop him, but Principal God Ji softly said, “It’s alright, let Young Master Xie Zhuo come in.”

So Xie Zhuo stood beside the young woman. He looked at the unconscious young woman on the ground, then glanced at the mirror in front.

“What kind of mirror is this?” Xie Zhuo asked.

“It can reveal…” Principal God Ji looked around, seeing that the civilians had been kept far away by the soldiers, then he gently finished his words, “a mirror that can reveal evil energy.”

Hearing this, Xie Zhuo frowned slightly. He examined the mirror in front of him, then looked at the young woman on the ground: “She is not evil.”

“Evil spirits are different from the corpse ghosts you killed outside before. They are extremely good at hiding. Perhaps you haven’t noticed.”

Xie Zhuo pondered for a moment, then shook his head again: “I know, I’ve seen evil spirits before, and I’m clear about the difference between evil spirits and corpse ghosts. But…” his words were firm, “she is not evil.”

Hearing this, Principal God Ji looked at Xie Zhuo with some surprise: “Could it be that the young master can tell at a glance who has evil energy in them?”

“I can’t tell, and I’m often deceived by evil spirits. On this journey, I’ve been ambushed many times already.”

“Then why is the young master so certain?”

Xie Zhuo was silent for a long time. He looked at Principal God Ji and solemnly said: “Her eyes, like a dog’s.”

With these words…

Principal God Ji fell silent.

Floating in the air, I also fell silent.

My eyes, like a dog’s…

What’s the matter? Are dogs immune to evil energy?

Or do people with dog-like eyes ward off evil?

Xie Zhuo, your answer doesn’t make me happy…

Perhaps because Principal God Ji had been silent for too long, Xie Zhuo explained further: “She cannot be one.”

Yet he couldn’t provide any evidence or reason.

Principal God Ji sighed slightly: “Our Que Mountain Stone Mirror indeed cannot completely identify evil spirits. It can only detect whether the qi of the person goes against the Way of Heaven. Though not a perfect method, given the circumstances, I can only use this object to guard the gates of Que Mountain, hoping to keep evil spirits outside Que Mountain. It’s not that I don’t believe you, young master, it’s just…”

“The evil has already entered Que Mountain.”

Xie Zhuo interrupted Principal God Ji.

Principal God Ji was startled.

Xie Zhuo spoke directly: “I said, my task is to kill the Evil God. I came to Que Mountain because it is in Que Mountain.”

Principal God Ji might have already guessed some of this before, but hearing Xie Zhuo speak so plainly about it, he still somewhat worriedly pinched the bridge of his nose.

“Young Master Xie Zhuo, would you be willing to return to the Que Mountain Immortal Palace with me to discuss this matter in detail?”

Xie Zhuo frowned slightly: “I need to find him inside. There are many people inside, and we cannot waste time.”

“Young master, explaining the cause and effect of the matter to me is certainly not wasting time. The Evil God, I also want to kill.”

Hearing this, Xie Zhuo thought for a moment, then nodded.

He looked at the young woman on the ground again: “This Fu A’Gou…”

Principal God Ji beckoned a soldier: “Has the temporary camp outside the city been set up?”

“It has been built.”

“Take this young lady to the camp, then. Question her carefully when she wakes up. If there’s nothing unusual, bring her to pass through the Stone Mirror again.”

“Yes…”

The young woman on the ground was carried away by the soldiers, while Xie Zhuo followed Principal God Ji toward the inner part of Que Mountain.

After hesitating for a moment, I decided to follow the young woman first.

Although I had been forced out by this Stone Mirror, it was still a body I had connected with once. If I tried again, it should be much easier than blindly attempting to enter another body, right?

Thinking this way, I cast a lingering glance at Xie Zhuo, then followed the soldiers carrying the young woman.