Inside the quiet room, an eerie silence lasted for a moment before the Taoist priest’s slightly apologetic voice was heard.

"You two, my Taoist Techniques are not refined enough, I can only help you this far."

What he meant was, give me some face, don’t ask more, hurry and leave.

Qin Yao reluctantly glanced at his copper mirror twice, then reached out with a finger to poke the ash on the ground in front of her, brought the fingertip to her nose and sniffed, it smelled like phosphorus.

"This Taoist priest is quite scientific." As the two walked out of the quiet room and headed toward the dining hall, passing by a hydroponic vegetable garden, Qin Yao suddenly commented.

Qin Feng stopped in his tracks, and looked at her confusedly, "Coughing blood over what?"

"Science as in scientific, learning as in education, even if I told you, you wouldn’t understand." Qin Yao lifted her foot intending to walk.

Qin Feng quickly caught up, and asked, "You mean the priest’s spells are deceptive tricks?"

Qin Yao waved her hand, "No, he understands some psychology, using these methods to stimulate me and try to make me reveal a flaw, but alas, it was useless against me."

Hearing this, Qin Feng felt momentarily awkward, but his curiosity grew, "Since you knew it was a test, why did you agree to come along this time?"

Qin Yao spoke honestly, "Because I was curious too, I wanted to know what the truth was."

The Daoist Temple was built following the mountain’s terrain, and from the vegetable garden to the dining hall, there was a path along the cliff. A small pebble suddenly rolled down from above, causing Qin Yao to pause and stop immediately.

That pebble landed precisely less than half a meter in front of her, and if she hadn’t noticed in time, it would have hit her head.

"Are you okay?" Qin Feng asked with concern. As for the pebble in front, it was just a very small one, he didn’t take it to heart.

However, the person in front of him suddenly looked up toward the mountain, above was an extension of mixed grass and tree branches. With spring warmth blossoming, the branches of the forsythia hung down beautifully in tender yellow.

"What are you looking at?" Qin Feng asked with a smile in his tone, "It’s just a small stone, we can walk around it and avoid... "

"There’s someone!" Qin Yao’s tone instantly turned cold like ice, freezing Qin Feng’s chattering mouth.

Before he could react, he heard an angry voice from above: "Damn it, go to hell!"

In the next second, the sound of something pressing through grass and branches approached rapidly. Qin Feng looked up to see a massive boulder, requiring three people to encircle it, rolling down quickly, gaining speed as it came crashing straight toward their heads from a cliff.

Qin Feng was horrified and didn’t have time to think more, immediately reaching out toward Qin Yao, trying to push her away.

Unexpectedly, as soon as his hand reached out, the figure in front of him leaped into the air, fist raised to meet it, astonishing Qin Feng to no end.

How could anyone be stupid enough to fight a boulder with their bare body!

But even more unbelievable happened next.

He saw the bare fist hit the bottom of the giant stone. With a teeth-gritting "creak," cracks spread rapidly from her fist to the edges of the boulder, followed by a "boom," shattering the massive stone into fragments flying in the air.

The boulder, which required three people to embrace, was pulverized by Qin Yao’s punch.

That wasn’t all; she kicked back at him, using the reaction force to grab the forsythia branches extending from the mountain, and like a leopard, she pounced up the mountain. In less than three seconds, a terrified wailing was heard from above.

Two human figures were kicked down by her from the mountain, rolling to Qin Feng’s feet, faces covered in blood, wailing in pain.

Qin Yao leaped down, rolled on the spot to dissipate force, quickly stood with one hand on the ground, and took two large steps to the two wailing men, each receiving a vicious kick. Their organs were nearly kicked out, eyes desperate like two rags hanging on the mountain edge, losing even the courage to beg for mercy, just wishing for a swift death.

Qin Feng finally snapped back from the ferocious and rapid counterattack, seeing Qin Yao preparing to throw the two directly down the mountain, hurriedly stopped her.

"What do you think you’re doing?" Qin Yao asked unpleasantly.

She always avenged on the spot. These two tried to kill them with a boulder, not sending them down to see King Yan immediately was an injustice to herself!

Qin Feng, touched by Qin Yao’s murderous aura, shivered inside. His Ah Yao couldn’t possibly be so ruthless!

Qin Feng, afraid he couldn’t stop her, quickly spoke up, "Won’t you at least ask why they set up this trap to kill us here?"

"Would they even talk if I asked?" Qin Yao sneered, "It’s a total waste of time, just finish them off!"

Seeing her foot ready to deliver a death blow, the two hanging on the slope shouted with all their might, "We’ll tell! We’ll tell!"

"Oh." She laughed coldly, watching the hope of survival light up in their eyes, then the next second, "But I’m not interested."

The two men stared in horror.

Qin Feng sighed, realizing she was merely toying with them.

This twisted sense of humor was nothing like Ah Yao!

Qin Feng bravely tugged at a corner of her clothes, seeing she didn’t immediately punch him to death, he used a bit of force to pull her back two steps, and himself stepped forward to interrogate the two on why they wanted to harm them.

In the end, the two spat blood at him, shouted "ah," and reached out trying to drag him down the slope with them.

Qin Feng, greatly alarmed, flung his hand forcefully, and the two badly battered by Qin Yao tumbled down the mountain like deflated balls, dead.

A medicine bottle fell at the cliff’s edge, Qin Feng, still apprehensive, picked it up to examine it. It was a bottle of sedatives. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

"Are they remnants of human trafficking?" Qin Feng was a bit surprised. Despite the government’s crackdown, there were still remnants on the loose.

Qin Yao couldn’t care less, just two people courting death. Now they’ve jumped down the mountain by themselves; that saved her trouble.

"Go inform the Daoist priests and report to the government." Qin Yao gave a cold order before walking off.

Qin Feng put the medicine bottle away, quickly caught up to her pace, his expression hesitant but finally resolute, he needed to confront her!

"Stop!"

Qin Yao impatiently turned to look at him, "What do you want to do?"

She appeared to unintentionally or perhaps deliberately, glanced specifically down the slope where the two traffickers had rolled.

Qin Feng’s heart went cold, could she possibly be thinking of pushing him down the cliff as well, to silence him?

Regardless, today even if he were to die, he wanted to know the truth!

"You’re not Ah Yao, who exactly are you?"

Qin Yao, surprisingly, raised an eyebrow: "Then I’ll answer you, I am Qin Yao, the Qin Yao you’ve seen."

Qin Feng was greatly shocked; she just admitted it so openly?

Instinctively taking two steps back, with vigilance necessary, he suppressed the great shock in his heart and continued, "You have the same name?"

Qin Yao nodded, amused by his two-step retreat.

"What happened to my sister? What did you do with her? Where are you from, a ghost... or are you a demon?"

It’s no wonder Qin Feng thought this way, given the power of that stone-shattering punch, it was beyond what any ordinary human could achieve.