I was ready. My girls were ready. We just needed to figure out where to go.

Min pulled at me, trying to get me to go in her direction.

"I'll be outside," I said, leaving things to Lee as the adult in the room. Min had an idea but her showing up was going to throw my plans away. She could give away the game if she was spotted.

Luckily she hadn't, as I found her outside. I bowed to the hostess. She wasn't a cultivator and was probably wondering what the heck was going on at that exact moment.

"What is it?" I hissed to my Spirit beast.

"Do you want me to call a constable?"

"I want to handle this in-house. Can we do that?" I said.

Min immediately got my meaning.

"We can facilitate that."

Now call me old fashioned, but if a strong spirit beast decides that she wants to help me expand my Empire, who am I to say no? The only questions I needed to answer were how and slightly more pressing, where.

I didn't have the natural charisma to make them pick the right choice. What I did have was a spirit beast who would run ahead and tell the Taoists to set a stage. They were exceedingly good for that.

I could send some men bounding ahead. She would be there far before we would. I was hoping that she would be able to figure out a way to disable the girls cultivation powers. Otherwise one of us would have to stay and watch over her. Just because we could veil our powers really well. Didn't mean that she couldn't also. But I could sense her measure even from this distance.

A few seconds later, they exited the restaurant. Moon Lee and I linked arms and began to walk back towards the Taoist sects family housing. I look, like a good dance parlor letter in the direction that I wanted her to go in. She obliged me. It felt good to be touching someone and not in a beating their face in way. For a long moment, it was just nice. I forgot everything that had brought me here and on things that I had left behind on Earth. All my dreams of heading back. They was still there but I was in the now.

Our cover stories are paper thin. We were able to make her think that we were escorting Xueyie back home. Weather was because she was starstruck or because she thought she was going to get an easy night, I didn't know why she followed us.

When we got to the entrance of the Taoist Sect, I could sense that a lot haven't moved around. Min was clearly trying to direct me in one certain direction so I let myself be led that way. The girls followed my lead. I was a good dancer, but I was better at getting my girls to where they needed to be. And this evening? I was the sports Dad that was getting my girls to soccer camp.

She had picked out one of the buildings that was a short walk inside of the compound. I looked back to the former empress turn on that direction. When we got close enough, we broke it off.

She might have thought something was about to happen soon. Moon Lee and I posted up outside of the building. And when I say post it up I mean that we were full on in guard mode. Men was inside. And I could tell that at least two strong cultivators of the fourth realm are hire wee also sitting inside. My best guess was that it was the leaders of the Sect, probably Xueyies parents. They were heavily close but I could feel something about their cloaking that just let me in. I was guessing that our newest guest wouldn't be able to figure it out until it was too late. And then we will be blocking her only exit.

One couldn't be too careful when dealing with a demonic sect.

Moon Lee and I gave them about a minute before we realized that this was going to be a long night.

Men popped out.

"They said that they're going to need a Formation is expert. To we do any of those?"

Of course, she was going to ask for the foremost expert that just so happened to be on my payroll. She was only nominally someone that worked for me, but we trained together enough. I nodded my acceptance. The moon spirit flitted off, looking for trouble.

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I hadn't seen the elder patriarch of the sex in the wild. But when his smiling Buddha face popped out, we exchanged pleasantries. He ushered us both inside.

There I could see a very pleased Xueyie working on tying up our most recent acquisition. This wasn't the erotic kind of tying unfortunately, and her newest object of interest was making it well known that she did not enjoy this.

"Now. I liked introduce myself if I might. My name is Joseph page, and I'm a demonic cultivator Hunter. You might think that you can take me down. You might be right. But you are definitely wrong if you think you can do that today and right now. The Taoist Sect and I have a very strong relationship. You might say that we have a bond. It's that kind of bond that makes us strong."

She struggled or pretended to struggle against her bonds. I shrugged. It was time to offer her the carrot.

" I'm going to make you an offer that you can't refuse. Now. I understand that you've done some things in your past and we might be able to overlook some of them. But you have a feature if you choose to have it. That means that right now and right here you need to disavow your participation in your previous sect and your previous life."

She looked absolutely flabbergasted. I had expected rage but instead what I got was a mixture of fading energy and lowering resolve.

"My family will not stand for this."

She's pat in the ground in between us. I raised a single eyebrow at that. If that was the worst you could do, I was going to have a great evening. To be honest I really didn't want to be in this situation with but she came up to my turf and if I was going to flip her, this was it.

"I understand you think that. But my family? The friends that I've made here? They have all decided to give you this to do the right thing. We having a good authority that a demonic cultivator can change their ways."

The look on her face made her made me realize that she didn't know who I was.

"They did not tell me you that you were going after someone who can see in ultraviolet range?"

From her eyes I could tell that she knew what I knew. She was going to try and deny it. I would shut her down. We could just cut to the chase.

" I'm going to let you know that I understand that your situation. And this is fully your choice. We want you to join us. And I understand how that sounds. But what we're offering you is to have the rest of your life. You're going to have to go back and be our spy.."

I wasn't surprised by the amount of sobbing. I was surprised in enough for makeup had washed away. Xueyie sat next to her. She wasn't comforting her. It was more like she now had a direct prison card standing over her watching her every move. I promise you it was far less ominous than it seemed.

Xueyie and her mother had this under control.

" So let me tell you what you're going to do. You're going to cry it out right now. You are going to mourn what could have been with the Red Fang sect. And you are going where I'm going to teach you how to undo all of these terrible things that they've done to you so far. We're going to strip down your cultivation to its base layers and reform it."

That last bit had been a suggestion that when we had told me. I wasn't sure exactly what that meant but I was pretty sure that Moon Lee would take over that part. She was smart. She knew what to do. I was just the idea's guy who was not going to give up on her.

"And there's no reason for you to kill yourself. Your family does not love you. They sent you on a suicide mission. You understand that I'm a fourth room cultivator. I'm a full two stronger than you right now. I don't need all this. In fact, the empress is keeping you safe from me. The last time we saw I didn't want a cultivator? Returning them over to the Mandarin. We were invited to their executions."

The sobbing went silent. I could see her still moving there.

I wasn't going to stop. Do you mind try to gaslight me or try to get out of it but in the end I needed her to sign up to some sort of life oath.

"Xiran. I want you to understand that whatever you choose that is your choice. I don't want to kill anybody anymore. But I swear to you if you come here and disturb my peace, I will destroy your whole sect if I have to. I'm so tired of dealing with Deborah cultivators."

I was also so tired of dealing with the bureaucracy of the western Jewel government, but that was another problem entirely that I was going to have to fix on my own later. All of my work that is spent leading up to finding the sect. I've got something. And now, I had someone who was an agent of the sack The information that I needed.

"So let me tell you what's going to happen right now. You're going to tell me about your sect. You're going to..." I said, gesturing to Moon Lee. " Compile a list of all the sect agents that you know that are working in the city. You're going to pass that off to my associate here. You're not going to leave anyone else out. You're going to give their addresses. And if you do all of that, you may live through the rest of today."

The Caribbean again and for a brief while I thought that I might have to be nice to the girl. I didn't like being mean to people. But chances are that she had killed several people before.

Chances were that she was intending to kill far more than any she'd ever killed, just by the knock-on effects of her going to my city.

This is my city and I was going to fight tooth nail for my peace and quiet. And it was about time for me to step back and let the women take care of this.

It wasn't long until we were all assembled. I decided that I was going to let them all hash it out and stepped outside, holding up the corner while everyone that I cared for in the world, well, at least this world hashed out all the little things with our newest addition.