Their hair had become normal again. Though it grew longer, the growth speed was almost ordinary. Who would have thought that these two beautiful young girls would be the female ghosts a few nights ago?

Li Mu was contemplating on what to say. Casually, he asked, “I think I've not asked you before. Have both of you studied in a school before?”

“No!” Shen Zixing answered immediately. “We practiced cultivation with Master since we were little. We had never studied in a school before!”

“I see. Then, what are you going to do afterwards? You have to study when you're young. Girls at your age should be studying in class now, not following me whenever I go.”

“Why do we need to study? We don't need that. We just got to master the martial arts skills!” Shen Zixing replied with a smile.

“Who told you these?”

“My Master!”

“I guess so!”

“Brother, have you studied in a school before?” Shen Ming'er interrupted by the side.

“Of course! I went to school when I was six and graduated at the age of twenty-two. I studied for sixteen years. All these years of studies made me successful because I did not give up on studying!”

“Wow!” Shen Ming'er screamed out of shock, “Brother, you're so stupid that you have to study for sixteen years to graduate. Both of us thought of becoming your students. Forget about it then. We shall go back to our Master!”

“How many years of studies had your master accomplished?”

“It seemed like my master graduated after three years of studies, which was shorter than you. You must be playing all the time and did not study well.”

“Yeah, you're right to say that. Your master is cleverer than me. You’d better go and learn from her. I'm not fit to be your teacher!”

“Brother, what about Sister Xingyue?” Shen Ming'er asked.

“She was like me. I think it took her sixteen years to finish her studies too. She's not as clever as your Master!”

“You shouldn't have children after getting married because both of you are stupid!” Shen Ming'er said with a serious face.

Li Mu held back the impulsiveness to beat her and pretended that he was sad. “Your sister is going to die very soon. She won't get to bear me a child. We won't have any kids forever. Sigh!”

“Who told you that? Sister Xingyue is prolonging her lifespan now.” Shen Ming'er suddenly realized that she had said something wrong and shut her mouth at once.

Shen Zixing pulled and twisted her ear vigorously. The girl screamed because of the pain.

Li Mu said indifferently, “Zixing, you cannot bully your sister. I've heard about the trick of prolonging one's lifespan before. It was nothing special to me. You don't have to hide it from me!”

Both of them stared at him while Li Mu glanced at both of them casually. Subsequently, he walked forward with a relaxed face.

Shen Zixing gave her sister a look and both of them ran towards him quickly.

Li Mu knew that he had to let go of this matter and stop asking for now. He must look as if he did not care about it. Then he could continue to get more information from them. He had to make them let down their guard to catch them offhand.

He started gossiping with them and they discussed many topics together. Anything except the matter about prolonging one's lifespan would do.

Finally, both of them could not hold back their curiosity. Shen Zixing asked, “Brother, you have heard of people prolonging their lifespans too?”

“Of course. In the past, Zhuge Kongming used the seven-star lamp to prolong his lifespan. And when he was about to succeed, Wei Yan went to extinguish the lamp and failed his plan. This defying magic was against the way by nature. It's difficult to accomplish it!”

“Humph, my Master can accomplish what Zhuge Liang failed to accomplish. His knowledge must be very shallow. And he was not as great as my master!”

Shen Ming'er said disdainfully and curled her lips after saying that.

Li Mu knew that it was the opportune time to get information from them. The girls were gullible. And it was not difficult to dig out the truth through them.

“Ming'er, stop talking!” Shen Zixing rebuked her.

Without waiting for Ming'er's reaction, Li Mu interrupted, “Your sister is right to ask you to stop talking. Do you know what you said was very disrespectful to the ancients? Your Master has no name. How could you compare her with Mister Zhuge Kongming? She was not worthy to even untie his sandals!”

“Brother, why do you look down on my Master?” Shen Zixing shouted at Li Mu with anger after listening to him belittling her master.

“You got me wrong. I'm not looking down on your Master. In fact, I don't know about her and her capability. She is a stranger and I don't even know about her background. But Mister Zhuge is the famous Prime Minister of the Han dynasty. How can I say that your Master is greater than him?”

“Zhuge Liang could only prolong his lifespan using the seven-star formation, which is the most common magic in prolonging one's lifespan. He could only prolong twelve years. That is nothing! The magic that my Master used is more complicated than his. It requires the cultivator to steal another person's luck to prolong one's lifespan. Once it is successful, Sister Xingyue can live for another fifty-five years. Who do you think is greater now?”

The girl obviously could not bear listening to him despising her Master. She told him the whole story. And Shen Ming'er was beside her nodding her head. She felt that what her sister said was correct that their Master was stronger than Zhuge Liang.

“Prolonging one's lifespan by stealing another person's luck?” Li Mu asked curiously, “Does it mean that they are, in a way, shortening another person's lifespan to prolong Xingyue's life?”

“Yeah.” The girl suddenly realized something and shut her mouth immediately, looking at Li Mu with high alertness.

He tried to look relaxed and kept looking at the scenery around him. Meanwhile, a mixture of emotions was raging in his heart.

“Oh my goodness! Who are these people? How could they use black magic to cure terminal diseases? How could they say that they're just stealing people's luck to prolong her lifespan? They're actually killing another person to prolong her lifespan. This is an evil trick, isn't it?” Li Mu thought.

Li Mu hesitated whether he should bring along Shen Xingyue with him and leave this place. If she was to escape with him, she would not live long. On the other hand, if she stayed back, he would not know how to treat her the next time he saw her.

Sacrificing another person's life to prolong our own lifespan. It was something that Li Mu could not accept at all.

There was an acceptable range for humans to be selfish. One could even take advantage of another person if the consequence was not that serious. However, this kind of selfish behavior had exceeded the range and caused a lot of damages to others.

He would never marry Shen Xingyue if she was this kind of person. It was not because he felt that he was a great and holy person, but he did not want to marry an evil and wicked person. He would rather die than marry this kind of woman!

What he had experienced and heard recently had proven that unnatural phenomena did exist in the world. However, what he heard today was dumbfounding to him!

He did not doubt what the girls said because they did not seem to be telling lies. The reason for Shen Xingyue's disappearance was most probably because of this!

The only thing unknown now was Shen Xingyue's stance on this. He was not sure whether she knew about it or not before she agreed to go for it. It could be that she decided to go for it after somebody convinced her, too.

If Shen Xingyue was not aware of it before she did that, Li Mu felt that he could still befriend her. If it was one of the other possibilities, Li Mu would never want to talk to her anymore.

He would not want to make friends with this kind of selfish woman. Not to mention marrying one!

Even if Shen Xingyue did not know about it but accepted the arrangement passively, Li Mu would not consider marrying her as well.

Firstly, he felt that it was very awkward and was uncomfortable with it. It was as if he was marrying a dead woman.

Secondly, he did not need to sacrifice himself anymore.

Sacrifice himself? Yes, that was the phrase that Li Mu had in his mind.

Their relationship ended with a break-up. The reason why Li Mu wanted to marry her was to let her pass on without any regret. To put it simply, it was him showing her care during her last days.

Since she was not dying, he would not need to show her care anymore. Perhaps they could still be friends, but not lovers!

Li Mu could not help worrying. He felt that his personal freedom was restricted. And obviously, the Shen Family did not want him to leave. These two girls were asked to guard him.

He felt that he was such an unlucky man. He escaped from one dangerous place to another. He was not sure whether the Lin Family would let him go or not. Now that he had messed up with the Shen Family, where could he hide for his safety in this wild world?

He thought this place was a paradise and never expected that it was a place full of evil and wickedness. He got to find a way to escape from here. However, this time would be more challenging than the last time. The Lin Family were ordinary people who only knew about some hypnotizing techniques after all.

It seemed like this place was different. They practiced black magic, which was scary and abnormal. If one compared it with the Magic of Hypnotizing, the former was considered something about the intangible cultural protection heritage, while the latter was about an understandable medical concept.

He did not know that, in reality, the Lin Family was eviler than this family if one was to compare them. He had not seen the other side of them.

He had thought of many ways to escape from here. But he denied all of them one by one. He had to make sure the plan would succeed. Otherwise, he would cause them to be on high alert. And he might not even get to walk out and enjoy the scenery freely.

After much thought, he turned his eyes upon the Shen sisters. These girls were innocent and naive for him to trick. He planned to abduct both of them first and then find ways to get rid of them. After that, he would run away himself.

“Alright. That's the plan. I can't do it impulsively. I got to make my plan and execute it carefully.” Li Mu said to himself.

Li Mu started to describe how wonderful the world outside was. Everything was good out there. Both of the girls had never seen the world outside. Therefore, they paid a lot of attention to listening to the stories. Sometimes, they would exclaim out of amazement. Their eyes showed their desire to see the world themselves.

It seemed like it worked. Li Mu continued telling them all the peculiar experiences he had heard or seen in his life. Both of them foolishly believed in what he said and they got excited about it.

Li Mu knew that he had to go slow with them. He would first let them feel excited about the world outside and encourage them to go out to the world for a trip. Then, he would volunteer to be their guide. With that, he could exploit the opportunity to escape from here.