Mu Qing stood still while Shen Minyao waited for what would happen next. Even without lights around her, the fox woman could see perfectly. Her amber eyes glowed brightly in the dark. The grim reaper behind her also didn't have a problem with the darkness that suddenly surrounded them.

The fox woman increased the level of her spatial awareness ability and filtered out the humans. By now, only demons and ghosts could be seen moving within the vicinity, but there was something else that caught Shen Minyao's attention that she failed to see earlier.

At the neurology department, several cocoons with humans in them were hanging from the ceiling, and at one of the rooms, a strong presence of a demon was finally detected. Spider web threads came out from the room, spreading throughout the hospital and clinging to unconscious humans on the floor.

"Found it," Shen Minyao said before sprinting at full speed in the direction of the spider demon.

Mu Qing followed her and was able to keep up with her fast pace, his steps so silent that Shen Minyao wouldn't be able to notice him if she didn't have heightened senses. However, as soon as they arrived at their destination, humans started to move on by one, obstructing them from reaching the spider demon.

"What now?" The grim reaper said. Unlike the nine-tailed fox, he couldn't see the thin spider threads around them. In fact, he wouldn't have known they were dealing with a spider demon if he hadn't read the report given to him.

"Be careful. They are being manipulated by the demon," Shen Minyao replied as she dodged the attacks of the humans holding sharp scalpels and scissors in their hands. They looked more like mindless puppets, not aware of what they were doing at the moment.

She easily unarmed them and cut the silver threads attached in their arms and limbs using her sharp claws. However, as soon as she freed one human, another one came around to attack her. They moved so fast that if Shen Minyao was a human, she would have been dead before she knew what hit her from behind.

The fox woman then decided to keep a safe distance from them and pulled out her fan, unleashing a strong wind that was able to snap the silver threads clinging to the humans. As expected, spider demons were master puppeteers. They were able to force anything to do their bidding.

Mu Qing held his sword in front of him and focused on the spiritual flows around him instead. Since he wasn't able to see the spider threads, he could only rely on his other senses to map out the demonic energy around them until he was able to see them in his mind clearly.

"Dodge it," he told Shen Minyao as he released an attack to cut the spider threads all at once. For a demon like her, she would sustain grave injuries if she was hit by it.

Shen Minyao leaped back, making sure she was far from the blast that the grim reaper sent forward. She saw the silver threads snap into several pieces, releasing the humans from the spider demon's manipulation.

"Is that all?" Mu Qing asked the demoness to confirm whether he had missed something or not since he couldn't see them.

"En." Shen Minyao nodded her head and dusted off the spider threads that fell on her head and clothes. She didn't like another demon's scent clinging to her body. With her keen sense of smell, it reeked like she was splashed with sewer waters.

"Let's keep going. I wanted to finish this as soon as possible," she told Mu Qing. Since she made a promise to Zhao Yichen that she would come back, she had no other choice but to fulfill it. Heh, since when did she get attached to that human anyway?

Mu Qing nodded in agreement, and this time, the two walked side by side; their senses in tune with every sound that was being made in the darkness. Because Shen Minyao's senses were sharper than the grim reaper's beside her, she walked ahead of him, with her fan in her right hand.

"What do you know about spider demons?" She heard Mu Qing's question, breaking the unwanted tension between them. As a grim reaper, his knowledge about the demons wasn't much.

"Do you really have to ask me at this time?" The fox woman chuckled before asking in return. "Aren't you curious if it could hear what was being said between us?"

The grim reaper fell silent at once. He never considered that possibility. Did spider demons really have that ability? Wait, he didn't even know what kind of demon Shen Minyao was!

"Relax. It can't hear us, but it can sense where we are at the moment." Shen Minyao let out a devilish laugh, seeing Mu Qing's annoyed expression. It was really amusing to see him acting annoyed like this after all the things he did and said during their past encounters.

"Can't you be serious? Shen Minyao, this isn't the time to joke around." He glared fiercely at her. He didn't want to admit it, but the two of them had a better understanding when it came to dealing with their enemies.. although this demoness' attitude could be infuriating most of the time.

"In case you are forgetting, I'm a demon. We love seeing others in misery." Shen Minyao flashed her fang towards him in a cocky smile.

"Ha. Thank you for reminding me, Shen Minyao. I will make sure not to forget it." Mu Qing huffed and moved past ahead of her, his tone laced with irritation towards the fox woman.

Shen Minyao shook her head and followed him, but the smile on her face fell once she saw what was about to hit them. historical

"Mu Qing, stop!" She yelled, but it was too late.. The blind grim reaper was wrapped with black spider threads in an instant.