74: Xu's mother protects her son! She has done something terrible again...

No sooner had Li Shengyuan turned around than he received a message from his subordinate Demon Suppression Envoy about Xu Bingying's buried corpse.

He couldn't help but rub his chin and chuckle teasingly, "Burying the body on one side, and attaching the soul to a willow tree, then when we all leave, returning the soul to its place to revive, thereby escaping a calamity?"

"Interesting! This method can't be accomplished by the women and children of the Xu Family, so was it you again, Prince Yan?!"

A cold glint flashed across Li Shengyuan's eyes; Mu Yunxiao was truly good to his subordinates, going to great lengths and expense to leave a spark of life for the Xu Family.

After some thought, Li Shengyuan sent a message to his subordinate Demon Suppression Envoy.

"Bring Xu Bingying's birth mother to me!"

After briefly stating his location, Li Shengyuan turned off the Demon Suppression Division's short-range communicator.

The people of the Xu Family definitely could not be spared.

Li Shengyuan stood with his hands behind his back, facing the location of Xu Bingying's remnant soul, quietly awaiting his mother's arrival.

The subordinate Demon Suppression Envoy was swift and did not make Li Shengyuan wait long.

A moment later, Xus mother, trembling and deathly pale, was brought before him.

Especially upon seeing the location of the courtyard where Li Shengyuan was, she nearly collapsed to the ground.

Li Shengyuan said indifferently, "You all can go back first; preserve Xu Bingying's corpse for now."

"Yes, sir."

After respectfully responding, the Demon Suppression Envoy turned and left.

Slightly turning his head to glance at Xus mother, who was still charming and elegant but utterly distraught, Li Shengyuan said indifferently,

"You should be very familiar with this courtyard."

"I... I don't know what you... sir are talking about." Xus mother forced a smile.

Li Shengyuan chuckled without speaking, instead stepping inside, "Come in with me."

Xus mother watched Li Shengyuan's back, her silver teeth almost biting through her red lips, but due to Li Shengyuan's oppressive power, she could only obediently move her trembling legs to follow behind him.

Pushing open the courtyard gate, Li Shengyuan calmly returned to the stone stool where he had just sat.

He raised his eyes and coldly looked at the stumbling Xus mother, saying indifferently,

"Sit down."

Xus mother's voluptuous body trembled slightly, and she slowly shuffled to the stone stool beside Li Shengyuan and sat down.

Li Shengyuan glanced at her and said indifferently, "I heard your son committed suicide."

Xus mother's head-down body trembled violently, and she bit her teeth, nodding in response, "Mm..."

Tears welled up in her eyes and spilled out.

Li Shengyuan, expressionless, said calmly, "Then why are you so nervous being here?"

"I... I'm not!"

Xus mother looked up again, directly at Li Shengyuan, shaking her head repeatedly to prove her innocence.

Li Shengyuan shook his head and chuckled, with Xus mother's changing expression and Xu Bingying's increasingly violent soul fluctuations, even a Fourth-Grade Nascent Soul cultivator could easily detect the anomaly here with a casual scan.

Seeing Li Shengyuan remain silent and still look disbelieving, tears streamed from Xus mother's eyes, making her appear incredibly fragile.

But the next moment, she clenched her skirt with both hands, gritted her teeth, a hint of humiliation appearing in her eyes, followed by determination, and after taking a deep breath, she stood up and walked towards Li Shengyuan.

Li Shengyuan glanced at her indifferently, but did not speak.

Xus mother looked up at Li Shengyuan with a sincere expression, and said charmingly,

"Sir, I don't want to go to the Jiaofang Division. As long as you take me with you, I can wholeheartedly be your maid, I can do anything!"

After speaking, Xus mother knelt beside Li Shengyuan, looking at him pleadingly.

"Sir, rest assured, I can do any rough or tiring work, I only ask that you take me in."

Li Shengyuan looked at her with surprise and coldly questioned, "Just to avoid going to the Jiaofang Division? I don't think it's that simple!"

"It's rumored outside that there was a lady of the Xu Family whose husband died young, but she remained chaste and would never betray her deceased husband!"

"Now, to avoid going to the Jiaofang Division, you're giving up more than ten years of steadfastness?!"

Upon hearing this, Xus mother's face instantly changed dramatically, and she shook her head repeatedly in denial.

But before she could speak, Li Shengyuan interjected.

Li Shengyuan chuckled teasingly, "Let me think, judging by your state when you entered this side courtyard, there must be some secret here!"

Ignoring Xus mother's increasingly pale face, Li Shengyuan continued to analyze with a smile:

"Moreover, I can sense faint soul fluctuations here, and when you arrived, the soul fluctuations reached their peak!"

"I can sense that he is angry!"

Li Shengyuan looked at Xus mother, who was now completely bloodless, and then sneered,

"Let me guess where he's hiding!"

As he spoke, Li Shengyuan raised his hand and pointed randomly at a spot, "Is it here?"

Then, the place he pointed to immediately exploded, turning into nothingness, and Xus mother's body trembled violently.

"No..." Li Shengyuan pointed at a few places with some disappointment, and seeing Xus mother sigh in relief, he chuckled and pointed at the willow tree beside him:

"Then it must be here, right?!"

Xus mother, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly turned pale with fright. She had initially thought Li Shengyuan was trying to trick her, and seeing that Li Shengyuan hadn't found the right target, she had gradually relaxed.

But then, looking at the teasing smile on Li Shengyuan's lips, she realized that the devil in front of her had been toying with her all along.

Xus mother was about to open her mouth to beg for mercy, but Li Shengyuan had already made his move...

He raised his hand and squeezed from a distance, and the entire willow tree was instantly incinerated into nothingness by the scorching pure Yang energy.

Finally, only a transparent human-shaped soul appeared before Li Shengyuan and Xus mother.

Xus mother looked at her son's soul before her, and almost rolled her eyes and fainted directly.

Li Shengyuan held the soul captive before him, looking at the young man glaring angrily at him, and chuckled indifferently,

"Separating the body and soul, and even hiding the soul within a willow tree to evade the Demon Suppression Division's search, what a truly excellent 'golden cicada shedding its shell' stratagem!"

Then he smiled at Xus mother and said, "Madam Xu, that I could find your son so easily, it truly is all thanks to your performance!"

"Si-sir, please, please let him go, alright? It was all Xu Mingzhi's doing, it has nothing to do with him, he's still just a child!" Madam Xu pleaded bitterly.

Li Shengyuan, however, said with an indifferent expression, "Rest assured, Madam Xu, with this merit, I will not let you live the rest of your life in humiliation."

"As for this person..." Li Shengyuan looked at the soul in his hand and said coldly,

"This person is a descendant of a criminal, and there are not a few children who were persecuted by his elders. Why didn't you plead for them at that time?"

"Since the elders committed crimes, and he enjoyed the benefits, then he should bear the consequences that this splendor and wealth brought!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Xus mother, whose face was pale, instantly collapsed weakly to the ground, and couldn't help but wail:

"My son, it's all your mother's fault..."