My Wife Might Be a Saintess-Chapter 57 - 56: Su Qi Calls

The Blood Demon watched Jiang Zuo with lingering fear, still unable to believe he would be let go.

Sure enough, he saw Jiang Zuo turn back after taking only a few steps.

The Blood Demon was so scared he didn’t dare to move.

"S-Senior, I... I was telling the truth."

Jiang Zuo had no intention of harming the Blood Demon. Instead, he pulled out his phone and pointed it at him. "Repeat everything you just said." 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

The Blood Demon: "???"

"Go on. Start talking."

The Blood Demon straightened his clothes and said solemnly, "I am a Blood Demon, and my name is Blood Soil. We’re targeting the Holy Land. We’ve been wandering around Century Garden recently, so all you fellow cultivators should be careful. Oh, right..."

The Blood Demon cooperatively recounted everything. Finally, he looked at Jiang Zuo and said, "Senior, c-can you blur my face? If this gets out, I won’t be able to be an informant."

Jiang Zuo stopped the recording and said flatly, "You already said your name is Blood Soil. You’re exposed whether they see your face or not."

Blood Soil: "..., Senior, could you edit it out? I can... I can do it for you."

Jiang Zuo ignored Blood Soil and walked away.

Blood Soil knelt on the ground. ’He just had to subconsciously state his name on camera.’

’I’m done for.’

Jiang Zuo immediately uploaded the video to the group chat.

The moment she finished watching the video, Xiao Xiaomo sent a shocked emoji. "Boss, you found the Blood Demons’ main base just like that? Wasn’t that a little too easy?"

Po Xiao: "Blood Demons are morons. Is finding them supposed to be hard? I couldn’t even be bothered with them if they hadn’t interrupted my shopping."

Everyone was speechless. Only a boss like him would dare say something like that.

Xiao Xiaomo immediately typed, "Boss, can I show the video to the people from the Holy Land?"

Po Xiao: "Do whatever you want. But edit out the name and face in the video, and alter the voice. After all, he’s the informant I just recruited for free. It’d be a waste if he dies too soon."

Xiao Xiaomo: "No problem."

After the conversation ended, Xiao Xiaomo said to Liuyue Xue and the others, "Doesn’t everyone say Boss Po Xiao wants to woo the Saintess? Why didn’t he tell her this news himself? Wouldn’t that be an easy way to score points with her?"

Mo Yan said excitedly, "You don’t get it, do you? Being too direct would just put the Saintess off, or at best, earn him a simple thank you.

But by quietly helping from behind the scenes and then finding an opportunity to let the secret slip, it won’t just be gratitude he receives—she might even be touched. Now *that’s* the boss’s master plan for wooing the Saintess.

Once this is all over, we can give Boss Po Xiao a helping hand and ’accidentally’ let it slip to them."

Xiao Xiaomo: "..."

******

Jiang Zuo left the construction site. At his current level of strength, charging in recklessly would do him no good.

But he didn’t like having Blood Demons in the vicinity, especially with Su Qi coming home soon. He had a bad feeling something might happen, so he wanted to get rid of them as quickly as possible.

The most direct way to deal with the Blood Demons was to let the Holy Land handle it. If he could find out whether Jiu Xi was going...

He could even sneak in and kill Jiu Xi first.

Jiang Zuo figured it was time to initiate the second phase of his plan to kill Jiu Xi.

But just as the thought took shape, his phone rang.

Jiang Zuo was surprised. ’Who would be calling me right now?’ He pulled out his phone and saw it was Su Qi.

’Why is she calling me now? Shouldn’t she be exploring the Immortal Spirit Cave Mansion?’

Jiang Zuo answered the call, and an anxious voice immediately came through. "Where are you right now? Are you okay?"

Jiang Zuo was completely baffled. "Me? Was something supposed to happen?"

The person on the other end seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Then, Su Qi’s tone returned to normal as she asked, "Are you at work?"

"I’m out on a sales call," Jiang Zuo replied, then asked, "Are you in a place where you can make calls?"

Su Qi paused for a moment. ’He’s right, my phone is usually turned off when I’m away.’

"Something urgent has come up. For the next few days, why don’t you stay at the company? Just let them know, and they’ll arrange it for you."

Jiang Zuo frowned. ’What does she mean?’

’Does Su Qi know about the Blood Demons nearby? Is she telling me not to wander around here?’

’How is she so well-informed?’

Jiang Zuo replied instinctively, "Oh."

Su Qi asked, "Aren’t you even going to ask why?"

"Oh. Why?"

Su Qi: "..."

"Ouch! Sweet Potato, what are you doing?" Suddenly pecked by his pet, Jiang Zuo’s voice turned cold.

Just then, Su Qi immediately demanded, "’Sweet Potato’? Are you with another woman? Is she a client?"

Jiang Zuo said flatly, "No, it’s..."

BEEP... BEEP... BEEP...

"She hung up?" Jiang Zuo stared at his phone, confused.

He looked at Sweet Potato, then back at his phone. ’She... couldn’t have misunderstood, could she?’

With a sigh, Jiang Zuo called back. "We’re sorry, the number you have dialed has been switched off. Please try again later..."

Jiang Zuo sighed. He grabbed Sweet Potato, snapped a picture, and sent it to Su Qi with a message: "It’s a pet I found. Its name is Sweet Potato."

’If Su Qi still doesn’t believe me after this,’ Jiang Zuo thought, ’there’s nothing more I can do.’

Then Jiang Zuo looked at Sweet Potato. "What was that for just now?"

Sweet Potato pointed its wing at two people in the distance and squawked. "SQUAWK."

Jiang Zuo was surprised. "You can spot them?"

Sweet Potato tilted its head. "SQUAWK?"

Jiang Zuo’s brow furrowed. "So, can you spot them or not?"

Sweet Potato blinked, unsure how to answer.

Jiang Zuo sighed and didn’t press the issue. It seemed Sweet Potato could indeed tell that those two people were not ordinary.

Along the way, Jiang Zuo had seen many Blood Demons, some strong, some weak.

’This is completely out of character for the Blood Demons.’

’Do they really hate the Holy Land that much? But why?’

******

"Hey, Senior Sister, why’d you snatch my phone and turn it off?" Su Qi said unhappily from within the Immortal Spirit Cave Mansion. "I still had questions for him!"

Jingyue looked helpless. "Could you please pay attention to our surroundings? Can’t you see we’re being hunted right now? If you ask a question and get an answer you don’t like, your distraction could get us both killed here.

If you want answers, you need to get back alive first."

Jingyue and Su Qi were currently fleeing through a field of flowers, where every single bloom could be an enemy.

"It was just one Ten Thousand Flowers Fruit. Is that really a reason to hate us this much?" Jingyue muttered as she pulled Su Qi along, trying to get away faster.

Su Qi snapped back to the present, slashing at the flowers lunging at them as she retreated. "Senior Sister, I can’t drag this out any longer! The moment we get out of here, I’m coming clean to Jiang Zuo. I don’t care what the consequences are. If I don’t tell him, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life."

"Alright, alright! Your Senior Sister will help you, okay? Just don’t do anything reckless."

******

On a small hill at the construction site, all the Blood Demons had been gathered.

A crimson-skinned Blood Demon leader stood on a high platform, glaring down at the others. "How many haven’t returned yet?"

One of the Blood Demons immediately replied, "There are still a few on patrol. They’re on their way back now."

"Fine. We won’t wait for them. Now, I want you all to watch a video."

As he spoke, the leader projected a video onto the platform. A pixelated figure appeared on screen, and its altered voice soon began to speak. "I am a Blood Demon, BLEEP, we’re targeting the Holy Land. We’ve been wandering around Century Garden recently, so all you fellow cultivators should be careful. Oh, right..."