Cold sweat dripped from Shen Xingcong’s forehead.
He never expected to bump into Lan Jin in this kind of place. Perhaps his heart was hopeful, but he didn’t move.
The next second, he saw the man turn his head and cast his gaze just right this way.
… that’s right, the strength gap was too large, and it was impossible for Lan Jin not to find out where they were hiding.
Shen Xingcong thought of giving up and was about to get up when he felt someone still tugging his wrist. Turning his head to look, he saw Xiao Lin looking straight at him.
Shen Xingcong mouthed towards him: No, we can’t. Let’s go out.
Xiao Lin: “…”
He stared at Shen Xingcong for a few seconds before finally letting go.
Shen Xingcong patted away the fallen leaves on his body and walked out of the grass. At first, he was a little flustered, but now he has calmed down.
His original purpose wasn’t to take Xiao Lin away but to make him voluntarily withdraw from the selection. The subsequent act was just for show to round up a lie.
Now that it has been discovered, there was nothing that could be done about it. It was also to avoid too much entanglement after taking people out of Xiaoyao Sect.
Just as how he should explain it to Lan Jin. After all, they were both sneaking around and carrying big and small bundles.
Lan Jin didn’t expect that it would be these two people hiding in the shadows, so he couldn’t help being stunned: “How could it be you?”
“Teacher Lan Jin.” Shen Xingcong braced himself to bow, “What a good coincidence.”
Lan Jin naturally also noticed the bundles on the two of them and frowned slightly. Before he could open his mouth to ask, there was a struggling sound not far ahead.
He returned to his senses: “Never mind, I’ll deal with you later.”
He walked forward.
Shen Xingcong followed to look at it and saw a black shadow lying not far in front of the large tree. Clothed in a black robe, he couldn’t see the appearance clearly, and his whole body was tied up with thick ropes.
Perhaps he wanted to hide through the woods, but as a result, the rope that flew out from behind him tied him up in place.
Yesterday Lan Jin warned them repeatedly to pay attention to the unusual appearance. Could it be because of this person? Looking at the attire, he doesn’t look like a disciple of the Xiaoyao Sect.
While sizing him up, Shen Xingcong heard Lan Jin speak: “It’s useless. This is not an ordinary rope. The more you struggle, the more tighter it will bind.”
“However,” Lan Jin smiled, “I don’t mind it either if you infuse a little more spiritual energy into it.”
The man in black raised his head.
Only then did Shen Xingcong see clearly that this person’s face was actually creeping up with black patterns, which was extremely terrifying.
He couldn’t help being startled.
Is it actually a demon cultivator?!
Unlike the ordinary cultivators, the cultivation methods of demon cultivators were awfully vicious and ruthless after becoming devils. Human cauldrons in dual cultivation, murder to concoct immortality pills, seize success and treasure, and stop at nothing to do evil.
If it was said that the cultivators strive for mindfulness in nature, then the demon cultivators’ principle was at the other extremity. On the contrary, the actual strength of the demon cultivators at the same level could pit one against ten and even kill a person beyond their level. Therefore, once a cultivator was alone and targeted by the demon cultivator, they often found it difficult to escape death.
The most obvious sign of this kind of demon cultivator was the magic patterns that appeared outside the body. The deeper the magic, the greater the number, and it couldn’t be hidden by human power.
Although most demon cultivators didn’t really care either. They were proud of it because it was a conspicuous symbol of strength.
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However… he didn’t remember this plot in the original book.
“Come back with me.” Lan Jin reached out to pick up the man in black, “If you don’t want to suffer, inform me where the rest of your accomplices are before it’s too late.”
Although he was in a disadvantageous position, the demon cultivator didn’t show any traces of fear and grinned hideously: “I know you. You just entered Xiaoyao Sect several hundred years ago, and you could even be described as the proud son of Heaven with a worldwide reputation, but now how did you end up in such a situation? I originally thought you were unreachable, but now the gap is nothing more than…”
Before he finished speaking, a sleeve breezed flash across the side of his face. With a snap, something fell beside him.
It’s the ear.
The demon cultivator’s single ear was actually cut off raw, and a bloody black hole appeared on the side of his head, splattering with blood everywhere.
The demon cultivator cried out in misery.
Lan Jin looked on solemnly: “If you really need a spanking, I don’t mind doing the interrogation here. It just so happens that I’ll let your accomplices take a look. Maybe they will feel distressed and come to your rescue?”
Shen Xingcong was shocked, he looked at the demon cultivator and Lan Jin, and he never expected the latter’s action would be so straightforward. In his impression, Lan Jin has always been a soft and gentle character.
He originally thought that even in the face of the enemy would also be a policy of tenderness.
Lan Jin: “Tell me, where are the others? What is your purpose, and do you want to take away our disciples?”
Shen Xingcong stood aside and didn’t dare to breathe heavily.
For some reason, the demon cultivator was clearly crying out so loudly. However, the disciple guarding the door seemed to haven’t heard it, still standing calmly in the same place.
He felt a little astonished. However, it could be seen that Lan Jin was interrogating the demon cultivator, and he didn’t dare to say anything for the time being.
Lan Jin: “If you keep screaming, you don’t want the other ear anymore either?!”
The demon cultivator finally stopped his voice. He glanced to the side, and the corners of his mouth widened into an inexplicable grin. Blood on the side of his head was left along the cheeks, dyeing the sharp teeth red.
“Heh, heh, heh.” The demon cultivator began to laugh. Due to the pain, his face was wrinkled into a ball and became more and more ugly.
“It’s really true. As long as one tells the matter in the past, you will immediately get angry and can’t notice anything.”
Lan Jin was taken aback and immediately looked around. As if realizing something, he leaped out swiftly toward the outside.
It was only a few hundred meters away from the sect’s main gate and could be reached in the twinkling of an eye with Lan Jin’s cultivation. But how it can’t be reached now?
The broad and magnificent plaque name, the energetic disciples standing guard, and even the surrounding woods, seemed to have become a mirage. Seemingly far away, but it was actually close at hand.
While looking from the direction where Shen Xingcong was standing, he only felt that the further Lan Jin went out, the more obscured the scenery over there would be. It was like the scenery reflected in the pond. The overflowing waves were gleaming.
Soon, even the blurred scenery disappeared.
Shen Xingcong was obviously in the Xiaoyao Sect, but it seemed he was in a different world.
It gave him some sense of familiarity. He obviously had never experienced it, but he knew what would happen next. Perhaps it was an internal avoidance, but he hadn’t remembered the reason for this sense of familiarity for a long time.
“What have you done?” Shen Xingcong asked the demon cultivator, “Why did it turn out like this?”
The demon cultivator glanced at Shen Xingcong and mocked: “A kid in the Qi training stage? Even in our Hundred Desolation Demon Realm is only enough to fill the belly of a demon beast. This is too rubbish.”
Shen Xingcong kicked the demon cultivator’s leg wound, and the other immediately gave a blood-curdling scream.
Shen Xingcong: “You’ve been caught now! Figure out what should be said now.”
“You,” the demon cultivator was angry and hurt, fuming and glaring, “Are you still an orthodox cultivator? If you want to kill, just kill. What kind of skill is it to torture people!”
Wow, is this a moral kidnapping?
How many cruel things have been done by these demon cultivators? Even the people in Xiao Lin’s family beside him were also slaughtered by them. How dare they accuse him now?
Shen Xingcong kicked the demon cultivator’s leg again.
“Don’t kick it! It hurts, it hurts!” The demon cultivator begged for mercy.
Although these kinds of people were cruel and ruthless, they couldn’t bear to put things on their own heads. Shen Xingcong was extremely contemptuous: “Speak clearly. What is the situation now? How should we go out?”
“I know the exit, but I can’t tell you easily.” The demon cultivator leaned his back against the tree trunk, his black robe already wet and contaminated with blood and sweat. He panted heavily, “Help me untie the rope, and I’ll take you out.”
Shen Xingcong: “Really?”
Seeing that there was hope, the demon cultivator spoke faster: “Of course it’s true. Looking at your way of dressing, you probably want to leave the Xiaoyao Sect, right? Although this is a big sect, the treatment of the outer sect disciples is extremely harsh. They worked hard every day, not to mention the salary was very little, and even a few cultivation resources weren’t provided to them. The inner sect disciples are actually squandered all day long. No matter how you go on, you will only work for nothing until you die.”
“Indeed.” Shen Xingcong agreed, “I was even confined the other day.”
The demon cultivator endured the pain and snorted: “The sect’s rules are very strict, but the treatment is not equal. A hundred years have passed, and the Xiaoyao Sect is still this old-fashioned.”
Shen Xingcong wondered: “How do you know Xiaoyao Sect so well?”
Demon cultivator: “Where do you think demon cultivators come from? Aren’t they all orthodox cultivators who have been driven to the road with no return?”
“It turned out to be a senior.” Shen Xingcong cupped his hands, “Then you have infiltrated the Xiaoyao Sect this time for revenge?”
“Revenge?” The demon cultivator disdainfully replied, “Who cares about such personal grudges nowadays? We are only for cultivation…”
He suddenly reacted, “Wait, you set me up?”
“No.” Shen Xingcong said, “I just talked about it here in passing.”
The demon cultivator’s evil eyes stared at Shen Xingcong, but he didn’t say whether he believed it or not, and he spoke after a long time: “You help me untie the rope. I will take you away. After leaving Xiaoyao Sect, you can come to the Hundred Desolation Demon Realm, and I will help you.”
Shen Xingcong took a step forward and suddenly heard Xiao Lin talk from the side: “Does senior brother want to untie it.”
He turned his head back.
Xiao Lin stood at the side, and his emotions couldn’t be seen. The words just now seemed to be a mere confirmation, without any emotional tinge.
Only then did the demon cultivator notice that there was another person behind him. He said: “Little brother, my words just now also count for you. Come to the Hundred Desolation Demon Realm, and I will cover you.”
Who covers who ah, this is a natural demon seed.
Shen Xingcong suddenly got an unrealistic feeling.
He saw Xiao Lin cast his gaze: “My family members were killed by the demon cultivators.”
Hearing these words, the man didn’t panic: “Even if they are all demon cultivators, they have different standpoints from each other. I hate to implicate ordinary people the most in my life, and I will kill such demon cultivators swiftly!”
Xiao Lin smiled: “Really?”
No more words were spoken after that.
After getting this unexpected reaction, the demon cultivator was stunned.
Shouldn’t he be righteously indignant with him at this moment?
Shen Xingcong looked on from the side and shook his head.
The other’s words were probably to win favor, but he got the wrong person.
Xiao Lin’s mention of his family was nothing more than an elaboration of the facts, and he didn’t have strong malice towards demon cultivators. Asking him whether he would untie the rope was probably to remind him.
The demon cultivator’s words couldn’t be trusted.
Of course, Shen Xingcong was only doing it for show. He wanted to pretend to untie the rope and then get some more words out, but now it was hopeless.
Lan Jin was back.
.
Lan Jin explored the surroundings but didn’t find the exit. At this moment, he returned just in time to see the two sides talking.
He approached: “What are you talking about?”
Shen Xingcong immediately betrayed the demon cultivator: “He fooled me into untying the rope for him.”
The demon cultivator almost vomited blood: “You—”
Lan Jin looked grave at the moment, not as smiling as usual. He cast his gaze at the demon cultivator: “This is the spiritual realm. Are you tampering with the spiritual realm to take away all the examinees?”
The demon cultivator snorted coldly and didn’t answer.
“Teacher Lan Jin.” Shen Xingcong said, “I’m afraid their goal is not examinees, but inner sect disciples.”
Hearing this, Lan Jin paused and turned his head to look.
Although Shen Xingcong’s set of words couldn’t trick to the end, he still obtained some useful information.
First of all, from the attitude of demon cultivators, they didn’t pay attention to their Qi training stage disciples. The examinees were all outer sect disciples, they hadn’t formally cultivated, and their cultivation levels weren’t much different. Most of them are disciples in the early Qi training or Foundation Building stage.
The demon cultivators could kill and plunder but presumably looked down on their cultivation.
Then why do they decide to do it today?
During the selection period, to ensure the assessment’s smooth progress, the inner sect disciples will come out to supervise. Compared to the difficulties of sneaking into the inner sect, the restrictions set by the outer sect were like nothing to these demon cultivators.
Moreover, the only elder on the scene still needs to ensure the operation of the spiritual realm and has no time to be distracted. When the other elders and chief disciples of the inner sect arrived, the demon cultivators would have been able to escape long ago.
In summary, in Shen Xing Cong’s view, the demon cultivators’ action this time was to plunder and murder the inner sect disciples for cultivation.
Although the Xiaoyao Sect has long found the traces and taken more precautions; how would they ever expect the demon cultivators to be so bold and kill directly at the sect’s doorway.
After listening to Shen Xingcong’s speculation, Lan Jin was silent for a long time. Looking at the expression of the man in black beside him, the other gnashed his teeth as if he had been played with.
Lan Jin sighed: “It seems it’s a pretty close guess.”
“Hmph, so what if you just guessed it? What is done can’t be undone, and those disciples you hold on top of your heart are probably dead long ago. Hahahahaha!”
He was covered in blood and laughed maniacally.
“No, that’s not quite true. Maybe some good-looking and talented people were favored and brought back to the Hundred Desolation Demon Realm to be ‘loved dearly’. Just like you!”
He meant something, and his evil gaze was directed at Lan Jin.
Oh my, is it what I think?! D:
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Omg, I missed this novel so much! 3 months has passed but the quality is still LIT! Hoping that you’ll continue updating this, this is such a good read for me! Thank you for updating this again! <3
Also, our Shen Xingcong may look stupid to others, but he’s a cunning and clever old fox in my eyes! I feel like Lan Jin would help Shen Xingcong gain something in ranks because of his wits!
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