After I left the sect, the entire sect knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

Chapter 27 The Bloodline of the Crimson Enchantress

"Junior Sister, stop protecting that good-for-nothing. You're just too kind, that's why you get bullied." Gu Zhu looked at his delicate and lovely junior sister, who was as warm as a little sun, his face full of tenderness.

At this moment, his wickedness towards Lin Yan was hidden. Anyone who didn't know better would think he was a gentle and refined disciple of a sect, virtuous and righteous.

Tao Zhizhi covered her face, feigning worry. "Sigh, I wonder how Fourth Senior Sister is doing, whether she's doing well outside. Eldest Senior Brother and Second Senior Brother don't know about Fourth Senior Sister's departure from the sect yet. When they come out of seclusion and ask her about her, I don't know how to answer them."

Gu Zhu snorted coldly and said nonchalantly, "Just tell the truth. It wasn't your fault to begin with. Senior Brother and Second Senior Brother will think that the ingrate is up to no good."

The junior sister nodded obediently. She sat for a while, left the basket behind, and then made an excuse to leave. Gu Zhu was filled with admiration for her "kind-hearted junior sister"...

Realizing he had lost face at the hands of that ingrate, he immediately found the gossip-writing disciple, gave him some spirit stones, and had someone post it on Jade Disc Square. The content, naturally, was fabricated and exaggerated based on the watering incident, a smear campaign against Lin Yan.

"Jade Disc Plaza" is a function of the communication jade disc. It allows users to learn about the gossip and anecdotes of various sects, aristocratic families, royal families, and independent cultivators.

You can find out which Daoist couples have fallen out, or which genius has improved their cultivation level, all at the Jade Disc Square. As for whether the news is true or not, that's for the cultivators to judge for themselves.

Lin Yan ate her fill and then casually browsed the Jade Disc Plaza. She saw a post about her and clicked on it.

The post described her as utterly worthless, petty, and unorthodox, fabricating stories to smear her about watering Ganoderma lucidum, which I found quite amusing.

She didn't even need to think to know who this post was related to. She didn't want to bother with such low-level tactics. She'd settle all these scores during the Immortal Sect Competition.

She put away the communication jade disc, used her magic to clean the cave thoroughly, and then sat down to cultivate.

The hot pot was so delicious that she ate a lot. Taking advantage of her cultivation time, she used her spiritual energy to cleanse her meridians and marrow, expelling impurities.

She sat cross-legged, closing her eyes and concentrating. Instantly, the rich spiritual energy around her surged into her body. Her storm-like absorption of spiritual energy was even more intense than before, and despite the support of the advanced spirit-gathering array in the cave, there was still a few seconds of spiritual energy depletion.

After an unknown amount of time, Lin Yan slowly opened her eyes. Because the impurities had been eliminated, her body felt sticky. She didn't even need to use hand seals anymore; with just a thought, her body immediately became clean.

At this moment, the Crimson Demon was staring at her intently.

She subconsciously touched her face. "Is there something dirty on my face?"

After she asked the question, the Red Enchantress's words echoed in her mind: "Strange, the contract mark has been transferred."

Previously, her contract mark with the Crimson Demon was on her right wrist, while the spirit sword and her father's spiritual imprint were on her left hand.

Unlike spiritual thoughts, spiritual thoughts will not manifest unless there are special circumstances. A cultivator's natal magic weapon imprint is on their left hand. After the spiritual sword forms a contract with her, its imprint will naturally appear on her left wrist as well.

She closed her eyes and used her spiritual sense to explore the mark. She was not stopped, but a huge creature appeared in her mind. She had never seen this kind of monster before, but its name appeared in her mind.

Lin Yan opened her eyes again, her expression complicated. "Little Rabbit, I have good news to tell you."

The Crimson Demon's red eyes were filled with doubt. She stroked the rabbit's head and said, "You have the blood of a Hou, but you've only awakened a tiny bit of it."

The Hou is powerful and ferocious, an ancient beast that feeds on dragons. If the Crimson Demon could fully awaken its bloodline, its combat power would increase several levels.

Most cultivators, knowing they've contracted with such a demonic beast, would try to keep it, but she had promised to break the contract once she left the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, and she couldn't break her promise.

Giving up such a powerful battle pet left her with mixed feelings, and her gaze towards the Crimson Demon was equally complicated.

The rabbit nodded blankly, seemingly a little confused. Indeed, it was only a fourth-tier demon beast, possessing human-like intelligence, but compared to a Xuan-level demon beast, it was still not intelligent enough.

After Lin Yan finished her remark, she realized that the Crimson Demon had advanced again. So, its long-term lethargy was due to its advancement?
Sigh! Powerful! Rapid advancement, and the bloodline of the "Hou" beast—if such a demonic beast were released, even those who weren't beast-taming cultivators would flock to it. Her heart was bleeding as she made the difficult decision to release the Red Enchantress.

She glanced to the side; the spirit sword wasn't there, probably out for a stroll. She herself was already at the peak of the first level of the Golden Core realm, and her cultivation progress had slowed considerably. She couldn't stay cooped up in the cave cultivating forever; it was time to go out and explore the valley.

Combat is also a form of cultivation, and she believes that combat can better stimulate one's potential, allow one to understand more things, and is beneficial to cultivation.

"Let's go, it's time to explore the valley. Fighting with me will be good for your bloodline awakening." With that, she led the little rabbit out of the cave.

The valley remained shrouded in mist and filled with poisonous miasma. However, she was now a Golden Core cultivator, and having taken an antidote pill beforehand, these poisonous barriers posed no real harm to her.

After walking for a short while, the Crimson Enchantress twitched her small nose and led her in one direction. There, in a dark corner, grew a spiritual plant that emitted a faint glow.

It's actually a Grade 5 spiritual plant, the Immortal Reed! This kind of spiritual plant cannot be cultivated and is extremely rare. The repair pills made from it have the effect of repairing spiritual roots. Even if not used to repair spiritual roots, it can still nourish them.

She wasn't interested in the medicinal properties of the Immortal Cattail Grass, but rather in its value. At auction houses, a single plant could fetch at least 50,000 high-grade spirit stones.

Thinking about this, she suddenly realized that the 200,000 high-grade spirit stones her father had left behind were not much left.

However, cultivators generally don't buy these spiritual plants with special effects. Only large families would bid on them and collect them for future use.

The guardian beast of the fairy lizard is a ferocious giant lizard. Upon seeing her, it immediately extends its long tongue, attempting to roll her into its belly and digest her.

She immediately used magic to create a protective shield and summoned the sword spirit back at the same time.

The Crimson Demon had been eating and sleeping all this time and had been wanting to stretch her muscles for a while. After seeing her attract the giant lizard's attention, she coordinated with the Spirit Sword to attack from both sides.

The monitor lizard reacted immediately, leaping onto the cliff face and quickly disappearing.

She knew this demonic beast's skill; it only used color change to blend into the surrounding scenery and achieve an invisibility effect. In reality, it wasn't true invisibility; as soon as it moved, it would reveal its weakness.

She focused her mind, and ten first-grade explosive talismans appeared in her hand. Seeing this, the Crimson Demon and the Spirit Sword both went to block the route, while she threw the explosive talismans at the mountain wall.

Boom boom boom!
(End of this chapter)