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

Chapter 31 It's Time to Leave 1
"Come and have something to eat. Don't be sad. It's okay if it gets torn down. We can just rebuild it."

After speaking, she straightened up, placed the array plate in the appropriate position, and activated it. Instantly, the defensive array was deployed, forming a barrier.

She returned to the Crimson Enchantress's lair and sat down, skillfully retrieving the guard's storage bag. Lin Yan easily erased the spiritual imprint on the bag and examined its contents.

Wow, this guard's storage bag is quite full, especially the first and second grade spiritual plants, talismans, and pills, which take up most of the space. The rest are magic treasures and a few spirit stones, but the magic treasures are all first grade, so there's not much to see.

He only had three high-grade spirit stones, one hundred mid-grade spirit stones, and five hundred low-grade spirit stones; he was incredibly poor. He probably had so few spirit stones because he spent most of them on pills, talismans, and magic weapons.

This guard thought he could bring back some spoils by following the young master to the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, but who knew he would lose his life here.

She moved everything out of the bag, sorted it, and put it into her own storage bag.

Lingjian has been reluctant to move around these past few days, returning to the mark as soon as she finishes her work. She's happy to have some peace and quiet, so Lingjian doesn't have to argue with the Red Enchantress.

This top-grade spiritual sword is called the Guanhai Sword, and its sword spirit is named Lingxu. Her father's spiritual senses didn't explain why it was called that. She had been on Wenxin Peak before, and knew very little about the outside world, so naturally she didn't know about the sword Lingxu.

Given her father's Nascent Soul stage cultivation, his sword was quite famous. Therefore, it wouldn't be appropriate for her to use the Spirit Void Sword outside the Ten Thousand Demon Forest. Firstly, people might recognize what kind of sword she was using; secondly, others would speculate about her relationship with Venerable Ruozhu; and thirdly, her father's enemy was probably at least at the eighth level of the Nascent Soul stage, if not the Divine Transformation stage.

If her enemy came looking for her, she wouldn't be able to defeat him, let alone escape from a cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage.

The difference between the Golden Core stage and the Nascent Soul stage is not small; it's like heaven and earth. With her current Golden Core cultivation, she would be considered an elder in a smaller sect.

After successfully reaching the Golden Core stage, she discovered that the constraints were more than a hundred times heavier than when she was at the Foundation Establishment stage. Her cultivation was incredibly slow, and there was nothing she could do about it. Cultivation is inherently against the will of Heaven, and the higher one's realm, the heavier the constraints become.

Fortunately, Golden Core cultivators have a lifespan of eight hundred years, giving her plenty of time to cultivate. Right now, the most important thing is to accumulate combat experience and improve her physical abilities. This way, even if she's caught in close combat, she'll have enough time to react.

Many cultivators neglect physical cultivation, making them weak and frail, only fit to be fragile mages who become numb at close range. If their spiritual power were sealed, they probably couldn't even hold a light sword properly.

With that in mind, she decided to rest and recuperate, and tomorrow she would take the Red Enchantress out to find the Mysterious Wood and fight the demonic beasts along the way.

She stroked the rabbit's head as she said, "Tomorrow I'll take you out to find Xuanmu and Xuancao fruit. After I've settled things here, I'll leave the Ten Thousand Demon Forest. At that time, I'll terminate the contract, and you'll be free."

The Red Enchantress was delighted to be patted on the head, and she was also pleased to hear the first part of the sentence. Her ears stood up straight, twitching occasionally, and she chewed while making comfortable sounds.

Upon hearing the second half of the sentence, the grass in its mouth no longer tasted good, and the whole rabbit became listless.

"Cuckoo"

The image of the Red Enchantress echoed in her mind, asking her if this place was good enough and why she wanted to leave.

Lin Yan smiled gently and tapped its head with her finger. "This place is quite nice, but I'm a cultivator, and I can't stay in the Myriad Demon Forest forever. But don't worry, I'll be back."

As she spoke, she took out two more mystical herbs and placed them in front of the Crimson Demon. "Here, eat. Your little brain isn't suited for thinking so much."

After the Immortal Sect Grand Competition ends, she will continue her training in the Ten Thousand Demon Forest. The female protagonist became famous after the Immortal Sect Grand Competition. Later, due to cultivation issues, Immortal Venerable Lingyun specially went to the Northern Extreme Land to find the Ice Lotus to help the female protagonist mutate her water spiritual root into an ice spiritual root.

Because of her outstanding performance in the Immortal Sect Competition, the female protagonist also received the opportunity to lead her sect's disciples to the outer perimeter of the Ten Thousand Demon Forest for trials. This was a mission that would earn her sect points and reputation for free, and as long as she followed the elders' instructions, nothing unexpected would happen.

But that's exactly what happened. The female lead, who was the team leader, went back, cried a few times, and was confined to her quarters for a month, and then everything was fine.

The main characters, who were in charge of leading the group along with the female lead, were only punished with confinement and nothing more. They didn't even need to publicly apologize to the deceased disciples within the sect.

Fortunately, she has now left the sect, so the original plot has nothing to do with her. As long as she defeats all those "prodigies" in the sect competition and makes them feel frustrated, they won't become so arrogant that they would be so confident as to lead a team into the central area of ​​the Ten Thousand Demon Forest.

The reason why the female protagonist and those male cultivators were so confident was simply because they had performed exceptionally well in the sect competition, which made them feel like geniuses and created the illusion that they were powerful.

After leaving the Demon Forest, she needs to go to the far north to take a look.

With her current cultivation level, she definitely couldn't defeat the guardian beast of the Ice Lotus, but she could spread the news beforehand. With more people vying for the treasure, she would have a chance to fish in troubled waters.

The novel says that Venerable Lingyun discovered the Ice Lotus during his early years of training, but at that time the Ice Lotus had not yet bloomed, and its location was difficult to find. Moreover, he was injured while hunting demonic beasts, so he did not pick it.

After returning to the sect, he first went into seclusion to recuperate, and then took in his youngest disciple to teach him, which delayed the time for harvesting.

She wasn't kind-hearted enough to share the news of the rare and precious herbs from the novel with everyone; it was simply because she lacked the ability to obtain them. If she had the strength to gather them now, she would have gone secretly long ago.

Lin Yan finalized her plan before looking at the Crimson Demon again. Seeing its unhappy expression, she asked, "What's wrong? You're not happy about eating the Mystic Grass? Or do you want to eat the Crimson Spirit Fruit?"

The Crimson Enchantress shook her head, indicating that she wanted to go out with her.

She thought for a moment, "It's not that I don't want to take you with me, I'm just afraid I won't be able to protect you."

She was telling the truth. There are very, very few cultivators in the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, so there's no scheming or backstabbing. Once you get to a place with cultivators, who knows what unexpected things might happen.

In this world, cultivators aren't all benevolent. They kill and plunder without hesitation. Her current cultivation level isn't high enough to allow her to act with impunity. If she can't protect the Crimson Demon, wouldn't she become a burden to it?

She continued to pat the rabbit's head: "So, it's best to leave you in the Ten Thousand Demon Forest to cultivate properly. Or, you could move your burrow to that cave with the restrictions; it's safe there too."

The red-haired demon sulked and turned away, ignoring her.

It doesn't want to, and there's nothing it can do about it. Give it some time, and it will figure it out.

The next day.

She opened her eyes, took out the antidote pill and swallowed it, then said to the still-sleeping Red Enchantress, "It's time to go find Xuanmu."

(End of this chapter)