Scum Of The Demonic Sect

Chapter Two: The Merit Bead

"You're asking for death!" Li Haiying was furious when he saw Lin Haoming dare to swallow the Qi-regulating pill right in front of him.

Upon seeing his anger, Lin Haoming immediately shouted, "Manager Hai, Li Haiying is trying to rob my pills! You have to do something about it!"

Haitong hadn't expected Lin Haoming to ask him to handle this matter. He made such a loud noise that everyone heard it. If he didn't do anything, he would really lose face. Although he was leaving soon, there was still a month left.

Helpless, Lin Haoming walked over and immediately approached him, saying, "Manager Hai, look at Li Haiying. He used to secretly curse you all the time, and now that you're still here, he's trying to ride roughshod over you. It's really outrageous!"

Li Haiying never expected that Lin Haoming, who used to be timid as a mouse, would suddenly become so bold as to dare to complain to Haifu in front of him.

Haitong didn't really want to get involved, but out of consideration for his own reputation and because he was annoyed that Li Haiying had jumped in before he had even left, he still shouted at Li Haiying, "Li Haiying, I haven't left yet. Since I haven't left, the rules here still have to be followed by mine. Do you understand?"

"Understood, Manager Hai, please rest assured, I will definitely not cause any trouble before you leave!" Hai Futong had been a manager for several years and had accumulated a lot of prestige. In addition, his cultivation level was also high. Li Haiying could only nod in agreement at this moment. However, while speaking, his eyes were fixed on Lin Haoming, as if he was warning him.

Lin Haoming understood what he meant: he didn't cause trouble before Haifutong left, but as soon as they left, he started to settle things with him.

Seeing the mocking or sympathetic looks from others, Lin Haoming realized he had acted impulsively. However, even if he had to do it all over again, he would never back down. He was not a good-for-nothing. Having grown up as an orphan, he had his own principles. Sometimes it was okay to back down, but sometimes, once you back down, you might never be able to hold your head up again.

"Haoming, you're too foolish. Li Haiying has already made things clear, why bother arguing with him!" After Haifutong and Li Haiying left, a fat man came up and sighed bitterly.

This fat man is named Li Shuntian. He was originally a prince in a mortal kingdom. Later, he heard that he had the aptitude of an immortal, so he followed the immortals to cultivate immortality. However, after entering the Blood Refining Sect, he couldn't change his arrogant attitude as a prince, so he offended many people and ended up here.

Of course, after arriving here, Li Shuntian finally understood and kept a low profile. Over the years, his cultivation level reached the sixth level of the Qi Refining stage.

Lin Haoming didn't take these words to heart at all. Although he knew he might be hit a month later, Lin Haoming had his own convictions. He would rather die standing than live on his knees!

The twenty-odd people walked in twos and threes toward a certain passage. After passing through the passage, which was at least a dozen feet wide and a hundred feet long, they arrived at a cave.

The cave was filled with a pungent smell of blood, and the entire cave floor was stained red with blood. Of course, this was not human blood, but the blood of a creature called a pangolin.

The pangolin beast is a first-tier spirit beast. It looks somewhat like a pangolin, but it is much larger. Including its tail, it is estimated to be the length of two adult men stacked together.

The armor on the back of the pangolin is extremely hard and can be used as a material for refining weapons; its two front claws are incredibly sharp and can be used to refine magical artifacts; most importantly, its inner core is one of the main materials for refining Qi-circulating pills and Qi-gathering pills; in addition, the pangolin's meat can be cooked into spiritual food; and its blood, after being condensed, can also be used to make talismans. It can be said that the pangolin is a treasure from head to toe. The Blood Refining Sect raises tens of thousands of pangolins, and Lin Haoming and the other twenty-odd people's job is to slaughter pangolins, with each person having to slaughter two a day.

The pangolins were incredibly strong, but the pangolins that were brought to us had all been drugged. Although they were still conscious, their limbs were powerless, leaving them at our mercy.

Lin Haoming has been here for three days now. He also slaughtered four mountain armor beasts with others in the first two days.

As a postgraduate student at a medical university specializing in surgery, Lin Haoming was naturally not afraid of a little bloodshed. He had also learned a lot from his old professor over the years. Although he was facing a spirit beast, he still struck steadily, accurately, and ruthlessly.

However, perhaps due to the stimulation he received today, Lin Haoming did not immediately take action. Instead, he looked at the pangolins lying there, watching them helplessly being slaughtered, and sighed deeply.

Reaching out to stroke the head of the mountain armor beast before him, Lin Haoming said with a heartfelt sadness, "Mountain armor beast! It's not that I sincerely want to kill you, but this is the way of heaven. You are a spirit beast, and I am a cultivator. The strong slaughter the weak; this is the way of heaven. But don't worry, I won't make you suffer too much. It will end quickly. I only hope that you will have the chance to be reborn as a human in your next life, or at least not be slaughtered again!"

Lin Haoming was just speaking from the heart, but to his surprise, the pangolin actually shed tears after he finished speaking.

The pangolin beast didn't have much intelligence, and Lin Haoming found it strange that it seemed to understand him. After thinking about it, he figured it was probably just the pangolin beast itself shedding tears!

Lin Haoming didn't care about anything else at the moment and directly picked up a blood-red longsword.

This longsword can be considered a magical artifact, but it is the lowest grade of magical artifact. Apart from being sharp, it has no other advantages. And a cultivator's magical artifact is not just about being sharp.

Of course, this only applies to this world. When Lin Haoming first touched the Blood Blade, he was amazed. How could there be such a sharp blade in the world? Compared to this Blood Blade, the scalpels he used before were simply trash.

Lin Haoming plunged his knife directly into the pangolin's heart, killing it instantly. The pangolin quickly lost consciousness, and he had indeed managed to minimize its suffering.

As he pulled the knife out, Lin Haoming suddenly felt a burning sensation in his chest. He touched the string of Buddhist prayer beads, but when he tried to examine them to see what was going on, he felt an intense burning heat in his chest, and the prayer beads seemed to want to embed themselves into his body.

This situation startled Lin Haoming. Without thinking twice, he immediately opened his chest, only to find that his chest was white and tender with nothing there, not even the Buddhist beads.

Lin Haoming immediately focused his divine sense into his body and soon discovered that there was something extra in his dantian. What else could it be but that string of Buddhist beads!

This astonishing situation forced Lin Haoming to use his divine sense to examine the string of prayer beads. However, the moment his divine sense touched the beads, Lin Haoming felt a sharp pain in his head, as if something had been forcibly injected into his brain, and he collapsed to the ground.

"Haoming, are you alright?!"

Hearing Li Shuntian's shout, Lin Haoming regained consciousness and saw many people looking in his direction. He immediately said, "I'm fine!"

"It's good that you're alright. I thought you'd been attacked!" Li Shuntian said softly.

Hearing this, Lin Haoming realized that he had indeed been ambushed, but not by someone else; he had been ambushed by the Buddhist beads.

Although he was tricked by the Buddhist beads, he now understands what those beads really are.

According to what the Buddhist beads instilled in his mind, the beads are actually called merit beads. As long as he accumulates good deeds and enough merit, the seal on the merit beads will be broken and he will benefit.

I just helped the pangolin beast reincarnate, and the pangolin beast thanked me for freeing it, so it can be considered a merit. And because of this merit, the first seal of the first bead of the Merit Bead was broken.

The first bead of this Merit Bead is also called the Spirit Gathering Bead, which has the function of gathering spiritual energy. Now that the first seal has been broken, it can already exert some of its abilities.

Although Lin Haoming didn't know exactly how effective it was, since this Merit Bead had managed to bring him to this world, it must be something extraordinary.

Eager to return and check the effects of the Merit Bead, Lin Haoming quickly dealt with the first mountain armor beast. He then said the same thing to the second mountain armor beast before killing it. Unfortunately, the Merit Bead did not react at all after killing it. He didn't know if it thought that the merit he had gained was not enough to unseal the second seal, or if it was because he had not gained any merit.

However, Lin Haoming couldn't care less about that now. After dealing with the second mountain armor beast, he quickly ran back to his stone chamber.

These stone chambers are all protected by magic arrays, but activating the arrays requires spirit stones. Lin Haoming can only obtain one spirit stone every three months, and half of that must be given to Hai Futong, so he doesn't have many on hand. But he can't care about that now, so he directly places a spirit stone on the array eye and activates the array.

Sitting cross-legged, with a thought, the Buddhist prayer beads miraculously appeared in Lin Haoming's hand. Looking at the prayer beads, which originally resembled white jade, one of them had an extra golden thread. Lin Haoming believed that this golden thread was probably the trace left after the first seal was broken.

Holding the prayer beads, Lin Haoming examined them and soon discovered that when he tried to absorb spiritual energy from them, it felt as if he were holding a spirit stone and absorbing spiritual power.

You should know that the speed of cultivation by absorbing spirit stones is much faster than meditation. Generally speaking, cultivating directly with spirit stones is at least ten times faster than meditation, let alone in a place with such thin spiritual energy.

Upon discovering this result, Lin Haoming was extremely excited. He knew that his opportunity had arrived. If he could absorb spiritual energy like this every day, even if his aptitude was not good, breaking through his cultivation level would no longer be a dream. Moreover, this was only the first Merit Bead, the first layer of seal. You should know that each Merit Bead has nine layers of seal.

After cultivating for two full hours, Lin Haoming clearly felt his cultivation level increase. However, at this moment, he discovered that he could no longer absorb spiritual energy from the Merit Bead.

This result drove Lin Haoming a little crazy. Could it be that breaking one seal only allowed him to absorb the spiritual power equivalent to one-third of a spirit stone?

However, after studying it for a while, Lin Haoming discovered that after waiting for a short time, the Spirit Gathering Pearl would have spiritual energy available for him to absorb again, but it would only last for a short while before it ran out again.

At this point, Lin Haoming understood that the Spirit Gathering Pearl was like a power strip; it could only be used after being fully charged.

After understanding this, Lin Haoming let the Spirit Gathering Pearl absorb spiritual energy for a long time. However, he eventually discovered that the Spirit Gathering Pearl could only accumulate the capacity of one low-grade spirit stone at most, which was not enough. Lin Haoming felt that he needed to break the second seal as soon as possible.