Scum Of The Demonic Sect

Chapter Eighteen: A Woman with Multiple Personalities

"Junior Brother Lin, you have such good eyesight! How could you tell I'm particularly interested in Ling Shengjie?" Inside the soundproof chamber, Lin Haoming stood obediently before Xie Ruolan, who sat with her legs crossed, possessing only the appearance of a fairy but completely lacking the demeanor of one.

Hearing Xie Ruolan's seemingly soft voice, Lin Haoming felt the hairs on his body stand on end.

"This…it's that bastard Zhou Zhiye. I don't know what happened, but he found out about your relationship with me and told Ling Shengjie. You know what kind of brain Ling Shengjie has; he stormed over yesterday in a rage. If I hadn't comforted him, he might have killed me!" Lin Haoming sighed with a bitter expression.

"Oh! You're afraid of being ripped off, so you sold me out! Do you know how disgusting Ling Shengjie was when he came back yesterday? I wanted to crush him into a ball and kick him away!" Remembering how Ling Shengjie was ten times more obsequious than before, and how she had to find ways to please him without letting him take advantage of her, Xie Ruolan really wanted to kill Lin Haoming.

"Senior Sister, don't be angry. This is my income for the past half month. Take a look!" To avoid further trouble, Lin Haoming immediately pulled out over a thousand spirit stones.

"Hmm? Less than half a month? How come you have so many spirit stones?" Xie Ruolan was somewhat surprised.

Lin Haoming smiled and said, "It's just a coincidence. A couple of days ago, someone came and bought all the Qi Gathering Pills and Qi Harmonizing Pills you gave me!"

"Hmm? Who is so generous, consuming so many pills at once? But speaking of which, you're not very good at selling other items, but you're quite adept at selling cultivation-enhancing pills!" Xie Ruolan said, slightly calming her anger. Lin Haoming smiled bitterly to himself, "I mostly consumed those pills myself, and I even went to other stores to buy them a few times, all for my own cultivation."

"It seems you've done quite well these past few days, so I'll let this go this time. But I'm warning you, if there's a next time, I'll fill your stomach with my own foot bath water!" Xie Ruolan said viciously.

Lin Haoming hadn't expected this girl to be so ruthless. She seemed quite well-behaved when she was little, but he never imagined she'd become like this. They say girls change a lot as they grow up, and that's certainly true. And it wasn't just her appearance that changed; her personality was even more drastic.

Thinking of how she was gentle, generous, and well-mannered in front of Ling Shengjie, while revealing her wild and savage nature in front of him, Lin Haoming felt that they were inherently incompatible.

Having accepted Lin Haoming's spirit stones, Xie Ruolan didn't offer any more pills. Instead, she glanced at Lin Haoming a few times and said, "It's not a good idea to run out of pills in the shop. Yesterday's events may spare your life, but you'll face punishment. Come with me!"

Lin Haoming didn't know what she was up to, or what this punishment meant, but he had no choice but to follow her.

The Blood Refining Sect only restricted flight in a few places, and most of these places were on the lower levels. So, seeing Xie Ruolan fly away, Lin Haoming immediately threw out his twin swords and followed her.

Not long after, Lin Haoming discovered that Xie Ruolan had led him to an entrance to the second level.

After Xie Ruolan produced a token, the disciples guarding the second level immediately let him through. Once on the second level, they continued flying.

The first level of the Blood Refining Sect consisted of caves, but the second level was a completely different world.

The second level was a natural underground world, hundreds of feet below the surface. It stretched for three thousand li at its widest point and eight hundred li at its narrowest, teeming with diverse underground vegetation, including an underground forest.

After flying for a full hour with Xie Ruolan, the two finally arrived at a palace.

Lin Haoming had visited this palace as a child; it was the teleportation hall on the second level. Entering here allowed direct teleportation to locations outside the sect.

"Senior Sister Xie!" Upon seeing Xie Ruolan, the disciples guarding the area immediately bowed and scraped, displaying her high status.

Xie Ruolan merely nodded to them, ignoring their curiosity about why she had brought an outer sect disciple, nor did she need to.

Seeing Xie Ruolan's familiarity with the place, Lin Haoming soon followed her into a room within the teleportation hall equipped with a teleportation array.

Inside the room, two disciples were replacing spirit stones in the teleportation array. Three other people, all inner disciples, were waiting. Upon seeing Xie Ruolan, they immediately greeted her with smiles, "Senior Sister Xie, are you going to Red Leaf Mountain again?"

"Yes!" Xie Ruolan simply replied, not saying anything more, giving off an aura of an icy beauty.

Although the three were also surprised that Xie Ruolan had brought an outer disciple at the eighth level of Qi Refining, they didn't say anything more.

Lin Haoming, however, felt that Xie Ruolan was truly extraordinary. She was charming and alluring towards Ling Shengjie, fierce and ruthless towards him, and cold as ice towards strangers. Lin Haoming wondered if she had multiple personalities.

Soon, the teleportation array was set up. The three stepped onto it and quickly disappeared within a burst of white light.

Next, Xie Ruolan tossed ten spirit stones to the disciple in charge of teleportation. After they refilled the spirit stones, the two of them disappeared from the teleportation hall in a flash of white light.

Lin Haoming had used teleportation arrays before, but always with the ancestor protecting him. Using the array alone now, he found himself feeling dizzy afterward, recovering only after a while. Xie Ruolan, on the other hand, was completely unaffected, indicating her cultivation was far superior to his.

After recovering from the dizziness, Lin Haoming found himself in an underground stone chamber. He heard the sect disciples guarding the chamber bowing to Xie Ruolan, saying, "Senior Sister Xie, you've shown your skills again!"

Xie Ruolan simply nodded to them and then flew away.

Lin Haoming immediately followed her. Once they emerged from the underground chamber, they saw a sky full of stars, and a crescent-shaped, blood-red moon, three times larger than the Earth's moon, hanging high in the sky.

Surrounded by trees, Red Leaf Mountain, as its name suggests, has leaves that are almost entirely red, even the soil is red. Under the blood moonlight, it appears even more alluring and enchanting.

“Senior Sister, why did you bring me here?” Lin Haoming asked curiously, following Xie Ruolan as they flew away again.

Xie Ruolan pointed to the distant mountain range and said, “Red Leaf Mountain is the border area of ​​three major sects: the Blood Refining Sect of the Demonic Sect, the Vajra Temple of Buddhism, and the self-proclaimed righteous Heavenly Sword Mountain. Because it produces many spiritual herbs beneficial to Qi Refining cultivators, cultivators from the three sects often come here to pick them. If they encounter each other, a fight is inevitable. Over time, it has gradually become a training ground for Qi Refining disciples from the three sects, and they allow their disciples to come here for training.”

“What?” Hearing this, Lin Haoming realized that this damned old woman was indeed up to no good!

Seeing Lin Haoming's gloomy face, Xie Ruolan's flawless face broke into a bright smile.