Chapter 131: Could You Please Put Me Down First?

The moment the mandarin duck cauldron came crashing down, Lin Xun immediately got up. At the same time, a string of prayer beads shot towards the unconscious Sikong Wangxing under the tree, aiming to bind her.

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Xun clamped Zhu Ling’s slender waist and rushed towards Sikong Wangxing’s location.

By the time Zhu Ling reacted, the girl being carried at his waist saw Lin Xun actually grab the string of prayer beads directly.

The prayer beads began to struggle, trying to break free from Lin Xun’s palm.

The beads turned from dark red to crimson red, like scalding magma. White smoke billowed from Lin Xun’s palm, and the smell of burning flesh wafted out.

“Boom!”

Lin Xun pressed the prayer beads directly into the ground. The string snapped, scattering the beads all over the ground.

From the shadows, an old man let out a muffled groan, as if suffering a backlash.

He could never have imagined that his Lifebound Treasure would be broken just by being yanked like that!

At the same time, Lin Xun casually grabbed a wooden stick nearby.

Using the stick as a spear, Lin Xun thrust it towards the direction of the muffled groan!

The mandarin duck cauldron moved, trying to block, but ended up being pierced straight through by Lin Xun.

If it were a genuine mandarin duck cauldron, a half-immortal weapon, Lin Xun naturally wouldn’t have been able to damage it with his Dragon Gate Realm strength, nor could the opponent have wielded it at the Dragon Gate Realm.

So, this mandarin duck cauldron was just an imitation Magic Treasure.

Piercing through both the Cauldron and the man, the monk from the Great Joy Temple was impaled through the heart by the wooden stick!

Lin Xun originally wanted to search his soul, but unexpectedly, the monk’s soul was directly sucked up into the sky and finally devoured by a black vortex.

Lin Xun frowned slightly.

He sensed that the thing that devoured that monk was a living creature!

Could it be that what the Demon Race World came to this Heiwu Secret Realm to find was this thing?

Just as Lin Xun was lost in thought, another monk tried to flee, but it wasn’t that easy.

Lin Xun deftly untied the small medicine gourd at Zhu Ling’s waist and threw it.

Zhu Ling’s gourd was one of the five great treasures of the Medicine King Valley, a half-immortal grade item. Even though in the Heiwu Secret Realm, this gourd could only function as a Storage Pouch, the material of a half-immortal weapon was absolutely reliable.

The gourd made intimate contact with the back of that monk’s head with a solid thud.

Soon after, a monk tumbled out from the shadows.

Lin Xun approached step by step.

“Benefactor… Benefactor, this humble monk… Ahhh!!!”

The monk kept retreating. Without wasting any words, Lin Xun directly grabbed his head and searched his soul. A piercing scream echoed, his face twisted in agony, resembling a silent scream.

Zhu Ling was so frightened she quickly averted her gaze and covered her ears.

“Blah blah blah…”

When Lin Xun released his head, this monk from the Huanxi Sect had already turned into a drooling idiot.

“Big Bad Guy… they… they are…”

Having never witnessed such a scene before, Zhu Ling was so terrified she forgot her slender waist was being held, her whole body suspended in his arms.

“Monks from the Great Joy Temple. Their original Realm was Nascent Soul Realm Perfection. I just searched his soul; the situation is quite complicated.”

Indeed, the situation was truly complicated.

Last time, from the memories of Fang Jianqiu’s son, Lin Xun learned that Fang Jianqiu indeed had cooperation with the Great Joy Temple, but the specific details of the cooperation were unknown to him.

Moreover, Lin Xun was also puzzled because Fang Jianqiu also had cooperation with Junior Sister Su.

But if Lin Xun remembered correctly, Xiao Ying hated the Great Joy Temple the most, looked down on those monks who treated women as Cauldrons, and even found them disgusting.

So, a three-party cooperation was impossible.

Then, the only possibility was that Fang Jianqiu was secretly cooperating with the Great Joy Temple behind the Ten Thousand Demon Sect’s back.

But what was the content?

Now, Lin Xun understood everything.

Unexpectedly, the goal of the Great Joy Temple and Fang Jianqiu was not only the Zilin Holy Land, but also the five individuals: “Jiang Qingshang,” “Su Ying,” “Sikong Wangxing,” “Ruo Wangchen,” and “Zhu Ling.”

In Fang Jianqiu’s plan:

Fang Jianqiu conspired with Su Ying to kill Jiang Qingshang, appearing as if he was cooperating with the Ten Thousand Demon Sect.

But in reality, that wasn’t the case. Fang Jianqiu wanted to join forces with the Great Joy Temple to capture Su Ying and the others in one fell swoop!

The Great Joy Temple sent ten people in total: nine at the Nascent Soul Realm and one at the Jade Purity Realm, mobilizing most of their upper echelon. Each brought the strongest Magic Treasure that could be wielded at the Dragon Gate Realm.

Furthermore, Fang Jianqiu’s trusted subordinates within the Zilin Holy Land had also mostly arrived, infiltrating the Mountain and Marsh Rogue Cultivators.

The purpose was that when Fang Jianqiu and Su Ying joined forces to fight Jiang Qingshang, the Great Joy Temple would suddenly rush out and capture both Su Ying and Jiang Qingshang.

Then, the Great Joy Temple planned to join forces with Fang Jianqiu to capture Sikong Wangxing, Ruo Wangchen, and Zhu Ling.

In this way, Fang Jianqiu could not only gain the support of the Great Joy Temple to secure his position as the Holy Lord of the Zilin Holy Land,

but the Great Joy Temple was even willing to contribute their Secret Technique, using these women as Cauldrons to help him achieve a Breakthrough into the Ascension Realm.

Afterwards, the Great Joy Temple only wanted these five women, and Fang Jianqiu needed to cover for them, creating the “fact” that these five died in the Secret Realm.

The plan was perfect. However, unexpectedly, once they entered the Secret Realm, everyone’s locations were off.

With great difficulty, one or two from the Great Joy Temple managed to meet up, only to get separated again in the blink of an eye. On top of that, the poison circle kept shrinking, and Demonic Beasts were everywhere, all at least at the Dragon Gate Realm.

Forget executing the original plan, they didn’t even know how many of their fellow sect members were still alive.

But they still held onto a sliver of hope.

What if, as the circle kept shrinking, everyone gathered together?

What if Fang Jianqiu found Jiang Qingshang, Su Ying also found Jiang Qingshang, and they started fighting?

And they just happened to reap the benefits?

Holding onto this thought, they kept running from the poison, and then encountered an “unexpected surprise”—the unconscious Sikong Wangxing and Zhu Ling, along with a masked man.

Then, what just happened occurred.

The moment they saw Lin Xun and the others, these two monks immediately attacked.

They planned to first trap Zhu Ling with the mandarin duck cauldron, then bind Sikong Wangxing, and quickly carry them away, as the Loose Cultivator’s cultivation level was unknown.

But they never expected this Loose Cultivator’s cultivation to be so exaggerated!

Piercing the mandarin duck cauldron with a stick, instantly killing one person, then knocking the other unconscious with a gourd.

From discovering Lin Xun to the end of the fight, it took less than five breaths. It had just begun, and unexpectedly, it was already over.

“Monks from the Great Joy Temple?”

Zhu Ling’s little face instantly turned pale.

Even as a homebody, Zhu Ling knew what kind of place the Great Joy Temple was.

“So, stick close to me and don’t think of doing anything strange. I just want money; I’m not interested in your body. Got it?” Lin Xun said fiercely.

“I… I got it.”

Zhu Ling shrank her neck.

“It’s just… it’s just…”

“Just what?”

Zhu Ling’s cheeks flushed, her waist feeling fiery hot.

“It’s just… could you please put me down first?”