Chapter 25: Demon-Hunting Hall

"May I ask if Junior Brother Lin Jing is in?"

"Are you... the Senior Sister from the Harvest Pavilion?"

Half a month had passed since the Dragon Ascension Festival activity. While Lin Jing was still burying his head in hard cultivation, an uninvited guest arrived.

The other party was wearing a Daoist robe and had a beautiful face, but she looked a bit weak, like a sick beauty.

"Junior Brother, sorry to disturb you. My name is Qin Caixin. I am visiting today with a request." Senior Sister Caixin said.

"Senior Sister, please speak." Lin Jing seemed to have heard this name before. She seemed to be one of the top figures in the Outer Sect. He didn't expect her to be the Senior Sister who promoted fertilizer at that time.

"Junior Brother, have you gone out these past two days? Do you know that Senior Brother He Yiming was severely injured by people from the Demon-Hunting Hall in the Beast-Fighting Arena?"

"Is it that Senior Brother who was the first to challenge the bamboo dragon in the Dragon Ascension Festival?" Lin Jing was unclear: "And what is this Demon-Hunting Hall organization."

Senior Sister Caixin said: "The Demon-Hunting Hall was founded by Elder Li Hai in the sect. Elder Li has always been dissatisfied with the sect's policy of cultivating disciples, believing that the sect protects its disciples too well. Even for training missions outside the sect, they are chosen by the disciples themselves. He feels that such a method cannot cultivate strong people at all."

"So, he founded the Demon-Hunting Hall. Every few years, he recruits a batch of disciples from the Outer Sect to join."

"These Demon-Hunting Hall disciples do not cultivate in the sect, but are all thrown into the wild wilderness by Elder Li, letting them grow in the slaughter with demon beasts, with life and death left to fate."

"Because they cannot cultivate in a comfortable environment, their cultivation might not be very high, but in terms of life-and-death slaughter, they are indeed very powerful. Senior Brother He Yiming was completely no match for them."

"Why is Senior Sister telling me this?" Lin Jing said: "They wouldn't be coming to find trouble with me, would they... If so, Senior Sister can convey for me that I also feel Elder Li's method can better cultivate strong people."

"It's just that it's a bit wasteful of disciples and pet beasts."

Senior Sister Caixin smiled bitterly: "That's not it. What Junior Brother Lin Jing said is actually correct. How can closed-door cultivation be better than life-and-death training for improving strength? As for the death rate... three years ago, Elder Li took away dozens of people, and in the end, only four survived and returned."

"Our Beast-Taming Sect is not a Demon Sect; it's impossible to promote this kind of cultivation method on a large scale."

"And I am visiting Junior Brother today... actually, I want to ask Junior Brother, can the red flying leaves you took out when fighting the bamboo dragon be sold to this little sister?"

"My contracted pet beast is a tree bear, which also masters the Flying Leaf Art. We have tried using leaves of various spirit plants as flying leaves, but none have the destructive effect of the red flying leaves used by your Pine-Needle Rat at that time."

"There are still a few months until the annual Inner Sect assessment. The return of these Demon-Hunting Hall disciples will inevitably increase the difficulty of the Inner Sect assessment significantly. I want to increase my strength as much as possible before the Inner Sect assessment."

After Senior Sister Caixin finished speaking, Lin Jing understood, but he said regretfully: "I am very sorry, because of some special reasons, those red leaves can only be used by ourselves."

Lin Jing wasn't lying. The red leaves synthesized by the Pine-Needle Rat had an effect of "heart-to-heart connection" with it, so it could control the flying leaves "as it wished." Under this "heart-power control," the power and speed of the flying leaves were also significantly improved. Even if it didn't practice much, at the fifth layer of Qi Condensation, it could control 10 red leaves at the same time. But if changed to other demon beasts, there was no such binding effect.

"Is that so..." Senior Sister Caixin sighed and said: "Sorry to disturb you, Junior Brother Lin Jing."

After speaking, she left. Lin Jing closed the courtyard door, intending to go back and continue reading.

"Hehe." However, who knew, at this moment, a strange laugh came from the courtyard.

A black bear monster wearing a white Daoist robe appeared in Lin Jing's courtyard at some point.

"I remember that girl, she seems to come from a small cultivation family. She was born weak and not suitable for normal cultivation, so her family sent her to the Beast-Taming Sect."

"Kid, your Dao heart is very firm! A beautiful Senior Sister asks for something, and you are completely unmoved! I am optimistic that you will definitely be able to achieve something in cultivation!"

"Most importantly, as a Longevity Body, it is indeed not suitable for you to find an ordinary Dao companion. In the future, try to find a female cultivator with a high realm, so at least she won't hang up too early compared to you!"

Lin Jing looked speechlessly at Elder Black Bear and said: "You suddenly came over, is there something?"

"The Pine-Needle Rat hoarded a box of red leaves, and it couldn't use them all. If they could be sold, I would have wanted to sell them long ago. They really can only be used by itself."

"Nothing important." Elder Black Bear looked at the mechanical gears, parts, and crooked turtles in the courtyard, and said: "Learning Mechanical Art these past few days? Not bad, it looks like something."

"I'm here to remind you."

"Didn't that little girl say just now? There are still a few months until the Inner Sect assessment. Although you are still a bit far from the seventh layer of Qi Condensation, that Pine-Needle Rat, with its aptitude, if resources are sufficient, might be able to reach the seventh layer of Qi Condensation and take you to participate in the Inner Sect assessment!"

"After entering the Inner Sect, you have to choose a mountain peak to join. Different mountain peaks of the Beast-Taming Sect represent different directions, such as the Danxia Peak for supplementary alchemy, the Nine-Dragon Peak for cultivating dragon-blood demon beasts, the Qingtan Peak suitable for water-type spirit beasts..."

"Basically, every Outer Sect disciple will choose an Inner Peak suitable for themselves to join and learn spells there."

"The Elder Mo and Elder Yu you are familiar with, one is already retiring in the Lotus Peak and not asking about sect affairs, and the other is in charge of the Outer Sect and not asking about the Inner Sect. So you won't be able to rely on them at that time, and you still have to think about which Inner Peak you want to join."

"After you decide, I, Old Bear, will go help you say hello and let the other party pay attention to you in advance. Not to mention anything else, within this Beast-Taming Sect, those Golden Core Elders all have to give me some face."

Lin Jing was more interested in Danxia Peak, mainly because he had already invested considerable energy in learning alchemy.

"Elder Black Bear, you came over this time, there should be other things, right?" Lin Jing didn't quite believe it. Unsolicited favors are not Elder Black Bear's style.

"Hehe." Sure enough, Elder Black Bear laughed: "Don't tell Elder Mo. I actually loved eating a kind of spirit fruit called 'Dragon Bone Flower' since I was young. However, after forming the Demon Core, the nutrients in those low-grade spirit fruits are useless to me. I just eat a few occasionally to satisfy my cravings."

"Recently, my mother traveled over mountains and rivers to the Beast-Taming Sect to see me and brought me a lot of Dragon Bone Flowers from my hometown. So I suddenly thought, since that squirrel can synthesize spirit rice and spirit beans, can it synthesize 'Dragon Bone Flower'?"

"After synthesis, will it make it have other values for me besides satisfying my cravings! And it's impossible for everything to be an explosion."

"Help me out, I'll give you rewards. But let me mention again, don't tell Elder Mo. If he knows I'm disturbing your cultivation, it will be miserable!"

Lin Jing nodded: "But Elder Black Bear, what is this Dragon Bone Flower? It doesn't seem to be recorded in the Plant Compendium... Could the grade and quality be too high? If so, the Pine-Needle Rat won't be able to synthesize it."

"It's very normal, because besides being delicious, it has no special value. Don't worry, it's just a relatively rare low-grade spirit fruit." As he spoke, he took out a fruit that looked like the dragon fruit in Lin Jing's impression from his storage bag and took a bite. Then, because the fruit flesh was bright red... the Black Bear Monster looked like its mouth was full of blood, very terrifying. ===== CHAPTER 26 =====