Chapter 382: Allow Me to Observe

Thousand Demon Cave, Secret Method Pavilion.

The Xuanming Spider Emperor, watching the figure strolling inside the pavilion, finally could not hold back and said in a chilling tone: "The first task I ordered you to do, and you handle it like this? Do you intend to hide in my Eighth Cave forever?"

"What's the problem?"

Shen Yi picked up another jade slip again, then tossed it back.

Hearing that crisp crack.

The old spider cried out in shock and rage: "You damn thing, be gentle!"

It simply could not understand why, in such a vast Thousand Demon Cave, only it could discover the preciousness of this pile of General Nanyang Sect techniques.

Live and learn; even if demons and monsters cannot learn, reading more books does no harm.

Otherwise, like that lion, besides the bathing picture, what can it understand? It's just a thing that only knows how to waste stuff!

"Of course there's a problem. I took you in to get things done, not to let you act like a master in my Eighth Cave!"

"If you are this cowardly, no one else needs to do it; I will kill you first!"

Hearing the noise in his ears.

Shen Yi looked back impatiently: "Alright, I'll just stay a few days to check the situation. I am brave and strategic, not stupid."

"..."

The Xuanming Spider Emperor lay back down again.

It was not that it lacked human feeling.

After all, nearly half the disciples of Mount Wutong had come for a carefully laid ambush, including a Soul Transformation realm cultivator at the peak; if Jin Chi Demon Emperor had not been present, this lion would most likely have died in the cave dwelling.

Some wariness was only normal.

It just could not stand the other party's attitude.

"I will endure you for a few more days, but do not overestimate my patience."

The Xuanming Spider Emperor left a cold sentence; it had realized that this lion was the kind of creature that would climb onto your face if you let it.

If one's attitude is too polite, it will only make the other party more audacious.

A demon or monster that only attacks its own people, who dares not even leave the Thousand Demon Cave, has no value whatsoever, no matter how high its power.

"..."

Shen Yi withdrew his gaze and looked at the jade slip in his palm.

He had scoured nearly sixty techniques on the second floor, plus twenty jade slips, and finally found what he wanted.

【Soul Transformation: Cave-Dwelling Soul-Refining Art: Not Entered】

Indeed, the General Nanyang Sect did possess techniques for nurturing the soul and spirit, but they were few and did not form a system.

However, he only wanted to forcibly activate a higher-level formation array, not to deeply study this path, so it would suffice for now.

Thinking thus, Shen Yi threw the jade slip back: "So nagging. Who cares about your cave dwelling?"

Under the Xuanming Spider Emperor's angry glare.

He left the Eighth Cave at a leisurely pace.

Inside the dark, foul-smelling cave.

A woman in a full-length robe tightly clamped a deer demon's neck; her fingers sank into the other's flesh, and the spiritual pressure shattered the entire body.

"Don't scream... I beg you... don't scream..."

True Person Master Lingxi's face was smeared with tears and snot; her voice was like a mosquito's, trembling with a faint sob.

She closed her eyes, burying her head forcefully into the fur of the deer demon's corpse, her shoulders twitching slightly.

True Person Master Lingxi's first outing from the mountain was when she felt her years of pride shattered by that tiger's palm strike.

Now she only wanted to live...

She truly hoped her master would appear before her.

Master Lingxi knew better than anyone that Tong Xinchuan's formation could not even trap herself, let alone that tiger demon.

Everyone was dead! Junior sisters, junior brothers, all of them were already dead!

There was no escape.

Now, besides shedding tears, she had absolutely no idea what she should do.

Sneak back to Mount Wutong? She did not know how to face the other disciples, nor how to explain everything that happened inside the Thousand Demon Cave.

Should she fabricate lies and shift all the blame onto the demons and monsters?

Thinking of this, Master Lingxi opened her eyes; her pupils were filled with panic and hesitation.

After a long while, she suddenly slapped herself hard!

Slap—

Yan Shidi Tong's word "useless" still echoed in her ears.

What made Master Lingxi most collapse was that she realized the other party was actually telling the truth; she was indeed a useless piece of trash.

Even now, she was still thinking about how to salvage her dignity and face.

"Pull yourself together... do something..."

Master Lingxi swallowed her saliva; the trembling in her voice grew even more violent.

She lowered her gaze to her palms and began to strive to recall the techniques she had cultivated over the years, forming hand seals again and again.

No one knew how much time passed.

True Person Master Lingxi clenched her fists tightly, then cautiously crawled out of the cave and timidly looked up at the sky.

Where was even a trace of her former bearing?

She lay prostrate on the ground, using all her strength to conceal her aura, casting hand seals; her two ears trembled slightly, capturing every sound around her.

About a few hours later.

Two bird demons swept overhead, their faint conversation drifting into her ears.

She estimated that no demon could have imagined a cultivator comparable to the top ten Demon Emperors in realm would hide in such a wretched manner in a place that posed absolutely no threat to her.

"Golden-Eyed Lion, Tongming Lei Chi."

Hearing those two familiar names, Master Lingxi finally slowly climbed to her feet from the ground.

She formed the hand seals once more.

Her figure instantly became much more ethereal and illusory.

She did not know what she should do now, but since she was in the Thousand Demon Cave... killing demons should be correct.

True Person Master Lingxi, while wearing an expression of fear, moved her figure farther and farther from the exit of the Thousand Demon Cave, instead walking toward the direction of Tongming Lei Chi based on her junior brothers' descriptions in her mind.

"Just... just start with the lion..."

She stammered a self-encouragement.

She arrived at the high cliff with extreme caution, and just as she wanted to lower her gaze to look, she hid back into the dense thicket, instead using her spiritual sense to cover the area in an extremely gentle manner.

Immediately after, she perceived that tall figure sitting upright near the thunder magma.

"..."

Shen Yi still kept his eyes closed.

With the help of the magical robe, he had long ago sensed the approach of a mighty aura.

The strength of this aura could be called the strongest among all cultivators he had ever seen.

But at this moment, the actions of that mighty one caused a certain strangeness to surge in Shen Yi's heart.

What is this doing?

A Soul Transformation Perfection realm ambush against a lion, and it still needs to be this cautious?

Shen Yi did not move immediately.

Facing such an existence, even the slightest carelessness could bring about a fate of eternal destruction.

He looked at the panel before his eyes.

【Year 230, with the help of Shenxu Laozu of Qingqiu, you successfully used Tongming Lei Chi to forge a Dark Thunder Soul Mansion between your body and soul; this borrows from the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, tempering the soul in the same manner.】

Shen Yi withdrew his gaze, his fingertips trembling slightly.

Several threads wrapped in black mist quietly descended, beginning to set up the Iron-Stroke Silver-Hook Formation.

A trapping formation can actually also be used as a defensive formation.

Until the great formation was completed.

Shen Yi's strangeness grew even greater; for such a long time, that woman had not moved even once.

Forget it, let's first advance the Cave-Deepening Soul-Tempering Art to perfection.

"..."

True Person Master Lingxi held her breath.

She had heard other junior brothers say that one must observe the demon before taking action.

Although she did not know what to observe.

But as long as she followed the instructions, it should be correct.

(End of this chapter)