Chapter 26

"Hmm? How could you cultivate so quickly, already reaching the ninth level of the Qi Condensation stage?"

On this day, Xie Ruolan came again to take Lin Haoming to "pick up goods." Seeing Lin Haoming's cultivation improve, she couldn't help but feel a bit surprised.

Lin Haoming put on a smile and explained, "This is all thanks to Senior Sister. Here, I have a large amount of spirit stones and elixirs to use. Plus, my foundation was solid from the beginning, so naturally, there was a breakthrough."

In fact, it took Lin Haoming more than a year to advance from the eighth level to the ninth level, which wasn't particularly fast. Xie Ruolan herself had taken less than a year to reach the ninth level, and she was sure that she didn't have as many resources as Lin Haoming at that time. Moreover, she wasn't always cultivating, while Lin Haoming, ever since Bao Wenliang came, had basically become a hands-off manager and spent all his time cultivating, so she wasn't too surprised.

Of course, the reason she wasn't too surprised was also because she didn't know that Lin Haoming's spiritual roots were of extremely poor quality. Instead, she admired his perseverance to some extent.

"It's better that your cultivation has improved. We can go near the territories of other sects and take a look!" Xie Ruolan said with a deceptive, radiant smile.

Hearing this, Lin Haoming felt that Xie Ruolan was truly devious. He sighed bitterly, thinking that this woman was too formidable. Although he had techniques to conceal his aura, she had cultivated the Spirit Eye, making it impossible for him to deceive her.

This was already the eighth trip to Red Leaf Mountain. In the previous seven trips, they had killed a total of twenty-two unfortunate souls, averaging three per trip. Among these twenty-two people, fourteen were from his own sect, making up the majority. Additionally, six were from Heavenly Sword Mountain, and two were monks from Golden Buddha Temple.

The reason for this was that when traveling from his sect, it was easiest to encounter fellow disciples. Moreover, the people of the demonic sect were restrained by the sect's rules and couldn't act on impulse within the sect. Outside, the suppressed feelings would burst out, and they would act recklessly even towards their own people. As long as they didn't recognize each other, who would know if they were killed here? Given Lin Haoming's weak cultivation, many people naturally fell into his trap.

As for the monks, it wasn't that fewer people from Golden Buddha Temple came here, but rather that they were somewhat difficult to deal with. Their cultivation techniques and magical artifacts had a restraining effect on the demonic sect, making it easy to suffer losses when encountering them. Moreover, the Buddhist magical artifacts were generally useless to the demonic sect disciples, so attacking them wasn't worthwhile.

On the second day of this trip to Red Leaf Mountain, after discovering a Red Sun Ginseng and just digging it up, Lin Haoming suddenly heard the faint sounds of a battle from at least seven or eight miles away.

Lin Haoming instinctively headed in that direction upon hearing the sound.

Soon, he arrived near a valley with a small stream.

Hiding in the forest, he saw a young monk, who looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, with clear and bright eyes, reciting scriptures beside a corpse.

The corpse was wearing the attire of a Blood Cultivation Sect disciple, clearly a fellow disciple.

The cultivation techniques and magical artifacts of the Golden Buddha Temple monks had a significant restraining effect on the demonic sect disciples, so the Blood Cultivation Sect disciples generally disliked encountering them. Lin Haoming usually wouldn't take the initiative to attack when he met them, as they were tough to deal with, and the Buddhist magical artifacts were generally useless, making it not worth the risk.

However, this time was different because the fellow disciple's storage bag was no longer on the corpse, clearly taken by the young monk.

Lin Haoming quietly took out the Mother and Child Swords from his storage bag.

The Mother and Child Swords were quite effective for ambushing. Two of the twenty-two people he had killed were taken down in the same way he had killed Li Chang, not expecting the hidden sword within the sword.

This monk was tough to deal with, and it would be best to ambush and kill him if possible.

However, at this moment, Lin Haoming suddenly noticed that as the young monk continued reciting the scriptures, a soft white light began to emanate from his body. The light was very faint, but it gave a sense of peace. Under this peaceful white light, a faint white light rose from the corpse.

Lin Haoming knew that this white light was likely the soul of a demonic sect cultivator. Under the peaceful light, the white light suddenly rose to the sky, but then dispersed into tiny white lights, which all headed toward the young monk.

The white spiritual light directly merged into the light emanating from the young monk's body, making his white light seem a bit stronger.

As Lin Haoming was surprised by what was happening, he heard the young monk laugh, "Hehe, another demonic sect disciple has been enlightened. This Red Leaf Mountain is truly a good place. If I enlighten a few more, I can complete the first level of my Infinite Merit Golden Body!"

After saying this, he kicked the corpse of the demonic sect disciple, sending it flying into the air, where it exploded, leaving no trace.

Buddhist disciples were known for their compassion, and when Lin Haoming saw the young monk emit a soft light, he thought he was a cultivator of Buddhist law. However, seeing his actions now, he realized that this monk had no kindness and wondered how he had entered the Golden Buddha Temple.

However, these thoughts didn't matter to Lin Haoming because he noticed that the young monk was heading his way.

The closer the young monk got, the better the effect of a sudden ambush would be.

Lin Haoming held his breath and waited for him to get closer. When the young monk was less than thirty yards away, he quickly launched the Mother and Child Swords.

"I knew you were hiding here!" The young monk caught the flying sword with his hand as it shot towards him.

Lin Haoming was startled to see him catch the flying sword with his hand.

The Golden Buddha Temple was known for its powerful body cultivation techniques, but from what he knew, the Golden Buddha Temple's techniques only showed their strength in body cultivation after the Foundation Establishment stage. At the Qi Condensation stage, the physical bodies of disciples were weak due to the short cultivation time and the limitations of the techniques themselves, rarely reaching such strength.

It was important to note that the Mother and Child Swords he launched were of medium quality, not ordinary low-quality ones.

Although Lin Haoming was surprised for a moment, he didn't panic. Having been here multiple times and having killed a few cultivators, he had learned to remain calm in dangerous situations. He directly cast a spell, and the Mother and Child Swords flashed, with a green beam shooting directly at the young monk's face.

Although the young monk had caught the Mother and Child Swords with his hand, this also meant he was very close to them. The sudden shot of the child sword left no time to dodge.

However, when the green beam flashed and reached the young monk's face, it didn't penetrate his head and fly out.

Lin Haoming focused and saw that the young monk had actually used his teeth to bite the tip of the child sword, preventing it from moving.

"What a terrifying physical body!" Lin Haoming thought.

At the same time, the young monk grabbed the child sword with his other hand and looked at Lin Haoming, laughing, "Demonic sect disciple, your methods are indeed devious, but it doesn't matter. I will soon enlighten you. I am always generous, so you don't need to be grateful."

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