I Wouldn't Eat You

"Let go of me! I want to go home!"

"You rotten bastards who deserve the worst death imaginable, I hate you!"

"Liars! Every last one of you is a liar! I don't want to cultivate Immortal Arts anymore, okay? Can't you let me go home?"

"..."

More than a dozen boys and girls wailed without pause. After all, they were only fifteen or sixteen years old. It was difficult for them to stay calm after suddenly suffering such a calamity, and plenty of childishness still clung to them.

However, Lu Xun and Chang Er weren't about to indulge them!

Pfft!

Without warning, Lu Xun extended a finger. Swift as lightning, it pierced straight through a boy's skull, splattering blood everywhere.

The bloody scene instantly silenced the boys and girls who had still been clamoring. Their eyes cleared, and they calmed down.

"Keep it down."

"Dare to say another word, and this will be your fate!"

Lu Xun glared at them and issued a cold warning.

The already terrified boys and girls went pale. After witnessing the scene with their own eyes, they began trembling violently in fright.

That had been a living, breathing person, and yet he had been killed with a single poke of a finger!

For a while, the boys and girls who had been crying huddled together. They forcibly swallowed their sobs and fear, not daring to make a sound.

Only then was Lu Xun finally satisfied.

"Disciple Qin Yang greets the two senior brothers."

"I was only taken under Master's wing today. I hope the two senior brothers will look after me from now on!"

Qin Yang stepped forward and spoke.

Lu Xun and Chang Er both turned their eyes toward him and looked him over twice.

"Since you were able to become Master's fourth disciple, you must have some ability and something exceptional about you. That's good."

"What about Bai Feng? Why haven't I seen him?"

Lu Xun spoke indifferently. He did not probe further into Qin Yang's origins; it was not his place to do so.

"I don't know. He's probably dead."

"..."

Lu Xun and Chang Er exchanged a glance. After a brief moment of surprise, their expressions settled back into indifference.

They had seen this sort of thing far too many times.

"Looks like you really do have some ability. That's good. We don't keep idlers around here!"

With that, Lu Xun dragged along the corpse he had just killed with one poke of his finger and headed toward his dwelling.

Chang Er gave two sinister chuckles and patted Qin Yang on the shoulder. "Junior Brother, these people are yours now. Make the arrangements."

"Also, come with me."

Chang Er gestured for one of the girls they had brought back to follow him.

Overwhelmed by fear, the girl trembled like a leaf. She looked pleadingly at Chang Er, then at Qin Yang. In the end, she completely lost hope and rolled her eyes back, fainting on the spot.

"Hmph. Useless."

"You fainted from just that? Do you think that means you'll be fine?"

Chang Er showed no mercy. He grabbed the unconscious girl and dragged her into his cave abode.

A moment later, an extremely shrill scream rang out. The boys and girls left before Qin Yang all jumped in fright, tears of terror spinning in their eyes!

Qin Yang could do nothing about it.

Even he was searching for a way out right now. How could he possibly worry about whether anyone else lived or died?

"Come with me."

Qin Yang sighed inwardly and gestured for the boys and girls before him to follow.

Little did he know that, to the panicked boys and girls, these words were no different from a devil's whisper!

No matter how vicious Lu Xun and Chang Er were, they had only taken one person away. Qin Yang, on the other hand, was about to take away every one of the remaining people in a single sweep.

A great fiend! He was absolutely a great fiend guilty of every imaginable evil!

With a loud sob, someone immediately collapsed onto the ground and began wailing. At the same time, a foul, pungent stench spread through the air!

"I'm not going! I don't want to be eaten!"

"Please, fiend, let us go! Don't you have even a shred of conscience? Aren't you afraid of being punished by Heaven?!"

Someone wailed, clearly having suffered a complete mental collapse.

Qin Yang's head instantly began to throb.

What does any of this have to do with anything? How did it end up looking like I'm even more guilty of every evil than Lu Xun and Chang Er?

"Shut up."

"Who said I was going to eat you? Don't overreact like this, all right?"

Qin Yang was speechless.

His words had an excellent effect. The boy who had been terrified into wailing immediately stopped crying and stared at Qin Yang pitifully, as if asking whether he really wasn't going to eat him.

"Come on. Follow me."

Qin Yang led the remaining ten Medicinal Seeds into the depths of the cave abode, where the other Medicinal Seeds were kept.

Of course, he had originally been one of them as well.

Only now, after understanding that Qin Yang truly would not eat them, did the boys and girls finally relax. They were also curious when they saw so many others who had suffered the same fate as themselves.

After finishing all this, Qin Yang was about to leave.

But he soon noticed a special presence among the newly arrived boys and girls.

In fact, when Lu Xun and Chang Er had brought these people back, he had already noticed one girl who neither cried nor made a fuss and was remarkably composed.

It was just that the hatred and unwillingness in her eyes were impossible to hide and easy to see.

"This person is somewhat different."

"From her luxurious clothes and bearing, she's clearly from a wealthy Household."

"Moreover, she's obviously unlike those others who have never seen the world. This isn't feigned composure!"

Qin Yang speculated.

He immediately guessed that this girl's origins were probably far from simple.

As for why she had been deceived and brought here just like the others, he had no way of knowing.

Qin Yang wanted to find out.

"You, come here."

He pointed at the girl his own age dressed in purple.

Realizing he was calling her, the purple-clothed girl clenched her teeth. Her delicate hand gripped the corner of her clothes tightly, and her face was filled with defiance as she glared fixedly at Qin Yang!

"What are you doing? I wouldn't eat you."

"That look in your eyes is dangerous."

Qin Yang felt somewhat annoyed.

I'm not a demonic cultivator. I'm only stuck in this demonic den because I have no choice. Why does everyone hate me so much?

"Bah."

"Fiend, I'll never believe your lies. Kill me or butcher me as you please. If I so much as furrow my brow, then I'm no disciple of the Yunqing Sect!"

The purple-clothed girl gritted her teeth, looking as though she were ready to sacrifice herself.

A disciple of the Yunqing Sect?!

Qin Yang's eyes lit up. He truly had not been mistaken. This striking girl really did have extraordinary origins—she was actually a disciple of the Yunqing Sect!

That immediately set his mind racing.

If I rescue this purple-clothed girl, can I earn the Yunqing Sect's trust and ask for a way to remove the Soul Locking Pill poison?

But he quickly rejected the thought himself.

Putting aside the trouble of rescuing the purple-clothed girl and earning the Yunqing Sect's trust, he might well be treated as a demonic cultivator and executed outright. Besides, whether this purple-clothed girl would believe him was still another matter.

What if the commotion grows too large and draws Xuan Chengzi's attention? Wouldn't I be doomed?

No, no. That won't do.