Capturing a Demoness

Tap, tap!

An inexplicable chanted spell rang out in the room.

Lin Heng's ears twitched slightly, and he abruptly looked straight ahead.

"Since you've come, there's no need to keep hiding, is there?"

As his words fell, a purple dress drifted down from above, turning at an angle in midair. What entered his eyes was a pair of fair, slender legs, faintly visible beneath the gauzy skirt.

This was an extraordinarily beautiful stunner, with an outrageously fiery figure.

If Lin Heng had not long since seen beauties of Meng Yutong's and Yun Yao's caliber, ripples might truly have stirred in his heart.

This demoness is rather good-looking. She can already rival Yun Yao and the others.

A cherishing thought for beauty rose in Lin Heng's heart.

Demoness?

Jiang Caiyan's heart jumped. There was someone else in the room?

She swiftly looked around, but apart from Lin Heng, she found no trace of anyone else.

It'd be a pity to kill the monster that delivered herself to my door. Subduing her and leaving her alive wouldn't be bad either.

Qi Refining Third Layer is only a little stronger than me. Taking her down shouldn't be hard!

The voice came again!

She looked at Lin Heng, her elegant brows knitting into an inward slant. He clearly had not opened his mouth, yet she could hear a voice.

Could it be that she could hear the other party's thoughts?

"You think you can take me down?"

Hm!? Did I make it that obvious and get noticed?

If that's the case, then I won't pretend anymore!

The corners of Lin Heng's mouth lifted slightly as he stood up. "Don't get so worked up. Right now, either you kill me, or I subdue you. Taking you down and escorting you back to the sect to exchange for points feels a little like a loss, so..."

Jiang Caiyan sneered. "Hmph! A mere Qi Refining Second Layer ant like you—I could kill you as easily as pinching an ant to death. And you still dream of subduing me!"

Her true cultivation realm was at the early Golden Core Realm. Because of her special physique, when she advanced realms, her cultivation would first fall, then rise with time.

This process was called Wheel Turning. Each time she underwent Wheel Turning, her cultivation would rise by a large margin.

If she wanted to speed up the pace of her cultivation's Wheel Turning, the best method was to absorb and refine Life Origin Force.

Such a strange way of leveling up was a unique existence even when looking across the entire Cultivation World.

"Demoness, you talk big." Lin Heng stepped forward with his right foot, gripped the longsword at his waist with his left hand, and drew it, the sword tip pointing straight for her throat.

After breaking through to the Qi Refining Realm, his speed and strength had increased by who knew how many times compared to before.

Who cared what flowery tricks she had? He just needed to raise his sword and hack.

Bang!

In the next second, blade and sword collided.

A figure spun several times through the air in a spiral, then slammed straight into the wall.

Holy shit! A spell divine ability! How can someone in the Qi Refining Realm use spells!

Lin Heng clutched his chest and stared at the woman before him in disbelief.

According to realm divisions, one should only be able to grasp spell divine abilities after reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm!

Though the other party wielded a blade, during the fight she had directly coated that blade in a layer of demonic power, leaving Lin Heng stunned stupid.

Jiang Caiyan advanced step by step, while Lin Heng quietly retreated.

It was not because he was afraid, but because he had intended to retreat a few steps in the first place.

So he could pull open the distance and wait for a chance to move.

"Heh." A mocking look surfaced on Jiang Caiyan's peerlessly beautiful face.

With that one exchange just now, she had probed out Lin Heng's depth. He had a whole body of brute strength, but understood no techniques at all.

Forget Qi Refining Second Layer—even if someone at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer came before her, they might not be enough to look at.

Her cultivation had only temporarily fallen. It did not mean that all the spell divine abilities she had grasped were impossible to use.

Even if their power had been weakened severalfold, they were not something a complete novice like Lin Heng, newly entered through the door, could contend against.

"Who was it just now who spoke so arrogantly, saying he wanted me to submit? Who wanted to cut off my head to exchange for points?"

She lifted her jade foot and stepped onto the floor, lightly shifting in lotus steps. An invisible wave rippled out, crashing into Lin Heng's body.

Lin Heng felt enormous pressure strike him. His body could not help trembling, as if he might drop to his knees at any moment.

Another spell divine ability! She's only Qi Refining Third Layer, how can she...

"Miss, is it still in time if I say this is a misunderstanding?" Lin Heng said, his body somewhat stiff.

"What do you think?"

Jiang Caiyan mocked him smugly, not noticing at all that the Spirit Treasure Gourd had inexplicably appeared in Lin Heng's hand.

"Give up resisting. You are not my opponent. Become this young master's slave, and I can spare your life!"

Jiang Caiyan planned to first capture Lin Heng and take him back to study him, to see why she could hear his thoughts.

Having encountered something this strange, she could not possibly just slaughter him outright.

Has offense and defense switched places?

Lin Heng regretted not taking the Spirit Treasure Gourd out of the System Space in advance. If he had carried it on him just now, maybe this demoness would have suffered backlash from her own spell.

Come on, demoness. Use your strongest divine spell!

Lin Heng wasted no more words. He raised his longsword and exploded forward in a pouncing kill.

This time, he held nothing back, mobilizing all the True Yuan in his body into his hand and putting in enough strength to make the other party think he was going to fight to the death.

The Spirit Treasure Gourd's soul-suppressing power was affected by damage amplification. In other words, the higher the other party's attack power, the stronger its Sound Wave Echo would be.

So while the other party had not noticed, he only had one chance.

Jiang Caiyan gave a cold snort.

Sure enough, he had taken the bait.

Seeing that Lin Heng still delusionally wanted to resist to the death, she was about to make a move and punish him viciously.

She flipped one hand, and a clump of pale yellow Nether Flame appeared in her palm. With a flick of her finger, the clump of Nether Flame instantly shot out.

The Nether Flame danced, condensing in midair into a three-foot-long sword.

A shapeshifting method that belonged to Golden Core Realm cultivators was actually being displayed by a Qi Refining Realm cultivator.

Lin Heng's pupils contracted, and he hurriedly swung the longsword in his hand to block the strike.

"Bang!" The longsword snapped.

However, just as the remaining radiance was about to envelop Lin Heng's physical body, the Spirit Treasure Gourd bloomed with golden light.

A startled and doubtful look flashed across Jiang Caiyan's face. "This is..."

Buzz!

The instant the Nether Flame longsword collided with the golden membrane released by the gourd, Sound Wave Echo swept out.

Jiang Caiyan swiftly formed hand seals and built a barrier in front of herself, but the sound wave attacked straight into the depths of the soul. The barrier had no effect.

"Pfft... you..."

Jiang Caiyan spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood. Her body staggered several steps backward, and in the end, her head still went dizzy and she collapsed.

If her cultivation had been at its peak, she absolutely would not have been injured by such a petty trick.

But right now she was in the Qi Refining Realm. Even with many divine abilities and precious arts on her, she could not endure the shaking of her soul.

She fell into the trap!

Lin Heng took a huge breath, then patted his chest with his hand and stood up.

He swiftly walked to the side of the woman in the purple dress.

"The Little Demoness is pretty fierce. Good thing I had the gourd Senior Sister gave me, or I really would have fallen into your hands tonight."

Lin Heng sighed inwardly without end.

The strength the other party had displayed was simply even more monstrous than Ye Tian.

Looking at the cold, beautiful face so close before him, Lin Heng bent down and carried her onto the bed.

He even thoughtfully tugged the skirt downward, covering her jade legs.

Afterward, he reached out and groped up and down, finally finding a Storage Ring after searching for a while.

The ring had no restrictions. It could be inspected with Mind Sense.

A length of black rope, a hairpin.

Two hundred Spirit Stones and three bottles of unknown pills.

"Hm? What is this thing?"

Lin Heng examined the iron lump in his hand. It was shockingly a seal, with two rows of strange characters carved beneath it, while the outer ring was patterned.

He first threw the rope into the System Space.

Item: Tier 3 Binding Rope

Description: The most common rope in the cultivation world. It is often used to bind and arrest cultivators, but it is not as sturdy as one might imagine...

Item: Grade 4 Wood Essence Pill

Description: A pill made from Hundred Herb Flower Spirit and Thousand Pool Wood as ingredients. It is rich in extremely strong Life Origin Force, and can be used to recover from injuries and absorb wood-attribute elements.

Item: Grade 2 Essence Blood Pill

Description: Specially used by female cultivators to replenish qi and blood. You will not like its taste...

"The things are a bit shabby. I thought there would be some treasure!"

Lin Heng glanced at the woman on the bed and found that she seemed to be showing signs of waking up. He hurriedly brought over the Binding Rope and, according to experience, tied her up with two loops forward and backward.

In the end, he did not forget to wrap two more loops around the front.