The Burning-Hot Beast Seal

"This should be fine now. The Tier 3 Binding Rope will keep her struggling for a while."

After Lin Heng tied the dead knot, he continued sorting through the spoils he had looted.

The hairpin was just an ordinary item, not an artifact.

Of the three bottles of pills, only the Wood Essence Pill was of the highest grade, and it was still useful to him.

"Yo! Awake!" He smiled as he looked at the bewitching woman opening her eyes. His eyeballs rolled wildly, as if he were cooking up some rotten idea.

Clarity returned before Jiang Caiyan's eyes. Sensing the ropes on her body, she cried in panic, "What did you do to me?"

"Bastard! You actually dared to tie me up? Let me go, now!"

Jiang Caiyan was both ashamed and furious. This binding posture was truly hard to put into words.

Lin Heng leaned in front of her and slightly lifted her chin. "Now I ask, you answer. If your answers are bad, don't blame me for being rude."

"I can tell you this: I'm no upright gentleman. Right now, you're fish and meat on the chopping block. You're not qualified to shout at me."

"You called yourself young master. Go on, tell me your name! Which sect's young master are you, and are you colluding with the Golden Horse City City Lord's Mansion?"

Jiang Caiyan twisted her head away in disgust, not letting Lin Heng touch her.

"Blood Moon Cult, Jiang Caiyan."

Blood Moon Cult? That evil cult ranked eighth on the leaderboard?

What bullshit are you blowing! You're telling me the young master of the Blood Moon Cult ran to a Flower Pavilion to suck the Yang Essence of middle-aged men?

What, has the Blood Moon Cult fallen so low it needs its young master to go out hunting?

"Not telling the truth, huh!"

Smack!

A big fucking slap!

It directly stunned Jiang Caiyan, and disbelief surfaced on her face. "You... you actually dared to hit me!"

"Fuck! You think I'm easy to fool, don't you? You're relying on a bit of strength and dragging out the Blood Moon Cult to scare me!"

"If you're the young master, then I'm the Holy Son of the Green Pavilion Sect!"

"You bastard! I really am the young master of the Blood Moon Cult, you..."

Smack!

Another slap landed.

Jiang Caiyan was already almost teary-eyed, so furious she could not speak.

She had thought that after hearing her title, Lin Heng would be a little more polite to her.

She had not expected that he would not believe her at all, and had made her take two slaps for nothing.

"Don't be unconvinced. Hitting you still counts as light. If my Senior Sister were here, your head and neck would part ways."

"I'll ask you a second question. Do you know how to use this Beast Seal?"

"Teach me the method, and I can spare your life."

When Jiang Caiyan saw the iron seal in his hand, she gnashed her teeth and said, "That's mine. You can't take it for yourself!"

She had not expected Lin Heng to actually know this was a Beast Seal.

This was one of the few Sixth-Grade Artifacts of the Blood Moon Cult. If an outsider took it away, once she went back, wouldn't the cult leader skin her alive?

"Miss Caiyan, what time do you think it is? I know this Binding Rope can't keep you tied up for long."

"But you need to understand that at this moment, killing you is as easy for me as turning over my hand."

"My sect mission is to arrest the mastermind committing evil in Golden Horse City. Let's assume for now that you are the young master of the Blood Moon Cult. Do you think you can still go back alive?"

Lin Heng smiled, shook the iron seal in his hand, and continued, "If you don't let me fish up some benefits, how am I supposed to let you go!?"

After his earnest, step-by-step coaxing and his mix of softness and hardness, Jiang Caiyan finally realized her current situation.

Just as Lin Heng had said, she needed time to break free of the Binding Rope, and during this process, she had no ability to resist at all.

The consequence of disobedience was a road to death. She did not believe Lin Heng would kindly let her off.

"You really will let me go? You're not afraid that if you release me, I'll seek revenge on you?"

Hahaha... this stupid woman is still thinking of threatening me.

"Not afraid."

Lin Heng said confidently.

"I hope you keep your word!"

Listening to the laughter constantly coming from his heart, Jiang Caiyan was extremely disgusted.

"Drip your essence blood into the seal, and you'll be able to form a connection with it. After that, activate the Incantation and press the Beast Seal onto the demon beast's forehead."

Following the steps, after Lin Heng dripped his essence blood onto the Beast Seal, he could indeed control it.

With the heaven-defying comprehension talent there, mastering the Incantation was also very easy.

Before long, he could control the Beast Seal in his hand.

Jiang Caiyan watched this scene before her in great shock. He could actually erase her control over the Beast Seal so quickly.

Demon beasts from the First to Ninth Tier correspond to the nine layers of Qi Refining for human cultivators. This seal can control Fifth-Tier Demon Beasts, so it should also be able to control this demoness, right!?

Although Beast Seal and Slave Mark had different names, in essence, they were both a kind of Summoning Contract...

Lin Heng looked at the Beast Seal, then glanced at Jiang Caiyan on the bed, seeming lost in thought.

!!

What!!?

He actually had such a beastly thought!

"What are you going to do?"

Seeing his ill-intentioned expression, Jiang Caiyan was so frightened she retreated again and again.

"You promised to let me go. Don't tell me you're going to go back on your word?"

"Don't be nervous. I'll definitely let you go... but before that, I at least have to test how effective the Beast Seal is!"

Lin Heng controlled the Beast Seal and advanced step by step. His purpose went without saying.

Jiang Caiyan was greatly horrified.

"Bastard, you dare use the Beast Seal on me..."

Before her words had fallen, they were replaced by a scream.

Lin Heng did not show tender pity for the fairer sex. Even if Jiang Caiyan had not told him the method to use the Beast Seal, he could have simply thrown it into the System Space and looked at the description.

But that wasted too much time. It was faster for her to say it directly.

If he did not have the Beast Seal acting as a second layer of insurance, Lin Heng would absolutely never have promised to let her go.

It was not hard to see from the other party's eyes that she was the kind of person who would repay the smallest slight with vengeance.

"Beast! I won't let you, I won't let you off!"

Jiang Caiyan roared.

This was absolutely the most humiliating moment of her life. A Golden Core Realm cultivator was branded alive with a Beast Seal.

The Beast Seal and her divine soul matched with each other under the effect of Mind Sense. Accompanied by the activation of the Incantation, no matter how she drove her Mind Sense, she could not resist the invading external force.

That was right.

Her cultivation had cycled back to the Qi Refining Realm, which was her weakest stage.

Even if she had been in the Foundation Establishment Realm, she would have had countermeasures.

In the end, under Lin Heng's series of operations, the Beast Seal was successfully stamped into the very center of Jiang Caiyan's forehead.

The pattern only flashed by, as if it had invaded her skin and disappeared from sight.

Jiang Caiyan lay on the bed with empty eyes, like a puppet whose strings had been snapped, numbness and hatred filling her from head to toe.

Lin Heng sat down beside her, pinched her little face with his hand, and forced her to meet his gaze. "What's going on? I didn't erase your consciousness, so this should count as a success, right!"

"Don't look at me like that. This was a helpless move on my part too. If I don't control you properly, how can I feel at ease letting you go?"

"Here! Stay quiet for now. Once my Senior Brother and Senior Sister send news and we head back home, you can leave then. Otherwise, if they track you down, they absolutely won't be as kindhearted as me."

Jiang Caiyan made no sound. She bit her lips tightly and stared deathly at him.

You damned beast, I'll definitely slaughter you with my own hands!

She said hatefully in her heart.

Seeing that she did not understand his painstaking intentions, Lin Heng was too lazy to explain further.

The requirement of the B-Class Mission was to capture the mastermind. His willingness to let Jiang Caiyan go did not mean Ye Tian and Yun Yao would let her go.

If he let her go now, who knew what calamity she might stir up in Golden Horse City.

To be safe, it was better to keep her detained a little longer.

Counting the time, it was almost time for the key plot point.

It would not be long before he received Yun Yao's distress signal.