The Perverted Old Demon?

Old Devil, Perverted Old Demon!

Chen Xue cried out inwardly. She'd just escaped the wolf's den, only to fall into the tiger's lair. It was over. She was done for.

"Ah~"

At the thought of what might happen to her, Chen Xue let out a sudden shriek. Lin Chen, who had just sent the Giant Python family off to their reunion, jumped at the sound and turned to look at her.

"Don't! Perverted Old Demon, stay away!" Feeling Lin Chen's gaze on her, Chen Xue screamed.

"Perverted Old Demon? Me?"

Looking at Chen Xue, who was clearly scared out of her wits, Lin Chen couldn't help but freeze. What was so perverted about him? He was clearly slaying monsters and defending justice, wasn't he?

Whoosh~

Just then, a figure came flying through the trees and arrived in front of Chen Xue in an instant. It was Xu Fei, who had received a message from Lin Chen.

"Senior Brother Xu?"

Chen Xue stared at him blankly for a moment, then cried out, "Senior Brother Xu, run! He's the Perverted Old Demon!"

"The Perverted Old Demon?"

Xu Fei looked at Lin Chen, who was spotless and smiling, and the corner of his mouth twitched. That was the Perverted Old Demon?

"Lin, sorry about this!"

Xu Fei gave an awkward smile, then looked at Chen Xue, who was on the verge of a breakdown, and barked, "Chen Xue, snap out of it!"

At Xu Fei's shout, Chen Xue jolted as if struck by a staff. After a moment of dazed confusion, her eyes regained their focus. She looked at Xu Fei and froze.

"Senior Brother Xu..."

Xu Fei looked at Chen Xue with a grim expression. "I told you not to act alone. You're a cultivator, yet you've only seen a little bloodshed. How did you get scared into this state?"

"Senior Brother Xu, he..." Chen Xue glanced at Lin Chen in the distance, still carrying a trace of fear in her eyes.

Lin Chen had now guessed that Chen Xue had been frightened by his ruthless methods. He didn't regret it, though. After all, those creatures were all source energy.

"My methods might have been a little intense, but I'm definitely not some Perverted Old Demon."

Lin Chen looked helplessly at Xu Fei, indicating he hadn't expected this either. He didn't want to provoke the authorities for no reason, especially since Xu Fei might have a powerful sect backing him.

"Your methods weren't just a little intense!"

A familiar voice came from the woods. A moment later, Wang Lin strode over.

Wang Lin glanced at Chen Xue's pale face and shook his head. "Still, you can't really blame her. Our battles with mutated beasts are always life or death. She may be strong, but we've protected her too well."

"Uncle Wang, I..." Chen Xue started to say something, but Wang Lin shot her a glare, and she fell silent.

"You managed to kill a Second-Order Mutated Poisonous Python. We rated you a little too low before." Wang Lin looked at Lin Chen and continued, "The mission at Senyuan Chicken Farm was originally for a First-Order Mutated Creature. Now that the python has been confirmed as a Second-Order Mutated Creature, the Bounty Mission reward will increase, and your rating will go up too."

Lin Chen nodded. "The mission's done, so I'll be going."

With that, Lin Chen left the woods and disappeared from the three of them.

"Senior Brother Xu, you have no idea. That guy was unbelievably ruthless..."

As soon as Lin Chen left, Chen Xue hurriedly told them what had happened after she met him. Both Wang Lin and Xu Fei furrowed their brows as they listened.

In their eyes, Lin Chen's actions had indeed been rather ruthless. He had even burned every last one of the python's eggs. What kind of grudge did he have?

It was Chen Xue's first time facing mutated beasts on her own, and she'd run into the ruthless Lin Chen. It was understandable that she'd been scared into this state.

"Maybe he has a grudge against mutated beasts. The Time Slots have been appearing for so many years. Who knows how many living creatures have become food for them?" Wang Lin sighed softly.

They'd seen cultivators who were ruthless toward mutated beasts before. Some were even more ruthless than Lin Chen.

"He definitely has a grudge, and a deep one at that!"

Just then, Xu Fei spoke up. "That guy just took another mission, over at the Unfinished Building in the Eastern Suburbs."

This...

At those words, even Wang Lin froze, to say nothing of Chen Xue. He'd just killed a whole group of mutated beasts, and now he'd immediately taken another mission. He was practically trying to wipe them out!

At that moment, not only Wang Lin and Xu Fei but even Chen Xue was convinced that Lin Chen had a deep grudge against mutated beasts. Otherwise, why would he be taking Bounty Missions so frantically?

A grudge?

Of course not!

In Lin Chen's eyes, those mutated beasts were treasures. They made him money and strengthened his abilities. He liked them too much to hold a grudge.

Naturally, the only good mutated beasts were the ones that died at his hands!

He didn't have enough source energy to strengthen his martial arts, so after leaving the woods, Lin Chen eagerly searched the forum for missions. He soon found one at the Unfinished Building in the Eastern Suburbs.

According to the mission description, strange noises often came from the Unfinished Building, along with a foul smell. Someone had gone inside to investigate and found the bones of several creatures. They suspected mutated beasts were responsible.

After accepting the mission, Lin Chen didn't leave the forum. Instead, he kept browsing. Chen Xue's appearance had shown him that the transcendent world seemed to have its own lineages of inheritance.

On top of that, the Indestructible Golden Body he'd obtained was incomplete, but clearly not a recent creation. All this suggested that the Cultivation World probably hadn't appeared along with the Time Slots; it had existed long before them.

Sure enough, after browsing for a while, Lin Chen discovered that the Cultivation World had existed for a long time. There were quite a few sects and even different cultivation schools: the Buddhist Dao, the Martial Dao, the Daoist Sect, and so on.

However, they all practiced qi-and-blood martial arts. These different schools simply used their own names for their practitioners. The Buddhist Sect called them Buddhist Cultivators, the Daoist Sect called them Daoist Cultivators, and the authorities referred to them collectively as cultivators.

They were divided into nine ranks according to their strength, with First Order the weakest and Ninth Order the strongest. The forum gave a general outline of strength for the First through Sixth Orders, but there was no clear description for the Seventh Order and above.

"According to the forum's rankings, my strength should be at the peak of the Third Order."

Lin Chen made a rough estimate of his strength. He should now be at the peak of the Third Order. With the power of the Phoenix Undying Body, he could just about hold his own against a Fourth-Order cultivator.

"Not bad!"

Lin Chen was fairly satisfied with this result. He'd only strengthened himself once, after all. As long as he obtained more source energy and continued strengthening, his strength would keep rising.

"You again?"

Seeing the familiar white sedan, Lin Chen paused. The driver was the middle-aged man who had brought him there earlier.

"It's hard to get a ride around here. I went home, ate ahead of time, and waited for you to call again," the driver said with a smile.

"That works too!"

Lin Chen gave him a thumbs-up in admiration. This money was well earned.

"Didn't you go to buy a chicken? Where is it?" the driver asked, seeing that Lin Chen's hands were empty.

"The owner of the chicken farm wasn't home."

Lin Chen shrugged. That was true—he wasn't home. He'd been swallowed by a mutated beast and digested.

"Wasn't home?"

The driver paused. After a theft had just happened, the owner hadn't stayed to watch the chicken farm?

Though surprised, the driver didn't press him. He chatted with Lin Chen on and off as they drove toward the Eastern Suburbs.