Perverted Old Demon?

Perverted Old Demon, Perverted Old Demon!

Chen Xue cried out in her heart. She had just escaped the wolf's den only to fall into the tiger's lair. It was over, she was finished.

"Ah~"

Thinking of her possible fate, Chen Xue let out a startled scream, jolting Lin Chen, who had just sent the python family to reunite in the afterlife. His gaze shifted toward Chen Xue.

"No! Perverted Old Demon, don't come near me!" Feeling Lin Chen's eyes on her, Chen Xue shrieked.

"Perverted Old Demon? Me?"

Looking at Chen Xue's obviously terrified expression, Lin Chen was taken aback. What was perverted about him? He was clearly slaying demons and monsters, upholding justice, right?

Swoosh~

At that moment, a figure darted out from the woods and instantly appeared before Chen Xue. It was Xu Fei, who had received Lin Chen's message.

"Senior Brother Xu?"

Chen Xue was stunned for a moment upon seeing the newcomer, then shouted, "Senior Brother Xu, run! That's the Perverted Old Demon!"

"Perverted Old Demon?"

Xu Fei looked at Lin Chen, who was spotless and smiling, and couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. This was the Perverted Old Demon?

"Sorry about that, Lin."

Xu Fei gave an awkward smile, then turned to the nearly hysterical Chen Xue beside him and barked, "Chen Xue, snap out of it!"

With that sharp rebuke, the nearly broken Chen Xue felt as if struck by a staff. After a moment of daze, her eyes regained their clarity. She looked at Xu Fei, startled.

"Senior Brother Xu..."

Xu Fei stared at Chen Xue, his expression grim. "I told you not to act alone. You're a cultivator—you've seen some bloody scenes before. How did you get scared like this?"

"Senior Brother Xu, he..." Chen Xue glanced at Lin Chen not far away, still carrying a trace of fear in her expression.

Lin Chen now guessed that Chen Xue had been frightened by his ruthless methods, but he didn't regret it. After all, those were all sources of Origin.

"My methods might have been a bit intense, but I'm definitely no Perverted Old Demon."

Lin Chen looked helplessly at Xu Fei, indicating he hadn't expected this reaction. He didn't want to provoke the official faction for no reason, especially since Xu Fei likely had a powerful sect behind him.

"Your methods were more than just a bit intense!"

A familiar voice came from the woods, and then Wang Lin strode over quickly.

Wang Lin looked at the pale-faced Chen Xue and shook his head slightly. "But this isn't entirely your fault. Our battles with mutated beasts are life-and-death struggles. She's strong, but we've sheltered her too much."

"Uncle Wang, I..."

Chen Xue tried to say something, but Wang Lin shot her a glare, and she fell silent.

"Being able to kill a Second-Order Mutated Poisonous Python—our earlier rating of you was too low." Wang Lin turned to Lin Chen and continued, "The Senyuan Chicken Farm mission was originally for a First-Order Mutated Creature. Now that the python is confirmed as Second-Order, the bounty reward will increase, and your rating will go up too."

Lin Chen nodded slightly upon hearing this. "The mission is complete. I'll be going now."

With that, Lin Chen left the woods directly, vanishing from the sight of Wang Lin and the other two.

"Senior Brother Xu, you have no idea how ruthless that guy was..."

Once Lin Chen was gone, Chen Xue quickly recounted everything that had happened since meeting him. Wang Lin and Xu Fei both frowned as they listened.

In their view, Lin Chen's methods were indeed a bit harsh. He had even burned the python's eggs to ashes—what kind of grudge was that?

Chen Xue was facing a mutated beast alone for the first time, and running into a ruthless character like Lin Chen had scared her half to death. It was understandable.

"Maybe he has a grudge against mutated beasts. In all these years since the Time Slots appeared, countless creatures have become food for them." Wang Lin sighed softly.

They had seen cultivators who were ruthless toward mutated beasts before, even more so than Lin Chen.

"He definitely has a grudge—a big one!"

At that moment, Xu Fei suddenly spoke up. "That guy just took another mission. The Unfinished Building in the Eastern Suburbs."

This...

Hearing that, even Wang Lin was stunned, let alone Chen Xue. He had just killed a group of mutated beasts and immediately took another mission—it was like he couldn't wait to wipe them all out!

At this point, not only Wang Lin and Xu Fei, but even Chen Xue believed that Lin Chen must have a deep grudge against mutated beasts. Why else would he be so crazily taking on bounty missions?

A grudge?

Of course not!

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

Of course, the only good mutated beast was a dead one!

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

According to the mission description, strange noises and foul smells often came from the Unfinished Building. Someone had gone in to investigate and found animal bones, leading to suspicions of a mutated creature lurking there.

After accepting the mission, Lin Chen didn't log off the forum but continued browsing. Chen Xue's appearance had made him realize that the supernatural world seemed to have its own traditions.

Coupled with the fact that the Indestructible Golden Body he had obtained, though incomplete, was clearly not a modern creation, all of this suggested that the Cultivation World might not have emerged with the Time Slots but had existed long before.

Sure enough, after some browsing, Lin Chen discovered that the Cultivation World had indeed existed for a long time, with many sects and even cultivation systems—Buddhist Dao, Martial Dao, Daoist Sect, and so on.

However, all cultivation methods are based on the Blood Qi Martial Dao; these factions simply have their own names for themselves. For example, the Buddhist sect calls them Buddhist Cultivators, the Daoist sect calls them Daoist Cultivators, while the official designation collectively refers to them as cultivators.

Furthermore, based on strength, they are divided into nine ranks, with the First Order being the weakest and the Ninth Order the strongest. For the First through Sixth Orders, the forum provides a rough classification of strength, but starting from the Seventh Order, there is no clear description on the forum.

"My strength, according to the forum's classification, should be at the peak of the Third Order."

Lin Chen quietly estimated his own power. Right now, he should be at the peak of the Third Order. Relying on the might of the Phoenix Undying Body, he could barely contend with a Fourth Order cultivator.

"Not bad!"

Lin Chen was fairly satisfied with this result. After all, he had only strengthened once. As long as he obtained more Origin and continued to strengthen, his power would keep rising.

"You again?"

Looking at the familiar white sedan, Lin Chen was slightly startled. The driver was the same middle-aged man who had brought him here earlier.

"It's hard to get a cab around here. I went home early to eat and waited for you to call again." The driver said with a smile.

"That works!"

Lin Chen gave an admiring thumbs-up. This money, the guy deserved to earn.

"Didn't you go buy chickens? Where are they?" Seeing Lin Chen empty-handed, the driver couldn't help asking.

"The chicken farm owner wasn't home."

Lin Chen shrugged. He really wasn't home—he'd ended up in a beast's stomach, already digested.

Not home?

The driver was slightly taken aback. A theft had just happened, and the chicken farm owner wasn't watching the place?

Though a bit surprised, the driver didn't press further. Instead, he chatted with Lin Chen idly as he drove toward the Eastern Suburbs.