After the young woman went berserk, her eyes instantly turned blood-red, and she lunged at Lu Zifeng, biting and tearing.
Lu Zifeng swiftly retreated.
His cultivation was far higher than the female cultivator's, and he easily evaded her attack. But rather than kill her, he vanished straight into the passage.
Having lost her target, the female cultivator remained where she was, letting out mindless roars of rage.
Chen Lin's eyes lit up. Lu Zifeng clearly had plenty of experience dealing with Red Shadows. He knew that whether he killed the female cultivator or used an Exorcism Talisman, the Red Shadow would emerge and seek its next target, so he had simply fled.
But that meant his companion probably would not survive.
With an ordinary mortal, a Red Shadow could drain all bodily functions the instant it possessed them. Even though this female cultivator was at the late stage of Qi Condensation, she probably would not last long either.
Sure enough, after raging mindlessly at the junction of the passages for a while, the female cultivator began to move sluggishly, then collapsed to the ground, unable to move.
Chen Lin stayed hidden, with no intention of helping.
He could intervene to save Zhao Mengru, but he would not save this woman.
There was no other reason: when Ma Yu had pressured him earlier, she had not offered him a helping hand either. He would not play the indiscriminate do-gooder.
Everything had its causes and consequences. Whatever seeds one sowed, one had to bear the fruit oneself.
Zhao Mengru stood beside him, expressionless, and was even less likely to ask Chen Lin to save her.
Although Chen Lin could destroy Red Shadows, there was more than one here. Besides the Red Shadows, there were other cultivators around as well. Running into another