Inside the cave abode, an oil lamp burned.
The oil in the lamp seemed to be made from something unknown. As it burned, it gave off a pungent odor.
By the light of the lamp, Luo Qingchen continued carefully reading the two books.
The absurd rules described inside left him stunned.
The afternoon passed in a flash.
At dusk, he put away the books and went outside.
It was called dusk, but the dense black branches overhead had already plunged everything outside into deep gloom.
As far as the eye could see, darkness surrounded him.
But along White Road, every so often, the stark white Bone Steles glimmered with a ghostly green light.
Though the glow was faint and eerie, it clearly marked the safe path.
"Go to the Green Pavilion, ask Senior Sister to let me run up a tab, then... sleep with Senior Sister..."
"And after that, get a cultivation technique?"
The whole thing seemed utterly absurd to him.
But then he thought of how this was the Demon Sect, and of all the bizarre things in Medicine Man Town—people selling their blood, their bodies, and their souls—and decided it was actually pretty normal.
Without realizing it, he had started to regard the Demon Sect's many abnormal practices as normal.
"Ah! Ah..."
As he walked along, lost in thought, a woman's moans suddenly came from the woods to his right.
He turned to look.
A woman in a thin blue-green dress sat beneath a large tree, clutching her foot, her face twisted with pain.
A lantern hung from the tree, casting light on her pitiful, heart-stirring features.
"Senior Brother, please, come save me!"
The woman spotted him and hurriedly waved, calling out in a tearful voice.
"I was just bitten by a venomous snake. Senior Brother, hurry over