Sacred Body

Chapter 28: Sacred Body

"Little girl, I didn't expect you to know so much about medicinal herbs."

After walking for a while, Chen Lin turned around and glanced at the girl in surprise.

"Hmph, of course I do. To become a disciple of Forget-Emotion Valley, you have to master the study of medicinal herbs. If you can't even tell the different spirit herbs apart, you'd be embarrassed to call yourself a disciple of Forget-Emotion Valley."

The girl snorted, puffed out her little chest, and spoke with a hint of pride. Then, as if remembering something, she glared fiercely at Chen Lin. "Hey! We had a deal. I help you earn a batch of Spirit Stones, and then you let me go. Are you going to keep your word or not?"

"Oh, you can go now."

Chen Lin waved a hand indifferently, his voice lazy.

"Really?" The girl's face lit up with joy, but she quickly realized something. "Hey! Even if you agreed to let me go, shouldn't you personally escort me out of the Myriad Demon Sect? How could a human cultivator like me possibly leave your sect on my own?"

"What's that got to do with me? We agreed that you'd help me earn a batch of Spirit Stones, and then I'd consider your condition. Remember, consider!" Chen Lin rolled his eyes, stressing the word "consider." Then he looked at her as if she were an idiot. "I've already magnanimously let you go, and now you want to add another condition and make me escort you out? Hey, hey, don't push your luck."

"You!... You demon cultivators really are just like my master said—faithless, shameless, and deceitful! You villain!"

The girl was so angry that her face flushed red, and even her words grew unsteady.

"Say whatever you want. If you want to leave now, I won't stop you."

Chen Lin hummed a tune as he walked ahead, looking to be in a good mood. Clearly, getting such a huge windfall had put him at ease, and he even started teasing the girl. But it was obvious he had no intention of letting her leave just yet.

He had a feeling that the Main God Coffin hadn't made him save the girl just for this stalk of Purple Grains Kui Wood. If that were the case, wouldn't the Main God Coffin also have the ability to see the future? Chen Lin couldn't believe that.

So the girl must have some other value.

"You!"

The girl was frantic. She glared at Chen Lin and snapped, "Hey! I'll tell you the truth. I'm the personal disciple of Forget-Emotion Valley's Valley Master! My master must have noticed by now that I'm missing. If she still hasn't heard from me, she'll definitely issue an Immortal Bounty Order across the entire Nanli cultivation world. When she finds out I fell into your hands, even if you're a disciple of the Myriad Demon Sect, you'll be left without a corpse!"

Seeing that Chen Lin wouldn't be swayed, the girl panicked and began waving her arms as she tried to scare him.

Chen Lin was startled and couldn't help glancing at her. He hadn't expected the little girl to be the personal disciple of a cultivation sect's leader. But he didn't really believe in that so-called Immortal Bounty Order.

An Immortal Bounty Order was a reward notice issued to the entire cultivation world by a sect leader or powerful cultivator, offering a hefty reward.

Although Chen Lin was still a novice who had only just entered the cultivation world, he had learned some basic facts about it. This world was divided into five regions: the Eastern Border, the Western Regions, Nanli, the Northern Abyss, and the Central Province.

The region Chen Lin was in was the Nanli Continent.

The Nanli Continent stretched for countless millions of miles. It had innumerable nations, and immortal sects and schools were as numerous as oxen's hairs. Forget-Emotion Valley was a second-rate immortal sect. Though powerful, it was nowhere near comparable to the Myriad Demon Sect.

You're a second-rate immortal sect. Even if you issue an Immortal Bounty Order, do you think you can reach all the way into the Myriad Demon Sect's territory? The Myriad Demon Sect was one of the top sects on the Nanli Continent—a true major power!

Thinking of this, Chen Lin immediately relaxed and grinned. "So what if you're the personal disciple of Forget-Emotion Valley's Valley Master? Little girl, you seem to have forgotten that you're still a cultivation cauldron I bought. You're a slave. It hasn't even been that long, and you're already daring to threaten your master?"

"Since you helped me get such a huge windfall just now, I'll temporarily forgive you!"

Chen Lin chuckled. He had clearly thought of the Purple Grains Kui Wood again, but then something seemed to occur to him. He couldn't help slapping his own chest and cursing himself for being stupid.

He'd actually overlooked one of the Main God Coffin's abilities: it could inspect anything!

With that, Chen Lin could easily identify cultivation materials. If he was lucky, he might even pick up treasures that others had mistaken for junk. Of course, there was a drawback: he couldn't use the Main God Coffin to inspect every single thing he saw. That would take too much effort.

Still, something was better than nothing. As he thought about it, Chen Lin's eyes gradually lit up, and he couldn't help chuckling.

Seeing Chen Lin staring at her with a foolish grin and a lecherous expression, the girl got goosebumps. She shrank back and warily took a step away from him. "You shameless, rotten demon! What are you thinking?!"

"Uh?... Ahem..."

Only then did Chen Lin realize that he had been acting a little sleazy. He coughed twice and straightened up. The girl was still staring at him warily, as if he were some pervert, and that struck him as funny. A malicious thought sprang up. He immediately let his expression darken and looked the girl up and down, deliberately leering at her chest. He gave a "hee-hee" and said with a sly grin, "What do you think I'm thinking?... Hmm?"

"Hey! Don't you dare do anything! I'm warning you, if you try to use me as a cauldron, my master won't let you get away with it!"

The girl instinctively covered her chest with both hands. Her eyes finally filled with panic. Her pretty face flushed, and she shifted uneasily, but she still glared fiercely at Chen Lin and continued to threaten him. "I forgot to tell you: I'm not just the personal disciple of Forget-Emotion Valley's Valley Master. I'm also her inheritor—the next Valley Master of Forget-Emotion Valley! If you disrespect me, all of Forget-Emotion Valley will come after you!"

An inheritor? The next Valley Master of Forget-Emotion Valley?!

Chen Lin's expression remained calm, but he was truly startled inside. Although Forget-Emotion Valley was only a second-rate immortal sect, it was renowned throughout Nanli for its alchemy. It was somewhat like the Underworld Spring Branch Chen Lin belonged to: not particularly powerful as a sect, but even some first-rate immortal sects dared not offend it lightly and would go out of their way to cultivate good relations with it. Chen Lin could disregard the girl's status as a personal disciple, but he couldn't ignore the title of "inheritor"!

"Don't worry. I'm not the least bit interested in an underdeveloped little girl like you." Chen Lin played it off, his expression unchanged. He even shot a look of utter disdain at the girl's undeveloped chest, then shook his head with a doubtful expression. "But I don't believe a word you say about being Forget-Emotion Valley's 'inheritor.' If you want to leave, you'd better come up with an excuse that sounds believable."

Although he said he didn't believe her, Chen Lin actually believed her to some extent. The girl didn't look like she was lying, and the fact that the Main God Coffin had made him save her meant she must have something extraordinary about her.

"I'm telling the truth!... I... I have a special bloodline. I'm a Sacred Body! Surely you believe me now?!"

The girl had clearly been pushed to her limit. She gritted her teeth and glared fiercely at Chen Lin.

"What? A Sacred Body?!"

Chen Lin's heart tightened, and his expression finally changed!

"Ding!"

The system's cold, mechanical voice rang out in Chen Lin's mind once more.

"System side quest issued: Obtain the girl's blood and use the innate divine ability 'Gene Theft' to acquire her bloodline talent. Quest reward: none. Quest failure penalty: 20,000 points of Death Energy."

This girl really was extraordinary!

But when he saw the penalty for failure, Chen Lin's vision went black, and he nearly fell to the ground.

20,000 points of Death Energy...

Chen Lin didn't have the strength left to curse the Main God Coffin. He looked at the girl in despair, nearly beating his chest and wailing in regret. If only he'd agreed to let her leave! Now he couldn't even send her away. The girl was his lifeline; if he let her slip away, Chen Lin feared he'd die without a burial place!

Thinking of this, Chen Lin forced himself to pull it together. Suddenly, he fixed the girl's delicate figure with a malicious, gleaming stare and looked her up and down, as if trying to decide where it would be best to draw blood.

"You!... What are you going to do?!"

The girl jumped, feeling goosebumps all over. Chen Lin's wolfish stare made her shudder. She hadn't expected him to learn she was a Sacred Body and, instead of showing the slightest awe, look at her with greedy eyes, as if she were a rare treasure!

That look made it seem as if he wanted to swallow her whole!