Lin Ping had not even dared to look back at those cages.
His legs had felt a little weak as he climbed out of the courtyard.
He leaned against the outside of the wall, caught his breath, and looked up in the direction of Elder Xu's Alchemy Chamber.
"Should... should work, right?"
He asked himself inwardly.
Even he found the question laughable.
Before today, he had been an ordinary cultivator, going out to catch demonic beasts and returning to the sect to report in, his days as placid as water.
And now?
He had become a human pet.
His junior brothers had become human pets.
Just now, he had even personally helped with a plan to screw over an elder of his own sect.
Who would believe it if he told them?
But things had come to this, and now he very much hoped Black Mountain would succeed.
Lin Ping wiped his face and silently vanished into the night.
Black Mountain, still in the courtyard, had no idea what Lin Ping was thinking.
He was lying in his cage, his bear face pressed to the ground, but his ears stood straight up.
All the demonic beasts were staring at that door too.
Time ticked by.
One incense stick's worth.
Two incense sticks' worth.
An hour.
Still, no one came.
Black Mountain began to have doubts.
Logically, the master should notice immediately if something went wrong with a contract.
Unless...
He turned to look at Red Wind in the next cage.
Red Wind happened to be looking at him too.
Their eyes met, and the two demons instantly understood what the other was thinking.
"He doesn't take us seriously at all."
In Elder Xu's eyes, what were the things in these cages?
Nothing but demonic beasts.
They did not even