Even hybrid monsters have their day

She felt she had a thousand questions in her mind that needed answers.

Just then, intermittent voices and hurried footsteps drifted up from below the mountain. They all knew that the disciples below would soon be arriving.

Geng Miaowan had no habit of being a spectator for others. She turned her head and said to Miao Renfeng, "Sect Leader Miao, do you mind if I come to your sect to chat for a bit?"

Miao Renfeng was naturally more than happy to have it.

Besides Peng Yuxian, the only person he had ever seen whose appearance hadn't changed in over thirty years was Geng Miaowan, standing before him. When he first saw her over thirty years ago, he didn't think much of her except that she was exceptionally beautiful.

It's true that cultivators can maintain their appearance once they reach a certain level, but that requires at least reaching the Nascent Soul stage, and their appearance remains unchanged from the time they entered the Nascent Soul stage. However, Geng Miaowan's appearance is that of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old from thirty years ago; he remembers she was only in the Qi Refining stage back then.

How exactly did she do it?

However, regardless of how she did it, it only proves that she is no ordinary person, a fact he has to admit. Just as his late master Song Gan said, how could that person's friends be ordinary beings?

At this moment, Yin Qianze, who had been silent until now, spoke up, "You can all go over, but he can't!" Everyone looked over and saw that he was pointing directly at Xu Ruwen, who was sitting on the boulder, "How can my dignified Qingshan Sect allow a demon to come and go as he pleases?"

"A demon?" Ershan and the two young men beside him who hadn't spoken yet all looked surprised, while Miao Renfeng's expression didn't change, clearly he had already figured it out.

"Your concealment is too weak." Geng Miaowan teased Xu Ruwen in her mind, but smiled slightly embarrassedly and said, "To be honest, Daoist, that guy is indeed a demon, but he is also my contracted beast."

"What?" Even Yin Qianze and Miao Renfeng were astonished. They looked at Geng Miaowan as if she were a monster, someone who could actually make a contract with a demon that had cultivated for a thousand years. What else could she be but a monster?

After she signed the contract with Xu Ruwen, Jiao Lingfeng only said briefly, "Very few people can make a contract with a demon," and nothing more. So in her opinion, making a contract with a demon was just a little more difficult than making a contract with an ordinary spiritual creature. She didn't know why these people were so surprised.

However, Yin Qianze, as a veteran in the cultivation world, knew about it. Although it was not unheard of for humans and demons to sign contracts, it was only limited to demons with extremely high spiritual intelligence and comprehension but extremely low cultivation levels.

The demonic nature of this type of demon is not yet fully formed and is still in the malleable stage. After the contract is made, it will be trained and developed in the direction required by the contractor. Over time, it will naturally shed its wildness and develop humanity, and it will not pose a particularly great threat to the contractor.

However, forming a contract with a wild and untamed demon like Xu Ruwen carries significant risks. Unless it's entirely voluntary, only an extremely powerful mental force can suppress it. Even if all conditions are met and a contract is formed, they already possess their own established thought processes and ways of doing things. If it's not voluntary, the contractor simply cannot control them.

Most importantly, demons are inherently cunning. Once they harbor resentment, although they cannot directly kill their contractors to gain freedom, they have many ways to cause the contractors' untimely death. This is because, unless it's a soul contract, the death of the contractor has little impact on them.

In the past, some demons, in order to escape being hunted by cultivators, agreed to form contracts with them, only to plot and kill them after they were safe. After those people paid a bloody lesson, no one on the continent dared to form contracts with demons anymore.

Knowing all this, how could Yin Qianze and the others not see Geng Miaowan as a monster?

When the disciples at the foot of the mountain finally reached the summit after a long and arduous journey, they found it deserted. Only a few sharp-eyed individuals spotted several dark figures disappearing into the thick fog.

A short while later, the bell rang again from inside the mountain gate, "Dong..." "Dong..."... a total of nine times. To Geng Miaowan's relief, the Green Mountain Sect's etiquette for welcoming distinguished guests remained unchanged.

On the way to the mountain gate, Geng Miaowan kept thinking about what to do next.

Although her mission was also with the Green Mountain Sect, her original plan was to change her appearance and infiltrate the sect to carry out her mission discreetly. But now, she's been so conspicuously invited into the sect by its leader, and with the same face she had over thirty years ago. This will put her in a much more passive position when carrying out her mission.

This completely disrupted her original plans.

Moreover, she vaguely felt that the ghostly appearance on the main peak was inextricably linked to what she had done there more than thirty years ago, and she wondered how she should answer if Miao Renfeng asked her about it later. Also, where did she go after that day, how did she leave, how did she appear on the main peak today, how did she cross the barrier, and so on.

This series of questions is enough for her to write a book of 100,000 Whys.

However, Geng Miaowan clearly misjudged Miao Renfeng's thoughts, because in his view, a person of such noble and mysterious status as her must have a reason for everything she does, and everything she does must be in accordance with the opportune moment, and her appearance and disappearance must be in accordance with the will of Heaven.

After she had spent half a day mentally preparing herself, Miao Renfeng went back and didn't ask her a single question. You can imagine how disappointed she felt.

As soon as the group arrived at the hall, a disciple ran in from outside, looking nervous.

"What's the matter that you're in such a hurry?" Ershan asked the disciple with a stern face. She was now Miao Renfeng's most trusted disciple, so her status was naturally extraordinary, and she had absolute authority.

The disciple glanced at the three strangers in the hall, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Just say what's on your mind, it's no trouble."

Seeing that Miao Renfeng had said so, the junior disciple finally spoke up, "I just received news from down the mountain that the entire Lingjian Sect in Tongcheng was wiped out last night."

"What!" Miao Renfeng exclaimed, jumping up from his chair in shock. (To be continued.)