That idiot from the Sword Sect turned out to be a lucky charm.

The system then spoke up to remind you: "Master, a few exorcism pills have appeared in the shop. You can exchange them. However, you need to think of a good excuse before using them so that no one will suspect anything."

Lin Zhifeng thought it made a lot of sense. After all, his father had disappeared while fighting the demon realm, and no one would believe him if he attributed this to his father. Moreover, this exorcism pill was an extremely rare and precious medicine in the cultivation world. Not only were the materials needed to refine it difficult to find, but it was also not something that ordinary alchemists could refine.

What excuse should I come up with?

That's it! We can pin it on our master. Anyway, Lin Jun and the others know that they received a legacy in the secret realm, so it's plausible that our master would give us some rare life-saving pills.

Lin Zhifeng made up his mind and exchanged his remaining luck points for exorcism pills. Now he felt more confident.

The disciples left behind to guard the area are now filled with anxiety, huddled together in small groups discussing their current predicament. However, they are all at a loss, unsure of what to do next.

The waiting time felt increasingly long. Even if Zhang Yang and his team flew back without resting, it would still take at least half a day.

The elders are at the Void Refinement Realm, so coming here would be a piece of cake for them. However, they just received the news and need to make some preparations, so they probably won't be able to arrive until tomorrow at the earliest.

Lin Zhifeng suggested, "Senior Brother Wu, it's unbearable for us to just wait here. How about this? You take some people and stay here to guard, while Senior Brother Lin and I will go and clear out the monsters in this forest. Even if the elders come and seal the rift, they must clean up this polluted forest."

Wu Di had no idea what to do, so he simply agreed.

When Lin Zhifeng told Lin Jun and the others what he meant, they naturally listened to him. They didn't want to stay there waiting and have to listen to some sour grapes nagging on and on.

This small group of people may seem carefree and irresponsible, but they are incredibly reliable when it matters.

Moreover, everyone's equipment is quite good. The cloaks all increase defense, the shoes all increase speed, and the spirit swords have all been upgraded to intermediate level, making combat much easier.

Even so, Lin Zhifeng and his group dared not let their guard down, always trying to fight in groups and never engaging in one-on-one combat. When they encountered groups of demonic beasts, they would lure them over one by one before attacking them as a group.

Originally, Lin Zhifeng intended to burn the monster's corpse on the spot. However, the system popped up a side quest: collect the contaminated monster cores, with a reward of five luck points for each core obtained.

Although Lin Zhifeng didn't know what the system wanted him to do with collecting these crystal cores, he couldn't resist earning the luck points reward.

Lin Zhifeng happily harvested the crystal cores. Although his other brothers didn't know what he was going to do with them, none of them asked, and of course, no one tried to take them from him.

In short, Lin Zhifeng was very satisfied with his group of younger brothers.

As they slayed more and more demonic beasts, one member of the team, nicknamed "Gold," whose cultivation level had dropped, was accidentally scratched by a demonic beast's long claws during a battle.

The corrupted demonic beast's claws were also tainted with demonic energy. Jinzi immediately retreated to tend to his wound after being scratched. He took a basic healing pill and then used a clean dagger to carefully remove the flesh around the wound. However, the demonic energy still visibly spread along the wound.

Lin Zhifeng was engrossed in harvesting crystal cores when he heard someone shouting and realized someone was injured. He quickly used a powerful move to end the battle in a few moves, then teleported to Jinzi's side, who was surrounded by several people.

When Lin Zhifeng arrived, Jinzi's entire arm had turned purplish-black. Everyone's faces were grave, but Jinzi forced a smile through the pain and said, "I think I'll take another gamble and cut off this arm completely. If it can stop the spread of demonic energy, I can save my life. Trading an arm for a life is worth it. I can find a chance to get a Rejuvenation Pill later and grow a new one. Even being a one-armed hero is better than dying."

After saying that, he endured the pain and was about to make a move.

Lin Zhifeng quickly held him down. Luckily, he arrived in time, otherwise Jinzi would have suffered for nothing.

Jinzi smiled bitterly, "Xiaolinzi, don't stop me. I have to try, right? I don't want to die. Don't you know my mother? If I die, she won't be able to live either."

Lin Zhifeng didn't waste any words with him and quickly took out an exorcism pill. He grabbed Jinzi and pinched Jinzi's cheek with his left hand. Jinzi's cheek hurt from the pinch and he was about to curse. Just as he opened his mouth, Lin Zhifeng flicked the pill from his right hand into his mouth.

Caught off guard, Jinzi choked on the pill and quickly tried to swallow. After a while, the pill dissolved and entered Jinzi's stomach to be absorbed.

Jinzi choked and coughed, tears and snot streaming down his face. With his good hand, he pointed tremblingly at Lin Zhifeng: "Little Lin, what kind of medicine did you give me?"

Lin Zhifeng disgustedly wiped his saliva-covered hand on the front of his shirt a few times, then smiled mysteriously at him without saying a word.

The onlookers couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "Jinzi, look! You're not going to die! The demonic energy is slowly dissipating from your arm!"

Upon hearing this, Jinzi hurriedly looked down to check as well.

Sure enough, the demonic energy that had previously spread across his elbow on his purplish-black arm was rapidly retreating towards the extremities. In the end, it was completely expelled from his body through the wound he had initially enlarged.

Without the interference of demonic energy, the healing pill that Jinzi had taken earlier began to take effect—before long, the bleeding at the wound stopped, and flesh and blood quickly grew back and scabbed over.

Although it will eventually leave scars, at least my life is no longer in danger.

Jinzi was overjoyed and thanked Lin Zhifeng repeatedly. He even said, "Little Lin, I have no way to repay your life-saving grace. Let me kowtow to you, brother?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhifeng quickly hid to the side, laughing and cursing, "Get lost! If you try to pull that trick on me, I'll never play with you again."

Jinzi quickly said, "Haha, brother was just joking with you, don't leave me out."

After everyone had had their fill of commotion, Lin Jun, the key figure in their little gang, spoke up again: "Let's all keep it a secret that Jinzi was injured and that Xiao Linzi healed him with medicine, otherwise it won't be good for Xiao Linzi. Xiao Linzi doesn't treat us like strangers, and we brothers can't let him down."

All the brothers swore in unison that they would never do anything immoral or disloyal.

So they continued to slay the demonic beasts, but this time everyone was extra careful. Even knowing that Lin Zhifeng had the medicine, nobody wanted to suffer the consequences, right?