After the main group set off, Lu Linsheng kept following Bai Ling. Bai Ling noticed that this person kept staring at her, looking very hungry. She couldn't help asking him: "You didn't eat enough?"
Lu Linsheng: "No, I want to keep...looking at you..."
Bai Ling didn't feel there was anything wrong with this sentence. It was the Old Seashell at her waist that suddenly transmitted a loud shout: "Little master, this rogue is too hateful, he actually dares to have designs on you. Hit him! Hit him!"
Only then did Bai Ling react, thinking oh my, I've encountered a romantic prospect? Although the other party was a beggar, this was really the first man who directly expressed his affection for her.
Speaking of which, Bai Ling herself was puzzled. In her previous life she had people pursuing her, but in this life, despite growing up to be so good-looking, no one pursued her instead. Isn't this very strange?
Looking at the beggar with a blurry face in front of her, she felt conflicted. After thinking for a while, she said: "It's like this, I actually don't have high requirements. It doesn't matter if you're human, but I prefer someone clean and well-behaved...you know?"
The Old Seashell was going crazy. "Little master! He's a toad wanting to eat dragon meat. Why are you telling him these things? Where's your hammer? Give him a whack to sober him up!"
Bai Ling ignored this stubborn Old Seashell. As long as they didn't make her angry, she was generally easy to talk to.
Lu Linsheng stared at Bai Ling with a pair of dark eyes. Although he called himself 'Lu Linsheng', in fact, what he inherited from Lu Linsheng was only deep obsession, as well as feelings of longing and resentment. His other memories were particularly chaotic, especially the painful experiences of being eaten the first few times.
In his memory, the clearest images were almost all related to Bai Ling - the first time he saw her in the mountains, the golden pearl she gave him, her transforming into a white dragon playing in the lake...all the images were warm and pure, making him feel a moment of satisfaction for the insatiable greed in his body every time he thought of them.
In contrast, there were those long processes of devouring and being devoured. He already had clear and complete consciousness in the Demon Abyss. Only after devouring countless demons did he gain a human-like form. And now, he was trying to become a 'human', possessing a human body, learning to speak like humans, learning to use 'smiles' to express emotions.
He was undoubtedly very smart, just unaware of what issues he needed to pay attention to as a human. Now hearing Bai Ling say this, he slowly nodded, "Okay, I will...be clean..."
In just this short period of time, his smile had become much more natural and smooth compared to the beginning.
The two of them stood there talking alone for a while. The Fifth Senior Brother who was sent to deal with Dong Yuan and Dong Yuan himself couldn't stand it anymore. Fifth Senior Brother was afraid that his naive junior sister would be deceived, so he left Dong Yuan and walked over. Dong Yuan also quickly followed.
"Immortal friend, did something happen?" Dong Yuan asked first, glancing at Lu Linsheng's appearance with a hint of disdain in his eyes. "I saw him begging you for something just now. Most mortals don't know the rules, and quite a few are very greedy. If you take pity and help them, they will take it for granted and demand more. With this kind of person harassing you, you don't need to..."
Bai Ling found his words increasingly strange and directly interrupted him: "Stop, stop, stop. If you don't know, don't talk nonsense."
The atmosphere in Mount Youfu was really not good, everyone was the same from top to bottom. She disliked their condescending attitude the most, thinking they were gods and immortals. Just like in Guiyi Immortal Sect, many disciples also looked down on mortals because they considered themselves cultivators. She disliked that too.
Seeing Bai Ling displeased, Dong Yuan also felt very embarrassed. He couldn't lose his temper in front of the senior brother and sister, so he could only solemnly say to Lu Linsheng: "Hurry up and leave! Remember not to come and harass them again in the future!"
At this time, a middle-aged woman walked out from the crowd. Judging from her dress, her family was quite well-off. She was tidy and clean. She seemed to have a straightforward personality, but she couldn't help feeling timid in front of several 'immortals'.
After walking over and carefully examining Lu Linsheng, she smiled at Dong Yuan and said: "Immortal, quell your anger. I know this person, he used to be my neighbor, a famous scholar in our city. He studied hard in the temple since he was young, but later because he failed the provincial examination and his old father died in an accident, he became a bit crazy. We all thought he had run away and died somewhere, never expecting to meet him here."
"He is also a pitiful person. If there was any offense, this humble woman apologizes to the immortals here. I will take him away now."
Lu Linsheng was pulled away by the woman without struggling, only looking at Bai Ling. He was pulled into the crowd, still looking at her.
Watching him leave, Bai Ling walked to the side with Fifth Senior Brother and bumped his arm, casually sighing: "Sure enough, any romantic luck is fake, it's impossible to have it."
Fifth Senior Brother coaxed her: "...Little junior sister, you're still young, let's not think about this, ah."
The Old Seashell transmitted: "Little master! You're still a young dragon! Your dragon horns haven't even finished changing! And even if you want to find a mate, you can't be so casual! Only someone with outstanding background, reputation, appearance, and ability among the demon clans can be worthy of you! It's not something any cat or dog can dream of!"
Bai Ling picked her ear and scratched the shell's surface, complaining in a low voice: "Why are there so many requirements, I think as long as I like them, it's fine."
Lu Linsheng was pulled by the woman to a secluded part of the crowd. There were a few other people there, all relatives of the woman, who also knew Scholar Lu before. They asked questions one after another, "Scholar Lu, where have you been all this time?" "Scholar Lu, what did the immortal give you just now?" "Scholar Lu..."
The woman waved at them, "Alright, go to the side, let Scholar Lu rest."
Lu Linsheng looked at these people, his face expressionless. The woman was looked at by him a few times and inexplicably felt afraid. She carefully said: "You are Scholar Lu? I just saw that you looked like him. Do you still remember Aunt?"
Lu Linsheng suddenly walked in front of the cleanest dressed man among them and raised his hand towards him. But halfway through, he paused and put it down again, saying to the woman with a strange and dazed face: "I want to...tidy up and be clean."
......
Half a day passed, and in the evening, Bai Ling saw Lu Linsheng again.
"Are you the Lu Linsheng from this morning?" Bai Ling looked at the man in front of her in surprise.
He was wearing a set of clean clothes, his hair and face were tidied up, revealing an unexpectedly young and delicate appearance. He looked like a weak and harmless scholar, both frail and pitiful. Because he was so thin, he even looked a bit pathetic. As a grown man, his waist was so slim that it could be compared to hers.
"I am Lu Linsheng."
In just half a day, his speech had become much more fluent. Bai Ling was a little confused as to whether he was really crazy or foolish, and looked at him with a bit of hesitation. She didn't speak, and Lu Linsheng didn't take the initiative to speak either. He just stared at her intently, making Bai Ling feel uncomfortable all over.
Bai Ling: "..." Big brother, aren't you too enthusiastic? Just because I gave him a peach, he fell in love with me at first sight? His eyes are so direct, as if he wants to eat someone. It's scary.
The Old Seashell at her waist suddenly transmitted a message, its tone very nervous. It said, "Little master, this person is not right. He's very dangerous. Stay away from him! He seems... seems to not be human!"
After all, the Old Seashell had lived for many years and had a kind of innate spiritual perception. When Lu Linsheng stared straight at Bai Ling, it felt a sense of unease for a moment. Hearing this, Bai Ling quickly became alert, considering whether to immediately draw her weapon.
Lu Linsheng took a step forward, getting closer to her. Bai Ling was about to tell him to stop when Lu Linsheng reached out his hand. In an instant, his hand drooped like flowing black silk threads, revealing a round red bead inside.
"I want to give this to you." The person speaking smiled sincerely, but his suddenly unraveled hand was too scary.
Before Bai Ling could react, a scream suddenly came from the crowd resting in the camp. The crowd scattered in a panic. Some people wailed and cried in pain, while others cried for help in terror.
"There are demons! Ah! The demons are eating people!"
"Help! Immortals, save us!"
Bai Ling immediately ran over and saw chaos in the middle of the crowd. Several demons that had sneaked in at some point were tearing at bloody people. Dong Yuan and Fifth Senior Brother had already confronted them and were entangled in a fight with the demons.
Dong Yuan was obviously more powerful, fighting several demons alone, while Fifth Senior Brother was struggling between two demons. There were still several demons picking out food among the crowd.
Bai Ling picked up her hammer without hesitation. It's not that she wasn't afraid - that would be a lie. After all, she had never really killed a demon before.
But she understood that sooner or later she would have to face this. Her master had let her go out, and it was not without the intention of tempering her. When she slammed the hammer down, the entire ground shook. Afraid that she wouldn't kill it with one blow, she followed up with another hammer strike. When she lifted the hammer to look, half of the strange-looking demon's body had been smashed into a pulp.
Bai Ling: "Ugh--" It died so disgustingly!
Fifth Senior Brother shouted worriedly in her direction, "Little Junior Sister! Are you alright!"
Bai Ling: "Ugh-- I'm fine. Wait a sec, I'll go kill the rest after I finish vomiting! Ugh--"
A demon pounced on her while she was off guard. Bai Ling swung her hammer over, sending both the demon and the hammer flying out and crashing to the ground. The thud frightened the crowd into another scream.
Bai Ling was left with only one hammer in her hand. She wiped her mouth and went to retrieve the hammer. Before she could touch it, more than a dozen hideous demon faces suddenly drilled out from the ground and pounced on her all at once. As Bai Ling saw these demons clearly, she inwardly cursed that this was bad.
At this moment, a black shadow suddenly swept past from behind. Strands of black silk threads surged over, wrapping all the demons in black cocoons. The dozen or so black cocoons existed for no more than a few breaths before disappearing. Those black threads then gathered at an extremely fast speed to form a human shape, turning back into the appearance of Lu Linsheng.
He smiled at Bai Ling with a harmless expression, his throat moving as if he had just swallowed something.
Bai Ling was still holding up her hammer, the area around her now empty without a single demon left. On the other side, Dong Yuan and Fifth Senior Brother, who had dealt with the remaining ambushing demons, had already rushed over. They had also seen what had just happened. Dong Yuan's sword in hand did not retract as he stabbed at Lu Linsheng.
This sword stabbed into emptiness. Lu Linsheng appeared on the other side. The people who were originally close quickly retreated, rolling and crawling while screaming.
"Demon! What scheme do you have, mixing in here in human form!" Dong Yuan shouted.
Lu Linsheng looked at him with a cold expression, not speaking. The way he looked at him was no different from looking at a piece of walking blood food.
"Die!" Dong Yuan's sword light surged as he stabbed towards Lu Linsheng. Lu Linsheng's whole body emitted and retracted black silk, looking like he was about to disperse at any moment. Bai Ling finally reacted, stepped forward to grab him and pushed him to the side. She herself swung her hammer, knocking Dong Yuan away.
Dong Yuan couldn't believe it. "What are you doing?! Didn't you see that he's a demon? Why are you protecting him!"
Bai Ling planted her hammer on the ground. "I should be asking you what the hell you're doing! Are you blind? Didn't you see that he just helped me deal with so many demons? And you want to kill him right away."
Dong Yuan: "Such an evil demon that would devour its own kind can't possibly be anything good. Just now must have also been with ulterior motives. If it's not our kind, its heart must be different! Naturally, it should be killed. Quickly step aside!"
Bai Ling angrily raised her hammer: "Step aside my ass. I'm not human either. If you have the ability, come and fight. See if I don't smash your head into a flower!"
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Lulu: Weak, pitiful and harmless, eats humans, gods and demons.
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