Before Bai Ling joined the Guiyi Immortal Sect, she lived in Luoshui for a while. Later, she took Old Seashell and wandered alone, getting lost everywhere. At that time, she felt that everywhere was still very peaceful, with fewer troublesome demons. But this time, it was simply a demonic frenzy, a carnival of monsters, with more and more strange creatures appearing the further east they went.

Watching Lu Linsheng devour another group of demons, Bai Ling rubbed her hammer-wielding wrist and asked him, "You've eaten so many demons, aren't you getting full?"

Lu Linsheng smiled and shook his head at her, "No, I'm still hungry."

Bai Ling glanced at his slender scholar's waist, "...How much do you need to eat to get full?"

Lu Linsheng could never be 'full', regardless of how much he ate. Just as his instinct and obsession was Bai Ling, 'hunger' was also written into his nature, meaning he would never be satisfied no matter how much he consumed. So he said, "Since I became self-aware, I have never been full."

Bai Ling misunderstood, looking at him as if he was a starving vagrant child who had never eaten his fill. Afterwards, when she saw the demons pouncing to devour them, not only did she not feel nervous or afraid, she even had the bizarre sense of relief - as if it was a bountiful harvest.

But even so, as the number of demons on the road increased, Bai Ling inevitably became tense.

"Where did so many demons come from?" Bai Ling asked curiously.

"Dong Yuan, the disciple from Mount Youfu, said that a huge rift appeared on the edge of the East Sea, and the frequent appearance of demons seems to be related to that place," Fifth Senior Brother said while gnawing on food.

The two of them were sitting on a large rock by the river eating. After being frequently attacked by demons, they rarely had the chance to sit down and eat or sleep properly like this. Although demon attacks were common, most of the time they didn't need to take action, but they still had to be vigilant just in case, which was exhausting to always be on edge. Among the three of them, only Lu Linsheng remained the same.

Fifth Senior Brother looked the most haggard. In terms of combat strength, he of course could not compare to the inhuman duo. He now had the dejected appearance of someone who had been forging iron for several days straight.

"Do we still want to go to Mount Yuyan? It seems very dangerous."

Bai Ling was pondering other questions, holding her food in the air for a long time without taking a bite. "With so many rampaging demons appearing, shouldn't our sect send people out for disaster relief?"

Fifth Senior Brother rubbed his face, surprised, "Why should the sect send people for disaster relief?"

"Generally when this kind of thing happens, the mortal sects all tightly shut their mountain gates to defend themselves. Just being able to protect themselves is already impressive," Fifth Senior Brother sighed, feeling that his little junior sister was still childish at heart.

Although mortal sects cultivated immortality, in reality they had no advantage against demons. Bai Ling was a dragon, born with great strength, and Lu Linsheng was even more bizarre. They were not human, so they didn't have a clear understanding of the current situation. Fifth Senior Brother, as a human cultivator, could clearly sense the gap between the two sides.

He was considered outstanding in the sect, but in the current crisis, he was still the type to drag them down. One could imagine how tragic it would be if the other junior disciples in the sect faced those ferocious demons.

"Don't worry about that," Fifth Senior Brother pointed out to his junior sister in the manner of a veteran. "There's still the Immortal Court. If the situation in the human world becomes severe, the immortals in the Immortal Court will not sit idly by. There are also the high gods worshipped by humans, they will also dispatch their followers to help, like Mount Youfu."

Hearing this, Bai Ling found it strange. "If the immortals will intervene, why don't they hurry down now? Why wait until the situation gets worse? By then, many people will have died."

Fifth Senior Brother: "The Immortal Ancestor of our sect once said that the tribulations in the human world are all predestined. This means that if these people are meant to face this calamity, they cannot escape it. Even the most powerful immortals cannot interfere, as this is the natural balance of the Dao. So they will only intervene when the situation becomes unbalanced."

The young little white dragon girl did not buy into this. Her age and temperament were not yet sufficient for her to appreciate the reasoning behind it. After listening, she just wanted to curse in her heart, furrowing her brows into caterpillars.

Mount Yuyan was not far from the East Sea. On their way there, the three of them encountered more and more demons, and traces of devils gradually appeared.

Devils were different from demons. They were a race born in special places, few in number, without the emotions of demons and humans, and only had a nature of brutality and bloodthirst. They never traveled in groups, but hunted alone, making them more troublesome than demons because of their elusive nature.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Fifth Senior Brother began to persuade Bai Ling to return to Guiyi Immortal Sect. But Bai Ling was a bit stubborn, insisting on going to Mount Yuyan to find a whetstone and refusing to give up halfway.

When she got into a stubborn mood, she loved to go her own way. With Lu Linsheng by her side supporting whatever she said, and Old Seashell being unusually quiet recently, hardly making a sound, Fifth Senior Brother was isolated and helpless, so anxious that he was starting to lose hair.

As a result, just as they were about to reach Mount Yuyan, Fifth Senior Brother was injured. He himself felt quite helpless. He had only been alone for a short while when he encountered a devil. If Bai Ling hadn't appeared quickly, he probably would have been done for.

"Forget it, let's not go to Mount Yuyan. We should head back first." Bai Ling, who previously refused to return no matter what, gazed at the vague outline of Mount Yuyan in the distance and quickly made her choice. "Senior Brother needs to go back and recuperate properly."

Bai Ling's choice touched Fifth Senior Brother's heart and indeed made him breathe a huge sigh of relief. However, with them wanting to return to the sect, another problem presented itself.

"Little junior sister, shouldn't we ask where Lu Linsheng plans to go?" Fifth Senior Brother glanced at Lu Linsheng under a distant tree and quietly said to his junior sister.

Bai Ling could understand what he meant - the sect might not welcome Lu Linsheng. She herself did not mind Lu Linsheng's behavior of devouring demons, but others were different.

Bai Ling hesitated. After spending this time together, she couldn't just abandon Lu Linsheng. Fifth Senior Brother could see her hesitation and advised her with a slight headache, "Junior Sister, don't worry about Lu Linsheng being alone. Haven't you noticed? He's very capable and doesn't need your concern."

However, Bai Ling said, "I know. It's precisely because I know he's very capable that I can't ignore him. You all say he's an evil demon, and I can also see that his original form must have some issues. But he listens to me, so I want to teach him well. If I don't take care of him, he'll definitely do bad things. What will we do if he becomes a big villain then?"

Fifth Senior Brother was at a loss for words. He didn't expect his seemingly simple-minded junior sister to have thought so much.

"Alright, I'll go talk to him myself." Bai Ling ran over to Lu Linsheng's side.

Fifth Senior Brother watched from afar. The expressionless Lu Linsheng, who had been staring into the depths of the forest, immediately smiled at the junior sister when she ran over.

Fifth Senior Brother: "..." Faces can really deceive people.

Bai Ling propped herself up with both hands and sat on a protruding tree trunk. She directly asked Lu Linsheng beside her, "We're going to return to Guiyi Immortal Sect. Do you still want to follow me?"

Lu Linsheng changed almost every day. The current him was completely different from when Bai Ling first met him. Perhaps because he had more interactions with people, he learned how to "be human". The sense of alienation as a different species was gone when he wasn't devouring demons. Anyone who saw him would almost think he was just a gentle scholar. Even when he spoke, he was no longer as blunt as before.

"I have nowhere else to go... Do you not want me to follow you anymore?" Lu Linsheng looked at Bai Ling, his eyes showing a frank reluctance to part.

He began to know what kind of attitude would more easily win Bai Ling's favor. She liked all sincere, natural, and simple ways, so he also appeared natural and genuine, or rather, learned how to make himself look natural and genuine.

Bai Ling glanced at Fifth Senior Brother not far away, then suddenly crooked her finger at Lu Linsheng. Lu Linsheng lowered his head to her side, and Bai Ling grabbed his shoulder, whispering a few words in his ear.

Lu Linsheng listened quietly with his eyes lowered, and when she asked if it was okay, he replied, "Okay."

Sure enough, he agreed. With Lu Linsheng like this, he'll definitely be henpecked in the future, Bai Ling thought to herself.

On the way back, since Fifth Senior Brother had injured his leg, Bai Ling planned to carry him on her back. After all, he was her senior brother. However, facing his junior sister, Fifth Senior Brother couldn't throw away his conscience's accusation and climb onto that small back, even though he knew his junior sister actually had the strength to punch two of him to death with one fist, even though he was well aware that his junior sister's original form was so heavy that he couldn't even move her alone.

In the end, it was Lu Linsheng who carried Fifth Senior Brother on his back.

Fifth Senior Brother was scared out of his wits being carried by that gentle-looking scholar. He always felt that he could smell a faint scent of blood on the other party - that was very likely his illusion. But he was really afraid, always feeling that in the next moment, he would be eaten by Lu Linsheng like those demons who came looking for death, without even spitting out a single bone.

Just like that, they nervously returned to Guiyi Immortal Sect. The taut string in his mind hadn't had time to relax when he noticed that something was wrong with the situation at the sect.

The protective grand formation left by the Immortal Ancestor of the sect had been fully activated. Usually, when nothing was happening, there were always many disciples coming and going in front of the mountain gate. There were also often disciples practicing cloud-riding techniques on that lake. Everyone liked to gather around and watch those disciples accidentally fall into the lake to find amusement.

But now, none of that was there. He only saw a circle of demons, big and small, surrounding the outside of the sect's grand formation.

That group of demons was clustered around a python demon with yellow eyes and upturned corners. His lower body was a long python tail. The huge python with gorgeous patterns was coiled on the stone statue in front of the mountain gate of Guiyi Immortal Sect, loudly chatting and laughing with the small demons beside him, "Isn't this supposed to be an immortal cultivation sect? Why are they so cowardly that no one dares to come out?"

The demons around him, who were clearly inferior to him, kept flattering him in unison, shouting, "Lord Wu Liu's prestige is so great that the humans are scared out of their wits just hearing your name!"

This python demon, who called himself Lord Wu Liu, came from Demon Abyss. He was also a big demon who occupied a territory there. He was one of the later batches to come out of Demon Abyss.

Unlike those demons who hurriedly left Demon Abyss and went around harming ordinary people everywhere, he felt that his status was higher. Even if he wanted to eat, he had to eat something different, such as cultivators, which were definitely tastier than ordinary people.

After choosing this Guiyi Immortal Sect, he gathered a group of subordinates and shouted in front of this mountain gate, wanting to provoke them to come out. He wanted to eat a few first to taste them.

Who knew that the people in this Guiyi Immortal Sect were complete turtles hiding their heads, never coming out no matter what. He could only continue to sit at the gate and humiliate them while secretly ordering his subordinates to attack the barrier.

Lord Wu Liu was very happy being flattered by the small demons under him. Intending to show off his might, he leisurely got up. His python body slithered to the front of the grand formation and spat out a black mass from his mouth. The black mass touched the formation barrier, making a sizzling sound that made people nervous to hear it.

Fifth Senior Brother, who was observing the situation from the shadows, saw this scene. He was so worried that he couldn't do anything, fearing that the barrier would be broken, but he had no way. They couldn't pass through Lord Wu Liu's group of demons to enter the sect now and could only hide here watching helplessly.

Bai Ling stared at Lord Wu Liu, "Who is this? He looks very powerful, but how come I've never heard of him?"

Lu Linsheng suddenly said, "I know him."

Both Bai Ling and Fifth Senior Brother turned to look at him.

Lu Linsheng thought about his wording for a moment and finally said, "He seems to be my... neighbor."