This 'neighbor' was actually a former neighbor.

In the Demon Abyss, the great demons each occupied their own territory. This Lord Wu Liu was the same. Back then in the Demon Abyss, with his personality of enjoying being flattered, he even created a so-called Wumang Nation, gathering many subjects, pretentiously appointing some demons as generals, and selecting beautiful demonesses as his harem. He lived a very comfortable life.

At first, Lu Linsheng did not clash with this Lord Wu Liu. He wandered around the Demon Abyss and came near Lord Wu Liu's Wumang Nation, where he was treated as prey by a few small demons from his nation.

Lu Linsheng was not picky. Basically, he refused no one. Since they came, he directly swallowed them as snacks.

So a bunch of small demons from the Wumang Nation came to deal with him. He simply waited there and ate them all.

After several waves of demons were eaten by him, finally no more demons came. But Lu Linsheng felt it was quite a pity to lose the feeling of having a lot of food delivered to his door.

He was like a squirrel that found a hole full of nuts. Following the trail, he went to the Wumang Nation and had a hearty meal - although he had no concept of being 'full', that was really the happiest meal he ever had, so much so that he could still remember it now.

That time, he almost emptied out the Wumang Nation. Lord Wu Liu's two generals by his side, including his group of snake demoness beauties, all went into his stomach.

Only Lord Wu Liu escaped unscathed. It wasn't that Lu Linsheng didn't want to eat him, but at that time Lu Linsheng couldn't eat Lord Wu Liu yet. Relatively speaking, Lu Linsheng, who had been fattened up by the demons of the Wumang Nation, was also unmanageable for Lord Wu Liu.

Lord Wu Liu really hated and feared him. He couldn't kill him even if he tried, and couldn't shake him off. Wherever he went, he liked to gather a large group of demons around him. Lu Linsheng felt that following him meant having an endless supply of demons to eat, so he followed him.

Lord Wu Liu was forced to be Lu Linsheng's 'neighbor' for a long time.

Because of this, Lord Wu Liu was almost driven crazy. During that time, he ran everywhere. He completely changed his previous habit of recruiting underlings wherever he went.

In the end, he was thoroughly scared of Lu Linsheng, the notorious monster in the Demon Abyss. He tried every means to shake him off, and then avoided him, finally living in peace for a few years.

It was not easy for the Demon Abyss to open. The demons inside encountered a good opportunity. After Lord Wu Liu came out and saw the vast world, his entire demon nature inflated. He immediately reverted to his old ways and gathered a large group of like-minded demons, big and small.

His plan was to first target an immortal sect, to taste something different and flex his power to establish prestige. Then he could lead his willing subordinates to find a big city to occupy, continue his Wumang Nation, domesticate humans, expand his territory, and do whatever he wanted.

The arrogant Lord Wu Liu, swinging his python-like thick tail, pointed at the mountain gate of Guiyi Immortal Sect and shouted provocations, his mocking laughter echoing throughout the mountains.

Fifth Senior Brother was very worried. He hesitantly asked Lu Linsheng, "Since he is your neighbor, can you go talk to him and persuade him to leave?"

Lu Linsheng neither said yes nor no, only looking at Bai Ling and waiting for her to speak.

Bai Ling sized up Lord Wu Liu in the distance, feeling that she probably couldn't beat him. So she also hesitantly asked Lu Linsheng, "How is your relationship with him? Do you fight?"  

Lu Linsheng shook his head and smiled, "We never fight." He had never fought with demons. Once he took action, there was only eating them or temporarily being unable to eat them. That wasn't fighting.

But Bai Ling thought, this relationship seems pretty good. So she said, "Since he's your acquaintance, try going to greet him first and see if he's willing to leave."

So Lu Linsheng went.

A seemingly harmless scholar appearing at this time, contrasted by a bunch of strangely shaped demons, appeared especially vulnerable. But Lu Linsheng came unhurriedly to not far from Lord Wu Liu and naturally greeted him.  

"Lord Wu Liu, long time no see. How have you been lately?" This friendly greeting method was also one of the results of his learning to become human during this time.

That group of demons, along with Lord Wu Liu, were all bewildered by this scene. Lord Wu Liu's jaw was raised especially high, not knowing where this suicidal 'little thing' popped out from.

But when he carefully sensed the aura coming from this 'little thing' in front of him, his jaw involuntarily lowered more and more, and cold sweat came out layer by layer on his back.

This familiar aura, he would not forget. It was that damn monster!

Lord Wu Liu stared at Lu Linsheng's delicate scholar face, his eyes almost cracking. How could he encounter this monster here! How did the monster get such a weak-looking human skin to wear on his body?! What did he want to do?!

In an instant, Lord Wu Liu recalled the terror of having his harem and subordinates completely eaten by that pitch-black monster back then. He subconsciously glanced at those new subordinates beside him with arrogant faces, always feeling that he couldn't keep these people either.

"You just wait, I'll be back." After Lord Wu Liu said this sentence, he quickly left. His subordinates were still a bit dazed. After all, only a few moments passed between the scholar's sudden appearance and their boss's abrupt departure.

Why did the boss's back look a bit panicked? The little demons were utterly confused. But since the boss had left, they could only disperse and follow, leaving only a thin scholar at the original spot in the blink of an eye.

Bai Ling watched from the side, feeling that Lu Linsheng's demon neighbor didn't have as good a relationship with him as he claimed; it was more like a feud.

She and Fifth Senior Brother walked out from the side. She conveniently picked up the fallen stone statue in front of the mountain gate and put it back in place.

Fifth Senior Brother was even more worried that something was wrong inside the sect. After thanking them, he hurriedly urged Bai Ling to say her goodbyes. Bai Ling could only take the chance while Fifth Senior Brother wasn't paying attention to gesture at Lu Linsheng and wink at him.

Lu Linsheng smiled and nodded to indicate he understood her meaning. He stood there watching the two of them pass through the protective mountain formation barrier and walk inside.

Their auras and the disciple tokens on their bodies allowed them to freely enter and exit the great formation.

Returning to the sect, it was lively again. The solemn-looking sect leader and peak masters were busy discussing important matters, and the disciples were feeling a bit uneasy. The Blazing Flame Valley was sparsely populated, but everything was as usual.

After meeting, they first sent the fifth senior brother to treat his leg, and then the master and disciples sat down to have a good talk. Master Chi Yan held Bai Ling and sighed, "It's the master's fault for not choosing a good time to let you go out. Fortunately, nothing major happened, and it's good that you returned safely!"

Bai Ling talked about the situation outside, and then said to her master and senior brothers, "I feel that I've been having some problems with my transformation recently. It may be due to shedding my horns, and I may need to go into seclusion for a period of time to cultivate. It's so chaotic outside, so I'll stay in our valley. Don't disturb me during this time, otherwise the consequences will be severe."

None of them were from the dragon clan and didn't know the situation. Hearing her nonsense, they surprisingly didn't notice anything amiss.

Bai Ling ostensibly closed her room and went into seclusion, but secretly snuck out to meet Lu Linsheng, who was waiting outside. She had previously agreed with him that after sending the fifth senior brother back and checking the situation of the sect, she would sneak out and they would go to Mount Yuyan together.

Bai Ling still had the whetstone in mind that she couldn't find. She estimated that by the time her master and senior brothers discovered something was wrong and found the letter she left in the room, she would have already brought back the whetstone.

Sneaking out of the sect, Bai Ling looked around at the previous hiding place, but didn't see Lu Linsheng who should have been waiting here. Just as she was about to go look for him, she saw Lu Linsheng hurriedly walking out from behind the woods.

"You're here, I thought you left alone," Bai Ling said.

"I won't leave alone. I said I would follow you and I won't go back on my word," Lu Linsheng said, casually wiping his mouth.

He indeed had no intention of leaving alone, but while waiting, he didn't idle either and went to find his "neighbor" Lord Wu Liu.

When he first met Lord Wu Liu, he couldn't eat him. Later, when he could, he couldn't find his whereabouts. Now that he finally encountered him, he naturally had to cherish the opportunity. As the saying goes, since he was already here, he might as well.

Lord Wu Liu ran too fast. If it weren't for the bunch of subordinates dragging down his speed and exposing his whereabouts, Lu Linsheng might not have been able to catch up with him.

When Lord Wu Liu saw the persistent Lu Linsheng, his expression was truly spectacular. He cursed while trying to use the little demons around him to block Lu Linsheng, and attempted to escape. Unfortunately, he couldn't get away this time and ultimately became Lu Linsheng's food.

He was, after all, a powerful demon. It wasn't easy for Lu Linsheng to eat him, and it took a relatively long time. He even rarely commented on the appearance of the food at that time - "Your tail is black and has patterns, not as good-looking as white scales... and you don't have claws."

Hearing Lu Linsheng's words, Lord Wu Liu struggled to strike Lu Linsheng even on the verge of death.

You damn bastard, you threw me into your mouth and still have the nerve to complain about me?

Lu Linsheng didn't mind if the food didn't look good. In his perception, only Bai Ling was the "best-looking". Both in human and dragon form, she was the best-looking.

Anything that resembled her was good-looking, and anything that didn't resemble her was not good-looking.

After eating this long-distance takeout that was Lord Wu Liu, worried that Bai Ling wouldn't see him when she returned, Lu Linsheng hurriedly left.

He didn't have time to finish eating all those little demons, only choosing a few that looked the most powerful and had the strongest bloody aura to take with him and eat on the way. Before seeing Bai Ling, he had just finished eating the last one.

The action of wiping his mouth was subconscious, considered one of the human behaviors he had learned.

Bai Ling noticed this action and asked him, "Did you just eat something?"

Lu Linsheng nodded, not hiding it from her. "I ate a few demons with a strong bloody aura. I like the rich blood on them."

Generally, the stronger the bloody aura on a demon, the more they have killed. Cases like Lu Linsheng, who ate so many demons but didn't have a particularly strong bloody aura and was often mistaken for a little demon, were extremely rare. Otherwise, those powerful demons in the Demon Abyss wouldn't have called him a monster.

"I see." Bai Ling didn't expect that Lu Linsheng ate that "neighbor" just now. She only thought that those powerful demons dared to run to this area now, and Lu Linsheng eating some of them could be considered as reducing the pressure on the sect.

So she said to Lu Linsheng again, "You're really a good person... a good demon."

Being praised by her, Lu Linsheng was excited and joyful, naturally showing her a flower-like smile. "If you like me this way, I'll always be like this."

He looked so happy that Bai Ling couldn't handle it and lowered her head, scuffing at the grass with her foot. Only then did she turn to look elsewhere. "Okay, let's go to Mount Yuyan."

She remembered something. "Do you know the way? I'm not very good with directions."

Lu Linsheng knew the way. With no eyesores around and only the two of them present, he happily led Bai Ling away.

This time, the two of them took a different route to Mount Yuyan.

Along the way, they passed by a town. Bai Ling went into the town to buy some food. What made her the happiest was that she found chili peppers with a rich spicy flavor in the town. The taste reminded her of her favorite grandma's hot pot in her previous life.

When she left, she almost bought out all the chili peppers in the town, thinking that when she returned, she could cook a hot pot for her master and senior brothers to taste.

She chewed on a chili pepper and the spiciness in her mouth made her want to cry. Seeing Lu Linsheng always looking at her, she casually handed him a few dried chili peppers. "You want to eat it too? Try this flavor, it's my favorite!"

Lu Linsheng cherished everything she gave him. He raised his hand to take them and chewed on one, just as she had.

A moment later, Bai Ling heard a sound of vomiting coming from beside her.

Bai Ling: "???"

Lu Linsheng: "Ugh--"

Bai Ling: "Are you okay? It's just a chili pepper. You can eat demons, how can you vomit from eating a chili pepper?" She was extremely puzzled and could only step forward to pat Lu Linsheng's back, watching him dry heave helplessly.

"Drink some water, here, be careful." Bai Ling casually poured a large pot of water for Lu Linsheng. Looking at his face full of bewilderment, she comforted him, "Alright, alright, I won't let you eat spicy food next time."

"Maybe you're not used to eating spicy food and can't handle eating so much at once. Next time, we'll eat mildly spicy food, and it definitely won't be like this!"