NOVEL NEXT Chapter 34 – Demon Lock Tower
The Demon Lock Tower and the Demon Suppression Tower are crucial areas of the sect, and ordinary people are not allowed to approach them.
Each level is guarded by an elder, and the higher the level, the stronger the demons imprisoned there. However, inner sect disciples can use their identity tokens to visit the ordinary levels to observe the demons and broaden their knowledge.
Thunder rumbled, and the sky poured down rain.
In front of the Demon Lock Tower, a crowd of cultivators had gathered.
Everyone displayed their abilities, and the raindrops, like broken strings of pearls, could not touch them.
"I heard they're going to imprison a great demon with a true dragon bloodline in the Demon Lock Tower," said a cultivator with thick eyebrows, his face full of excitement.
"Fellow Daoist, where did you hear such nonsense? It's not a great demon, and there's no true dragon bloodline. They're imprisoning a person."
"Hah, what's so interesting about a person?"
"What if I told you this person is a direct disciple?"
"A direct disciple? Those people are all of noble status. How could one end up in the Demon Lock Tower?"
"Hmph, it's not just any direct disciple. This person is the last disciple of a peak master."
"My heavens, what on earth did this guy do to deserve such wrath?"
"Heh, colluding with the Demon Path, if you must know."
"Colluding with the Demon Path? And instead of having his cultivation abolished and being expelled from the sect, he's being imprisoned in the Demon Lock Tower?"
"Shh, silence! That's the result of someone powerful protecting him..."
"He's here!"
A rough voice broke the heated discussion among the crowd.
Under the watchful eyes of all, a young man in a green robe, carrying a pale yellow box on his back, walked over with steady steps.
"Is that Lin Hao? He's quite handsome, no wonder so many women are smitten with him."
"Smitten? It's just mutual benefit. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been tricked by a demoness into losing his identity token and ended up being punished here."
"I heard this guy can handle ten women at night, a scoundrel who steals yin to replenish yang. Shouldn't such a shameless scoundrel be skinned alive?"
"Yeah, he's ruined the purity of no less than a hundred female cultivators!"
The rumors grew more and more outrageous, but Lin Hao remained silent, simply walking towards the Demon Suppression Tower.
"Heh, traitor, you betrayed the sect and instead of offering your neck for slaughter, you come here to receive punishment. Where's your shame?"
Jiang Mingfei sneered, shouting loudly, "Letting such a scoundrel live in the Xuan Yin Sect is a disgrace to us all!"
"We cultivators endure hardship in our cultivation to slay demons, don't we? Now that a demon is before us, we..."
Slap!
A loud slap shattered all the noise.
Jiang Mingfei clutched his swollen cheek, eyes full of disbelief, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
"You... you dare hit me?"
"Attacking a fellow disciple without reason, are you looking to add to your crimes?"
"I'll report this to the Discipline Elder!"
"Insulting your superiors without reason, beating you to death wouldn't be unjust."
Clang!
A sharp sword was drawn.
Lin Hao's words were sharper than the blade.
"A mere Qi Refining cultivator offending a Foundation Establishment cultivator, insulting a direct disciple, do you have a death wish?"
Jiang Mingfei thought the other wouldn't dare harm him in public, but he didn't dare gamble, as his life was at stake. He could only retreat timidly.
The onlookers were of low cultivation and status, wanting to laugh but afraid of offending both sides, they could only hold back their laughter with all their might.
Lin Hao's eyes, like chisels, swept over the crowd, and he said calmly, "Who else wants to die?"
Everyone was filled with dread; they dared not joke about their own lives.
This ruthless person was truly capable of killing.
And he was right, a direct disciple could not be insulted. If they dared to act out, and he killed them, no one would stand up for them.
"Heh, boring."
Lin Hao strode into the Demon Lock Tower, leaving the crowd bewildered.
"I say, Fire Daoist, you're the most righteous, why didn't you fight him just now?"
"Damn your ancestors, didn't you see the murderous intent in that demon's eyes? If I dared to step up, I'd be a headless ghost. Would you, you fool, come to pay respects to your grandfather then?"
"I would, I'd pay respects to your grandfather!"
The crowd joked with each other, but none dared to step forward to eliminate Lin Hao, the demon, as they valued their lives.
As Lin Hao entered the Demon Lock Tower, the cold and fierce aura around him dissipated.
Snap!
A black object swiftly flew towards Lin Hao.
He circulated his spiritual energy, barely catching the object, his palm stinging from the lightning contained within it.
"Weren't you quite arrogant outside the Demon Lock Tower? Boring... heh, so boring!"
"What? Does someone have to jump out for you to slap them to make it interesting?"
Lin Hao's eyes remained fixed on the darkness, where a vague figure could be seen.
It wasn't because the darkness obscured his vision, but because the other had used spiritual energy to conceal their presence.
A Foundation Establishment cultivator, and not just at the initial stage.
Lin Hao understood, clasping his fists, he said, "Elder Han, I am here to guard the Demon Lock Tower as ordered."
A voluptuous beauty swayed out of the darkness, exuding endless charm.
It was Wang Jingzhan's mother.
Her eyes, like autumn lakes, held complex emotions.
"Are you disappointed that Zhan'er didn't come?"
Wang Jingzhan's absence surprised Lin Hao, but he smiled faintly and said, "Wang Daoist's Dao heart seems more stable."
Han Liyue's beautiful eyes shifted, and she said softly, "If Zhan'er had your temperament, he wouldn't have been defeated in the outer sect competition."
"Elder Han, you saved me before, thank you..."
"Heh, no need to thank me. Mutual support is a rule of the Xuan Yin Sect, but many have forgotten it.
I just hope that while you're punished to guard the Demon Lock Tower, you don't cause any trouble!"
Lin Hao gazed at her mature figure, his heart filled with mixed emotions. In this austere place, how should he cultivate?
He found his quarters, and after using a dust-clearing talisman and a water-cleansing talisman to tidy up, he began meditating.
Before he could complete a cycle of his cultivation technique, he felt a fire burning within him, forcing him to abandon his cultivation.
While guarding here, without contact with female cultivators, he couldn't dispel the evil fire within him, seemingly having to forgo cultivation.
But his physique was special; even without actively cultivating, the fire spiritual energy within him would accumulate to a point where he needed dual cultivation with a woman to resolve it.
Unable to cultivate for now, Lin Hao decided to leave his room and wander around the tower.
Lin Hao was guarding an ordinary level, and besides the elder in charge of this level, he was the only disciple.
Punished to guard the Demon Lock Tower, he was responsible for maintaining the demon suppression formations and cleaning the prisoners' cells.
This punishment was called heart refining.
Tap, tap, tap!
Lin Hao carried cleaning tools, walking through the cold prison.
Roar!
The previously quiet prison, like a red-hot iron rod meeting cold water, instantly boiled over!
Bang, bang, bang!
The level Lin Hao was responsible for had only a hundred cells, but the formations suppressing the prisoners were set in three layers, surpassing even the Demon Suppression Tower.
In each star iron cell, the lights were dim, shadows spread from the cells, and roars occasionally echoed, as they held fearsome beasts of unparalleled ferocity.
Smelling human scent, they nearly went mad.
The beasts slammed their bodies against the cell doors, eyes red and drooling, eager to swallow the slender young man whole.
"Heh heh, this kid must taste delicious, come let grandpa have a bite," said a bear-headed brute, baring his bloody mouth, spewing foul breath.
This bear-headed man was a second-tier demon beast, his bloodline not very pure, but extremely ferocious. He had devoured a village and was captured by a direct disciple of Great Bamboo Peak, then suppressed in the Demon Lock Tower.
"Becoming grandpa's excrement is a privilege you humans could never dream of."
"Big darling, don't listen to him, come to me instead, I'll take good care of you."
A rat woman spun her beady eyes.
With Lin Hao's arrival, the beasts in the cells roared one after another.
In this dark and sinful place, the newcomer was like a pure white flower, drawing out all the beasts.