Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

"What's going on over by Cang Mountain?" Zhang Ze asked.

Lin Feng was rubbing the little belly of his cat, his expression serious, "There's a dragon over by Cang Mountain."

"A dragon? I have one at home too, what's the big deal?" Zhang Ze didn't quite catch on.

"A real dragon, the long kind," Lin Feng replied.

"Who told you that?" Zhang Ze inquired.

"I saw it with my own eyes." Lin Feng rhythmically pressed the cat's paw.

"Tell me about it." Zhang Ze poured Lin Feng a cup of tea.

After leaving Wangyang City, Lin Feng, a Hundred Demons Sect undercover agent, and Qiu Jidan, a traitor to the Hundred Demons Sect, didn't head straight back to Cyan Thorn, but rather took a long detour and enacted a series of Infernal Affairs.

There were all sorts of probing and counter-probing, reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance. Lin Feng wasn't sure if Qiu Jidan was tired, but he surely was exhausted.

Because all along the way, Qiu Jidan had been trying to quietly eliminate Lin Feng.

Yet he hadn't succeeded even once.

Some schemes were uncovered by Lin Feng in advance, while others failed due to various coincidences.

However, despite the mental exhaustion, Lin Feng did gain several advantages.

At Cang Mountain, Qiu Jidan had once planned a plot involving a borrowed knife.

He contacted a local Hundred Demons Sect base where a Golden Core was stationed, intending to watch the tigers fight from a distance. Accuse Lin Feng of being a Righteous Path spy, and after eliminating him, report the base to the Beast Taming Sect.

However, due to various coincidences, his perfect plan turned into Lin Feng and him making seven entrances and exits, killing everyone within that base.

Including the Golden Core demon cultivator, who was counter-killed by Lin Feng with a single sword.

After Lin Feng, the undercover agent, and Qiu Jidan, the traitor, calmed down and confirmed there were no living people left in the base, they realized the situation was somewhat awkward.

Eventually, the two reached a consensus and confirmed through thorough investigation that the head of the base was indeed the major traitor to the Hundred Demons Sect.

Lin Feng reported to Song Qingpao, asking him to inform the Hundred Demons Sect Elder Five Rams about conducting a thorough investigation into the disloyalty of the Cang Mountain branch.

Similar incidents occurred multiple times.

These two headed south, along the way dismantled two Hundred Demons Sect bases, eliminated one Golden Core demon path loose cultivator who had emerged from seclusion, slayed a male and female demon tiger, and discovered three secret realms.

Lastly, they helped dig a well for a village and even repaired houses for the locals.

In essence, Lin Feng's journey to the Northern Territory, lacking strange occurrences in the first half, was filled with odd adventures on the way back, thanks to Qiu Jidan.

After dropping Qiu Jidan off to study at Sword Hall, Lin Feng ventured alone to Cang Mountain, intent on exploring a secret realm by himself.

Upon leaving one of the secret realms, he witnessed a dragon at Dragon Viewing Mountain, north of Cang Mountain.

"I was standing on the mountaintop, seeing a dragon's shadow flash through the forest of Lin Hai west of Dragon Watching Mountain."

"Later, I went to a nearby town and asked around; the locals claimed to have seen it too."

"They also sold me a bunch of stuff."

Lin Feng carefully placed his cat on the ground and took out a pile of items from the storage ring.

Supposedly dragon scales that were suspicious, mountain spring water allegedly blessed by the dragon, dragon-shaped trinkets blessed by the local Divine Dragon Shaman...

Zhang Ze listened to the story, which seemed as far-fetched as that of the Loch Ness Monster, wanting to remark that Brother Feng might have been tricked or mistaken.

Yet seeing Lin Feng's serious demeanor, he found it hard to voice his thoughts.

After leaving the pile of souvenirs behind, Lin Feng left with his cat, and Zhang Ze took out a small walnut, pondered for a moment, and contacted Li Yueqi.

After the successful development of the small walnut, he also sent several units to the Li Yueqi siblings, two of which had Zhang Ze's contact information.

After waiting for quite a while, Li Yueqi's voice finally came through.

"What's up?" Li Yueqi sounded somewhat impatient.

"Do you have dragons over there?" Zhang Ze directly asked.

"What kind of dragons?"

"The long kind, the ones that fly in the sky, near Dragon Watching Mountain."

"Fake, it's just a legend originating from Dongqi. When my brother heard about it as a child, he wanted to go to Dragon Watching Mountain to catch a True Dragon. He cried and fussed for days until my father took him to search every corner of Dragon Watching Mountain and found nothing."

"Do you have anything else?" Li Yueqi paused, then asked.

"No, that's all."

"Alright, if you have anything further, ask Li Jue, I'm busy here."

Before Zhang Ze could respond, the connection was ended.

...

In a dense forest far from Cang Mountain.

Li Yueqi was sitting on the corpse of a giant ape beast, its fur pitch black, with horns like a bull. From the looks of it, the giant ape had been bludgeoned to death by Miss Li Yueqi herself.

After ending the call, Li Yueqi carefully put away the small walnut, then continued to tend to her own wounds.

Her two spirit beasts sustained some injuries as well, although none were serious; Hei Qu held a sword in its mouth, crouching by Li Yueqi's side, vigilantly watching the surroundings.

Qinghe was busy scouting the area.

Lately, Li Yueqi had been feeling particularly irritable, though uncertain of the cause.

She wanted to spar with her brother for fun but couldn't find an excuse, reluctantly taking a few missions to pass the time.

After killing this bull-horned ape, she still had to deal with a demon tiger with bone armor and a knife-like tail engulfed in ghostly flames, and a cyan demon wolf charged with electricity.

The prolonged hunting was indeed tiring but undeniably a good way to relieve stress.

...

In Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, Zhang Ze got in touch with Li Jue, but he seemed busy as well.

Zhang Ze recounted Lin Feng's sighting of dragons at Dragon Viewing Mountain, and shared Li Yueqi's disclosure.