Chapter 396 - Lady Ambassador in Red

Xiao Chen and Su Lianyue had changed their appearances into Han Yun’s and Han Yu’s, and they walked towards the valley mouth on the east side with the group. When they were about to arrive at the valley, the leader, a Core Forming Realm cultivator, turned his head and looked at Xiao Chen and Su Lianyue and said, “Han Yun, I don’t mean to criticize you two, but can you be smarter in your future work?”

“Yes! Yes! We will do whatever Senior Brother Yan said.” While saying this, Xiao Chen nodded and smiled as Han Yun usually did. Xiao Chen learned from Han Yun’s memory that the Core Forming Realm cultivator in green cloth before him was called Yan Liang, who was a Class C disciple and was in the middle stage of the Core Forming Realm.

There were Internal Sect and External Sect in the Corpse Refinery Sect. The lifeless people Ye Wuxin had brought last night were all disciples of the Internal Sect, while the disciples in front of Xiao Chen now and who looked just like normal people were naturally the disciples of the External Sect.

The disciples of the External Sect were divided into four levels, namely A, B, C, and D. Only when the disciples reached the A level could they be eligible to enter the Internal Sect where they could learn the unique skill of the Corpse Refinery Sect, make their Corpse Puppets, and might be able to transform themselves into Corpse Puppets, and ultimately achieve the goal of immortality.

Yan Liang glanced at Xiao Chen again and said, “It’s good that you know it. In the future, you should be careful to behave yourself. I wouldn’t have cared about you if Senior Brother Shen Qing hadn’t asked me to take care of the two of you when he left. If what happened the last time happens again, nobody could protect you, not even Elder Xu. By then, I’m afraid you will be taken to the Corpse-raising Hall and become corpse slaves there.”

“Yes, yes, Senior Brother Yan, we’ll obey your order…”

The group walked for almost an hour and passed through countless dark marshes and miasma forests, and everyone was talking and laughing along the way, not as lifeless as Internal Sect’s disciples. Yan Liang looked back at Xiao Chen and Su Lianyue from time to time and felt that there was something weird. He thought to himself, “The two of them used to talk the most but why they kept silent today? Were they really scared by what I just said?”

“By the way, Han Yun, I told you to send the Grudge Cauldron to Tai Yin Cavity a few days ago. Did you see Senior Brother Shen Qing?” Yan Liang pushed aside the vines that blocked his way and asked suddenly.

The Corpse Refinery Sect collected the corpses everywhere and extracted the Rancorous Qi from the corpses. The container carrying the Rancorous Qi was called Grudge Cauldron, and those corpses were called Grudge Furnaces. After the Malicious Grudge was extracted, the useless parts of the corpses were called medicine residues. These were the specific terms of the Corpse Refinery Sect, which could be casually spoken outside the sect, but disciples inside the Sect would be punished if they misspoke these words.

Xiao Chen thought for a while, trying hard to recall Han Yun’s memory, but Han Yun seemed not to have done this thing. Xiao Chen thought to himself that if Yan Liang had started to suspect him?

“Senior… Senior Brother Yan, you remembered it wrongly, didn’t you? It’s me who sent the Grudge Cauldron to Tai Yin Cavity last time.” At this moment, a man next to Xiao Chen suddenly spoke.

Xiao Chen looked at the man, who seemed not to unite with Yan Liang to deceive him, and there was no such a thing in Han Yun’s memory. Thus, he grinned and said, “Senior Brother Yan was busy with sect affairs, and it was inevitable for you to remember it wrongly. How about let me go with Han Yu the next time? So I can visit Senior Brother Shen Qing. But for Senior Brother Shen Qing’s help in that year, I’m afraid my brother and I had already died in the mountains.”

“You shouldn’t say ‘afraid’ but ‘certain’, haha!” A person beside Xiao Chen laughed and said. Yan Liang nodded and replied, “That’s fine.”

The disciples went for almost another hour. The mountain road was circuitous and extremely hidden, and somehow, the further he went forward, the more Xiao Chen felt very heavy Rancorous Qi. He didn’t know if he felt so because he was with the Corpse Refinery Sect. In short, Xiao Chen was a little disturbed.

A short while later, they saw a mountain of medium height. The mountainside and the foot of the mountain were surrounded by white mist, so it was hard to find it among these 100,000 mountains. Presumably, the mountain should be the Chang Yin Cavity where Han Yun and Han Yu were.

Where the External Sect of the Corpse Refinery Sect was could only be called as a cavity. Only the places where the seniors of the Internal Sect were could be called as a hall. When the disciples came to the foot of the mountain, Yan Liang opened the mist Barrier, and a scene of a rugged mountain road surrounded by red flowers and trees on both sides came into Xiao Chen’s sight. However, the place was not as lifeless as Xiao Chen had imagined.

After walking for about 30 minutes, Xiao Chen could see some cave houses and buildings faintly. Of course, these buildings could only be seen clearly on the mountain. Looking from the outside, because of the Cloaking Barrier, one could only see a sky covered with clouds.

“Don’t say much more after reaching Elder Xu’s cave house! Am I clear?” Yan Liang reminded other disciples with his eyebrows frowned slightly.

“I see, Senior Brother Yan.” At this time, everyone had stopped smiling and all of them looked serious and didn’t talk any more.

In the Corpse Refinery Sect, disciples should be careful about their behaviors. If they made a mistake, the consequences they had to bear would be much more serious than that of the other three Great Devil Sects, and they would not be let off even if they were expelled from the sect, unlike the disciples of the sects that followed Orthodox Path.

About thirty disciples came to a cave house whose gate was engraved with four vermilion characters of “Chang Yin · Cave House”, and there were some simple decorations on both sides. Chilling air spread from inside the cave.

While the others stood a few meters away, Yan Liang walked to the cave and whispered, “Elder Xu, the furnace collection is finished, are you inside?” From the outsiders’ point of view, this behavior of the Corpse Refinery Sect should be called “collecting corpses”, but if one dared to mention these two words inside the sect, there would be only a dead-end for him. Thus, “collecting corpses” was euphemistically called “furnace collection” inside the sect.

After a while, there was still no voice in the cave, so everyone was a little confused. Suddenly, a woman’s cold voice came out, “Come in.”

Everybody shivered in shock, and Yan Liang’s face instantly became pale while his forehead was immediately covered by cold sweat. Xiao Chen had not expected that there would be a female disciple in the Corpse Refinery Sect because he had not collected much information from Han Yun’s memory.

Nearly thirty disciples walked uneasily into the cave house one after another. It was a lot more spacious inside the cave, like a big hall. Although it was inside the cave, it was bright, only that it’s very cold inside.

The disciples saw a woman who was in her twenties and wore red clothes sit on a large stone chair in a high position of the hall. The woman looked expressionless, her eyes were as sharp as unsheathed ice swords, and she gave other a chilling feeling.

Below her stood an old man respectfully with a white beard and in black cloth. The man bowed his body, folded his hands in front of his belly, and lowered his head. With his forehead covered with cold sweat and face pale, he dared not look up at the woman.

Xiao Chen’s Divine Sense was keen that he immediately felt that the old man was powerful and at the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm. From the memory of Han Yun, Xiao Chen learned that this old man was Elder Xu from the Chang Yin Cavity and could decide everything in Chang Yin Cavity. However, from Han Yun’s memory, Xiao Chen could learn nothing about the woman sitting high in the hall, and the woman was at best in the early stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.

“Why don’t you speak?” the woman asked flatly, and her cold voice seemed to made the hall more chilling.

Elder Xu’s body shook slightly, and he quickly turned his head and glared at the disciples who had just entered in, and said in a low but heavy voice, “Meet our honored Lady Ambassador quickly!”

As if they had had one foot in the grave, the disciples immediately bowed down on one knee and said, “Disciples of Chang Yin Cavity pay respects to Your Honor!” Xiao Chen and Su Lianyue naturally reacted in an instant and followed the suit and fell on their knees.

“You may rise up,” the woman said with her fingers moving lightly.

“Thank you, Your Honor.”

Then the disciples dared to stand up. In the Corpse Refinery Sect, it was absolutely impossible for the External Sect to have female disciples, and even in the Internal Sect, all the female disciples must be in high status. Even Ye Wuxin, the sect leader, should be polite to them, too.

Even Elder Xu didn’t know the reason behind this, and he only knew that if one offended a Lady Ambassador, he would end up a hundred times more miserable than being killed. Therefore, everyone in the sect had to hold their breath in front of those female disciples, let alone dare to flirt with them.

The whole hall was so quiet that everyone felt scared and kept silence. After a while, the woman in red moved her lips and said lightly, “How many Grudge Furnaces have you collected this time?”

As the team leader, Yan Liang looked pale at the moment and did not dare to answer. Elder Xu quickly signaled him to speak. Yan Liang finally forced himself to say in a trembling voice, “Your… Your Honor, this time, we in total collected 732 Grudge Furnaces.”

After he finished speaking, the atmosphere in the hall became more chilling. All the people shivered, and chilling air came from the inner hall. Yan Liang turned paler with fear, and sweats fell down his face like raining. As if his throat had been choked, he thought he might be dead the next moment.

However, he did not die. The woman sitting high in the hall turned her attention to Elder Xu, and asked lightly, “Elder Xu.”

“Ye… Yes!” Elder Xu trembled and hurriedly looked up and responded.

The woman in red finally stood up and looked at him and said, “All these years, you must have felt very comfortable as an elder, right?”

Elder Xu trembled all over and slapped his face fiercely. This clear slap made everyone tremble. The elder quickly explained, “I’m sorry, Your Honor! I will collect enough furnaces next month! I won’t let you down.”

“Hump!” The woman in red brushed her sleeves and said coldly, “You’d better keep your words. I guess you don’t want to be sent to that place.”

Elder Xu trembled all over and couldn’t even say a word. The woman in the red hummed and walked down from her seat. The disciples in the hall quickly gave way to her with their heads down. No one dared to look at her.

When the woman in red passed by Xiao Chen, she suddenly stopped walking. She slowly turned around and looked at Xiao Chen. Xiao Chen was startled and wondered if the woman had found out that he was pretending to be feared even if he had concealed his breath to the extreme.

“What’s your name?” the woman in red suddenly asked, staring closely at him. The others in the hall were startled and felt a little confused, but at this moment, they still didn’t dare to look up or speak out.

Xiao Chen pretended to be frightened, his hands clenched tightly, and without raising his head, he whispered, “Your… Your Honor, my name is Han Yun.”

“Han Yun.” The woman in red nodded, then looked at Elder Xu, and said lightly, “If you can’t do well as an elder, let him be the elder then.”

As soon as this remark was made, Xiao Chen and Elder Xu were all shocked. Xiao Chen said to himself that it was bad and that the woman’s words would push him into the fire pit. He worried that what the woman said would not bring him protection in the Chang Yin Cavity, and instead would make Elder Xu envy him and the elder would certainly do everything to get rid of him!