Chapter 396 - Lady Ambassador in Red (1/2)

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.