Chapter 400 - Shen Qing (2/2)
Xiao Chen no longer looked at these three men, and said to Su Lianyue, “Let’s go. It’s not too far from the Tai Yin Cavity.”
They left the woods and continued to walk westward for dozens of miles. Although it’s almost noon, the Mountain of Myriad Caves was gloomy, the trees covered the sky, and the closer they were to the Tai Yin Cavity, the colder they felt. Su Lianyue could not help but beat several quivering in a row.
Finally, after a while, they saw a distant mountain peak surrounded by clouds and mist, like Chang Yin Cavity. They thought it must be Tai Yin Cavity. They walked to the foot of the mountain, and after they used the token given by Elder Xu to remove the blindfolding fog, they saw long stone stairs leading up. Compared with the Chang Yin Cavity, Tai Yin Cavity looked a lot grander, and there were pruned pine and cypress on both sides of the stairs.
The two walked up to the stairs and walked for a while. They saw someone holding a box up in front of them. Presumably, the other sects also came to send the grudges. When they almost reached the end of the stairs, Xiao Chen saw two centuries-old Corpse Puppets standing on the two sides of the top, and there were four disciples of Tai Yin Cavity next to them, one by one checking the identity of the person who carried Grudge Cauldron.
Xiao Chen frowned and looked at Su Lianyue, who also frowned. Sometimes, it was easy to deceive human beings but hard to deceive the walking dead like Corpse Puppets. Xiao Chen and Su Lianyue all regretted that they shouldn’t have washed away the Corpse Qi on their body last night.
“Why don’t the two of you come up here?” a disciple of Tai Yin Cavity shouted at them.
Xiao Chen and Su Lianyue hesitated no more and went up and handed the box to the two Tai Yin disciples. The two disciples opened and checked the box, and then one of them asked, “What about the token?”
Xiao Chen and Su Lianyue handed their tokens to them hurriedly. After the two disciples checked the tokens, they nodded while saying, “Well, go to the hall and wait there for Senior Brother Shen Qing.”
Xiao Chen and Su Lianyue breathed a sigh of relief, took back the box and their tokens, and were pending to move. Suddenly, the two Corpse Puppets moved, and at the same time, they shot two cold gazes at Xiao Chen and Su Lianyue.
“Wait! Stop!” Seeing the Corpse Puppets reactions, the four disciples responsible for checking the identity of the visitors immediately stopped Xiao Chen and Su Lianyue and looked nervous. Some people who were not far away ahead of them turned back and looked at Xiao Chen and whispered to each other, “What’s going on?”
Xiao Chen’s heart sank, and he had a bad foreboding. At this moment, a man’s clear voice came from the distance saying, “They are my Junior Brothers.”
Xiao Chen looked up and saw a man in black cloth standing in the distance. The man was as tall as him. Xiao Chen learned from Han Yun’s memory that this man was Shen Qing, and at this moment, he had a strange feeling.
“You go to Tai Yin Mansion and wait there for me. I still have something to consult with Elders now.” After saying that, Shen Qing went further away, leaving his back to them. Somehow, Xiao Chen felt it a little familiar.
“Sorry, I didn’t know you are introduced by Senior Brother Shen Qing. Now, please go this way.” A disciple responsible for checking the identity smiled, and the two Corpse Puppets also stood back as if nothing had happened.
Xiao Chen smiled slightly at the four, and walked with Su Lianyue to the inner square. After walking for a while, he saw many palaces, carved beams, and white jade steps. If it’s not for the gloomy atmosphere here, the sect would be as splendid as other Cultivators’ sects.
It took them almost one hour to reach a large palace called Tai Yin Mansion, and along the way, they saw many stone statues and buildings. Corpse Refinery Sect was really a strange sect that it named its palace as a mansion, and its External Sect was forbidden to name any of its buildings as “palace”. Even an Internal Sect disciple would be punished if he mentioned taboo words.
There were already more than a dozen people sitting in the hall. They laughed while chatting, so there was no need to be restrained. They seemed to have been here many times. Xiao Chen and Su Lianyue entered the hall and sat down casually, and someone brought tea and snacks to them in a while.
Although the Corpse Refinery Sect belonged to Devil’s Practice, in fact, as long as one didn’t do anything or say anything wrong, there would be nothing wrong with him. Especially, one shouldn’t say anything wrong or ask anything that shouldn’t be asked. In the words of some Elders, knowing too much was not a good thing. Thus, sometimes, the consequences of saying the wrong things were more serious than doing the wrong things. Therefore, the members of the Sect were spiritless and they spoke little.
About half an hour later, a man in black cloth walked in. Seeing him, the people in the hall immediately stood up and greeted him respectfully, “Senior Brother Shen Qing.”
Shen Qing was handsome, with a sharp outline of his face, and usually did not laugh at all, but basically, no one would see him get angry. He never showed any emotion, so he was highly regarded by several elders of External Sect and was most likely to rise to be a disciple of Internal Sect.
Xiao Chen trembled suddenly, and Shen Qing immediately looked at him and Su Lianyue, and nodded at them while saying, “Junior Brother Han Yun, Junior Brother Han Yu.”
Xiao Chen smiled gently and replied, “Senior Brother Shen Qing.”
Xiao Chen felt familiar with Shen Qing, but he couldn’t tell why he would have such a feeling. Judging by Han Yun’s memory, Shen Qing should be at the peak of the Core Forming Realm, but when Xiao Chen carefully used Divine Sense to check on Shen Qing, his sense was blocked by a mysterious aura from him, so he couldn’t help but shiver just now, and was a little lost.