Xia Dongyi looked ahead of her impatiently. She had chosen that line because it only had two people ahead of her, but the Elder sitting at the counter worked way too slow.
She then stood there and waited. After 15 minutes, her turn finally came, and she stood in front of the Elder who smiled at her.
"Why do you want to visit the Beast Mountain?" The Elder asked with a kind smile. The Elder had white hair and wrinkles all over his face. His back was bent around 35 or 40 degrees, signifying that he was losing to the time.
But Xia Dongyi didn't underestimate this Elder because she wasn't able to sense the Elder's strength at all. She could generally sense someone in the Soul Purification Realm, and she can't sense the Elder's strength at all.
'Like they say....the world is filled with Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons...no one knows who could be strong...' Xia Dongyi thought. In the world of cultivation, you can't tell who was strong and who was weak till you are stronger than them or had the help of a treasure.
Xia Dongyi stood in front of the Elder and smile, which was unnoticed by everyone due to the mask, and spoke calmly, "Elder, I have to visit the Beast Mountain to fight some beasts and gain insights as I am about to reach the next stage."
The Elder nodded, and Xia Dongyi took her token from her Interspatial Ring and passed it to the Elder who placed it on an Inscription Pattern on a thin metal sheet that was fixed on the table. The inscription pattern shone for a moment before the light dimmed down and the Elder passed Xia Dongyi's Disciple token back.
Xia Dongyi took the token and placed it back in her Interspatial Ring and spoke, "I will come out by the evening."
The Elder nodded and wrote it on the book. Xia Dongyi soon left the building while the Elder looked at her retreating back and narrowed his eyes as he stood from his seat and walked towards the door going at the back of the building.
The Disciples that were standing behind Xia Dongyi started to cause a ruckus but become quiet when other Elders present their shot glares at them.
Meanwhile, the old Elder from before walked out of the building from the back door and started walking towards the Core Disciple Residence Area.
The Core Disciples were given their hills as the area of the sect was more than enough to provide hills to more than 10000 core disciples.
After some time, the Elder reached the foot of a hill that had the words written on a wooden board at the center of the entrance gate. 'Blood Lotus Valley'
Even standing at the foot of the hill, the Elder could feel the violent Blood Qi roaming in the area around the Hill. This hill was owned by an eccentric Core Disciple of the sect.
The Elder started walking towards the top while ignoring the guards who were standing there as he had enough authority to do that.
After walking for some time, the Elder appeared in front of a large wooden house with many Blood Lotuses blooming around the house. The Elder started walking inside the house while his head remained lowered. The inside had many female disciples wearing revealing dancing clothes covering a little of their upper body and lower body but there was not a single sign of shame on their face, but a smile.
The Elder kept his head lowered and didn't dare to lift his head to look at those females as though his life depended on him. All of them were weaker than him, but there was always someone stronger than you in the world, and he feared that strong person.
The Elder reached the most inner room in them that had two females wearing the same revealing dancer dress but they didn't even battle him a single eye opened the door of the room.
Inside the room was filled with dim red light. The door of the room closed and the old man looked around the room and saw two women wearing dancer clothes and accessories dancing. Their dance was so elegant and the sound made by the accessories would have made anyone fascinated but the Elder quickly lowered his head. No matter how elegant and addicting the dance was to watch but life mattered more to the Elder.
The Elder walked forward, in front of a bed where a woman laid, with nothing covering her otherworldly body but there was a curtain covering the bed from all the sides, a dim red curtain where you could see only the shadow of the woman.
The Elder kneeled on the ground, his forehead kissing the ground in fear and respect.
"Greetings, Lady Chi. I have come with important information!" The Elder greeted respectfully.
The woman, Lady Chi arched her body a little, with her breasts dangling in the air and spoke in a seductive and alluring tone, "What news do you have for us, Zhi Ren?"
The Elder, Zhi Ren trembled as he heard that voice, he felt his blood boil. His Yang Qi started to act again after who knows how much time but the next moment, his whole body turned cold as the woman shot a glare at him.
"Answer us, Don't make us repeat ourselves!" Lady Chi spoke angrily.
She wasn't able to believe the audacity of the servant in front of her. How dare a common servant that was cultivated by her family had the guts to have thoughts about her!
Zhi Ren quickly banged his head to the ground, "Please forgive the Servant for his audacity!! Please have mercy!!"
Lady Chi nodded as her expression calmed seeing him trying his best to repent and spoke slowly, "If something like this happened again, then We will kill you with our own hands."
Intense blood-lust started pouring on Zhi Ren's body as he quickly nodded his head, "Yes! It will never happen again! The servant is grateful for your magnanimous heart to forgive him!!"
Lady Chi shook her head and the intense blood lust also disappeared like it was never there making Zhi Ren sigh mentally. He felt his life leaving him as he felt that blood lust.
"Tell us the news." Lady Chi demanded.
"Lady Chi, the Inner Sect Disciple, Xia Dongyi had just left for the Beast Mountain, Outer Part. You had ordered to keep an eye on her. She was alone too...." Zhi Ren quickly informed without hiding a single thing.
A smile crept on Lady Chi's face. She licked her lips seductively and clapped her hands, two shadows appeared out of nowhere and kneeled beside Zhi Ren making him tremble in fear as he was never able to detect them.
"You both go and invite Xia Dongyi to us. If she rejects that offer, then you are allowed by us to kidnap her." Lady Chi ordered with a smile on her face.
The two shadows nodded and without uttering a single word, they both vanished.
"You have done a good job for us this time. Here is your Reward." Lady Chi spoke righteously as she threw a small Interspatial bag full of Spirit Stones and some rare herbs. Zhi Ren quickly watched the bag and kneeled on the floor and banged his head.
"The servant is thankful for your magnanimous heart for giving this much to the servant!!" Zhi Ren spoke loudly but Lady Chi already ignored him and focused on the dance show that was going on there in front of her eyes.
Zhi Ren remained kneeling on the ground. He hadn't uttered a single word and did what he was told to.
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Meanwhile, Xia Dongyi appeared outside of the Outer Part, and just as she was about to enter, thoughts appeared in her mind, 'Why was the aura around that Elder was weird...he was greedy, something everyone in this world was but he was also dark... like those who betrayed?... I need to be more careful...'
Xia Dongyi had felt the aura around the Elder she had talked before to be weird, way too weird but she was also not able to put an eye on what she felt.