Having been given a second chance at life, I choose to join the Demonic Sect!

After receiving the message from Consort Duanmu, Nangong Yan was about to angrily scold Consort Duanmu for being such a rebellious disciple, but then she saw that the other party had already interrupted the message transmission through the jade talisman!
"Damn traitor!"

"What sins have I, Nangong Yan, committed that the youngest has defied the Heavenly Order and offended my grandmaster, and the eldest has defied the Heavenly Order and offended my master!"

Nangong Yan was so angry she was about to explode. She regretted taking Duanmu Fei as her rebellious disciple and passing on the position of peak master of Suqin Peak to that rebellious disciple.

If she could do it all over again, she would never have taken in Duanmu Fei as her rebellious disciple.

As for Consort Duanmu asking her to return to the forbidden area to cultivate? That's impossible!
I am the former master of Suqin Peak. Even if my traitorous disciple Duanmu Fei becomes the peak master, Suqin Peak is still my territory.

He planned to wait for Duanmu Fei, that rebellious disciple, to return at Suqin Peak, and then teach her a lesson, making her understand the meaning of respecting one's teacher.

And that little rascal Cao Meng also needs to be taught a lesson!
……

After leaving the main hall, Cao Meng immediately returned to his residence.

When Cao Meng saw that Shi Shi and Hong Qi were still playing the game of asking questions, he went up to Hong Qi, picked her up, and slapped her on the butt.

All you do all day is play!

This pink fox is my mount and pet, so I should focus on training and improving my combat power, instead of being a useless fox here!

“┭┮﹏┭┮Waaah~”

With a burning pain in her buttocks, Hongqi started crying again.

Because of the Soul-Devouring Gu within her body, Hong Qi dared not fight Cao Meng and could only cry and complain.

To think that she, a dignified fox princess, is now controlled by others and subjected to arbitrary humiliation is truly pitiful!

Stop pretending, wipe away your tears!

Cao Meng ruthlessly exposed Hong Qi's acting skills. Ever since this pink-haired fox stopped daring to fight him, she started to put on a pitiful act every time, trying to gain his favor by making him take back the Gu worm!

When Hongqi realized she had been found out, she immediately stopped crying and dropped her pitiful act.

Cao Meng doesn't want to watch it, and she doesn't want to play Princess Hongqi anymore!

That beast is really something. He acted so pitiful, but he wasn't moved at all. He has no compassion whatsoever.

"Shishi, I'll take you out to play!"

Cao Meng felt that Han Sijing was now keeping an eye on him, and he would have to bring a bodyguard whenever he wanted to go out.

Shishi's strength is no weaker than that of a fifth-level Nascent Soul cultivator, making her the best bodyguard. The key point is that Shishi is also obedient!
And so, Cao Meng, carrying Hong Qi in one arm and holding Shi Shi's hand in the other, left Suqin Peak.

He refused to believe that Han Sijing could do anything to him with their combination of one person, one master, and one fox.

In order to ensure that Shishi would be ready to fight, Cao Meng decided that she should go eat first and also check on Gu Qingfeng, the hall master of Xuantian Sect.

Beast Control Hall...

Since being captured, Gu Qingfeng and his group have been imprisoned in the dungeon of the Beast Taming Hall.

After Cao Meng brought Shi Shi and Hong Qi to the dungeon of the Beast Taming Hall, they saw the female cultivators of the Beast Taming Hall torturing the cultivators of the Xuan Tian Sect.

If we're talking about which place in the Hehuan Sect has the most severe punishments, it has to be the dungeon in the Beast Taming Hall.

The Hehuan Sect has so many prisons, but while other places use punishments on people, the Beast Taming Hall uses punishments on demonic beasts in order to tame them!
Monsters are far more physically powerful than humans, so using punishments designed for monsters on humans would have predictable consequences.

If the Beast Taming Hall's punishments weren't the most severe in the Hehuan Sect, Cao Meng wouldn't have handed Gu Qingfeng and the others over to Xu Ru.

Cao Meng looked into the dungeon of the Beast Taming Hall and saw the twenty-odd people who had been captured. Several of them had already been mutilated into human pigs.

There were also some people suspended in mid-air with specially made iron chains piercing their collarbones, flames burning on the chains, and others being soaked in poisonous water or icy pools, subjected to tortures such as being cut into a thousand pieces or being subjected to a pit of scorpions... Cao Meng looked at the people from the Xuantian Sect and saw that the Beast Taming Hall was being treated very well, and his mood immediately improved.

This is how you should treat 'guests'; only in this way can you show the hospitality of the Hehuan Sect!

Cao Meng saw Gu Qingfeng, the head of the Gu family, in a private room in the dungeon.

Gu Qingfeng is a cultivator at the third level of the Nascent Soul stage, so the Beast Taming Hall naturally has to take good care of him.

They used everything on him – hooking his collarbone, burning him with raging fire, scorching him with lightning – because a Nascent Soul cultivator isn't that easy to kill.

At this moment, Xu Ru is leading a group of Nascent Soul elders to invite Gu Qingfeng to a lavish meal. What kind of lavish meal?
Three hundred and sixty-five nails!

The Beast Taming Hall has developed a special type of cold iron nail, which is used to deal with demonic beasts.

Xu Ru had tested this on living people before, and even a cultivator at the half-step Nascent Soul stage could only withstand a dozen or so.

Today she wanted to test Gu Qingfeng, who was at the third level of the Nascent Soul stage, to see if he could withstand a set of 365 cold iron nails.

Gu Qingfeng's body was hooked by chains around his collarbone and tightly bound to the iron stake.

The various instruments of torture had left bloody wounds on his body, some of which had even turned purple and were bleeding black blood!

"Greetings, Imperial Clerk Cao!"

The Nascent Soul female elders responsible for guarding Gu Qingfeng greeted Cao Meng warmly.

Some of them fought alongside Cao Meng, while others were loyal customers of Zhiyang Pearl and bubble tea.

"Thank you for your hard work, elders. This is a new contraption I came up with to seek divine guidance!"

Cao Meng gave each of the Nascent Soul elders a Questioning Immortal Machine, and then let Hong Qi teach them how to use it.

"Cough cough!"

Xu Ru coughed and scolded:
"Cao Meng, how dare you bribe the Beast Taming Hall right in front of me!"

Xu Ru was a little angry because she was being treated differently.

Why do those Nascent Soul elders get gifts while I don't?

If Cao Meng's bodyguard Shi Shi hadn't been there, she would have definitely given Cao Meng a beating.

Xu Ru's words made the Nascent Soul elders suddenly feel that the Immortal Inquiry Machine in their hands was a bit too hot to handle!
Do they want this or not?
If they had to, they might have to bear the wrath of their own leader, Xu Ru. They had followed Xu Ru for many years and knew her methods!

If we don't accept it, we will be letting Cao Meng down and offending him!

What if Cao Meng becomes the peak master of Suqin Peak or even the sect master of Hehuan Sect in the future, and then he makes things difficult for them?
So distressed!
Cao Meng originally only wanted to tease Xu Ru, but now he has to debate with her:
"Uncle Xu, what are you saying? I was just giving the elders some small gifts, and I didn't ask them to do anything. How can this be called bribery?"

For example, if you say I solicited a prostitute, but I didn't pay, does that count as soliciting a prostitute?
The female elders thought Cao Meng's words made sense, and they felt that Xu Ru, the head of the hall, was being a bit unreasonable.

Even if you feel uncomfortable because you are being treated differently, you still have to be reasonable!

"Take it!"

Cao Meng stopped teasing Xu Ru, lest he upset her.

After all, when we used to play cards together, this girl would get really angry if she lost too much.

"Cao Meng, who do you take me for? Do you think I can be bribed and dismissed with this little gadget?"

Although Xu Ru received the divine clues, she still maintained her dignity as the head of the sect! (End of Chapter)