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

"hehe!"

"You great demon, you've miscalculated this time!"

Cao Meng sneered inwardly, then quickly resumed his pretentious meditation, now just waiting for the female demon to come and check on him!
As Xia Yulan was getting ready, Consort Duanmu arrived.

Xia Yulan was not too surprised by Duanmu Fei's arrival, as it was all within her expectations.

Besides, wasn't everything she did just to wait for Consort Duanmu to come over?
If Consort Duanmu doesn't come, wouldn't all my preparations have been for nothing?

However, the two nieces and aunts, Zi Xixue and Zi Rou'er, who were following behind Consort Duanmu were not part of Xia Yulan's calculations.

"Senior Sister Duanmu, you're back?"

While making her plans, Xia Yulan greeted Duanmu Fei warmly.

As for being afraid of Consort Duanmu, that's simply not true!
"Yo yo, isn't this Sect Master Zi Xixue of the Beast Soul Sect?"

Xia Yulan greeted Zi Xixue warmly, feeling that her arrival was a good thing.

After all, things would get interesting once the scandal between Consort Duanmu and Zi Xixue was exposed!

"Greetings, Sister Yulan!"

Zi Xixue responded to Xia Yulan very warmly. Xia Yulan was Duanmu Fei's junior sister by seniority, and in a sense, she was also Zi Xixue's junior sister.

However, Zi Xixue thought Xia Yulan was really good-looking and had a great figure, comparable to her own concubine, and was her type.

Zi Xixue quickly banished the evil thoughts from her mind. After all, she was loyal to her concubine and could not be fickle!
Xia Yulan felt displeased and disgusted when she noticed Zi Xixue's greedy gaze.

Xia Yulan recognized that look all too well; it was the same expression she had when she was lusting after Cao Meng's body.

Although Zi Xixue was exceptionally beautiful, Xia Yulan was a normal woman, not Consort Duanmu, and had no interest in such things.

"Sect Master Zi, I've made some progress in my cultivation recently. How about we have a spar?"

Thinking of the look in Zi Xixue's eyes earlier, Xia Yulan decided to teach the other woman a lesson to prevent her from making any moves on her.

Moreover, given the relationship between Zi Xixue and Duanmu Fei, if I were to deal with Zi Xixue myself, Duanmu Fei would probably feel bad too, right?

"Very good!"

Zi Xixue nodded in agreement. When Xia Yulan sparred later, they would inevitably come into contact, which would be a good opportunity to test their skills!
Of course, Zi Xixue wasn't entirely motivated by a desire to take advantage. She had heard from Duanmu Fei that Xia Yulan was being unruly in the Hehuan Sect, trying to cause trouble and having ideas to seize power!
Now that the other party has taken the initiative to spar, she can use this opportunity to help Duanmu Fei suppress the other party.

"Xue'er, don't fight with Xia Yulan!"

Duanmu Fei knew all too well what Xia Yulan was planning, so she quickly advised and stopped Zi Xixue.

"Fei'er, I will go easy on you and won't hurt Yulan!"

Zi Xixue mistakenly believed that Consort Duanmu was afraid that she would be too ruthless and hurt Xia Yulan.

"Uh~"

Seeing Zi Xixue's excessive confidence, Consort Duanmu was immediately embarrassed and could only helplessly say:

"Xue'er, I'm afraid she'll hurt you!"

Duanmu Fei felt that even if Xia Yulan gave Zi Xixue one hand, Zi Xixue still couldn't beat her, let alone injure her.

Once Zi Xixue and Xia Yulan make a move, there will only be one outcome: she will be pinned to the ground and beaten by Xia Yulan!
"Fei'er, I have completely refined the Blue Silver Emperor's primordial spirit and have advanced to the sixth level of the Nascent Soul stage. She can't hurt me!"

Zi Xixue was unconvinced. How could she, with her cultivation at the sixth level of the Nascent Soul stage, be injured by Xia Yulan, a mere hall master of the Hehuan Sect?

"She is at the seventh level of the Nascent Soul stage, and her Life-Severing Force is virtually invincible among those of the same realm!"

Upon first meeting Xia Yulan, Duanmu Fei could tell that she had already advanced to the seventh level of the Nascent Soul stage.

It's obvious that Xia Yulan broke through her cultivation level by spending her days fooling around with Cao Meng after returning early!
Xia Yulan is at the seventh level of the Nascent Soul stage!!!

Zi Xixue was stunned. A hall master of the Hehuan Sect was actually at the seventh level of the Nascent Soul Realm, which was a level higher than her, the sect master of the Beast Soul Sect. Could it be any more absurd?

After thinking about it carefully, Zi Xixue suddenly realized that Xia Yulan and Cao Meng were Daoist partners.

Cao Meng possesses the Furnace Cauldron Saint Body, and the Hehuan Sect is a sect that primarily absorbs yang energy to replenish yin. If Xia Yulan absorbed the primordial yang energy from Cao Meng's Furnace Cauldron Saint Body, it's perfectly normal for her cultivation level to be high!
"Yulan, let's spar again sometime!"

After thinking it through, Zi Xixue quickly declined the sparring match with Xia Yulan. She didn't want to be beaten to the ground and lose face in front of Duanmu Fei and her niece Zi Rou'er!
"Ugh!"

Xia Yulan sighed helplessly when she realized she couldn't beat anyone up.

"You traitor, stop pretending!"

Consort Duanmu looked at Cao Meng, who was meditating on the bed, and sneered.

She didn't believe Cao Meng was seriously cultivating at all. This traitor had been in the Hehuan Sect for so long, and she had never seen him seriously cultivate more than a few times.

I just happened to be back today, and this rebellious disciple was diligently cultivating. What a coincidence!

Moreover, if Cao Meng were seriously cultivating himself, would Xia Yulan be here washing and grooming?
"Fei'er, it seems that Cao Meng is really cultivating!"

Zi Xixue quickly stepped in to smooth things over, but while she was doing so, Cao Meng had already silently summoned the system, opened the pay-to-win page, and started paying for upgrades on the attribute panel.

"Ding! Five million low-grade spirit stones deducted, cultivation level increased to the ninth level of Nascent Soul!"

"Friendly reminder: You currently have 214 million low-grade spirit stones in your account!"

The spirit stones in the storage ring are deducted, and the cultivation points are instantly credited!
Cao Meng's aura surged, and everyone present noticed that Cao Meng had broken through to a higher realm.

"He's broken through another realm!"

Xia Yulan was somewhat surprised, because Cao Meng had already broken through three minor realms not long ago, and now he had actually broken through another minor realm. It was really strange!
"Fei'er, our disciple has actually reached the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage!!!"

Zi Xixue became excited upon realizing that Cao Meng had reached the ninth level of the Nascent Soul realm.

Cao Meng reached the ninth level of the Nascent Soul realm before he was even twenty. Zi Xixue estimated that he was probably the youngest person in the known history of the Eastern Region Dao Continent to reach the ninth level of the Nascent Soul realm!

Who would have thought that such a young person at the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage would actually be her and Consort Duanmu's disciple!
"This rebellious disciple is my disciple, not yours!"

Duanmu Fei ruthlessly corrected Zi Xixue, saying that she knew very well that she had hardly taught Cao Meng any cultivation techniques.

It seems that his master simply threw a few cultivation manuals and some spiritual artifacts at the other party, and then adopted a hands-off approach.

If I had to say what my greatest contribution as a master is, it would be feeding my disciple with my own body!
After Cao Meng pretended to circulate his spiritual energy for one cycle, he withdrew it, opened his pupils, bowed to the female demon, and said:

"Master, I am unable to come to greet you because I have broken through a cultivation level. Please punish me!"

Cao Meng thought that with his excellent acting skills, he should be able to turn the situation around.
"That's it!"

The female demon, Consort Duanmu, outwardly gestured for Cao Meng to dispense with the formalities, forgiving his failure to greet her, but privately she transmitted her thoughts to him:
"You unfilial disciple, you acted very well. If it weren't for the fact that you have Xia Yulan's aura and Xia Yulan has yours, I would have really believed it!"

"There are outsiders here today, so I won't deal with you yet!"

Consort Duanmu had long since sensed the lewd scent emanating from Cao Meng and Xia Yulan, so she was certain that the two adulterers had been having sex behind her back!
It's one thing for this traitor to be fooling around with Xia Yulan, but he shouldn't have failed to come and greet me, and he certainly shouldn't have tried to deceive me!
"!!!"

Cao Meng regretted it. Even the most meticulous plans can have flaws. He should have taken a bath first, or used a purification technique to cleanse the evidence.

Xia Yulan noticed that Duanmu Fei's gaze was off, and knew that the master and disciple were definitely communicating telepathically in private. So she also sent a telepathic message to Cao Meng:

"You little rascal, even though you have a lot of tricks up your sleeve, it seems you've still been found out!"

"You tricked me, and you're even gloating!"

Seeing that Xia Yulan knew his situation and was even gloating and mocking him, Cao Meng replied irritably via telepathy, "You traitor, where did your senior sister go?"

Consort Duanmu glanced around at An Yingji's residence next door and, seeing that An Yingji was not there, began to inquire.

She was now a little afraid that Cao Meng would go too far in harming An Yingji, to the point that her eldest disciple was pregnant and hiding away, afraid to see her.

An Yingji is indeed pregnant at this moment, but she is nurturing a nascent soul, not an infant!
"Senior Sister is cultivating with Grandmaster in the main hall at the summit; she should still be in the Nascent Soul stage!"

"Yingji is forming her Nascent Soul, that's good news!"

Cao Meng truthfully recounted An Yingji's situation, and Consort Duanmu was overjoyed upon hearing it, as her eldest disciple was finally about to become a Nascent Soul cultivator.

From now on, the lowest cultivation level of any of my disciples, Consort Duanmu, will be at the Nascent Soul stage, which will be enough to infuriate those guys.

"wrong!"

"You traitor, you say Nangong Yan is on the mountaintop, in my palace?"

Soon, Consort Duanmu realized something was wrong; it seemed that her palace had been occupied!

"Ok!"

Although Cao Meng sensed that something seemed amiss, he still nodded to confirm it.

"Didn't I send that old woman back to the forbidden area? Why is she still lingering on Suqin Peak?"

"You unfilial disciple, how have you managed to protect this home? Even my own bedroom has been occupied by outsiders!"

When Consort Duanmu saw that her palace had been occupied, she immediately flew into a rage. She felt that this rebellious disciple was utterly useless and couldn't even protect the house properly!

"Isn't she our grandmaster? Is she considered an outsider?"

"Besides, my grandmaster is at the Void Refinement stage, and I can't beat her!"

Cao Meng felt truly wronged. It seemed to be June now, and it should be snowing!

However, Cao Meng also figured it out. The female demon was probably a traitorous disciple. How could an old traitorous disciple have the nerve to call herself a traitorous disciple!
……

Inside the cultivation chamber at the summit, it was a crucial moment for An Yingji to break through to a higher realm.

Nangong Yan noticed that Duanmu Feizhen was leading people towards the summit, and immediately decided to help An Yingji.

"Yingji, your grandmaster will lend you a helping hand!"

Nangong Yan channeled a stream of pure spiritual energy into An Yingji's body.

She had to help An Yingji advance to the Nascent Soul stage before that traitorous disciple led his men to resist them here, otherwise she would definitely be ridiculed by that traitorous disciple.

An Yingji's golden core has already nurtured a nascent soul, and the nascent soul within the golden core has begun to exert its power to attack the golden core, attempting to shatter this outer shell.

The spiritual power that Nangong Yan injected into An Yingji's body was like giving the nascent soul within the golden core a divine weapon.

"The pill shattered!"

"The baby is born!"

An Yingji's nascent soul struck with intent, shattering the outer shell of her golden core.

At this moment, An Yingji broke through the shackles of the Golden Core stage and became a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

Just as An Yingji advanced to the Nascent Soul stage, Duanmu Fei and the others arrived at the summit.

"Yingji, go with your grandmaster to see those two treacherous villains, one big and one small, who have betrayed their master and ancestors!"

The two treacherous and ungrateful people that Nangong Yan referred to were naturally Duanmu Fei and Cao Meng, the master and disciple. Afterwards, she took An Yingji and left the cultivation room, heading towards the main hall!
Inside the main hall of the peak master...

Nangong Yan, sitting high above, stared down at the crowd below, her gaze lingering on Cao Meng for a long time.

She remembered that not long ago, this treacherous brat who betrayed his master was only at the fifth level of the Nascent Soul stage, and now, in such a short time, he's already at the ninth level!
Even if he was on drugs, it wouldn't be this fast, right?

"That's my spot, get down here!"

Seeing Nangong Yan sitting in the peak master's seat, Consort Duanmu was very displeased and said coldly!
"You unfilial disciple, I am your master!"

Nangong Yan was also very unhappy because that rebellious disciple showed no respect for his teacher.

"Master is Master, but I am now the Peak Master of Suqin Peak, while you have already stepped down. Hurry back to your forbidden area!"

Consort Duanmu showed Nangong Yan no respect whatsoever; the relationship between the two was rather strained!

Nangong Yan was a little intimidated by Consort Duanmu's imposing aura. This rebellious disciple's aura was as if she had come to force the emperor to abdicate!

Nangong Yan thought about it carefully and suddenly realized something was wrong. She had already abdicated long ago, so there was no need for this traitorous disciple to force her to abdicate!
Cao Meng, a bystander, turned to Xia Yulan and asked:
"Uncle-Master Xia, what's going on with my master and my grandmaster?"

Cao Meng always felt that there was something wrong with the relationship between the female demon and Nangong Yan; it didn't seem like the usual relationship between a master and disciple.

Even though he was Cao Meng, the cavalryman, and Miezu, he was still very respectful to the female demon!

"Back when your master and Han Sijing were vying for the position of sect leader, your grandmaster almost caused your master to miss out on the position in order to avoid abstaining from voting!"

"It was because your grandmaster abstained from voting that your master suffered a lot of trouble."

"As for whether anything else happened between your master and your grandmaster, I have no idea!"

After hearing what Xia Yulan said, Cao Meng roughly understood one thing: the female demon had been betrayed by Nangong Yan.

No wonder the relationship between them as master and disciple wasn't very good.

Cao Meng thought this melon was not good to eat, and that eating it might get him beaten up. So, after exchanging a glance with Xia Yulan, he decided to slip away quietly.

"Slip away!"

However, before slipping away, Cao Meng gave his sworn sister a look.

An Yingji wasn't stupid; she knew the situation was chaotic and something was wrong, so she immediately followed Cao Meng and fled.

In an instant, everyone fled the main hall, leaving the main hall to the female demon and her disciple Nangong Yan.

Cao Meng had just left the main hall when he was stopped by Zi Rou'er.

Cao Meng looked at Zi Rou'er and asked with a smile, "Little girl, are you here to return the spirit stones?"

Cao Meng now only has two million low-grade spirit stones left, and he's practically starving.

It just so happens that Zi Rou'er owes him nearly 15 million in debt, and today she has come to him of her own accord. It's time to pay her back and replenish his financial resources!
"You scoundrel Cao, you forced me to write those IOUs. I don't recognize a single word of them. Hand them over right now!"

Zi Rou'er refused to acknowledge the debt of nearly 15 million low-grade spirit stones; she was forced to pay it!

"Little girl, let me remind you of something: you made a vow with your Dao heart!"

Cao Meng saw that Zi Rou'er was trying to renege on her debt, so he gave her a reminder.

"I swore an oath with my Daoist heart, but I didn't specify when I would repay it!"

When Zi Rou'er made the oath, she deliberately kept a secret in mind, just so she could renege on the debt.

Upon hearing this, Cao Meng realized his carelessness, because the repayment date was indeed not specified on the IOU. It really does take caution when writing a loan agreement! (End of Chapter)