This scholar is a bit cruel

Chapter 292 Treasures of the Underworld, Samadhi Fire Lotus

“Crackle, crackle…”

Luo Zijun, her steps unsteady, returned to the Bai residence through the snow.

That girl is ruthless!

Just as he was about to go back to his room to rest, Bai Bai came over and said, "Brother Zijun, Miss wants you to come over."

Luo Zijun had no choice but to follow her through the small door to Luoxue Residence.

"Humph!"

When Fenfen saw him, she turned her pretty face away and snorted.

Luo Zijun ignored her and went inside. When she reached the door, just as she was about to knock, Miss Bai's voice came from inside: "Come in."

Luo Zijun took off her shoes and went into the room.

An oil lamp was lit inside the room, its dim light illuminating the snow-white figure and half of her exquisitely beautiful profile.

Miss Bai was standing by the window, staring blankly at the snowflakes falling outside.

Luo Zijun stepped forward and asked, "Miss, did Senior Sister say you're feeling unwell?"

Bai Meixue snapped out of her daze, turned to look at him, but didn't say anything. She stared at him for a while before asking, "Did you deliberately let her say that?"

Luo Zijun was taken aback and asked in confusion, "What did Senior Sister say?"

Bai Meixue did not answer, but stared at him quietly for a long time before saying, "It's nothing. Your senior sister said I have a congenital defect, but it's nothing serious."

"Congenital disability?"

Luo Zijun looked confused: "What congenital disability?"

Bai Meixue turned her gaze back to the window and said calmly, "The Yang Soul is incomplete."

Luo Zijun was completely astonished: "Yang Soul?"

Bai Meixue said, "It's probably because of yang energy. She said I was born with a lack of yang energy."

Luo Zijun asked, "Will it have any impact?"

He knew, of course, that both men and women possess yin and yang energies within their bodies; it was just that men had more yang energy and women had more yin energy.

Bai Meixue said, "It won't have any impact."

Luo Zijun felt that it definitely had an impact; a person's body can only be healthy when yin and yang are in balance.

"Is the young lady's frequent nightmares due to insufficient yang energy?"

Bai Meixue paused for a moment, then said, "Perhaps."

Luo Zijun asked, "Did Senior Sister say how to treat it?"

Bai Meixue looked out the window and did not answer.

Seeing that she seemed reluctant to speak, Luo Zijun secretly guessed: The book says that some demons, lacking yang energy during cultivation, transform into beautiful women to seduce human men and absorb their yang energy. Miss Bai is human and has never cultivated those unorthodox methods, so that's definitely not an option. She probably needs a man to actively provide it; as for how to do that…

He suddenly remembered that when he came in, Miss Bai looked at him suspiciously and said, "Did you deliberately make her say that?"

That's it!

Luo Zijun immediately understood why Miss Bai would suspect her.

"Since there's nothing seriously wrong, I'm relieved."

He didn't dare to press further, but offered a few words of comfort, and then said, "Miss, you should go out more often to get some sunshine, interact with people, and breathe in the lively atmosphere of the streets. This will surely replenish your yang energy."

Bai Meixue sighed almost inaudibly and remained silent.

Seeing that it was getting late, Luo Zijun cupped her hands in farewell.

As he left the room, he saw Fenfen peeking out from the hallway. When she saw him come out, she immediately withdrew her head.

Luo Zijun ignored her and prepared to return to Junzi Residence next door.

As soon as they stepped down the corridor, Fenfen immediately exclaimed angrily, "Young Master!"

Luo Zijun turned to look at her and asked, "What?"

Pinky pouted and glared at him angrily: "What...what did you say to her during the day?"

Luo Zijun looked confused: "What did I say during the day? I forgot."

"you……"

Fenfen was furious. She stomped her foot and blushed shyly, saying, "You...you said you'd let me be with Xiaohuan and the others tonight..."

"What should we do together?"

Luo Zijun asked the question knowing the answer already.

Fenfen stared at him, speechless, her face flushed with embarrassment.

Luo Zijun said, "Want to play together? If you want to play with them, just go by yourself, you don't need to tell me. I still have to go back to school, so please keep your voices down when you're playing."

After saying that, he left.

He originally still had that thought, but after returning from Baoan Hall, he completely lost that thought.

After all, my senior sister had already emptied my pockets, leaving me with nothing.

"You...you...liar!"

She stomped her feet in anger.

Luo Zijun returned to her room and thought back on the events of the day. She muttered to herself, "I wonder if what my senior sister said to the young lady is true. However, the young lady's previous incarnation was a snake demon, and demons lack human yang energy, so it's possible."

Ok?
Could it be that Senior Sister was afraid he would come back tonight and help Miss Bai inject yang energy, so she took advantage of his fetish and plundered him clean?

That senior sister is really despicable.

After letting his mind wander for a while, he sat cross-legged on the bed and began to cultivate.

Around midnight, a slight ripple suddenly came from above.

Luo Zijun looked up and saw a green light in her pupils that allowed her to see the ghostly creatures. She immediately saw a familiar white figure standing on the roof.

"Fairy?"

He immediately left his body and flew onto the roof.

A fairy from the Moon Palace, her robes fluttering, stood on the rooftop. Upon seeing him emerge, she remained silent and flew towards the backyard.

Luo Zijun immediately followed.

The Moon Palace Fairy landed at the underground entrance and then said, "Let's go tonight."

Luo Zijun asked curiously, "What kind of herbs does the fairy want to collect?"

"Shh!"

A beam of light appeared, and the entrance opened.

The two soon arrived in the underground world.

The Moon Palace Fairy then said, "The Samadhi Fire Lotus is guarded by many fire demons. You need to lure them away."

Luo Zijun asked, "How strong are those fire demons?"

The Moon Palace Fairy said, "There are strong ones and weak ones. If you can't beat them, just run away."

Luo Zijun asked, "What if we can't outrun them?"

The Moon Palace Fairy snorted and said, "Don't worry, if you can't outrun me, when I return to the mortal realm, I will help you burn your physical body as well, so that you don't become an idiot and live a wretched life in the mortal realm."

Luo Zijun: "..."

This guy seems a bit off tonight.

The two passed through the tunnel and went straight ahead, soon arriving at a black mountain forest shrouded in black mist and with howling winds.

The further you go, the lower the temperature gets.

The temperature in the underworld is already low, and since the soul is yin, it is not afraid of the cold. However, at this moment, Luo Zijun felt a chill.

The temperature here is clearly wrong.

After walking for a while, two dark figures suddenly appeared ahead.

Luo Zijun immediately became alert.

At this moment, he realized that the two dark figures were just like them, their bodies shimmering with a faint glow and radiating the aura of human souls.

"Huh, I didn't expect to meet two fellow Daoists here."

There were two men, one tall and one short, who immediately came over to greet them upon seeing them.

However, all four were enveloped in fluorescent light, making it impossible to see their true faces.

The Moon Palace Fairy stopped in her tracks, but did not speak.

Luo Zijun had no choice but to step forward, cup her hands in greeting, and say hello.

The tall man laughed and said, "Are you two from Daliang? What a coincidence! I thought this place was only inhabited by little ghosts and demons. May I ask where you two are planning to hunt?"

Luo Zijun exchanged a few pleasantries with him and said, "I'm planning to look around, but I don't have a specific location yet."

The Samadhi Fire Lotus that the fairy needs must be a rare medicinal material, so he naturally couldn't tell these two strangers the truth.

"My brothers and I are also planning to travel around, why don't we go together?"

The tall man was warm and friendly.

Luo Zijun thanked her first, then politely declined, saying, "I'm really sorry, but we're used to hunting alone."

The tall man didn't press the matter, exchanged a few more pleasantries, and then bid farewell to the short man before leaving.

Since they had come to the underworld to cultivate, they naturally had many secrets. Neither of them asked any questions, not even their names.

"Fairy, are there many soul cultivators in the Great Liang?"

Luo Zijun asked.

The Moon Palace Fairy continued walking forward, saying, "Not much, not little."

Seeing that she seemed unwilling to speak, Luo Zijun did not ask any further questions.

Not long after.

The Moon Palace Fairy led him into a valley, and then they arrived at a mountain wall.

In a corner of the mountain wall, a cave appeared, large enough for one person to pass through.

The cave was pitch black; even with the vision of a spirit, one could only see within five meters.

The Moon Palace Fairy didn't speak, but led him directly into the cave. After walking through the winding cave for a while, the terrain suddenly dropped sharply downwards.

At this moment, a cold wind blew, and Luo Zijun couldn't help but shiver.

After walking down for a while, the light suddenly brightened, and Luo Zijun looked closely and found that the walls below had turned crimson.

The terrain began to flatten.

The Moon Palace Fairy led him through a low cave entrance, where the space suddenly opened up into a bright and spacious area.

What came into view was a fiery red wall and rocks, and at the corner of the wall, there was even a fiery red liquid flowing like magma.

However, the temperature here was extremely cold. Even the divine soul could not withstand it; the chill felt like tiny poisonous insects vying to burrow into the divine soul.

Luo Zijun was shivering from the cold. Seeing that the Moon Palace Fairy looked perfectly normal, she quickly asked, "Fairy, can't you feel cold?"

The Moon Palace Fairy continued walking forward, saying, "It's not cold."

The fiery red liquid gurgled and meandered forward, turning a corner and flowing into a grotto.

As soon as the two entered the cave, a fiery red monster suddenly pounced on them.

With a casual flick of her wrist, the Moon Palace Fairy cleaved the monster in two, turning it into two pools of fiery red liquid that sizzled on the ground.

"Is this the Fire Demon?"

Luo Zijun clicked her tongue in amazement.

The Moon Palace Fairy led him forward to a deep pool filled with fiery red liquid, bubbling and gurgling. It looked extremely hot, but a chilling aura emanated from it.

As soon as the two approached, monsters began to emerge from the pool.

At that moment, Luo Zijun spotted a solitary, fiery red lotus blooming in the very center of the deep pool, like a work of art sculpted by a ghost or god, both real and illusory.

"Wow!"

Suddenly, countless monsters engulfed in flames flew out of the pool.

At the same time, ferocious-looking monsters with bared fangs and claws flew out from the walls around the cave.

At this moment, Luo Zijun suddenly noticed that the Moon Palace Fairy, who was standing in front of her, had suddenly become transparent and disappeared.

Invisibility?
So, all those hideous monsters swarmed towards him.

Upon seeing this, Luo Zijun turned and ran back the way she came.

The flying monsters were incredibly fast, and in the blink of an eye, they had caught up with him.

"Whoosh-"

Luo Zijun immediately summoned his flying sword, and with a thought, chased after the bird-shaped monster at the front, which was immediately cleaved in two by the flying sword.

The body, like liquid, spilled onto the ground.

Seeing this, Luo Zijun felt a little relieved. Even as she fled, she urged her flying sword to kill the monsters behind her.

At this moment, the fire demon he had slain suddenly transformed into streams of chilling energy and entered his body.

As this energy increased, he found himself no longer afraid of the chilling aura here.

He was overjoyed and immediately activated his flying sword again.

kill!kill!kill!

As he slew more and more monsters, he absorbed more and more energy into his body.

"puff--"

The monster behind them began to spew out chilling flames.

The flying sword began to slow down, and upon closer inspection, Luo Zijun noticed that a thin layer of frost had begun to condense on it.

He was startled and immediately continued to flee out of the cave.

The demons behind him were densely packed and showed no signs of decreasing, but because the passage was narrow, he could use his flying sword to intercept them and kill them wave after wave.

As he continued to kill and flee to the cave entrance, the number of demons behind him had decreased, but they all seemed to be very powerful.

Sometimes, even a series of deadly attacks from a flying sword cannot kill the opponent.

"Whoosh-"

Luo Zijun's figure flashed, and she had already arrived at the cave entrance.

Instead of escaping from the cave entrance, he blocked it, using all his strength to wield his flying sword to kill the demons.

This location is so strategically important that it's virtually impregnable.

But if he were to leave the cave and go to an open area, these monsters could surround him and attack from all sides, leaving him helpless.

"boom!"

Just as he was focusing all his efforts on killing the monster, the wall on his right suddenly burst open, and then a bat-shaped fire demon pounced out like lightning, spitting out a large ball of flames with a "whoosh".

Luo Zijun's attention was focused on what was in front of her. Caught off guard, she was enveloped by the ball of flames and hurriedly rolled backward to clear the way for the cave entrance.

"Crack!"

A bone-chilling cold suddenly swept through his entire soul. Then, he suddenly found himself frozen in place. Looking down, he saw that his body had turned to ice!

The ball of flame transformed into a fiery red ice shield, enveloping him inside.

Fortunately, his connection with the flying sword was not severed.

"cut!"

With a thought, the flying sword swiftly returned and shattered the ice shield with a single strike.

But at that moment, the bat-like monster pounced again, spewing out a second ball of flame with a "whoosh".

Luo Zijun dared not take the attack head-on, and immediately dodged it while simultaneously unleashing her flying sword attack.

The bat monster was extremely fast; as the flying sword passed, it flapped its wings and moved in another direction.

At the same time, the demons that had gathered at the cave entrance all flew out and pounced on him.

"Shh!"

Upon seeing this, Luo Zijun knew that she could not get rid of these demons, so she immediately stretched out her palm and released the Demon Crocodile Spikes.

Countless sharp crocodile claws shot out, instantly shattering the attacking monsters into pieces.

Seeing this, Luo Zijun immediately gained confidence. While urging her flying sword to attack the stronger bat fire demon, she also unleashed her demon crocodile spikes at the other demons.

After about fifteen minutes, the number of monsters began to decrease.

The bat-like monster, having had half its wing severed by the flying sword, was about to flee back to its cave when Luo Zijun, who attacked at lightning speed, punched its head off.

Upon seeing this, the remaining monsters all began to flee.

Luo Zijun immediately pressed her advantage, using her flying sword to intercept the monsters while simultaneously unleashing the Demon Crocodile Spikes to pursue and kill them. In no time, she had wiped out all the demons that had chased her out of the cave.

Only then did he realize that his whole body was ice cold and that his soul was frostbitten.

He quickly sat down on the ground and began to practice his internal energy to rest.

But suddenly, he opened his eyes and looked at a rock on his right.

Two figures, one tall and one short, emerged from behind the rocks.

The tall man clapped his hands and laughed, saying, "Wonderful! Wonderful! I didn't expect that this fellow Daoist not only forged flying swords but also had the skill of attacking multiple targets with spikes. So many demons, yet you killed them all by yourself. I admire you, I admire you!"

Luo Zijun sat on the ground, breathing heavily, and said, "Why have you two fellow Daoists come here as well?"

The tall man smiled and said, "Of course I came with you."

At this point, he no longer tried to hide it.

The shorter man suddenly spoke up, asking, "What about the other one? Did your companion go in looking for some treasure?"

The tall man looked towards the cave entrance and said, "Since so many demons have chased after us, it seems there really is treasure inside. I just wonder what kind of treasure it is."

As he spoke, his gaze returned to the figure sitting in front of him.

Luo Zijun said, "I don't know either."

The tall man chuckled and said, "Fellow Daoist, think it over carefully before you speak. Although you are quite strong, you just fought those demons for so long, your soul power is probably exhausted, right? Besides, you are injured. Why don't the three of us cooperate, go in and take that treasure, and then split it among ourselves?"

Luo Zijun did not speak again.

The short man sneered and said, "You're at your last gasp, yet you still dare to be so tough."

After saying that, the two suddenly attacked together. One threw a punch, and the other spat out a flying sword, which attacked him.

It turned out that the two had long ago made up their minds to take advantage of the moment when his soul power was exhausted and kill him.

First, steal his flying sword, then go in and steal the treasure!

"boom!"

Unexpectedly, at that moment, a loud bang was heard, and the figure who had just been sitting on the ground looking extremely tired suddenly leaped up, neither dodging nor fleeing, and charged directly at them.

The tall man's expression suddenly changed as he threw his punch, realizing that the other man's aura was off.

This person had clearly been fighting those demons for so long before, and I could clearly feel that his aura was already unstable. How come his aura suddenly surged and seemed even stronger and more terrifying than before?

"boom!"

The tall man didn't have time to retract his fist and collided directly with the other man's fist.

Then, a piercing pain suddenly struck!

"Shh!"

The shockwave exploded, and countless sharp spikes of the demonic crocodiles shot towards him, instantly piercing his fist and then his entire soul.

"what--"

The tall man had just let out a scream when his soul was suddenly riddled with holes and shattered.

Then, Luo Zijun's fist followed closely, slamming heavily into his shattered soul, causing it to dissipate and vanish without a trace.

One punch killed the tall man, and the other short man was terrified out of his wits.

Because his flying sword had already been cleaved in two by Luo Zijun's flying sword.

"Fellow Daoist, spare me! It's a misunderstanding, ah—"

With a scream, his body, which was about to escape, was also cut in two by the flying sword and quickly vanished into nothingness.

After confirming that both of them were completely dead, Luo Zijun put away her flying sword, but she was still somewhat unsatisfied.

After all, he had just killed so many demons, and the power he had absorbed was about to explode.

As for the two men's belief that his soul power was completely depleted, they were completely mistaken. They never imagined that the more demons he killed, the more abundant his soul power would become.

"what?"

A brocade pouch lay on the ground not far away, likely belonging to the short man.

Luo Zijun walked over, picked it up, and found that it was actually a storage bag for souls. When she opened it, she found a black porcelain bottle, a piece of wood that looked like charcoal, and a black thing that looked like a demon core.

"Could this be... a demonic core?"

Luo Zijun was overjoyed and quickly put it away, deciding to ask the Moon Palace Fairy later.

Now, the energy within his body is too abundant and restless. Having just absorbed the divine soul power of those two men, the soul power in his soul sea is becoming increasingly volatile.

Without hesitation, he immediately walked behind a rock and sat down, then began to circulate his cultivation technique to quickly refine the energy that had just been absorbed into his body and was not yet fully refined.

After a long time, the energy in my body finally calmed down.

Another half hour passed, and he finally refined all the energy he had just absorbed.

The spirit and soul became even stronger.

Seeing that the Moon Palace Fairy had not yet emerged, he worried that something might have happened to her, so he immediately summoned his flying sword to scout ahead before re-entering the cave.

(End of this chapter)