The Return of the Greatest Sect Leader
Chapter 42 ~ Cursed Demon

In one of the rooms of the Rongrong Inn, Cheng Lei finally regained consciousness after fainting for over 5 hours. The feeling and pressure before him fainted, was clearly recorded in Cheng Lei's mind.

Cheng Lei realized that he had been looking for trouble with the wrong person.

After getting up from the bed, he immediately went to the next room to see the condition of his four students. Did they beat those two brats too badly? Cheng Lei was a bit curious about it.

How shocked Cheng Lei was, when he saw his three disciples battered. The three of them were sitting cross-legged trying to heal themselves. The healing pills they had consumed, so their outer wounds had mostly disappeared.

Only Du Huan looked fine. Because Du Huan immediately fainted from being hit by one attack by Li Yao. Du Huan walked up to his teacher and said hello, he also did not forget to ask about the state of his teacher.

"Teacher, why did you suddenly faint in front of the receptionist?" du Huan asked curiously.

"Teachers are so exhausted and never get to rest" Ceng Lei replied lying. It was impossible for him to tell the truth, it could fall his pride as a teacher in the presence of his students.

"Why do they look like they've been beaten up?" Cheng Lei switched the talk, this time he asked confusedly mixed in worry.

"Is it possible that the three of them were beaten up by those two little children?"

"Is the teacher joking? It was obviously very unlikely," Du Huan replied, also lying. It was impossible for him to say, if he and his friends were defeated by one small child who came from a dilapidated sect.

That's too embarrassing.

"After beating up the two annoying little boys, we met a mysterious swordsman and fought against him. A fierce fight, though, in the end we managed to win against him." Du Huan made up a story.

"Oh, so so." Cheng Lei believed.

They talk lightly, talk between teachers and students who lie to each other to maintain their self-esteem.

"Teacher, exactly how strong is the demon we want to hunt?" du Huan asked seriously, he was a bit anxious that the demon they were about to hunt was weak. The fear of the demon could be finished off by two brats from the Mountain Road Sect.

"As for the Swordsman King," Cheng Lei said, successfully making Du Huan surprised.

"Teacher mean, the demon we hunted is a top-tier Cursed Demon?"

"Yes, that demon even had a chance to become a Hell Demon."

A demon was an advanced stage after a savage beast had evolved. Demon Rankings from lowest to strongest in ranging from : Wild Demon, Risen Demon, Cursed Demon, and Hell Demon.

The Hell Demon had power equal to the Heaven Sovereign. If Li Yao knew about the monster he was after, he would definitely not be willing to take the risk to meet the heavenly being.

"Why did the Abbot order us to face such a powerful demon? Aren't we just gonna die if we face it?" du Huan said in astonishment.

"Just trust the teacher! Master has a way to kill him."

***

Present-day.

Li Yao looked straight ahead. The demonic Qi that hit his skin in an instant instantly disappeared. Without wasting any time, Li Yao moved forward very quickly and lightly like the wind.

It didn't take long, Li Yao could see Tao Yuhan was standing there as if he was waiting for her. The place was quiet and silent, there seemed to be only the two of them. Li Yao immediately approached Tao Yuhan.

"Is the monster gone?" Li Yao asked something for sure.

"It's not gone, but the monster's escaped." Tao Yuhan turned his head then looked at Li Yao.

"Maybe he's afraid of me," Tao Yuhan said flatly, Li Yao then rolled his eyeballs.

There is no way the reason is like that.

"So what now?"

"We have to lure him in," Li Yao said seriously.

"Hm... What's our bait?" Tao Yuhan awaited Li Yao's reply.

Suddenly Li Yao took out a necklace from inside his spatial ring. The blood-red stone was attached as the main attribute on the necklace. The necklace was the necklace of Xiao Chen who had died.

Li Yao removed a blood pomegranate stone the size of a corn seed from the necklace, then gave it to Tao Yuhan. Tao Yuhan accepted it in a confused state, he had no idea what Li Yao was giving it to.

"What's this?"

"Our parents."

"How to use it?"

"Push until it shatters with the power of your finger."

How to use it is quite simple. Tao Yuhan previewed Li Yao's words, he smashed the blood pomegranate stone with his thumb and index finger.

It took a natural level strength to build a foundation, in order to be able to crush such a small blood pomegranate stone. Apparently Tao Yuhan had managed to smash the stone without any meaningful hitch, it seemed like Tao Yuhan was indeed hiding her true strength.

The stone shattered then turned into a viscous liquid. Now the blood pomegranate stone had completely become blood. The smell of blood that is very concentrated suddenly blushed and spread widely, approximately up to 3 kilometers.

As the center of the blood stench was extremely nauseating, Li Yao observed the reaction of Tao Yuhan and his surroundings. Beyond the expectations, the Tao Yuhan's facial water remained flat as usual as if it was not disturbed by the smell.

For a girl of her age, it was a very rare thing.

"Now what?" ask Tao Yuhan.

"We wait for the monster to come at us," Li Yao replied, he could feel the ferocious beasts and small demons starting to arrive.

***

The smell of blood was smelled all the way to the place where Cheng Lei and his students were. They entered the Eastern Forest earlier than Li Yao and Tao Yuhan.

At Du Huan's location, he stopped his search and ran towards the bloody center where Li Yao and Tao Yuhan were waiting. Likewise with teachers and friends who are splitting up.

On the way, Du Huan met a creature surrounded by darkness. The creature had a human-like body shape, it seemed that it was also running towards where Li Yao and Tao Yuhan were.

Du Huan's footsteps stopped, as did the creature. The existence of the creature made Du Huan very uncomfortable. He hurriedly let out a fireworks-shaped flare and used it.

A firework erupted depicting the position of the praying hands, the two hands that were tight and straight met and exploded beautifully in the night sky.

Du Huan's premonition said that the creature before him was extremely dangerous. Du Huan wanted to escape, but he did not. As a warrior he had to fight.

The creature immediately walked over to Du Huan. Not long after, Du Huan deeply regretted his stupidity.