Each disciple is not simple

The moment the woman woke up, she shrank to the end of the bed in fear, curled her body into a ball, and trembled uncontrollably.

"Don't...don't come over here...don't come over here..."

The woman repeated this while crying softly.

Everyone present looked at each other in bewilderment. How could they not know how the woman had been bullied?

Subconsciously, all the men stepped back.

Mingjia glanced at Jun Moyao, and Jun Moyao nodded.

"Little girl, don't be afraid, we are not bad people."

As Jun Moyao spoke and approached, the woman shrank back in fear, obviously repelling the approach of a stranger. Jun Moyao had no choice but to stop and stand still.

"We are disciples of the Tai Shang Sect. You should know the Tai Shang Sect, right?" Jun Moyao took out the disciple token and showed it to the woman, but the woman did not even raise her head.

Jun Moyao said many words of comfort, but the woman did not make any movement other than fear and resistance.

For a moment, everyone was in a stalemate again.

"Stop pretending."

Mingjia's words without any emotion made others look at him sideways.

"Master Mingfeng..." Mo Yan moved his lips, obviously not understanding why Mingjia was so cold and indifferent, and even said that she was pretending...

Unexpectedly, as soon as Mingjia finished speaking, the woman's crying and trembling stopped for a moment.

Mingjia walked to the bedside and looked down at the woman with a rare coldness and impatience on his expression.

"You were able to survive for so long in the cave where the evil cultivators offered sacrifices. Do you think I would believe that you are just a weak woman?"

"I don't have much patience. We came to Jiuli City to investigate what happened here. If you don't cooperate, then you can watch Jiuli City turn into a living hell."

Mingjia's voice became colder and colder, and the threat contained in it was self-evident.

Danqing frowned, obviously not agreeing with Mingjia's approach. He opened his mouth and was about to say something -

"You monks always look so high and mighty!" The woman suddenly raised her head and stared at Mingjia. Her red eyes concealed too much hysteria. "Are mortals just livestock in your eyes? Should mortals be at your mercy in life and death?"

The woman yelled, her whole body filled with sorrow and anger. "Why don't you just stay in your cultivation world? Why are you harming us mortals? Investigate? Cooperate? Ha! In your eyes, should I be grateful to you?"

This question was a wake-up call for everyone.

Dan Qing pursed her lips and turned her head away.

Even the Buddhist disciples sighed and chanted a Buddhist prayer.

Only Mingjia's eyes remained calm, without the slightest emotion. "One thing is very true. In the eyes of cultivators, you mortals are indeed just a drop in the ocean. In the eyes of evil cultivators, you are more like imprisoned poultry..."

Jun Moyao, Mo Yan and Dan Qing couldn't help but look at Mingjia, as if they were meeting Mingjia for the first time.

"…But you are mistaken. Each sect has stationed disciples in every city to prevent you mortals from being killed by the evil cultivators. The evil cultivators are the ones who brought you suffering, and the cultivators are the ones who protected you. What right do you have to question the people who protected you?"

Mingjia sneered, "We can just ignore your life or death. It's just a retreat. The mortal world must have changed a lot. You are complaining about yourself, enjoying the peace brought to you by the monks, and then you blame the monks... It's ridiculous!"

After hearing Mingjia's words, the woman fell silent. Her eyes gradually became clear again and her body stopped shaking.

"...I'm sorry..." The woman knew how unreasonable it was to vent her anger on others.

Seeing this, Mingjia softened his tone a little: "We don't want to embarrass you, we just hope you can tell us what happened here. If you have any questions, you can tell us, and we will do our best to help you."

The woman lowered her head and thought for a moment, then finally spoke: "My name is Lin Yushang, and I was originally an ordinary woman in Jiuli City. A few days ago, a group of mysterious people broke into my home and kidnapped me... I was locked up in that cave, and I was tortured every day..."

Lin Yushang recounted her experiences, her eyes filled with pain and resentment.

"Who are those people? Why did they arrest you?" Jun Moyao asked.

Lin Yuchang shook her head: "I don't know, I've never seen them. They would capture someone every day and bleed them into a blood pool..." As she spoke, her body trembled, with deep fear in her eyes, "...while bleeding, they were chanting spells that I couldn't understand, and there were corpses piled up over there..."

"Didn't they use you for blood sacrifice?" Jun Moyao looked at Lin Yushang puzzledly and asked.

It doesn't make sense that these evil cultivators would capture Lin Yuchang just to humiliate and torture her, and then go to so much trouble to capture other people and drain their blood.

Lin Yushang pulled up her sleeves, only to see that her arms, which should have been flawless white, were covered with cuts of varying sizes, some new, some old, some already scabbed over, and some still bleeding.

She smiled bitterly, "How can I escape? Others can reach heaven with one cut of the knife, but I am the only one who is using a blunt knife to grind meat."

"You were born on a Yin day, Yin month, Yin hour?" Mo Yan said sharply, "The evil cultivators will use this special physique as a guide for the formation, and will directly use their souls as a sacrifice when the formation is completed."

Lin Yuchang's face turned pale again because of Mo Yan's words, and she nodded with difficulty.

"Have you ever seen a tall swordsman?" Mingjia asked.

"Are you talking about Master Tan Sheng?" Lin Yushang took out a token from her undergarment. "He told me to give this token to someone from the Supreme Sect."

Mingjia took it and saw that it was Tan Sheng's disciple token. "What happened that day?"

Lin Yuchang recalled, "That day, many mysterious people came into the cave. They captured several people from the city and wanted to bleed them. The black-robed man in the lead even said enthusiastically, 'It's finally coming.' Just when they were about to catch me out, Master Tan Sheng, who pretended to be held hostage, broke free and started fighting with those mysterious people..."

"…The master is very powerful, but he cannot fully unleash his fists and feet because he is concerned about other innocent people. Seeing that they cannot do anything to him for a while, those mysterious people cut their wrists and dripped blood onto a magic circle. In the blink of an eye, they are like taking a tonic, and they beat the master so hard that he can't resist…"

When talking about this, Lin Yushang was still worried about Tan Sheng.

"...The master found a teleportation array behind me, so he protected the others to enter. Perhaps he sensed something was wrong, so he secretly threw this token to me and told me to give it to the people of the Supreme Sect. In the end, in order to protect the others from being attacked, he was hit hard by the man in black robes, vomited blood all over the floor, and the magic weapon on his body was shattered. Fortunately, at the critical moment, the master also entered the teleportation array. But the strange thing is..."