The Demon Lock Tower and the Demon Suppression Tower are crucial areas of the sect, and ordinary people are not allowed to approach them.

  Each level is guarded by an elder, and the higher the level, the strohe demons imprisohere. However, inner sect disciples use their identity tokens to visit the ordinary levels to observe the demons and broaden their knowledge.

  Thunder rumbled, and the sky poured down rain.

  In front of the Demon Lock Tower, a crowd of cultivators had gathered.

  Everyone dispyed their abilities, and the raindrops, like broken strings of pearls, could not touch them.

  "I heard they're going to imprison a great demon with a true dragon bloodline in the Demon Lock Tower," said a cultivator with thick eyebrows, his face full of excitement.

  "Fellow Daoist, where did you hear suonse's not a great demon, and there's no true dragon bloodlihey're imprisoning a person."

  "Hah, what's so iing about a person?"

  "What if I told you this person is a direct disciple?"

  "A direct disciple? Those people are all of atus. How could one end up in the Demon Lock Tower?"

  "Hmph, it's not just any direct disciple. This person is the st disciple of a peak master."

  "My heavens, what oh did this guy do to deserve such wrath?"

  "Heh, colluding with the Demon Path, if you must know."

  "Colluding with the Demon Path? And instead of having his cultivation abolished and being expelled from the sect, he's being imprisoned in the Demon Lock Tower?"

  "Shh, silehat's the result of someone powerful proteg him..."

  "He's here!"

  A rough voice broke the heated discussion among the crowd.

  Uhe watchful eyes of all, a young man in a green robe, carrying a pale yellow box on his back, walked over with steady steps.

  "Is that Lin Hao? He's quite handsome, no wonder so many women are smitten with him."

  "Smitten? It's just mutual be. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been tricked by a demoness into losing his identity token and ended up being punished here."

  "I heard this guy haen women at night, a sdrel who steals yin to replenish yang. Shouldn't such a shameless sdrel be skinned alive?"

  "Yeah, he's ruihe purity of han a hundred female cultivators!"

  The rumrew more and more eous, but Lin Hao remained silent, simply walking towards the Demon Suppression Tower.

  "Heh, traitor, you betrayed the sed instead of your neck fhter, you e here to receive punishment. Where's your shame?"

  Jiang Mingfei sneered, shouting loudly, "Letting such a sdrel live in the Xuan Yi is a disgrace to us all!"

  "We cultivators endure hardship in our cultivation to sy demons, don't we? Now that a demon is before us, we..."

  Sp!

  A loud sp shattered all the noise.

  Jiang Mingfei clutched his swollen cheek, eyes full of disbelief, blood trig from the er of his mouth.

  "You... you dare hit me?"

  "Attag a fellow disciple without reason, are you looking to add to your crimes?"

  "I'll report this to the Discipline Elder!"

  "Insulting your superiors without reasoing you to death wouldn't be unjust."

  g!

  A sharp sword was drawn.

  Lin Hao's words were sharper than the bde.

  "A mere Qi Refining cultivator offending a Foundatioablishment cultivator, insulting a direct disciple, do you have a death wish?"

  Jiang Mihought the other wouldn't dare harm him in public, but he didn't dare gamble, as his life was at stake. He could only retreat timidly.

  The onlookers were of low cultivation and status, wanting to ugh but afraid of offending both sides, they could only hold back their ughter with all their might.

  Lin Hao's eyes, like chisels, swept over the crowd, and he said calmly, "Who else wants to die?"

  Everyone was filled with dread; they dared not joke about their own lives.

  This ruthless person was truly capable of killing.

  And he was right, a direct disciple could not be insulted. If they dared to act out, and he killed them, no one would stand up for them.

  "Heh, b."

  Lin Hao strode into the Demon Lock Tower, leaving the crowd bewildered.

  "I say, Fire Daoist, you're the mhteous, why didn't you fight him just now?"

  "Damn your aors, didn't you see the murderous i in that demon's eyes? If I dared to step up, I'd be a headless ghost. Would you, you fool, e to pay respects to yrandfather then?"

  "I would, I'd pay respects to yrandfather!"

  The crowd joked with each other, but none dared to step forward to eliminate Lin Hao, the demon, as they valued their lives.

  As Lin Hao ehe Demon Lock Tower, the cold and fierce aura around him dissipated.

  Snap!

  A bck object swiftly flew towards Lin Hao.

  He circuted his spiritual energy, barely catg the object, his palm stinging from the lightning tained within it.

  "Weren't you quite arrogant outside the Demon Lock Tower? B... heh, s!"

  "What? Does someone have to jump out for you to sp them to make it iing?"

  Lin Hao's eyes remained fixed on the darkness, where a vague figure could be seen.

  It wasn't because the darkness obscured his vision, but because the other had used spiritual energy to ceal their presence.

  A Foundatioablishment cultivator, and not just at the initial stage.

  Lin Hao uood, g his fists, he said, "Elder Han, I am here to guard the Demon Lock Tower as ordered."

  A voluptuous beauty swayed out of the darkness, exuding endless charm.

  It was Wang Jingzhan's mother.

  Her eyes, like autumn kes, held plex emotions.

  "Are you disappoihat Zhan'er didn't e?"

  Wang Jingzhan's absence surprised Lin Hao, but he smiled faintly and said, "Wang Daoist's Dao heart seems more stable."

  Han Liyue's beautiful eyes shifted, and she said softly, "If Zhan'er had your temperament, he wouldn't have beeed ier sepetition."

  "Elder Han, you saved me before, thank you..."

  "Heh, o thank me. Mutual support is a rule of the Xuan Yi, but many have fotten it.

  I just hope that while you're puo guard the Demon Lock Tower, you don't cause any trouble!"

  Lin Hao gazed at her mature figure, his heart filled with mixed emotions. In this austere pce, how should he cultivate?

  He found his quarters, and after using a dust-clearing talisman and a water-sing talisman to tidy up, he begaating.

  Before he could plete a cycle of his cultivation teique, he felt a fire burning within him, f him to abandon his cultivation.

  While guarding here, without tact with female cultivators, he couldn't dispel the evil fire within him, seemingly having to cultivation.

  But his physique ecial; even without actively cultivating, the fire spiritual energy within him would accumute to a point where he needed dual cultivation with a woman to resolve it.

  Uo cultivate for now, Lin Hao decided to leave his room and wander around the tower.

  Lin Hao was guarding an ordinary level, and besides the elder in charge of this level, he was the only disciple.

  Puo guard the Demon Lock Tower, he was responsible for maintaining the demon suppression formations and ing the prisoners' cells.

  This punishment was called heart refining.

  Tap, tap, tap!

  Lin Hao carried ing tools, walking through the cold prison.

  Roar!

  The previously quiet prison, like a red-hot iron rod meeting cold water, instantly boiled over!

  Bang, bang, bang!

  The level Lin Hao was responsible for had only a hundred cells, but the formations suppressing the prisoners were set in three yers, surpassing even the Demon Suppression Tower.

  In each star iron cell, the lights were dim, shadows spread from the cells, and roars occasionally echoed, as they held fearsome beasts of unparalleled ferocity.

  Smelling huma, they nearly went mad.

  The beasts smmed their bodies against the cell doors, eyes red and drooling, eager to swallow the slender young man whole.

  "Heh heh, this kid must taste delicious, e let grandpa have a bite," said a bear-headed brute, baring his bloody mouth, spewing foul breath.

  This bear-headed man was a sed-tier demo, his bloodli very pure, but extremely ferocious. He had devoured a vilge and was captured by a direct disciple of Great Bamboo Peak, then suppressed in the Demon Lock Tower.

  "Being grandpa's excrement is a privilege you humans could never dream of."

  "Big darling, don't listen to him, e to me instead, I'll take good care of you."

  A rat un her beady eyes.

  With Lin Hao's arrival, the beasts in the cells roared oer another.

  In this dark and sinful pce, the newer was like a pure white flower, drawing out all the beasts.