The No.1 Undercover in the Immortal World-Chapter 446 - 436: Insiders Are Everywhere

The place where Lin Yun and Hu Yuling met was called Autumn Wind Ferry, an important ferry crossing, but it was late now, with neither boats nor people at the port.

Upon hearing that she and others from the Demon Race had arranged to meet here, Lin Yun immediately concealed his aura.

This little maid still seemed to need some discipline.

"Master, there’s no need to panic, we scheduled to meet at dawn, and it’s not time yet."

"Are you teaching me how to do things?"

Lin Yun, however, did not care and grabbed Hu Yuling’s tail, about to whip her, but then he saw her look of mix fear and anticipation and stopped his hand again.

Good old Elder Hu had actually turned into what she was now.

I am guilty.

Lin Yun began to reflect whether he had been too devilish as he lowered his raised hand.

"Alright, don’t be scared. You focus on doing things for me, and I won’t mistreat you. However, you’re not allowed to make decisions on your own."

This time, although Hu Yuling was not punished, she felt immense satisfaction in her heart.

"Master is so gentle..."

Hu Yuling’s gaze towards Lin Yun carried more dependence, yet it was different from her previous dependency.

However, Lin Yun did not notice this subtle change in detail. He thought he needed to act more humanely, so he did not bully Hu Yuling and started thinking about serious matters.

"Your Leader wants to use Zhen Li as a hostage to pressure Yuxuan, which shows that her strength is still inferior to Yuxuan’s. Since she fears Yuxuan, if she loses the hostage, she probably won’t dare to make another move."

"Master, are you suggesting that I should follow the Leader’s instructions, and deliver Zhen Li to the Leader?"

Hu Yuling did not know that Lin Yun and Zhen Li also had a relationship. She reported her mission earlier because this matter was of great significance. The death of two Enlightened Realm experts at the Taiqing Daoist Temple had a huge impact.

It wasn’t hard to deduce that with so many strong individuals gone from the Mountain and Sea Pass, the Grassland would soon take over the Mountain and Sea Pass. Meanwhile, the Central Plains were embroiled in internal strife at this critical juncture. When the winds of war rise again along the frontier, the unity of the Central Plains would be impossible to maintain as before.

This time, Lin Yun was somewhat biased.

He was even considering taking the side of the Grassland, helping the Snow Maiden conquer the realm.

These were all issues for later, as the immediate priority was how to deal with the problem of Zhen Li.

"Your Leader must die."

Lin Yun pushed his nose, calmly stating, "She has already witnessed my prowess, and will surely not spare me. I won’t feel safe anywhere I go in the future. This time, I must use Yuxuan to eliminate her. But Zhen Li is my friend; I have to save her."

Hu Yuling: "..."

Master, you sure have a lot of friends.

But come to think of it, Lin Yun doesn’t seem to have many male friends!

Hu Yuling keenly noticed this element.

"So what should we do?"

Hu Yuling knew that Lin Yun must have a plan, and sure enough, Lin Yun confidently stated, "The hostage is in your hands. You say she’s not lost, then she’s not lost, understand? Complete this task, take out your Leader, and you won’t have to be an undercover agent anymore. As long as you don’t think about returning to the Demon Land and stay with me peacefully, I guarantee your safety."

"Thank you, Master!"

Although Hu Yuling originally wanted to return to the Demon Land, she could no longer go back now, and staying in this world seemed okay too, at least she didn’t have to die!

Moreover, with Lin Yun’s guarantee, she didn’t have to constantly fear being discovered and killed due to her identity.

"Good, we must succeed this time."

Lin Yun thought for a moment, then cut himself once more, giving Hu Yuling a big replenishment of blood.

Feeling that he couldn’t hold on much longer, Lin Yun finally stopped.

Recently, he had been running low on vital energy. When he was crafting the Cloud Rain Sword, he lost a lot of blood, and just last night he had fought with the Snow Maiden all night. Today, there was no rest as he delivered the Cloud Rain Sword to Fang Yu, along with an intimate encounter.

In short, he was suffering from a significant loss of vital energy.

Not even the farm’s donkey could withstand such torment.

However, the growth of the little servant girl did have its benefits.

Hu Yuling licked Lin Yun’s fingers satisfied, and even though his wound had healed, she still sucked on them reluctantly, with such temptation, Lin Yun was struggling to resist now.

After reaching the Heart Guarding Realm, his self-control had weakened a lot.

Perhaps, this was his true nature, always repressed by himself before.

But this can’t go on like this!

Heart Guarding, Heart Guarding. It’s not about simply following one’s heart in doing things, one must still restrain when necessary.

"The hour is almost upon us, I’ll hide first and watch in secret. Be careful."

"Yes."

After Lin Yun concealed himself, about a stick of incense’s time passed before dawn broke, and a lone boat docked at the ferry.

Hu Yuling released the Demonic Qi within her; their meeting required no secret signal, relying solely on recognizing each other by aura.

Feeling Hu Yuling’s Qi, Yuzhu came ashore carrying a sack.

"Take the person and go."

Yuzhu’s voice was void of emotion, giving the impression she had become an emotionless assassin. Lin Yun couldn’t help but remember the first time he saw her, thinking the Daoist nun looked so ethereal, is this what becoming tainted leads to?

"Any pursuers?"

Caution prompted Hu Yuling to open the sack and take a look, seeing a beautiful Daoist nun inside.

Indeed, she knew that anyone Lin Yun considered a friend must be good-looking.

Hu Yuling quietly criticized Lin Yun in her heart, then heard Yuzhu say, "There’s one pursuer. You go, I’ll hold them off for you."

"Hmm."

Hu Yuling did not say much. Lin Yun’s plan was for her to take the hostage and escape, so naturally, she would not stay to fight alongside Yuzhu.

This Yuzhu, Hu Yuling had seen her before, but at that time she had also presented herself as an Elder. Never did she imagine that she was one of her own kind.

It was unknown how many from the Demon Race were still hidden within the major sects, their organization’s power was indeed formidable.

Could they truly win this battle?

Remembering the words Lin Yun said earlier, Hu Yuling’s heart grew a bit more resolute.

No matter what, they must win this battle. After this battle, she would no longer need to lurk in the shadows.

Imagining the beautiful life ahead, Hu Yuling’s mood was quite good. She carried Zhen Li away from the ferry, while Lin Yun had yet to leave.

He felt that Yuzhu’s behavior was not quite right. The pursuers had not arrived yet, so why wasn’t Yuzhu leaving?

Only a few minutes had passed when another Taoist arrived in hot pursuit—it was the last survivor, Yuxiu.

"You’ve come."

Yuzhu stood at the ferry with her sword, looking at Yuxiu indifferently as she spoke.

"Where is the person?"

Yuxiu, noticing no one else was by Yuzhu’s side, angrily demanded.

"I’ve already had someone take them away."

The reply from Yuzhu only made the already furious Yuxiu even more enraged.

"The sect has been good to you. My brothers and I have treated you as our own sister. Why would you do such a thing!"

"I am a demon; you are humans. It’s that simple."

Her cold and merciless words chilled Yuxiu to the core.

Who could have thought that the sister, with whom they had spent over a hundred years together, would turn out to be a demon?

Looking back at the past, they fought shoulder to shoulder at Mountain and Sea Pass, forming arrays against enemies. She never showed any signs of cowardice.

But today, she had poisoned and plotted against her fellow brothers Yuheng and Yuzhen, and heartlessly murdered them. Only then did they realize that Yuzhu had always hidden her cultivation level, and she was not even human to begin with.

Yuzhen had, with his last breath, inflicted an injury on Yuzhu. Yuxiu and Yuzhu had fought to a standstill, but Yuzhu seized Zhen Li and fled. Yuxiu then sent word back to the Taiqing Daoist Temple and immediately gave chase.

The Daoist Sect Master had entrusted his disciples to their care, and they had to be responsible.

As for Mountain and Sea Pass...

There was no longer any time to worry about that now.

If they allowed the Demon Race’s conspiracy to succeed, they might lose far more than just Mountain and Sea Pass.

Yuxiu was a decisive man. He did not utter another word to Yuzhu and directly unleashed the Taiqing Daoist Temple’s most powerful spell, Sword Shattering the Starry Sky.

Yuzhu did not use a spell from the Taiqing Daoist Temple; instead, she drew a blade and forcefully withstood the strike.

Lin Yun, who had been observing from the shadows, had thought it would be an evenly matched fight that would last at least three hundred rounds before it ended.

Who knew that after just one exchange, the blade would shatter, and Yuzhu would revert to her human form with a gaping hole in her body.

"You..."

Yuxiu could hardly believe it. Yuzhu, who had just now been able to fight him to a draw, was now defeated in a single move.

"You are human. I am a demon. Spare me your pity. The demon who came to my aid was Hu Yuling. She went south."

Having said that, Yuzhu simply breathed her last.

Lin Yun, watching from the side, exclaimed in his mind that this was truly the way of a cultivator: decisive, efficient, with no dilly-dallying.

However, Lin Yun at least noticed three details in Yuzhu’s actions.

She was loyal to the Demon Race. She was not heartless. She was coerced.

Such was the sorrow of an insider traitor. She had to do what her leader assigned. Lin Yun blindly guessed that the Leader probably had some leverage over her lineage, and the fact that she transformed into a blade just now already hinted at her fate.

In truth, she was only a blade.

Yuzhu also had feelings for the Taiqing Daoist Temple, but she had ultimately done wrong. In her final moments, she did not think of asking for forgiveness, after all, she had killed two of her own brothers.

In the end, she gave Yuxiu a bit of help.

The key was that she just sold out Hu Yuling.

What happened to covering their retreat?

Yuxiu was in turmoil, looking at Yuzhu’s corpse. He gritted his teeth and pursued in the direction of the south.

He did not have much time to grieve. He had to retrieve Zhen Li!

Determined, he took out a porcelain bottle from his bosom, retrieved the pill inside, and swallowed it whole.

Once reaching the Enlightened Realm, most medicines had little to no effect on them. Only those that could create an effect were extremely expensive spiritual medicines. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Moreover, all medicines have their poison, and this was true even at their level.

Forcibly consuming medicine would provide a short-term boost at the expense of an unknown recovery period afterwards.

But Yuxiu would not regret it.

Shooting off like a streak of starlight, he chased in the direction of Hu Yuling. Since Hu Yuling had already revealed her presence while meeting with Yuzhu, following this trail, he was certain to find her!

After Yuxiu left, Lin Yun, who had been observing secretly, came out.

A demon had just died here and the body was still warm; naturally, he would take advantage of that while he could!