City Lord

The sun was slowly setting on the horizon and in a hotel at the Waterflower City, three people had gathered.

Two of them were young women, while one of them was a young man.

One of the women had white hair and gray eyes, and wore a black dress that clung to her body, accentuating her curves, while the other woman had brown hair tied into a ponytail, and although her figure was almost equally impressive, she exuded a sense of holiness rather than charm.

The young man next to them had short hair and sharp eyebrows and his aura was fluctuating wildly, as if he was a sword ready to unsheathe.

These three people were Chu Wuyao, Xia Qianyue and Chu Xu respectively, who had agreed to take action against the evil cultivator tonight.

If one were to carefully check Chu Wuyao's body at this time, they would realize that her body cultivation had improved once again.

Unconsciously, Chu Wuyao brought up the system panel and took a peek at her information.

[Blood Demon Body: 5th Level(0/160) - Equivalent to the 5th Level of Qi Accumulation]

Seeing this, she nodded her head.

Knowing that there was a high chance that a fight would take place, Chu Wuyao had of course made sufficient preparations beforehand.

She already had almost enough Sin Points to increase her body cultivation, so she just went and found an evil person to enact justice on behalf of god, before improving her strength.

"But why is my cultivation route becoming more and more strange?"

"Shouldn't I, as a delicate, harmless woman use illusions, soul attacks or at the very least use flying swords?"

"Why am I becoming more and more of a tank?", Chu Wuyao couldn't help but wonder.

But when she felt the strength inside her body, she suppressed these weird thoughts.

As long as her strength and combat power improved, becoming a tank was fine!

"Cough, cough... Let's start.", Chu Xu suddenly spoke and attracted the two women's attention.

Under their eyes, he waved his hand and took a silver piece of paper out of his space ring, holding it in his hand.

The silver paper had a strange symbol composed out of many tiny runes painted on its center, that glowed with a soft blue light.

Chu Wuyao observed the silver paper with some curiosity.

She knew that this was the so-called Tracking Talisman that Chu Xu had talked about before.

Chu Wuyao had heard of the existence of talismans before and although they were very rare in the evil forces, they were fairly common in the righteous forces.

Why was it that the disciples of the evil forces could practice evil techniques and rapidly improve their strength, yet the evil and righteous forces were roughly equal in strength?

This was because the righteous forces were way more proficient at things like refining pills, building magic weapons, making talismans, etc..

Essentially, a talisman was an one-use magic weapon that was personally created by powerful cultivators.

As Chu Xu held the Tracking Talisman in his right hand, he took out the corpse of the young man and used his Qi to urge the talisman.

In an instant, a blue light floated out of the talisman and fell on the corpse, before the corpse disintegrated, turning into a creepy black mist.

In an instant, the black mist seemed to have received an order and flew towards the talisman, drilling into the silver piece of paper.

A few seconds passed and soon, under the three people's eyes, the talisman finally shattered.

In its place, a blue arrow was floating in the air, pointing north.

"Follow me.", Chu Xu said and jumped out of the window with the blue arrow flying in front of him.

After Chu Wuyao and Xia Qianyue glanced at each other, they nodded and followed him.

Before long, the trio was running in the dark, empty streets of the Waterflower City.

Chu Xu was standing on top of a silver sword and controlled it with his thoughts to fly a few centimeters above the ground, while golden feathers had appeared on Xia Qianyue's back, increasing her speed.

Only Chu Wuyao had no special effects and just stepped on the ground calmly, using just the strength of her body.

Despite this, her figure was flashing in the streets and she looked strangely graceful.

Their speed was very fast and soon, Chu Xu at the front jumped off the sword and behind him, Chu Wuyao and Xia Qianyue also stopped running.

Staring at the blue arrow floating in the air, Chu Wuyao noticed that it was currently pointing towards a large mansion right in front.

There was a tall wooden fence surrounding the mansion and on each side of its entrance, a human stone statue was standing proudly.

In this ancient era of low productivity, such a mansion was akin to a palace.

"This should be the City Lord's mansion.", Xia Qianyue's gaze landed on the mansion and she spoke.

"Sure enough, the City Lord is either an accomplice of the evil cultivator or is simply the evil cultivator himself."

"The Original Desire Sect actually appointed an evil cultivator as the City Lord!"

"I've always said that we should wipe these evil sects out.", Chu Xu said angrily and gnashed his teeth.

As this area was controlled by the Original Desire Sect, the City Lord of the Waterflower City was also appointed by the Original Desire Sect.

The City Lord's duty is to protect the people under them, ensuring that the Original Desire Sect has a steady supply of disciples and mortals.

But now, the City Lord of the Waterflower City had obviously gone astray!

"Hmph! I've always disliked the Original Desire Sect and said that they are as bad, if not worse than the Blood God Palace."

"The disciples of this sect are truly abominable!", Chu Wuyao snorted and echoed Chu Xu's words.

Hearing this, Chu Xu nodded heavily and the more he looked at Chu Wuyao, the more he appreciated her.

After the three of them cursed the Original Desire Sect for a few minutes, they moved silently and jumped into the mansion.

Surprisingly, all the lights were turned off and no maid or servant could be seen anywhere inside the mansion.

Moreover, there was a complete silence, as if the mansion had been completely abandoned.

When the three of them saw this, they became even more certain that this was the evil cultivator's hiding place.

Stepping lightly on the ground, they cautiously opened a window and jumped inside.

****

While Chu Wuyao and her companions had just stepped into the mansion, in a large underground room under the mansion, a pool filled with red, sticky liquid existed.

The pool exuded a metallic smell and it was obviously filled with blood.

Next to the red pool, a middle aged man was standing silently.

If any person living in the city saw him, they would immediately recognize him as the City Lord of the Waterflower City, Lin Zhengyu.

But at this, Li Zhengyu's appearance had completely changed.

Before, he was just an ordinary, kind, middle aged man, but now, he had turned into a creature more than 2.5 meters tall, with fat everywhere on its body as if he was a humanoid pig.

Just by looking at him, one could easily know that he weighted more than 500 kilograms.

His flesh trembled with the slightest movement and with each step, he left behind a huge, deep footprint.

Despite this change, Li Zhengyu was excited as he looked at the item in his hand.

It was a red wooden stick, with a thin piece of fabric waving on one of its ends.

"Once today is over, I'll surely be able to step into the ranks of powerful cultivators and control my destiny.", Li Zhengyu laughed loudly, causing the fat on his body to tremble violently.

"As long as my plan is successful, I will no longer be scared of the Original Desire Sect."

Recalling the days that he had to beg for food just so that he and his sister could survive, Li Zhengyu became a little sad.

Recalling how his younger sister had being taken away by a male disciple of the Original Desire Sect only to be sent back a few days later as a corpse, his eyes flashed with hatred.

Recalling how he had to become a servant and endure humiliation in order to become the City Lord, he was filled with anger.

Various emotions alternated in Li Zhengyu's eyes, which soon turned back into calmness.

The moment this happened, his aura fluctuated and spread throughout the underground room.

If Chu Wuyao was here, she would immediately realize that this aura was faintly stronger than Li Ruoshi's.

Moreover, a faint phantom of a transparent lock flashed on Li Zhengyu's head, making his aura surge even more.

But soon, both the lock and the aura disappeared, as if it was an illusion.

Expressionless, Li Zhengyu put the red stick aside and walked into the pool of blood.

Soon, his entire body was submerged in blood.

Silence returned to the room and only the eerie red pool remained in this place.