The Dark Forest

The night was silent, noises from small bugs were heard. Sui Bian was quietly eating hard rice cakes.

Not long after, the door was gently pushed open, and a woman with a knife came in.

Sui Bian looked at the woman at the door, the dark moon light faded into the room, it was his sister-in-law, a woman as strong and tough as a wrestler.

"It's me, your big brother companion." Qing Tian walked in, closed the door, "Have you figured it out yet?"

"Have you ever killed before?" Sui Bian asked suddenly, and suddenly felt like an idiot again. Qing Tian was not like Bai Lin, but also a military general of Yamma city. She charged and killed many people and made great exploits to Yamma.

Qing Tian nodded, "Have."

"What does it feel like to kill someone?"

Qing Tian stood by the table near the bedside, "I don't feel anything. if it 's the first time to kill someone, it's probably out of fear."

Sui Bian asked, "Are you also afraid now when you kill someone?"

"No." Qing Tian was calm and shook her head, "I killed people earlier than your brother, but your brother suggested me to practice cultivating. Do you know what your brother said when he killed someone for the first time?"

Sui Bian said, "I can not guess what my brother said."

Qing Tian looked at Sui Bian and continued, "He said that cultivation immortals is to avoid death, and death is the greatest horror. Whether it be glory, wealth, or lust, love is a shackle that binds mortals from immortals. If a person obeys the rules established by the old and made by others, he can only be a aver person when following the rules. Only by breaking the rules and following the Tao can one cultivate."

Sui Bian asked, "What are the rules of the Tao?"

"I don't know." Qing Tian continued, "Since you want to cultivate the Dao of Ghosts, you must kill people. Cultivation is like a farm, and farmers also killed people. Those who occupy his fields and ditches will be killed to protect his farm."

"Other people field are fertile but mine is barren, so I will kill them too! Cut off his heirs and occupy the fields of his fertile land!"

Sui Bian remained silent after hearing that.

Qing Tian continued, "Don't be burdened when killing others. If your palace doesn't kill people, how can you enjoy the royal power and wealth that comes with? Even if you don't kill people, as long as your parents enjoy the royal authority, they will continue to kill people. Countless soldiers will be killed in the soldiers. Filled by the lives of the common people outside the royal palace."

"Country to country attacks, kill the occupants of the land and cities to have new land available for use."

"The same is true for cultivation, kill those before they kill you."

"If you don't take what is gave, you will die by someone else weapon."

Sui Bian said, "You are different from my brother."

Qing Tian nodded, "He is more powerful than me, and he also values his youngest brother than me. I came to help you mainly because I did not want this sister to be a widow. He helped you because he thought you had a stronger heart for cultivation. Now it seems that is not the case at all."

"Why do I have the stronger heart for cultivating the Tao?" Sui Bian didn't understand.

Qing Tian explained, "Because you been weak since you were born, and your time is running out. Originally, we thought that before you died, you wanted to change your life, cultivating to go against fate and heaven. If you don't kill people to practice the Ghost Dao, it will be difficult even if a immortal saves you."

"Your brother said that death is fear, it is the most steadfast heart for cultivating."

"In order to be able to live, the heart of Taoism is the cleanest. The way of demonic is faster than righteous, because you are also afraid of death."

"No one is innocent, it just a hypocritical world." Qing Tian put a saber on the ground and kicked it towards Sui Bian, "With this saber in your hand, the killing will last for five days. You can survive the next two days. During this time, can you kill people to get resentment? It will affect whether you will be valued by the ghost sect elders."

Sui Bian held the long saber, feeling restless on one hand, and extremely calm on the other.

"Didn't those bandits also killed others?"

Qing Tian said, "On the first day I was a beggar, on the second day, when more and more bandits entered into the dark forest, the scattered ones would scramble and become more serious. No one knows how many times a family will be robbed. They all took the money and if they couldn't get it, they will die. So they killed him for not having any money, and took his clothes and things away."

"in the end, it will become a competitive dark forest, whoever survives proves their worth."

"You met a female disciple of the Witch sect today, their sect master is a eight hundred year old snake demon. They felt it is too slow collect the yin and yang of the world, and absorb the energy for the star and moon. So they established a sect to feed on people."

"There is not only people from witch sects but also other sects such as Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhist. These righteous sects do not aim to save the common people of this city, but select disciples, or bring disciples to this purgatory for training.":

"Whether it is righteous or demonic, they will not save the mortals here, but will kill each other, using the name of both demonic and righteous to seize property and kill."

Sui Bian said, "I don't want to die either, so you don't need to say more. Which sect is my brother in?"

Qing Tian replied, "There is too seniority rules in the famous sects, he chose a casual cultivation sect, relying on killing people to seize treasures and opportunities to cultivate, and also relying on his relationship with some merchants to study secrets of various sects."

"Remember, whether is woman or a treasure, the rules are the same as the mortal world and among many cultivators! Beauty and power are valued, and they will be robbed! If your brother doesn't give up, then it will be your turn?"

":I have already left a letter to your family, saying I will take you to seek medical treatment. The agreed time is half a year. Once you can't go back when the time comes, maybe your family property will be seized by another."

Sui Bian didn't want to die in the first place, but when he thought of Bai Lin, He held his saber hard and said, "I do not want die!"

"Okay!" Qing Tian said with satisfaction, "Kill that beggar behind you!"

The female beggar tried her best to straighten her chest, looked at Sui Bian, "Do it."

Sui Bian said decisively, " I don't want to kill her, anyway. I also want to cultivate the Ghost Dao. I think she is quite suitable to be my servant in her current state, look, she matches me very well! The Ghost Dao is very good ah!"

Qing Tian turned around and opened the side room door to leave, "It is up to you, your brother and I can't protect the little calif well in this environment, if you meet a big shot and die, that is your fate."

Qing Tian had yet to close the door when she left. Sui Bian saw the moonlight outside, and heard shouts of men outside, as well as miserable voices of women.

Sui Bian thought of his family in this time, and also thought of his wife who should have shared the same bed.

Live! I must life!

"Live!" Sui Bian tried hard to remind himself, "We must live!"

Hearing Sui Bian voice, the female beggar put one hand on his leg, and comforted him, "When you kill someone, I will help you as bait. I will hold his saber in front and you can kill him in the back."

Sui Bian said suspiciously, "Have you ever killed before?"

"I have killed many, I can not remember clearly." The female beggar was very calm

Sui Bian sighed, "It seems that everyone has to kill to survive. Why do cultivators like to kill so much?"

The female beggar replied. "if you kill others, you will have more treasures, if you don't fight, you will be killed by others and your women and children will be suppressed to be used as slaves or food."

Sui Bian looked at the full moon outside, it was beginning to rain. "This world is really not gentle at all, and I am the same, I will kill people starting tomorrow."

"No, you are very gentle, you don't feel like a person from this world." The female beggar also looked at the moon that is very gentle today, the clouds start to gather.