21 South Moon Mountain

"Little Raven" Shen called out and his pet came out.

'Yes, daddy?' A sweet and enthusiastic female voice resounded in Shen's mind, being happy to be summoned by him.

"I destroyed this guy's cultivation so he won't pose any threat to you even if he wakes up, I need you to take him far away from here and then return to me. Do you think you can manage to avoid the detection of profound beasts with this guy as baggage?" Although Little Raven wasn't big enough to carry anyone on her back yet, she was still strong enough to carry anyone with her talons.

'Yes! I want to help daddy with his plan, leave it to me, please!' Little Raven started vigorously flapping her wings while flying all around Shen as a little kid.

"Good, go for it, I need to sneak nearby South Moon Mountain to observe the situation at Xiao outer sect. If it gets too dangerous abandon this fool and return to me alive, do you understand?" Shen asked with a bit more serious expression, he didn't want to lose the pet that he had just recently got.

'Yes, daddy! I won't make any unnecessary risks!' Little Raven replied before flying off with the "baggage". Due to their deep connection thanks to the system, Shen could feel that she was quite touched by his words.

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'Being called daddy still feels weird, I might need to have a small talk about this after she returns, still, she can be considered a baby if we ignore the fact of how quickly she matures.'

Sensing as if it could finally interject, the system decided to tell Shen about his rewards for advancing to the new realm.

[Congratulations for advancing to the new realm!]

[Rewards: + 10.000 Death Coins; + 25% sanity restored; + Death and Life Union]

[At the peak of the True Profound Realm will appear another restriction that will be lifted only upon completing certain conditions.]

'Hm? Are there restrictions in every other realm? Anyway, let's check out the new skill I received!' Shen felt like his mind cleared up upon having his sanity restored to 79% however it didn't change his view on this world or personality. He only felt like a huge load got off his back.

[Death and Life Union (Dual Cultivation art) - By uniting your death energy with the opposite sex's life energy will cause both people to grow stronger. Not to mistake blood essence with life energy, the former consumes one's life lifespan and the latter can be naturally recovered with time. People cultivating Fire and Earth laws possess the strongest Life energy. This Dual Cultivation art may be used only with consent from both sides and the partner must be willing enough to give their life energy to the user.]

'Eeh? A skill using sex? How naughty~! Well, by the description I guess I need to do it with someone that loves me, what a drag. I bet this is also the condition for the next realm, to lose my V card! Naughty, perverted, baka system!' Shen said to the system as he started stealthily moving towards South Moon Mountain.

[...] Even the system had a hard time keeping up with Shen's changes of mood. One time he is joking, trying to make fun of the system and the other he is all serious and gradually transitioning to the joking mood.

When he got close enough to observe from a safe distance, he waited for Xiao's reaction. As he expected, it didn't take more than half an hour and he noticed a large group of people rushing out. One of them slightly resembled Xiao Luocheng and looked extremely pissed off, so much that he didn't bother keeping his profound strength secret and let it out in the open for everyone in the vicinity to feel.

'That must be his father, he took quite a spectacular number of disciples and elders with him. They all must be their elites otherwise they wouldn't be able to keep up with him. He must be thinking that it is a trap but I guess none of them would ever think that anybody would even dare to attack their defenseless sect. Let's be honest, most of them are so stupid that they wouldn't even dare to think somebody would go through all the trouble just to create a decoy.'

[I recommend master to not become too complacent, they must have definitely left a few experts around, and with the master's current strength, he would be hard-pressed to kill expert at the peak of Spirit Profound Realm.]

'Heh, that's why I need to step up my game'

[Death Blossom level 3 + (5.000 Death Energy)

[27.430 Death Energy]

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[Death Blossom level 6 + (11.000 Death Energy)

[6.430 Death Energy]

'How about now?'

[The master's strength in one on one has definitely increased by a lot, in addition, at the 6th level, the master can create two blossoms simultaneously. Killing experts at the peak of Spirit Profound Realm should be now quite possible]

'If I consume another Myriad Faces pellet, will its effect remain even after I die?'

[Yes, a lot of the pellets in the shop for Death Coins are made specifically for the master's use, therefore such situations were taken into consideration.]

'Good'

[17.020 Death Coins]

Shen bought 2 different kinds of pellets, one for the change of his face and the other one for the change of his profound energy, the latter one cost the whole 500 coins and would only last for a few hours which was quite expensive, however, Shen realized its price was quite fair since his identity could be leaked only based on his profound energy.

'They should be halfway to their destination so I should make haste and cause a little uproar. I must be quick before they return, thankfully their territory is quite far away from the city so no one will hear them screaming.' Shen disappeared from his position thanks to his profound movement skill and only left a copy in place which also quickly disappeared after he used it once again.

"Halt! Who are you and wh-" Before the 2 disciples at the front gate could finish their sentences, Shen appeared in between them. He grasped their heads and threw them at the front gate with all his strength he could muster up.

*Bang!* The front gate got destroyed and the 2 unlucky guys had their skulls split open and something started leaking out of their heads on the ground other than crimson blood right in front of the other people who were just minding their business until now.

[+30 Death Energy x2]

'Please stop the notifications for the time being unless it is something important'

The sight of the two caused most of the people to panic and start running away but around ten disciples stepped in front of Shen.

"How dare you attack our Xiao sect, are you that tired of living?!" All of them rushed at Shen, using a bunch of profound skills that shaped their profound energy into claws.

*Boom!* Shen's death energy was violently released once they were close enough and the shockwave caused them to fly away with broken bones but most of them were already dead when the broken ribs pierced their hearts.

"Haha, let's start the party, suckers!" Shen shouted as loudly as he could with an adjusted voice so no one would recognize it.

A massacre started at South Moon Mountain, Shen started killing anyone that had at least the strength of Nascent Profound Realm or got close enough to him. He let the civilians and kids be since he couldn't afford to waste his time on small fries that would give him at most 1 Coin and most likely make him gradually lose his sanity.

"Haha! Is this all the famous Xiao sect can do?! Running around, dying and screaming?!" Shen shouted before he felt an incomming attack from his right.

"You violent beast, die!" As the powerful palm of profound energy got near him, he used Netherworld's Traceless Steps that left the copy behind that took the attack head-on and flew several meters away into the ruins of one building.

"Make sure he is finis-" As the person who attacked Shen wanted to order the other disciples, a large hole appeared in a place where his heart is supposed to be, unfortunately for him, he couldn't see anything there. In a few seconds, his body fell to the ground.

The other disciples witnessing this took one step back, however, 3 older-looking men looked at each other before nodding their heads simultaneously.

"That's it, all of you come at me at once, rats!" Shen coldly smiled and gestured with his hand for them to come.

'I suppose I have around half an hour before I should slowly start getting out of here but if this is their strongest members here, I could be finished with them in several minutes, leaving me enough time to take care of the other disciples. the strongest is at the 10th layer of the Spirit Profound Realm, the other 2 are at the 8th layer, this is not going to be easy but...it's fun!' Shen thought with a crazed smile, showing off his sharp canines.

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