Bloody Massacre

"I wonder how the rest are doing?" Wulin asked himself, his crimson eyes gazing at the false sky above his head as he rested on his spoils of war. Beneath him was a sight most would reserve for the deepest depths of hell itself.

Blood and entrails caked the floor, carcasses of beings once considered mythical in power littered the ground, the scent of death permeated the air, and dust persistently attacked the senses of any and all in the vicinity.

Bodies of all types reside under his body, defeated and destroyed. A young Evileye Tyrant stood as his throne while spirit beasts once famed for their impressive power all only served to strengthen the Lone King of spirit beasts.

Energy seeped from the pile of corpses and entered the Golden Dragon's body, empowering his blood essence. It was a small, negligible amount however more power was never unappreciated. Sadly, however, he had killed all spirit beasts in his area that he could, the rest long since ran away.

His 'territory' was a land of death where not even nature was spared from his wrath however the same could be said for the others. While different in effect they were no less of a hellscape than the area the Golden Dragon King claimed as his own.

"You seem to be having fun." Gu Yuena said softly, her purple eyes focused on the direction of her other half, a pale white mist escaping her lips. While it was hard to tell, Wulin generally seemed more alive when in combat, a trait she assumed he inherited from his predecessor.

The earth surrounding her for over five kilometers had been turned crystalline, a sheen of thin ice covering each and every surface in the surroundings, no tree nor animal was spared for the quick death she forced upon them.

"I should come here more often." Mu Xi said happily, the feeling of her flames growing stronger filling her with joy. She was a blacksmith, her flames were her soul, their improvement was her own improvement.

However, the cost of such improvement was steep. Across the border of ice created by Gu Yuena was a land of infernos, there was not a single thing spared from its all encompassing flames.

Yet the flames didn't spread past their self imposed borders, her flames merely burning each and everything in her domain, a thick plume of smoke rising toward the heavens proving her presence in this strange world.

The last member of their merry band of heaven defying geniuses didn't leave a noticeable trace like his comrades however he instilled just as much fear as they had, perhaps even more so considering the swift deaths of other areas.

Xie Xie moved through the forest like a ghost, no terrain stopping him and no beast noticing even the smallest trace of his presence. He hunted the proud hunters of the forest, treating them as nothing more than prey.

His chase was almost taunting in nature as he allowed his opponents to escape, to feel a small degree of relief before he swooped in, his jade hade cutting their organs in two without even harming their outside body.

When compared to the barbaric and destructive methods of his comrade, Xie Xie seemed almost graceful as he cruelly slaughtered dozens of Spirit Beasts in cold blood, leaving a trace of bodies whose strings had been cut in his wake.

"Looks like big sis Mu Xi is having fun." Xie Xie said quietly, his body fading into existence as though he were a ghost. He was using a technique he learned from joining the Tang Sect, the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.

The movement technique fit his more stealthy and quick fighting style perfectly, to such a degree that he almost considered it to have been tailored to him. However that was impossible, it had a long track record of twenty thousand years at this point after all.

Among the movement technique, he also used the Purple Demon Eye to increase his dynamic vision and Controlling Crane Catching Dragon to subtly manipulate his opponent's body to help him in assassinating the target.

His control of the three skills he received from Zang Xin was near the bottom but he was rapidly improving with his naturally high comprehension and recently improved spiritual power. Even from this short outing, he had improved drastically.

As their teacher always said, conflict was the mother of success. Then again, Xie Xie's heard that quote thrown all over the place so it's hardly something just unique to their cold and callous teacher.

"They seem to be doing well." Wulin thought to himself, rising from his throne of corpses and removing the blood and flesh stuck to his clothing. Virtual as it may be, it did not make it any less irritating to experience.

He had one goal today, one that was unofficially shared amongst their group. They would see who could defeat the guardian of the intermediate area. There was no real reward nor was there a purpose behind such an action, it was merely a fun game to them.

Even this period of conquering was only to adapt themselves to the surroundings enough to fight at full capacity. The realm may be extremely realistic but there were some innate limitations that could not be changed.

The most important of these features was that the body wasn't truly within the server like their mind was. The mind moved differently from the body so it would take a fair bit of time to get used to, at least normally that is.

All of them have enough spiritual power to enter the spiritual sea at will though they rarely do so for lack of reason. Generally, there is very little within one's spiritual sea besides a cultivator's spirit souls so besides checking up on them there is no point.

In Wulin's case, he could see his father and train under him inside his spiritual sea however most did not have the benefit of having a God as their personal trainer. As a result, beyond checking on one's mental health and spirit souls, there was no point.

However, that mattered little at the moment. There was a guardian to hunt.