Chapter-35: Devouring Spiritual energy

"Hahahahaha." The only sound that could be heard in this place was a demonic laughter.

All the assassins didn't dare to say anything because they were too scared to interrupt his laugh.

After a while, he slowly stopped his laugh and turned towards the place where his mother and sisters were lying unconscious but he didn't see the blue haired girl with them.

He looked all around him, trying to find her. Then his eyes fell on the lecherous man but he wasn't looking at him.

He looked behind the man and saw that the blue haired girl was leaning against a half-broken tree. Her face was extremely pale and there was blood coming out of her mouth.

Almost half of her clothes were torn and her beautiful pale white skin was exposed to everyone.

The only thing that was visible in her tear filled eyes were despair and anguish.

He felt his heart break when he saw the state the girl was in.

Then he looked at the lecherous man with a cold and ruthless look on his face. He gripped the sword in his hand tightly and stared moving towards him.

When the man saw that cold look in his eyes, he felt all the hair stand on his body. His body quivered when he saw Ashmus slowly advancing towards him.

He shouted st his subordinates with a trembling voice," G-Go and kill him. The one who kills this guy will get a spiritual artifact as a reward."

All the assassins were tempted when they heard his words, but no one dared to go forward because they felt an extremely dangerous feeling when they saw Ashmus with that ruthless expression on his face.

Even though many didn't dare to move forward, there were still some brave or what we call- foolish people amidst them.

Two assassins of the late stage were extremely tempted by the reward of a spiritual artifact and ignored the feeling of danger in their heart and moved forward to confront Ashmus.

They moved to the left and right side of him to attack him from opposite sides.

They simultaneously ran towards him with a fast speed. But Ashmus was still looking at the lecherous man with that same icy-cold eyes.

He didn't even want to look at these two flies bothering him. If it was in the past, he would have already died when two late stage experts attacked him.

But now with the red sword in his hands, he didn't even pay any attention to these fools.

When the two assassins realised that their opponent wasn't even looking at them, they felt angered and attacked him with their 120% strength.

The lecherous man was excited when he saw that their attacks were about to land on defenceless Ashmus.

Just as the attacks were about to land on him, Ashmus swung the sword in his hand in a horizontal motion and both of the assassins stopped their movements.

A second later, each fell to the ground with their upper body and lower body separated from each other.

There was a clean cut right in the middle of their abdomen. But even after they fell to the ground, they were still alive.

All cultivators have strong life force which is reinforced when they absorb the spiritual energy through cultivation. That's why cultivators live longer than ordinary mortals.

"Aggghh..."

When the two of them realised that their single body has been made into two parts, they screamed in intense pain.

Hearing their scream, Ashmus was extremely displeased and raised his left arm towards them.

Suddenly, black gaseous fog came out of his left hand and covered their bodies.

As the fog covered their bodies, they screamed even more loudly like they were in unbearable pain.

All the people had their heart shudder when they heard their pain filled scream. They could clearly tell that the two of them were in unimaginable pain.

Please note that these people were stone-hearted assassins, who were trained through various tortures to become one.

So when they are captured by the enemy, they won't disclose any information even through torture.

But now, these same stone hearted assassins are screaming with all their strength.

A second later, their screaming stopped and the black fog covering their bodies returned to Ashmus's hands.

He felt a warm and refreshing feeling gush into his whole body and his cultivation rose to 6th level of Qi absorption realm.

All the people were shocked when they saw that he made 3 breakthrough in an instant. They felt their head spin when they saw how easily he advanced in cultivation.

But when they turned to look at the assassins their body stiffened.

They all saw that the only thing left of their body is just skin and bones. All the flesh and blood in their body was gone and even their bones were blackened.

There wasn't even a trace of spiritual energy left in their bones. Apparently, a cultivator would have spiritual energy left in their body even after they die.

And as long as the spiritual energy stays in their body, it will keep the body from decaying. And this energy will stay in their body for a long time before it dissipates.

But the corpses of these two cultivators look like they have been decomposed for atleast 1000 years.

It was like all their cultivation was devoured by that black gaseous fog.

They all felt horror crept into their body like never before. Their legs were trembling nonstop. Some of the weaker ones even peed their pants.

The lecherous man was the most horrified because he saw that Ashmus once again started advancing towards him after devouring their spiritual energy.

There was no trace of happiness even after his cultivation has risen this much. There was only that cold and ruthless look on his face.