9 The Shadow King

An Yiru was the headmistress of the Nightstone Auction House in Demon City No. 863 and was ecstatic to come to terms with the Divine Thief and to form an agreement, she was also shocked by his age 'Youngsters are really getting better each generation.' She bitterly thought.

She was then reminded of her granddaughter, An Fei, and was demoralised, even though her daughter was already 19, she was only at Foundation Building 5th stage, this was enough to be called a once in a thousand years genius in CloudSoaring City but in Demon's Canyon she was just a regular genius.

There were probably about 15 on her level in the City and 5 even better, that was just in this city! She had heard countless amounts of praise and had grown arrogant because of it, hopefully she could be useful for once and form a marriage arrangement with the Divine Thief An Yiru mused.

That reminded her to check up on her granddaughter, ever since she lost her mother she had become easily agitated and many dreaded to become her servant, she had 10 servants executed in one month once! An Yiru was then reminded that An Fei was on the verge of falling in love with a village boy who was trying to manipulate her.

She quickly ran towards her residence while ignoring the situation around her, only to be annoyed when multiple servants tried to stop her, was she being too nice to them recently? She was going to once again show off her ferocious might until she heard words that she had been dreading when the Divine Thief had first appeared.

"M-madame! The storehouse has been raided! Formations were used to stop us from contacting you!" Nervously shouted the younger servant, he had been forced by the older servants to notify her and they had threatened his little sister, it was the correct choice for them as the headmistress was so frustrated she waved her hand and BAM! His head flew.

"Brother!" A young girl who only looked about 16 ran out from the crowd of servants towards the 20 year old man's body and head and profusely wept, the headmistress was even more incensed, "Looks like even this servant whore dares to play with me!" She angrily screamed.

She then reached to grab the girl but felt no movement and looked down until she saw her hand was no more, "AAAAGHHHHH!!!!" She screamed in conjunction with the blood spurting out of her ar- stump, "I've been biding my time for too long!" she said maliciously as she gazed around.

The Old Servants who were initially pitying the fact that the girl was going to be taken away by the mistress and they wouldn't be able to have their fun with her, were instantly shocked! This pitiful and weak girl instantly changed her demeanour to a proud and unbending monarchess.

She moved like a flash and BAM! The servants who weren't even in the 6th stage of Qi Refining were dead. The head mistresses was shook with fear and instantly begged, to be able to reach her position she had to be able to adapt to situations. "Please senior! Spare my life! This humble one will do anything senior asks of me!"

"Then... Will you die?" she asked crazily, the headmistress was stumped then regained her composure, just as she was about to respond, a slit was formed on her neck and she fell to the floor, dead. The woman looked mournfully towards the young man onto the floor before her expression became twisted.

She crouched down and started eating up her brother! If anyone was at the scene they would hear her muttering, "Brother will always stay with me..." in between their own vomiting, she spent one hour filling her stomach with her brother's remains then patted her now bloated stomach with an expression of glee.

She then headed towards the Manor where the headmistress' daughter was located and her expression turned malicious while gazing at the woman who was engaging in sexual intercourse with the supposed village boy. "W-who the fuck are you?! I told all servants to stay out, I-I'll execute you!" she screamed with rage.

"Blame your grandmother for this!" She cruelly uttered, the girl looked perplexed and that was the same expression she had when she died, the village boy had on a lustful and satisfactory expression when he plopped down beside her, dead as well.

"Everyone even somewhat involved in this will die!" she roared as she stepped out of the headquarters of the auction house, where everyone had already been massacred, "Isn't that right brother!" she crazily asked while petting her stomach.

"Hmmm." She muttered, "I couldn't show my true prowess before because the Shadow King was in this territory and he would steal my inheritance, and the reason the headmistress was so angry was because of the Divine Thief, I'll kill him too!" she carefreely muttered.

All over the city, many organisations had been notified of the havoc and went into a rampage, tearing up the Manor of Yang Fan in hopes of finding him, this was their last straw! They were essentially crippled at this rate.

Meanwhile, as Yang Fan was running through the shadows on his way towards the city, a blur landed in front of him, when it formed, it was revealed to be a figure who seemed to be shrouded in the darkness.

"Who are you?" Yang Fan calmly asked, the figure seemed to smirk and playfully replied, "The Shadow King, the whole of Demon City No. 863 and the surrounding cities are my territory, you've crippled the organisations in my territory, and wanted to get away scot-free? Madness!"

The Shadow King obviously didn't care about the organisations, his main focus was their resources, he originally didn't take their resources in respect of the forces backing them but now that he saw a good opportunity, he couldn't miss it! And they wouldn't even know he had them!

Yang Fan observed the figure in front of him and used shadow sight, he managed to see through the thick layers of darkness and saw a man who only looked to be around 30 years old in the prime of his youth, he knew that looks were deceiving in cultivation and automatically classed the man as old.

"Y-you can actually see me? I'll be sure to gain some new shadow skills when I kill you!" He joyfully replied, Yang Fan wasn't bothered as he saw the man was only at the 7th stage Core Formation, if he was in the 9th he would take precautions but his domain could somewhat deal with them anyway.

"Foolish Old Fogey who missed his young days, how many young women have you tricked, Pedophile." He disdainfully uttered as his black trench coat moved with the shadows. Right after he finished talking he moved almost instantly, sending out a kick that melded with the darkness.

The Shadow King was kicked in the waist and crashed against a tree, Yang Fan measured up his physical body strength and classified it about Core Formation 8th level, as there was a noticeably loud crack from his ribs. The Shadow King was infuriated.

When did a simple Foundation Building yute dare to test him! Such audacity! What made him even more pissed off was that this piece of shit actually managed to injure him, he was shook at that point! If he let him grow... No! He decisively attacked with full force.

[AN: Sorry I couldn't help but release some UK slang in the last paragraph, a yute is basically some foolish idiot or someone who's wet which is someone who does weird stuff/isn't cool, I know my English bredrin understood though!]

Yang Fan was already moving while he was thinking and used shadow slash, the blade was almost unnoticeable in the shadows and The Shadow King who was in the process of attacking was cut on his foreleg, he lost mobility in that area, Yang Fan took advantage of that and attacked again.

The fight consisted of Yang Fan continuously dodging Shadow King's attacks and attacking, he literally died from death by a thousand cuts and he lost mobility with each slash so when he wanted to escape it was too late, he tried all sorts of life saving techniques but they were useless in front of his shadow skills, he gained even more proficiency in them and perfected them.

The Shadow King was the perfect opponent as he specialised in those skills and it was admirable when they consisted against each other, after he died he gained many new Shadow Skills from his storage ring. He was tempted to go back to get the rest of his things but ultimately gave it up.

He had learnt the sensing skill that the Shadow King used to find him and was genuinely impressed, it could find anyone the target wished to find in 25,000 KM of they were in the shade/shadow. This broadened his surroundings as he realised there were all sorts of skills.

In addition it cost very little shadow energy so it could be continuously used. He didn't have time to waste, he rested for a while then moved quickly towards the city, he didn't know however, that an hour after he left, a beautiful girl wearing a blood red kimono arrived at the area.

She looked towards a body that seemed to be half decomposed by the soil, her eyes glazed over for a moment then she madly screamed, "How dare he take my prey!" she seemed to be in heat, but her next action was completely disgusting, she dragged the half gone body out of the ground and started eating it!

She seemed like a demonic beast and what was shocking was that her aura increased from Core Formation first stage to 5th stage, this method was highly improper and she would at most reach Nascent Soul level, impure souls couldn't reach Soul Formation but she wasn't bothered.

She had one goal at the moment, kill the Divine Thief!!! She also seemed to be a devourer like Yang Fan but she could only devour bodies which were highly impure, souls were completely pure, after they had died of course, they needed to be pure to reincarnate on the yellow bridge road.

She sniffed like a dog and her elegant demeanour completely collapsed as she seemed to be chasing in Yang Fan's direction, with a ravenous expression on her face as she ran on four limbs like a wolf.

Yang Fan was completely oblivious to this and even if he was he wouldn't be much bothered, after all, he came here for the flowing jade treasure sword, sure there would be a dangerous person coming for him, but... Treasure! Nothing was more important to him than that, he wouldn't let it cloud his judgement though, then again he was completely oblivious.