66 Evil attracts Evil
Chaos runs amok in the eastern Kunlai in the country of Juhong. The significant territory of the demonic sects lies there.
Many cities and villages living near have a very strong defence due to fear of invasion but it wasn't powerful enough.
"Die!!" A man shouts as he rips through the air with a colossus aura, aiming at a woman dressed in black.
Her emerald eyes gaze upon him and his Qi instantly dissipates.
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"ACK!"
He spits out blood and rolls his eyes back, falling to the ground.
"Fuck! The general-"
The army of cultivators all coughs and suffers internal damage to their death. There are traces of black bugs in their blood.
Countless sea of corpses lines the street of the village. A once vibrant gathering is now a dead wonderland.
Black mist seeps out of the corpses and into the woman's skin. She sighs and looks around.
?
The only thing in this wasteland is blood and gore. Was that her imagination?
She licks her green lips and closes her eyes to absorb the abundant demonic Qi, floating in the sky.
Black fog clouds around the woman like a whirlpool.
Meirong clenches her fist while she attempts to hide behind a cabin.
"..." Meirong grits her teeth upon witnessing the onslaught.
Meirong has to hold it in, she is almost done with preparation. After finishing the final line, an array activates around the serial killer.
?!
The demonic Qi instantly dissipates and is purified by an unknown force when a large golden circle of inscriptions expands around the massacred village.
"Wha-ARGHHHHHH?!" The woman exclaims.
"Heavenly Demon He Zhou, this is my gift to you," Meirong mumbles before leaving swiftly. Meirong is not strong enough to defeat He Zhou, she can only retreat after inflicting lasting damage.
The array purifies every demonic Qi in that area immensely, forcing He Zhou to receive a huge backlash due to her demonic nature.
Normally, such arrays take too long to write and are only used to purify an area commercially. But Meirong change the algorithm a little to shorten the time, paired with the supreme presence nullifying technique taught by her master, she was able to pull it off.
"W-Which bastard!! Ahh!!!"
He Zhou falls to the ground in pain as she grasps her stomach, the dantian was damaged and her demonic physique is weakened.
"No... I need to hide." In her current state, a low Golden Soul can kill her.
But where can she hide?
Countries far away from the eastern only include the far western Tiansu and Wenhua.
"That's right..."
Tiansu is undergoing recruitment for their sects, she can suppress her cultivation and hide there as long as she avoids the Jade emperor. Although going to the demonic branch in Tiansu is a valuable idea, many people will be searching for her disappearance and those branches will be the first place practitioners go.
On the other side of the Murim, Tian Long is fighting a demonic cultivator.
"Argh!" The demonic cultivator says.
Tian Long manages to sweep in a clean slash across his body and finishes his enemy with a stab through the chest.
Another demonic cultivation ambushes Tian Long from behind.
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Tian Long's aura glows in red as a dragon engulfs his demeanour, his quick reflex orbit his body and clashes with his sword. However, he was pushed back instead as the demonic cultivator executes a much more powerful technique.
"You...a Qi Condensation is pushing me back?! No! You aren't a Qi Condensation!" Says Tian Long.
Tian Long's allies near heard that and bring their attention to the mysterious "weak" man wearing an azure coat and blue hair.
"T-That's the Heavenly Demon Aiguo! Run!" A woman says.
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"S-Shit-" Aiguo thrusts his sword at Tian Long, a piercing energy shoots at Tian Long who attempts to dissipate it.
The energy easily snaps Tian Long's sword and hit him head-on. Although he survived thanks to his defence artifact, he suffered major damage.
Aiguo goes in to finish off Tian Long.
!!!!
Tian Long sees an ally nearby and pulls him to shield the damage, forcing Aiguo to kill him.
"You..." Aiguo says.
"I-I am a superb asset and talent with a bright future. No way will I die here!" Tian Long says, running away with his tail tucked between his leg.
Aiguo clicks his tongue, this is why he hates "righteous" sects. There are no different from demonic sects but are much more cunning. At the very least, demonic sects display it blatantly.
He turns his head to see many disciples trying to run for their life. With one horizontal slice, a powerful crescent wave burst out and slices their bodies and the environment into two.
"I believe that guy's name is Tian Long." Aiguo mumbles. "I will find that bastard."
On the border city of Xu Qing, Jie Sheng floats casually in the sky, waiting for the city to respond. Many are panicking, trying to escape and evacuate the city.
"Heh..." Jie Sheng mumbles.
He raises his hand and did one horizontal sweep.
"ARGHHH!!!"
Anyone who was out of the city faced immediate death.
"Stay here nicely will ya? I'm waiting for the big shots to appear." He says.
"S-Shit... At this rate, we are all going to die. Despite being in the peak nascent soul, I couldn't even detect his cultivation base." Says an old man, he seems to be the head commander of the army protecting the city
"Is his realm even higher than the transcendent realm?" A young soldier asks the old man.
"Are you suggesting that he is from the upper realms? Impossible- wait...no...you are right. There is a rumoured demonic technique from the upper realm that sacrifices 100,000 infants to appease the hungry God who then breaks the barrier to the lower realm. That bastard is a devil!"
Descending from the upper realms is close to impossible if one tries to break the barrier. The barrier becomes stronger in proportion to the cultivation base. But, using techniques crafted to descend is then possible. It may come in many forms and methods such as sacrificing your cultivation base to weaken the barrier and appeasing an entity to break the barrier.
All in all, it requires deadly sacrifices and people from the upper realms gain nothing from descending except respect.
But even if they can dominate a country, can they go against the entire Murim?
!!!
Jie Sheng frowns.
This pressure...five transcendent realm masters are coming. Jie Sheng thought.
"W-We are saved! They are here!!!" People in the city say.
"Disgusting demon, how dare you to ignite an assault against the Murim." a mysterious voice echoes through the atmosphere.
Jie Sheng smirks. "Do I need a reason to crush mere ants?"
Five supreme beings engulfed in many fluctuations of Qi materializes in the air around Jie Sheng.
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On one side, Many swords flew at Jie Sheng. On the other, a fierce seething palm descends, a golden dragon, a mighty punch that rips through the air, and a powerful blast of pyroclastic waves shoots at Jie Sheng.
Jie Sheng grabs the dragon and rips it into two before sweeping his hands at the wave of swords, propelling a shockwave that dissipates the swords away. As Jie Sheng turns the other attacks, the pyroclastic attack merged with the punch unexpectedly and explodes upon contact.
...
However, the dust clears out and Jie Sheng is unscratched. "Do ants think they have the chance just because I go easy on them?" Jie Sheng says. "Screw off."
Jie Sheng appears in front of one of the masters and strikes the chest with his palm.
!!!
The transcendent master was launched into another one and both flew back many miles and crash into the mountains.
"Y-You..."
The masters look at one another as Jie Sheng stares at them. "Is that all?" says Jie Sheng.
...
"You leave us no choice."
The masters channel Qi through the surroundings and a vibration trembles in the atmosphere.
Huh? W-What is going on...? Jie Sheng thought.
A sudden instinct spurt and Jie Sheng attacked the masters by reflex. But his arrogance led to his downfall and the formation activates around Jie Sheng before he could reach the masters.
"H-Heaven and Earth formation!?! What about the bystander around us?!" Jie Sheng exclaims.
The masters smirked. "As long as we can get rid of you, sacrifices must be made."
"C-Crazy!!"
Selfishness is a common trait among the top dwellers, only by being selfish can one truly succeed in the Murim. Jie Sheng, being holed up in his residence and protected by his father did not know that fact.
Several hidden cultivators show up and they all take part in the formation. Several waves of golden light Qi traverse the air.
"N-NO!!!"
"UGHH!!"
People in the city are overwhelmed by the massive profound Qi and start to drop one by one.
"ARGHHH!!!" Jie Sheng is slammed to the ground as his meridians tremble. The formation is crippling Jie Sheng.
He finally noticed that the same masters were the ones who killed the heavenly demon that Wang Ji absorbed.
Jie Sheng mustered all of his strength and gather Qi as quickly and much as possible before discharging a large burst of demonic Qi.
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*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*
That move disrupted and confused the array.
"He is getting away!! Stop him! The array has weakened him, now is our chance."
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"huff huff..." Jie Sheng runs into the nearest forest while grasping his chest, his meridians are slightly severed and have problems circulating Qi. At this rate, no matter how strong his body is, his cultivation realm has temporarily dropped to the Nascent Soul.
Jie Sheng needs to find a place to hide. That is when he remembered the meeting among the Patriarchs. One of them was talking about the recruitment session in Tiansu, Jie Sheng smiles when he found a way to hide.
