Ravenous Snake Sect
The moon ominously beamed on the mountain of corpses. As if the look of agony on their faces weren't enough, the abuse that they have been through was apparent on their missing limbs and pierced extremities coming from spear wounds.
On top of it all was a demonic cultivator with nary a scratch on his visage. Taking on the traditional lotus stance, he meditated as he just finished absorbing the souls of those underneath him.
Emerging from the sect's desolated buildings, was its old and bearded sect master, who hid and covered his ears as his disciples were being slaughtered one by one. With the demon's full attention on his cultivation, Fu Cai capitalized on the perfect opportunity to escape.
With careful steps Fu Cai headed for the entrance gate. Never mind the sect, never mind his deceased disciples. They could all be rebuilt. Surely no one would blame him, right? Like a natural disaster, the demonic cultivator came out of nowhere and leveled his entire sect, even the bounty hunters that went after his head were useless! He wasn't at fault. He'd love to see a sect master with the courage to stand up to the monster without shitting their pants! A smile wicked and delirious appeared on the sect master's face upon the realization. Yes, none of this was his fault.
Upon stepping outside the gate, he could feel the ominous pressure grasping his heart vanish. His deranged smile grew wider as he realized that he was free to cultivate another day!
Evil as they are, these demonic cultivators can sometimes become a vehicle for karma.
Fu Cai heard the earth rumble from underneath him, and before he could sense the sinister aura that belonged to Qiang's comrade, it was already too late. A spear protruded from the earth, piercing Fu Cai's liver in one strike. His scream of anguish went so far as to travel back and echo into his now decrepit sect.
As if toying with its catch, the sleeveless female arm wearing brown bracers that emerged from the soil twisted her spear, making her prey vomit blood while its eyes rolled back from the agony.
The earth itself parted, giving way to the upper-half of a gorgeous vixen. Her long orange hair waved front to back, making it seem like she had just surfaced from the ocean.
"Looks like I caught myself a sect master." The innocent smile that adorned her face contrasted the brutality that she had committed.
Fu Cai could not believe it, the girl before her was definitely weaker in realms when compared to him!
"You dare, brat!? I'm going to murder you right before I escape!" Fu Cai bellowed in anger, but before he could break the spear in two, the woman twisted her spear once more. The sect master grimaced from the pain before falling on his knees.
"Get real, old man. You've been speared in the liver, you're not going to be doing any of those two."
Fu Cai cursed his luck, if only he had detected the devil sooner!
"How, how was I not able to sense your qi!?"
The woman sneered, "Since you are about to die, I'll tell you. The earth is my ally, it hides my qi while I swim underneath. Pretty cool technique, right? I stole it from my previous sect as a remembrance. "
So, this was the bitch responsible for ruining their formation! That's why his disciples setting it up vanished as if being swallowed by the earth, they would have most likely repelled these demonic menaces their formation activated.
Then, the hair on the back of Fu Cai's neck rose in terror. With each footstep the pressure intensified. Fu Cai was too terrified to even turn around, the fear imposed by the cultivator gripped his heart.
Even if he wasn't impaled like a shrike on a sharp, he was pretty sure that he won't be able to touch the demonic cultivator behind him.
An overly muscular figure eerily cast his shadow by the moonlight, covering both Fu Cai and the woman.
"You missed one, brother Qiang." The woman casually stated.
"Gwahahaha! It's my present for you, he's all yours, sister Jingfei."
Since they were dealing with souls, the quality of one is affected by its strength and character. Judging by both, this one might be a sect master but he's enough to only advance her 5 stars, the old bastard was as rotten as they are. She would still need 15 more to advance Divine Champion into Supreme Tyrant. If only Qiang shared some of… Jingfei discarded the thought.
"Thank you, brother Qiang." Jingfei faked a smile. (This shitty sect master is better than nothing.)
Tightening the grip on her spear, Jingfei began to siphon out Fu Cai's life force from his dantian. Since the sect master was already at death's door, you could say that his soul was ripe for the taking. Mortally wounded as he is, Fu Cai could only let out a bloodcurdling scream as he felt his vitality leaving his body with each passing second.
Jing Fei watched with glee as her victim struggled helplessly to remove the spear, getting weaker with each try. Draining someone's soul was as easy as draining a spirit stone. Leaving her sect and becoming a demonic cultivator was the best decision she had made so far. Unlike before, she would no longer worry about spirit stones when she can just claim the lives of the innocent for a much higher concentration of qi.
Lose her humanity? Become an enemy of mankind? All the warnings that her old sect gave her were useless, it was a wise decision to let Qiang murder them all and follow him instead.
Soon, Fu Cai died with his eyes open while grasping the spear.
Jingfei emerged from the earth, stepping on the head of Fu Cai's corpse as she pulled her spear out.
"Where is brother Yong?" Qiang asked.
To continue her disrespect, Jingfei used Fu Cai's robes to wipe the blood off of her spear as she answered, "He's gorging himself with the leftover women of the sect. You want me to call for him?"
"No, let him have his fun. For tomorrow night, we strike once more. This sect is a joke, Ravenous Snakes? They were nothing but pitiful worms. Gwahahaha!"
"Are you sure you want to cultivate further? Our leader warned us not to…"
"SHE'S NOT OUR LEADER ANYMORE!" Qiang's sudden outburst made Jingfei pause. "Not to us. Once I have feasted on every sect in this city, that bitch will get what's coming to her!"
"Forgive me, brother Qiang. So, what sect is going to be our next target?"
A sinister smile marked Qiang's lips.
"The Tranquil Waterfall sect."