First blood.

When Sam opened his eyes, he found himself lying down on a mountain.

He stood up from the ground with his one hand clutching his head. He was feeling strong pain in his head. Maybe, when he was ejected from the portal, he hit the ground with his head.

He wanted to look around but he was overwhelmed by the sudden rush of essence energy hitting his face. The pore on his opened as his body greedily absorbed the pure essence energy from the surrounding.

Before he knew it, his Dantian was full of essence energy. He hastily sat down cross-legged and started forming essence core. When he finally opened his eyes, there were sixteen essence core floating inside his Dantian.

"Thus world is really a treasure ground. This world is so rich in essence energy. If I cultivate here for a month, I will probably reach the core formation realm. But, I will probably miss many treasure. Can't have it all".

He sighed as he stood up. He finally took a look around. He was surprised by what he saw.

There were several strange grasses and trees growing on the mountain that he never saw before. There were strange rocks on the ground. When he looked up at the sky, he was astonished. The sky was blue and filled with drifting clouds creating a beautiful scene.

But, that was not what surprised Sam. There were two suns in the sky. That's right. This world had two sun shinning brightly.

"I have read about the swordridge valley having two sun. But, seeing it with your own eyes is still surprising".

Sam said to himself with surprise. He exited the mountain to take a look around to adapt more with the environmental condition and gauge about the dangers in the area.

But, just as he was about to leave choosing a random direction, he noticed a strange blue flower at a corner surrounded by bushes.

The blue flower had six petals emitting a strong essence energy. Even the bushes surrounding the flower were all flourishing with green leave growing out of them.

"Six petal magnolia, a medicinal plant full of essence energy. This is the main ingredient to make essence breaking pill which helps a cultivator to breakthrough the bottleneck of the essence core realm. This kind of rare medicine can be randomly found here. It really is a treasure ground".

Sam looked at the flower again to make sure. But, he did not try to hastily pick the medicinal plant. This kind of medicinal plant containing large amount of essence energy were usually guarded by demonic beasts until they reach maturation. After which, they consume the medicinal plant to attempt a breakthrough.

This six petal magnolia had already reach maturation so the guarding beast must be nearby.

Boom.

Just as he was looking around for the beast, the sound of fighting came from the distance. He focused his essence energy in his eye as he looked towards the sound. In the distance, he saw a cultivator fighting against a demonic beasts that looked like a wolf.

He smile as he plucked carefully and stored the six petal magnolia inside his spatial ring. He used his movement skill as he disappeared by taking a step forward.

He arrived at least a hundred meters away from the area of fighting. He controlled his breathing, heartbeat and sealed his pore to hide his presence. He hid behind a tree and continue to observe the battle.

The fighter was at the 3rd level of core formation realm wearing the blue robe of the clearsky sect. He was fighting against a rank 3 demonic beats, the howling wolf. The beast looked like a wolf but with a larger and stronger body with sharper fangs and claws.

Whoosh..

The disciple from the clearly sect dodged the claw attack of the howling wolf with great agility as he arrived behind it as punched the howling wolf sending it flying. He took out long sword from his spatial ring as he flashed and arrived in front of howling wolf. The sword cut through the head of the wolf like cutting through the butter.

A core formation realm cultivator fighting a rank 3 beast, there was no suspense as he easily killed the beast.

He steeped towards the body of the howling wolf to collect the beast blood, meat and demonic core.

But at this moment, he felt a chill on his back. Without thinking about anything, he swung his sword backward. His sword collided with another swords as he sent flying spraying blood.

That disciple from the clearly sect climbed from the ground. He looked forward with great vigilance but when he Sam standing there, he relaxed. He lazily removed dust from his robe as he said:

"I was racking my brain about how to find you. But, you are already here courting death. This time I have been incredibly lucky. I could gain big reward by presenting your head to the sect. Why don't you kill yourself to save yourself from suffering?"

Sam was the one who sneak attacked him when he finally relaxed his taunt nerve after killing the demonic wolf. Sam would never have any qualms about sneak attacking his enemies. All the disciples of the clearly sect were his enemies. They will surely try to kill him and his two companion inside the swordridge valley. If he eliminated one of them, that would mean his companions will face one less enemy.

Sam was wielding the murderous sword that he got frowm uncle Gaton in his right hand. His eyes were sharp as he looked forward and said:

"Forget about the rewards, you will have to survive to enjoy them. Today, I will bury you right here".

That cultivator from the clearsky sect laughed:

"HAHAHAH.... Little brat, you are good at boasting. But, you need strength to bury me, your glib tongue will not help you survive. This will be the end of your path since you have met me".

Sam laughed too. He was sure of his ability to easily kill him because he had yet to use his treasures. He replied:

"I, Sam Desons, have the grand ambition of rising above heavens battling the gods and bathing in the blood of devils. As for my path ending in the hand of a little worm like you, that is just one of the funniest joke I have ever heard".

"In my life, you will be the first person to die by hands. Name yourself, I don't want the first person I kill to be nameless".

That cultivator from the clearsky sect laughed after hearing Sam's words. He smilingly replied:

"Son of a bitch, you are still boasting at the time of your death. I am Jasper Joseph, the person who kill you".

"Jasper.... Jasper Joseph. It is your honor to be the first person die by blade".

Sam sprinted forward towards jasper with the sword in his hand. Halfway, he activated the murderous sword as the rune in the sword lit up. A murderous aura was released from the sword.

The strong murdurous locked onto Jasper. It was filled with blood thirst as if this was not a killing intent but resentment of millions of creature before their death. This killing intent put a strong mental suppression on him making it even difficult to move. Only those with strong willpower and determination can move under the suppression of this murderous intent even though their movement and reactions speed would still be affected.

He looked forward to see Sam sprinting towards him with cold eyes.

"Die".

Sam uttered coldly as he raised his sword as he slashed horizontally severing the head of jasper from his neck. The head of jasper went flying as blood spurted out from his neck creating a bloody scene. There was no resistance as jasper was not even able to move his body due to the mental suppression.

"This is what it feels like to kill a person huh. I don't feel sad, or happy. I just feel like killing is bloody. Yes, that's how it feels. Bloody".

Sam said as he looked at the headless corpse of Jasper Joseph, the first person he ever killed.

Sam walked forward and checked the body of jasper. He only found a spatial ring which he casually stored inside his spatial ring. Since he already killed, he wouldnot leave behind his treasure. He calmly walked to the corpse of the demonic wolf and removed the demonic core from its body and stored it.

After collecting treasure he left the area. The blood will attract other demonic beasts. So, he left to another place to search for opportunities and treasure in a calm manner.

It was not Sam was emotionless but he had prepared himself for this moment since a long time ago. He had heard his master remind him countless times to be decisive at this moment and he did it decisively. Anybody who walks on the martial road would find their hands bloody someday.

"People always say killing for treasure, killing for revenge and killing for the sake of killing is common in the martial world. Then, let me,Sam Desvons, experience all the killing there is in this world, for today I have truly set my foot on the martial road".