An Eventful Night

"Trash! How dare you win the fight?"

"Why is everyone trying to harm me? Why are you all seeking death?"

"Bang! Bang!"

Behind the gambling house, a young woman with white hair was violently beating a middle aged man that was curled up against the ground.

In-between the punches and kicks, the woman cursed at him from time to time, with words filled with hatred.

Finally, when the man fell completely unconscious, the woman took all of the man's belongings and staggered away with a flushed face.

Putting the few items in her pockets, Chu Wuyao felt that she had at least made up for today's losses.

"I'll never gamble again in my life.", she swore secretly and couldn't help but recall what had happened.

Originally, everything was going well and Chu Wuyao was winning bet after bet in the fighting arena.

At one point, her contribution points had increased from around 50, to more than 200.

But then, just when Chu Wuyao felt that her luck was amazing and placed most of them as a bet, this middle aged actually broke through during the fight in the area and beat his opponent.

Thankfully, Chu Wuyao was lucky and it was the middle aged man's tenth victory in a row, so he was set free.

Chu Wuyao, as a sensible person, chose to pay a visit to him and politely asked him to compensate her for her loss.

It's just that the man was a little uncooperative and Chu Wuyao had to use her supreme charisma to convince him in the end.

Taking out a handkerchief and cleaning the blood off her hands, Chu Wuyao urged her cultivation to remove the alcohol in her body and the flush on her face quickly disappeared.

"At least it was all worth it.", she thought and brought up the system prompts that had appeared previously.

[You gambled on the life of other people. Sin Points +3]

[You became drunk and almost passed out. Sin Points +3]

[You beat up and stole from a man. Sin Points +3]

"Hey, system, don't slander me. I didn't beat up anyone."

"I was just asking for a compensation!", Chu Wuyao complained, but was still very happy with her harvest.

The Sin Points she gained today were almost equivalent to a session of dual cultivation.

Of course, gambling, getting drunk and beating up people is also a good way to get beaten up eventually.

It's not a very reliable way of getting Sin Points.

"Aaaaah!"

While Chu Wuyao was walking through the dark, empty streets of the sect, she suddenly heard the horrified scream of a woman coming from the an alley just across the street.

With some curiosity, Chu Wuyao walked closer with careful and silent steps, trying to see what had happened.

Leaning with her back against the wall, she poked her head into the alley and her eyes glowed with a strange red light as she used the Illusion Eyes.

Immediately, her eyesight became better and she was able to see despite the lack of light inside the alley.

What she saw instantly surprised her.

In the middle of the alley, a man wearing black clothes and a red mask was standing right in front of the corpse of a young woman.

The woman's head was some distance away, showing clearly the way in which she died in.

However, the masked man didn't seem to be very happy with just killing her and continued slashing at her body with a long red sword.

"So cruel...", she muttered and took her head back.

Chu Wuyao had no intention to step forward and explain to the man the importance of respect for the dead.

Instead, with fast but silent steps, she walked away as fast as she could.

Are you kidding?

She couldn't sense the masked man's cultivation at all, why would she stay here?

Perhaps the masked man didn't notice her, or perhaps he didn't care about her, Chu Wuyao was able to leave this place and no one tried to stop her.

Wiping some sweat that had appeared her forehead, Chu Wuyao felt that it was better to forget what had just happened and pretend that she didn't see anything.

With the previous encounter, she no longer dared to walk around this late in the night and hurried back to her home.

When she saw the familiar stone house in front of her, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Stepping closer, her hand reached the handle and she was ready to open the door, when her intuition suddenly warned her of danger.

Without any hesitation, she took her hand back and jumped back with all her strength.

"Crack!"

Cracks appeared everywhere on the door, before it turned into dust that flew all over the place.

When the dust fell to the ground, it revealed a white, delicate palm that attacked where Chu Wuyao previously stood.

"Huh?", a surprised female voice reached Chu Wuyao's ears and a beautiful woman walked out of the house.

It was a young woman in her early twenties, with long black hair and black eyes, wearing a short blue dress that highlighted the white stockings that reached her thighs.

She had an indifferent look on her face, but her eyes showed a little bit of doubt as she looked at Chu Wuyao.

Seeing this woman, Chu Wuyao immediately recognized her.

It was Li Ruoshi, the murderer of her predecessor.

"Even if you have improved your cultivation to the 3rd Level of Qi Accumulation, you shouldn't be able to sense my attacks.", Li Ruoshi whispered in an inaudible voice.

But then, the doubt in her eyes quickly disappeared.

"No matter what secret you have, as long as you're dead, it will be my secret."

Before she had even finished her words, she had already appeared next to Chu Wuyao and waved her delicate palm towards her chest.

Facing this palm, Chu Wuyao felt that her whole body and even her thoughts were slowing down, as if they were being frozen.

Noticing this, she bit her tongue as hard as she could, trying to wake herself up.

Blood flowed out of the corner of her mouth, but her eyes regained clarity.

Even though this worked, Chu Wuyao still felt that her body was slightly sluggish, rendering her unable to dodge.

With no other option, she could only bring her hands in front of her chest and tried to defend against that palm.

"Boom!"

Chu Wuyao felt her hands' bones cracking as her body flew in the air.

"Bang!"

Her body fell to the ground and she couldn't help but cough out some blood.

Inwardly, she was a little shocked.

"Is this the strength of the 7th Level of Qi Accumulation?", she wondered.

She knew that she was Li Ruoshi's opponent, but she didn't expect that she would be injured in just a move.

If she hadn't increased her strength earlier, this slap might have actually killed her.

These thoughts flashed through her mind, but her movements didn't stop at all.

Propping against the ground with her broken hands, she jumped up and landed on her two feet again, before running away.

Fortunately, Chu Wuyao wasn't the only one surprised.

Li Ruoshi was as surprised, if not even more.

She knew her strength the best.

Let alone a cultivator at the 3rd Level of Qi Accumulation, even if Chu Wuyao was at the 5th Level, this slap should have killed her.

Recalling the faint resistance she felt when her palm touched Chu Wuyao's hands, Li Ruoshi felt that she had understood what was going on.

"Body cultivation? No wonder you were able to survive last time."

"But this time you won't be so lucky.", she said and chased after her.

Thankfully, Li Ruoshi's momentary surprise had bought just enough time for Chu Wuyao to create some distance.