Chapter-44: Azure Flame

The people who belonged to Darkmoon were all dead except for the vice leader, the lecherous man and Kenzo.

Kenzo, who was hoping for the Vice leader to save him, saw that his saviour running away with tails between his legs.

He felt like thunder booming in his head and he lost all hope. He kneeled on the ground with a dead look in his eyes.

After cutting the vice leader's hands, the sword hovered on top of his head.

Ashmus, who was sitting by the tree, stood up and walked towards the vice leader with a cold smile on his face.

When the vice leader saw that smile, he realised that something bad is going to happen to him.

He looked at Ashmus with a face full of nervousness and asked," Why did you stop me? What are you going to do with me?"

"Oh, did you forget about your punishment? That's not good." Ashmus answered his questions.

The man narrowed his eyes and said," What kind of punishment are you talking about? What did I do to you?"

"Well... You freed that fucker from my spikes. So, you should get punished. And i also wanted to test something out, so don't mind me." Ashmus said to the man.

The man was shocked when he heard this. He could believe he has to get punished just because he freed that damned fool.

If he had known that this would happen, he would have left him there after taking the artifact from him.

But he was confused when he heard that Ashmus was going to test something out from him.

"What do you mean by test?" Asked the vice leader.

"Well, i just wanted to know how much i will advance after i devour your cultivation." Ashmus said without a change in his expression.

"What! So you truly can steal our cultivation. You..... demonic bastard. You are a plague to the world." The man shouted at Ashmus with anger.

"I sure am a plague but only for people like you. Now, goodbye....." Ashmus said coldly and pressed his right hand into his forehead.

A second later, a large amount of black gaseous fog surged into that man's head.

"Aggghhhhhhhhh..." A gut-wrenching pain coursed into his whole body and the man screamed in pain.

The lecherous man and kenzo, who were watching this scene, knew that their death would be even more torturous than that man.

They were scared so much that they were about to lose their mind. Kenzo even started wailing like a child.

After more than 5 minutes, the man's screaming stopped and he fell sideways. There was nothing left of him except for skin and bones.

Ashmus, who has devoured all of the cultivation of that man, was extremely exhausted and also he sat down because his legs couldn't support his body.

He noted in his head that using this devouring fog for a long time was extremely exhausting for his body with his low cultivation.

But he was also happy because of his breakthroughs in cultivation. He reached 6th stage of qi assimilation realm from mid stage qi absorption realm.

He literally skipped an entire realm of cultivation in just five minutes.

If any cultivator in this world knows this fact, they would die just from anger and jealousy.

But even though his cultivation has advanced so much, Ashmus felt that something was wrong with the spiritual energy in his body. But he couldn't pinpoint what exactly it was.

He didn't think too much about it and took out a healing pill from his storage bag and swallowed it.

After refining the pill, he opened eyes and prepared to leave to take care of the remaining two.

When he got up, he noticed that the vice leader has a storage bag in his waist. He snatched it from his corpse to see if there is anything valuable in it.

Inside the bag, there was only some bronze and silver coins and a token with a black moon symbol engraved into it.

He instantly realised that it must be the darkmoon fraction symbol. There were also some pills in the bag but these pill were lower level so he didn't even give them a second look.

Then he also took the spiritual artifact from that man's severed hand and threw it into his spiritual bag. He would give it to Eira for her to play.

If anyone knew what Ashmus was thinking, they would faint from anger.

Spiritual artifacts are extremely rare for common cultivators. And if one is found in the hands of a weak cultivator, there would definitely be a big fight.

And Ashmus was going to give it to his sister, who was only a mortal.

After doing all this, he started walking towards the lecherous man. The man, who was pretending to be dead, knew that it was time for his turn.

He opened his eyes and saw Ashmus standing before him with a cold look on his face.

He said in a crying tone," Please... young master. Let me die a painless death. I swear i will never do anything like that, please...."

"Huff.... " When Ashmus saw that expression om that man's face, he sighed.

He looked at the man's teary eyes and said with sympathetic look," I'm sorry for what i am about to do."

Even though his face was full of sympathy, there was not even a shred of remorse in his heart. His heart was extremely cold.

"Now, what should i do with you to make you die a horrible death." Ashmus started pondering how he was going to make this man die painfully.

The man, who heard his words, felt his mind break and he fainted.

Suddenly, the red sword that was floating by Ashmus's side started glowing.

Ashmus, who noticed this, turned his head and saw that a deep azure coloured flame was flaring on its blades.

The combination of red and Azure colour made a striking violet coloured scene in this dark night.

Ashmus felt that this scene was extremely beautiful.

Suddenly, he saw that the azure flame that was on the sword shot towards the lecherous man with a fast speed.

In a second, his entire body was covered by the deep azure flame.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh...." Just as the flame touched his body, the lecherous man, who had fainted a second ago, suddenly opened his eyes wide and screamed in extreme pain.

Even though his limb bones were broken, he wriggled his body rapidly because of how much pain he was feeling.

Kenzo, who was crying profusely in a distance, stopped his crying looked at the lecherous man with wide eyes. He could feel how much pain that man was in.

His mind went blank. He could even think anything anymore.

Even Ashmus, who was just watching by the side felt his body shiver just by hearing that painful scream.

He didn't except that a normal looking flame would induce such painful scream from that person.