I am riding next to the young master so if an attack comes, I may block it when I hear the sound of something in the woods rustling, I get from my horse in a stance ready to fight as this past week has shown nothing since we set off from the sect.

A beast leaps and I slam down on the spinal section using my energy to make a sharp spike on the end of my spear to quickly kill it, it is the lowest ranking beast one can find and the most common a horned hare that's horn is used in basic healing pills for increasing the speed of healing.

I cut the horn off and take the hare with us for dinner that night making sure to store it in my 5ft-by-5ft spacial bag, the smallest you can get but enough for the rabbit to fit in by itself.

I never put anything in it for this reason though the other one has basic medical items like healing pills and my suppressants, you only take the suppressants when the heat is about to come and through the time period of it but I will need to be careful as my body will try and still over produce scent like when a normal heat occurs.

We arrive at the base set on top of a mountain like most sects are we have yet to see a single demonic cultivator or even signs of combat and worry eats at me, this is not normal as if not attacked at this point, we would withdraw.

I get off my horse before we even make it halfway up the mountain and the others follow my action as all those performing the delivery are all the mind melds faze like me and so have limited experience, I can only describe it as a gut instinct based on the strange surroundings, but I know this will not be just a normal drop off.

I am stepping forward when a flash of energy off to my right aimed at the person in the back guarding the supplies, I use my energy to make a barrier and an arrow snap against its mere centimeters from the person.

Everyone drops into fighting stance and raise barriers allowing me to focus my own on me and the young master, I stand to my young masters back making sure to watch out for any more energy spikes or even slight indications of movement when I feel a surge and another whoosh of an arrow.

This arrow comes much harsher and quicker straight at me, it is clear they knew I was the one to sense them and want to deal with me before I can start more trouble.

I let my shield handle it as it is far above what those at my stage would normally be capable of thanks to my extensive training in it for the sake of protecting the young master, I focus on the surroundings and a person to my left leaps out at the person guarding the supplies and cuts off their arms at the person tries and defends but can't with their inferior defense.

I remain next to the young master but he decides to charge the attacker and so I follow, another one jumps out when they see our action, but I use my staff to stab straight through their skull using my energy.

We arrive as the person is about to be killed by the first attacker but the young master attacks sending the attacker flying due to not being able to destroy his barrier, I rush the man shattering the barrier and the young master slices the head off killing him and showing his swords skills off.

One could hear a coin drop in the silence following the attack and no longer come, the bowman got away but these two where dead and could be brought in for merit.

I let the young master put both bodies in his spacial bag as it is easily 100 times the size of my own curtesy of him being the direct disciple of one of the sect masters, I stay on guard as we approach the hollow sect and when we arrive it is to the sight of carnage as all the people are hung to rafters or spiked to poles.

I hear several people get sick and the young master shakes, but I feel little trouble from this, I always knew what my duty is and the possible outcomes for me so in my eyes one failing their duty deserves such punishments.

I continue to search the area while staying near enough to respond in an emergency and notice the bodies are all of cultivators, not a single body of a student can be found and as they start to recover and begin to gather the bodies for respectful burial I search with the young master through the homes and pavilions for any that would be of that age but not a single one is below the age of 18.

I look and all seem to be fully developed people, why though is it some type of sick joy or are they searching for something?

Shaking my head I return to the front to see the messenger bird return from when we sent it off to the sect to inform them of the events that has transpired, I approach it and open the small scroll.

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'The drip sect three days south of you has been sent men you are to bring your supplies and give support in the coming battle, we hope you prove your capabilities and strength on the battle fields.' This is no longer just a supply mission but a combat one a well, groaning as we are not equipped enough for such a thing but will have to make do anyway.

We head down after all the bodies have been burned as there is not enough time to bury them all, we are merely a company of 20 mental melding cultivators, we will be slaughtered in such fights as some of the bodies here are already in the body forging realm two realms above our own and yet we are meant to fight with those able to kill these people it is certain doom but little can be done at this point.

We head in the ordered direction and wait for the horrific death to come but I must make sure the young master survives no matter what, I think of all we have and suddenly remember the drip sect is in a cave making it perfect for hiding.

I reach for the hare horn I brought and think with enough speed and power the young master may be able to kill someone one grade above us in the energy expansion stage, but it will take all his energy for even one attack, but it is perfect as I can protect him as we run away after the attack.

I decide that I will hunt horned hares tonight and make a speed array with them for the rest of the ride there, we need as many people able to kill those higher-grade cultivators and me and the young master will do so.

We arrive at the waterfall that acts the part of entrance to the cave system for the sect and use our energy not to get wet so to avoid making as much sound as possible when moving, we move using the medallion sent with the invoice that lets us find them in these networks.

We don't see any demonic cultivators anywhere so when we enter the sect which has people guarding all over the place and some of our own people here to see the supplies we brought.

We had ditched the horse at a stream two miles away while lugging the supplies ourselves here as the horses would give us away if they are close and even if they are nearby they can't enter the cave so we would have to carry it no matter what, best not to make a even clearer beacon of someone's here then we already will be with the supplies we are bringing.

I drop the sacks and follow the young master to the rooms they offered us that is carved into the walls of the caves like a human size ant hill.

We wake and eat as we have nothing to do beside wait around as not even training is possible, one needs as much energy as they can have when the enemy attacks and we have no intention to be exhausted when the attack comes.

I finally take my first suppressant while waiting for them to show and soon halfway through when my heat would have been the attack comes with full force, a massive crack followed by a bang as they literally burst into the ant hill, we now are in with no proper emergency exit like most sects have we are in a pure do or die scenario now.

I use the lack of light to our advantage as I give everyone a speed array and tell them I will act as a central protection point while they will use this array to attack with all their might on any enemy they come across.

I can see the shock at what a planned-out attack by me and the arrays is clearly fresh as they degrade quickly making them have to have been drawn within at least the past month, I stand in the center while going through my martial arts while using my energy to form a barrier around me for a safe spot after using the arrays.

I have shut off all the light talisman and even activated alight absorption one that lowers one's ability to see, I give the other a talisman to ignore the effect but anyone else will be affected if they come to this section making a perfect kill point.

I see them nod in agreement and head out while the young master takes off to the right but all I can do is trust in the barrier talisman I gave him to protect him in an emergency till he can get back to me, one hours than two hours and finally the first kill comes from the north side of the tunnels.

It is an avalanche from their as more and more arrive then bite the dust unable to see what kills them and the few that slip through are killed by someone when they go to attack me the person with a light barrier shining around them in this dark cave like a beacon to attack, By the end of the 12th hour mark everyone has exhausted and refueled their energy at least 4 times and the young master killed a energy expansion person though he was only in the first realm it is better than none.

The body count is nearly one hundred by this point in time if not more, he knows they all brought back the bodies they killed and stacked them in their own piles to prevent credit claim.

By the end of the first day of the attack I am finally getting low one energy and the others are calling me a monster due to my extreme energy amount though the looks sent to the young master shows they also think the same of him but won't voice it as the body of a person nearly in the body forging realm now sits at the top of his pile.

I take my first rest with them surrounding me in a protection circle so when I awake the slaughter can start once more, I don't know then but later people will learn this battle is the first one the low sect even succeeded in killing more than 5 of the other sides soldiers and it would earn me the nickname living fortress among the righteous cultivators but the demon cultivators title for me is shining crimson because if you see a light in a black tunnel you will only see your own blood next.

The battle lasted for nearly a week with me taking a break every other day and us staking bodies after bodies until finally on the last day a mass group of back up finally comes and deals with the remaining people and when they come to this tunnel and see the massacre we have caused many get sick at the amount of bodies stacked all dressed in demon people uniforms.

I met with one of the people later after we finally are truly properly rested, and he said I thought you were the demon sect people for a second.