--- China’s Capital, Beijing; Summer Palace ---
“Now that we’re all here, let’s start the meeting.”
Declaring the start to their meeting, was a man around 45 – 50, wearing a blue traditional Chinese; Changshan. The middle-aged man has a stern expression.
He took some papers in front of him and read it, “I see, the construction of the wall has gone according to plan and now it is almost complete. That’s great. We don’t need to worry about monsters suddenly attacking…”
The middle-aged man tapped the table with his index finger.
His expression held some confidence and superiority but never had a hint of arrogance.
There was no hint of excessive conceitedness or haughtiness.
Because the individuals seated around this roundtable were some of the famous and strong individuals from every corner of China.
From the Heaven Cloud Mountain Sect; Liu Fengxun
From the Shaolin Temple Sect; Xu Menyun
From the Flower Demon Valley Sect; Feng Xuli
From the Heaven Saber Sect; Dong Tangxu
From the Tang Sect; Tang Pingyun
From the Sword God Immortal Sect; Shi Shuyi
From the Heart Calm Sutra Sect; Li Gongnan
From the Godly Beast Martial Sect; Si Butian
From the Demon Arhat Subjugating Ghost Sect; Pang Dongdong
And lastly, from the Evil God Sect; Gu Xiaonan
Furthermore, the heads of the famous thirteen aristocratic families of China was also present.
The Jiang, Ji, Xue, Yao, Zhang, Yíng, Sì, Qiu, Shen, Yún, Gui, Xing and Ren families-- The thirteen prestigious families who held the power inside the country’s government.
“What about the neighboring Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Hohhot, and Shenyang?”
“They were already stabilized. We had sent some disciples and soldiers there so the casualties were reduced by a large margin.”
“Good,”
“But President, we still have another problem!” At this moment, the representative of the Tang Sect, one of the high elders, Tang Pingyun raised his hand and said with a grave voice.
The president frowned. “What problem? I thought the monsters are already chased away?”
“No it’s not the monsters; I guess it should be even worse.” Tang Pingyun answered with great gravity.
“What do you mean?” The Heavenly Cloud Mountain Sect’s sect master; Liu Fengxun asked curiously.
“It’s about the rumored [ Black Demon King ], Ye Wushuang! He had finally come to the country!”
“What?!” Not only Liu Fengxun and the president, all the people present inside the conference room reacted the same way. All of them were surprised.
“I thought his existence was just a fantasy? Just a rumor?”
“President, it’s not fantasy. I also heard about him from my daughter…” Liu Fengxun said heavily. “Ye Wushuang, he’s dangerous.”
“But I don’t know why my daughter forbids me to make any kind of conflict against him. She even went as far as declaring to cut ties if I really did…”
“Is that so, that little girl? For what reason?”
Liu Fengxun shook his head. He also doesn’t know what comes in that girl’s head this time.
“But we certainly can’t allow him to roam free. A student of mine who claimed to be from the future just like the divination princess said that Ye Wushuang is a very powerful person and a powerful terrorist.”
“I also had a student who said as such.”
“Then this man, arrived in our country?” the president frowned. “Is this information reliable?”
“Yes!”Tang Pingyun nodded his head with confidence. “My students had met him and they said his power even transcends what we had heard. They said he can cause the weather to change.”
“That’s impossible!” The female from the Flower Demon Valley Sect; Feng Xuli exclaimed. “Controlling the weather? Such ability is never heard of! How can such a monster possibly exist!?”
“But it’s the truth. My students had witnessed it personally. He’s stronger than what we could imagine.”
“That…”
“Then this kind of man is in our country? What is his purpose?”
“… …” No one answered as they didn’t know the answer.
At this moment, Liu Fengxun said, “I know.”
All eyes immediately focused entirely on him.
“Speak.”
“For this, you should ask the snow family as well as the Flower Demon Valley Sect instead.”
“What do you mean?” Xue Cangzhan asked doubtfully. Even the Flower Demon Valley sect master looked curiously at Liu Fengxun.
“I heard from my daughter, although I don’t know why she doesn’t want to say anything about her relationship with him she said that Ye Wushuang will come to visit, Xue Ling.”
“Xue Ling?!”
“My daughter?” Xue Cangzhan was taken aback. Why is his daughter suddenly pulled into this?
“You must be mistaken! My daughter doesn’t know this man…”
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“She didn’t but what about the future?” Liu Fengxun’s words were precise. “Muxiao told me, your daughter is Ye Wushuang’s woman. And he will come here in order to take her back.”
“That’s a lie!!” Xue Cangzhan pounded the table.
“Whether you believe it or not is up to you…”
“But that’s…”
“Enough!”
“President!”
The president ignored Xue Cangzhan and look at Liu Fengxun. “Is this real?”
“Should be.”
“But I thought Ye Wushuang is the Divination Princess lover? In fact, we had received a message from her a while ago that if we touch Ye Wushuang, the entire Bianchi Family will certainly move against our country!” The President said with rough yet serious voice. “… That outcome will be dangerous for us. The Bianchi holds the strongest force right now and in addition, those carnivorous codgers are just waiting for someone to blow the fuse, in order to make their moves. If this fuse turns to us, it would be detrimental!”
“So what will you do president?”
“We don’t have a choice; in any case, we can’t touch him now, for so many reasons.”
“Then what? Give my daughter to him? Are all of you insane?!” Xue Cangzhan yelled in a desperate voice.
“I’m also against this idea. Even if what you said is true, but Xue Ling is my disciple, I can’t just watch without doing anything.” The Flower Demon Valley Sect master; Feng Xuli declared.
“Xue Cangzhan, Feng Xuli, this isn’t our problem but the young ones. This problem should be them to solve not us.” The President advised.
“But President, from what I heard Ye Wushuang is a criminal! How can I let my daughter be with someone like that?”
“Wait,” Liu Fengxun called out. “This is just one of the likely possible reasons why Ye Wushuang showed in our country. There might be some more important reason we didn’t know? So we can’t conclude anything yet.”
“What reason?”
“I don’t know, we will only know if the person himself really comes here.”
The conference turned into silence.
Ye Wushuang, they really couldn’t think of anything as to how they welcome him. Some wanted to capture him, some wanted to befriend him, and some didn’t care at all.
They didn’t know anything about the man called Ye Wushuang. What they had was nothing but hearsays.
But one thing couldn’t be ignored; Ye Wushuang isn’t someone they can take carelessly.
From the Divination Princess’ threat to his own personal power that still remained a mystery for them, one thing or another, they can’t ignore him!
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Corpses were scattered everywhere in the quiet and eerie place. What was even more horrifying was that most of the corpses weren’t complete.
Broken off heads seemed to be leaking rubber balls as they each left behind their own trail of blood. Fresh blood stains stood out on the walls and cemented streets. Bodies with their limbs cut off lay quietly in the narrow gullies of the alley like hacked off tree trunks.
The moon shone serenely down on this scene from hell. The souls seemed to have yet to disperse upon death as if pulled along the shadow casting in the corner of streets, giving it an eerie aura.
The newly arrived people seeing this scene that seems to have been carved out from horror movies couldn’t help but furrowed their brows and some even started vomiting. They just couldn’t stomach what they were watching.
“What just happened here?” A middle-aged man asked with a heavy face. “Did a monster managed to enter the city?”
A young man walked forward and started checking the corpses. He shook his head, “I don’t think so…”
“What is it, Fu Xing?”
“Master, this wounds, it seemed to have made using a sharp edge like a blade. It’s a clean cut.”
“Then you’re saying, a human did this using a sword or a saber?”
“I think so too master.” The young man respectfully answered.
“That can’t be…” The master can’t believe it after seeing how horrifying the scene was. Humans can’t possibly have the heart to do something brutal like this.
“Master…” Another young man hesitantly walked forward.
“What is it?”
“That’s, I think this is the work of that killer…”
“What killer?” The master frowned. He just arrived in this city not long ago so he doesn’t know anything about the situation inside it.
“Master, I think what the junior brother wanted to say is that this might possibly another work of that killer calling himself as [ Blood Ghost ].”
“[ Blood Ghost ]?”
“Yes, Master. When we arrived at the city, we also came upon similar accidents. At that time, we learned that there were already two to three prior accidents before that one and all of the victims were martial artists and government officials. Since his work always shown blood being spilled around, and he always vanishes like a ghost and no one had seen him, they started calling him [ Blood Ghost ] after the killer once leave a short note on the scene.”
“What note?”
“’The blood dance, leaving a scarlet path. I am the spirit of carnage, the disciple of Asura. Like a ghost, I will stand before you and before you notice, your blood will then be my path! Blood Ghost!’”
“Blood Ghost?! A bloody killer! What his purpose?” The master was enraged. Since all the victims were martial artists, then it would be assuming that they are the killer’s primary targets. But for what purpose?
The two disciples kept their silence since they also didn’t know the killer’s true purpose in doing this inhumane killing.
“I will tell the other leaders about this. This can’t go on any longer or else one of our disciples might be falling victim by this demon.” The master angrily said. “There were already many monsters outside waiting to devour us and now, another demon is hiding inside the city, waiting to cut us? This can’t stay as it is! This must be stopped immediately!”
““Yes master!”” the disciples bowed before leaving away.
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In a certain room, a figure covered by black clothes including his face was sitting cross-legged with a sword on his lap. But if one looks closely, they would certainly notice the outstanding figure of the black clothed person wasn’t that of a man but a woman.
Black with a hint red hue aura was covering the figure and voice like people screaming could be heard from the swirling black red mass. This was evil spirits.
The remnant of the ones slain by her.
The sword on the figure’s lap was a long sword with a black hilt. The blade of the sword was shining even inside a dim lit room.
If Allen was here, he would certainly recognize it. A demon cursed sword; [ Blood Ghost ].
A sword that becomes strong from absorbing blood and evil spirits from the victims. Unlike, Flor’s cursed sword, [ Blood Ghost ] doesn’t drive the user insane and instead bring out their hidden cruelty.
The personality that every people hide under their fake semblance.
This cursed sword creates another personality, one that is filled with cruelty and hate.
That is why all the users tend to use brutal and inhumane way of killing their victims.
[ Blood Ghost ] doesn’t give the user strength and power like Flor’s [ Tartanos ] but give an inhuman speed and stealth.
Like an assassin, hidden in the shadows, [ Blood Ghost ] user are classified as one of the greatest Fiend assassins. The victims would only notice the killer when they were struck.
The figure was currently in the middle of cultivating.
The evil spirits weren't just there for decorations but were extremely important for the figure’s cultivation, however, since this cultivation is the evil path, this would give the cultivator an enormous amount of pain as if their souls were being molded and cut into thousand pieces.
But if this was passed, the cultivator would achieve a huge amount of power.
For additional information, cultivators are different from Superhumans. Because of the existence of cultivation manuals, techniques, skills and others, martial artists were given a chance to become immortal through cultivation.
And these cultivations have also steps similar to Superhumans but they are completely different.
Superhumans were divided into Superhuman Lv1 – 9, Hero then King. Cultivators are also the same but the power levels are slightly different.
Cultivation is divided into several parts. The first part is the way to cultivate the martial path by cultivating the body. That is by cultivating through the Apprentice stage, Master, Grand Master and the King stage - This is also known as Qi Condensation Stage.
The second part is to cultivate the soul to enlighten oneself.
In short reaching enlightenment. After passing the King stage, you will reach the Emperor stage then the Ancestor and finally the Spirit stage- This is the Foundation Building Rank.
The last stage is called the Ascension Rank; Saint then to the God stage. These stages were divided into 5 layers. Though Saint and God stage is almost impossible to reach for each breakthrough is too difficult and arduous.
- One can even be already called almighty if they managed to reach King Stage.
In a comparison of power, a Lv2 Superhuman is comparable to the Apprentice stage while the Lv3 Superhuman is comparable to a peak Apprentice stage and so on.
However, Cultivators are still Humans so they are still considered Superhumans. They still have levels, though, cultivators merely focused on cultivating so sometimes their Superhuman levels are behind that of that of their cultivation.
Back in Allen’s previous world, cultivators are measured through their cultivation, not levels – though there still some who tried leveling both the power system but sadly this was a no go since it will only make the leveling speed become a turtle no matter how many monsters you kill.
The experience point from killing monsters will be halved and goes to either the cultivation system or the Superhuman system.
That is why increasing both power systems isn’t applicable especially those who desired strength.
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