47. Actions and Consequences III
Clay is seated on meditative position as he watched the sun setting over hovering over the horizon. Sadly, he could not feel the warmth as he is currently sealed like a mouse caught in a trap unable to escape.
Having successfully broken through to Late Qi Condensation, he was confident that he can now extend his Qi Projections within two hundred meter radius but he did not rush in eliminating the Core Formation experts gathered around him. Since it took him all afternoon to stabilize his cultivation, he may as well wait for the Nascent expert to arrive and kill everyone once and for all.
After a few minutes, Nascent expert finally arrived. Clay noticed Nascent expert was holding to human sized sack but he did not care whatever is in them. The moment the Sealing Formation is opened, he will immediately make a move.
Clay watched as the Nascent Soul expert threw the two sacks he was holding towards his subordinates and when he felt the Sealing Formation is about to be deactivated, he got to his feet and prepared for a surprise attack.
However, the moment the Formation was lifted, he heard to familiar voices shouting in distress.
"Young master! Don't mind us and escape… "
Clay refrained from making a move as he listened to the voice again.
"Young master! Please escape and don’t mind us..”
Clay’s mind almost blanked out. The voice is coming from one of the human sized sacks and even without seeing who is inside, he could tell it is Aunt Mabna’y. And even without looking into the other sack as well, he knew it should be Mebiline inside.
"I have a present for you. As you can see…" The Nascent expert still maintained a safe distance and when he was in the middle of his sentence, he noticed a thin trace of aura radiating from Clay and giving him a shock. In just have a day, Clay seem to have broken through from Early Qi Condensation to Advance level. He smiled as all the more reason he needed to safely restrain Clay's cultivation and soul search him.
"What do you want?" Clay calmly asked as he calculated if his Qi Projections would arrive and kill everyone on time.
“Oh, you know them?” The Nascent Soul Expert coldly smiled and gave a signal for his subordinates to remove the sacks covering the two people he kidnapped.
"What do you want?" There is anger and tone of begging from Clay’s voice as he could no longer keep himself composure.
"Young master! Don't mind us and escape… Argghhhh"
Clay clenched his teeth upon seeing Aunt Mabna’y and Mebiline strangled from behind.
"What I want is simple. My subordinate just needs to touch you. If you make a move, they die."
“Whatever you want, please don’t kill them.” Clay’s voice is trembling.
The Nascent Soul Expert sent another signal to one of his subordinates to approach Clay. He could technically do it himself but he will play it safe in case Clay is hiding something. And it thrills him just hearing Clay’s response.
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Inexperienced cultivator's first weakness is compassion towards their loved ones. No matter how much training one has, experiencing human interaction and developing wisdom requires time. And speaking of time, the reason he wanted to play it safe it to prevent Clay from committing suicide giving him no chance to perform Soul Search. He does not mind waiting a year if he has to let a lone half a day.
“Remember, put your hands above the air and let my subordinate touch you.” There is no emotion on the Nascent Experts face as he reminded Clay.
“Whatever you want, please don’t kill them.” Clay immediately responded and raised his hands to the sides and was getting ready to kneel and beg their mercy if he had to.
At the same time, one of the Core Formation experts slowly approached Clay. Since their elder is wary, he can’t help but worry as well. Since he is allowed to prepare life saving treasure, he had them ready since a minute ago.
As he got closer, he saw Clay’s pitiful look giving him confidence and after a few more seconds, he was standing a foot away from Clay. He then swiftly extended his fingers towards Clay’s dantian and in a blink of an eye, a magic circle was activated at the tip of his finger, then sent a violent portion of his Qi towards Clay's center of power.
Clay felt a foreign energy invaded his dantian and before he could contain it, it suddenly went berserk and exploded.
CRACK!
He felt his dantian shattered causing a portion of his Qi reservoir emanated and evaporated like a smoke from his body. On top of that, he felt a sharp and piercing pain that reverberated through his meridians. The pain was similar to the Bloodline Awakening but having experienced it three times, he developed an equable body response.
Clay did not show any indication of being hurt. After that, he felt a kick at the back of his knee forcing him to kneel, but his sight was still focused on the mother and daughter pair.
As soon as he was brought to his knees, the unthinkable happened.
SQUISH!!
Blood splattered everywhere.
The two men grabbing on the mother and daughter pair tighten their grip slowly decapitating the two.
THUD!
THUD!
THUD!
Clay watched in horror as he saw two headless bodies fell to the ground.
Meanwhile, the Nascent Soul expert was ecstatic when he saw his subordinate crippled Clay's cultivation successfully. He had limited time to perform soul search before Clay's Qi completely dissipates so he telepathically grabbed the two heads with his Qi, then flew and landed two meters in front of Clay.
Upon landing, the Nascent expert threw the two heads towards Clay. Fresh blood still dripping on them.
"You killed our brother in the same manner.”
There is a sinister expression on the Nascent expert’s face as he walked towards Clay and when he was an arm’s distance, extended his index finger towards Clay's forehead.
He was getting ready to perform a Soul Search but just before his finger could touch Clay’s skin, something terrifying materialized behind his head and before he could turn around, everything went dark.
Quishk!
A few seconds ago, Clay's stupor was not affected even with the pain brought about by his cultivation being crippled. He doesn’t mind loosing an arm or becoming slave again as long as he could save the two.
He thought he could negotiate after they destroyed his primary source of power but before he had the chance to beg for their mercy, the two Core Formation experts tighten their grip decapitating the mother and daughter pair.
Clay had been forcing himself to forget every unfortunate event he had experience but to witness another brutal death from someone he cared, all traumatic memories flashed back including Aunt Shi's decapitated head back at Buaki Gang.
He wanted to shout but despair made him unable to talk.
He wanted to cry however when he saw their heads thrown in front of him, raged consumed him.
Instinctively, the five Beast Cores within his body circulated and materialized pure and bone-chilling Qi Projections and in a split second, they all slithered and extended towards each nearby enemies squishing their heads.
Quishk!
Quishk!
Quishk!