“Help! Someone-AAAHHHHH”
The dying screams and pain-filled howls of hundreds of humans rang out across the sky as the burning town illuminated the night sky.
High in the sky, powerful cultivators of the Core Formation realm died like ants as their blood fell like rain.
All around the town, one could find the gruesome scene of countless Demonic Beasts ravaging the place and killing everyone in sight while cultivators wearing black cloaks killed any survivors.
Amidst this hellscape, two men fought fiercely in the sky.
One of them wore a hooded black robe, concealing all of his features while the other person wore the robes of an Imperial Official.
The sheer speed and attack power of the Imperial Official showed that he was in the early stages of Nascent Soul realm while the flickering form of the other person who avoided the attacks of the Official by teleporting showed that he was at least in the Soul Transformation realm.
“Damn you! You Demonic bastards! And damn those Barbarian Clans who joined hands with monsters like you-“
“You talk too much, Official Zhang.”
Before the imperial official known as Official Zhang could even say anything, the man in black robes flickered again and appeared behind Official Zhang.
With a plunge of a sword, he pierced the heart of the imperial official, but the man was not satisfied. With a burst of power that momentarily revealed his real cultivation realm, he flooded the official’s body with his Demonic Qi, corroding his body from within rapidly.
“V-Void Refinement realm?? You, you are Mo Ye-“
“Looks like even in death you choose to run your mouth.”
With another burst of power, the mysterious man directly turned the Imperial Official into dust.
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As he watched the dust scatter in the wind, another person appeared behind him. This one wore extravagant clothing and had an extremely arrogant and sadistic look on his face as he watched the demise of the humans below.
“With that annoying human dead, we can now proceed with our plan.”
“Indeed, young master Huanghu. I’ll be relying on your people to prepare the souls of these mortals for my Formation.”
“Of course, Master Mo. Leave it to us. I’ll have the Yushe family work on collecting the souls.”
The man from the Huanghu family, the current king of all the Barbarian Clans, immediately headed to find his forces and give them his orders, leaving behind the man called Master Mo to watch the proceedings in peace.
“…You can come out now.”
Despite waiting for some time, there was no movement in his surroundings, causing him to sigh in exasperation.
“Mo Qingyin, my dear daughter, you should know by now that you can’t hide from me.”
With those words, the shadows in the sky twisted before the illusion fell off, revealing a breathtakingly beautiful woman with black hair and eyes wearing similar black robes to that of Master Mo.
“…Father.”
“Are you finally willing to take up our family arts and begin working on succeeding me as the Sect Master?”
“I would rather die than become a monster like you, much less succeed you as the head of that sect of lunatics you keep around.”
Once again, the man sighed before turning away from the woman.
“In that case, you should go back. I can’t have a weakling like you collapse after watching the ritual.”
The girl said nothing before disappearing from view again. However, once the girl was gone, an amused smirk appeared on the man’s face.
“Follow her from a distance and keep hiding like you always do. When she thinks that the group of mortals she is protecting secretly are safe and returns home, kill them all, and bring me their souls.”
Once again, there was no response to his words, but he knew that his words were heard by the intended person and that he would carry out his task to the best of his abilities as his most loyal follower.
Time passed as the Barbarian Clans gathered the souls of the dead mortals and the few cultivators and placed them within a massive formation created from the blood and flesh of the dead bodies in the town.
With the formation and the ingredients in place, Master Mo began the ritual that they had set out to create.
A few days later, news would reach the rest of the empire of the Crimson Peak Town’s slaughter in the southern borders.
The investigators sent by the Royal Family and various forces of the empire would fail to find any real clues to the incident due to the heavy blizzard of the winter burying everything under thick sheets of snow.
Then, sometime later, the unrest across the Empire would grow even more as an envoy of the Baihu Empire would reach the imperial capital, carrying the declaration of war by the Baihu Empire in response to one of the towns being slaughtered by Imperial Officials of the Yin Long Empire.