Chapter 241: Journey of Slaughter

Chapter 241: Chapter 241: Journey of Slaughter

Sure enough, when Lin Ying’s gaze fell upon Yi Xiaoyao, she found him looking right back at her.

In that instant, the realization that her death was imminent suddenly dawned on her.

Lin Ying suddenly recalled asking Yi Xiaoyao back at the Black Cloud Tavern why he didn’t flee, even though he knew members of the Cyan Wolf Alliance were coming.

At the time, Yi Xiaoyao’s answer had been: Why should I?

Originally, Lin Ying had thought Yi Xiaoyao was simply too young and naive, unaware of the dangers of the Chaotic Alliance Domain. She never imagined that this man was just that confident in his own strength!

’No wonder they put out a bounty of one million Spirit Stones for him. He really is that powerful...’

Lin Ying murmured, her lips trembling. The next instant, a flash of sword light appeared before her eyes, and her head was separated from her body.

"A little late for that realization now."

Yi Xiaoyao spoke coldly, then turned his gaze to the other captains and the surrounding members of the Moon Slaying Alliance.

Those men had already given up on fleeing. With nothing but fear in their eyes and on their faces, they huddled together, intending to fight to the death.

But Yi Xiaoyao’s eyes flickered, and he didn’t attack immediately.

’To kill, or not to kill?’

Yi Xiaoyao muttered to himself, pondering for a moment as if searching for a reason to convince himself.

The next moment, his gaze sharpened. His sword light and his body moved as one.

"Kill!"

The Moon Slaying Alliance were spies for the Imperial Army Mansion. That alone was reason enough for Yi Xiaoyao to slaughter every last one of them.

Besides, in the Chaotic Alliance Domain—a place known as "a hell for the merciful"—kindness and soft-heartedness were the most foolish of behaviors.

And there was one more crucial point...

SCHLICK!

With a single flash of his sword, several early-stage Nascent Soul Realm cultivators died simultaneously. The moment their blood splattered, a wisp of crimson Qi flowed from each corpse, converging around Yi Xiaoyao.

’The last three forms of the Nine Swords of Slaughter are each comparable to a Celestial Tier Spiritual Skill. But to use them, I must first gather enough Slaughter Qi.’

A smile crept onto Yi Xiaoyao’s lips as he felt the blood-red Qi gathering around him.

This blood-red Qi, extracted from every corpse he created using a Secret Technique from the Nine Swords of Slaughter, was the very Slaughter Qi required to execute the final three forms.

This was also the most important reason for Yi Xiaoyao’s decision to kill.

As long as he kept killing and gathered enough Slaughter Qi, he could master another Spiritual Skill comparable to the Celestial Tier.

SWOOSH SWOOSH SWOOSH...

Yi Xiaoyao’s figure weaved through the crowd. Every flash of his sword reaped a great many lives, and with each death, more wisps of blood-red Slaughter Qi converged upon him.

The members of the Moon Slaying Alliance screamed and fled, but they all fell as wandering souls to Yi Xiaoyao’s sword.

The Moon Slaying Alliance’s sub-pillar had nearly sixty Nascent Soul Realm experts and hundreds in the Golden Core Realm. Yet, in just a few short moments, they were all reduced to a field of corpses.

Afterward, Yi Xiaoyao sheathed his Bloodthirsty Sword, which was thrumming with excitement after gorging on so much blood. Without hesitation, he rose into the air and left the city.

It wouldn’t be long before the Moon Slaying Alliance’s other Squad Leaders and its Alliance Leader noticed what had happened here. He needed to leave as quickly as possible.

Half an hour later, a blood-red figure descended from the sky into a quiet, secluded valley below.

Yi Xiaoyao crouched by a stream in the valley, washing the bloodstains from his body.

In his reflection on the water’s surface, he could see the Slaughter Qi coiling around him, now an even more demonic, vivid red.

"This still isn’t enough."

Yi Xiaoyao sighed softly. The last three forms of the Nine Swords of Slaughter were Celestial Tier Spiritual Skills. The Slaughter Qi gathered from these hundreds of people was far from enough for him to execute even a single one of those moves.

After a short rest to recover his Spiritual Power, Yi Xiaoyao once again rose into the air and shot off in another direction.

He would continue to kill, to gather more Slaughter Qi.

He would continue to challenge the strong, to grow stronger through those challenges.

...

The Poison Dragon Alliance was a power no less formidable than the Moon Slaying Alliance.

And Qinghe City was one of the Poison Dragon Alliance’s sub-pillars.

At this moment, the sky above Qinghe City was a dreary gray. A fierce wind swept through, and without any warning, a heavy snow began to fall, the flakes like goose feathers rustling down from the heavens.

"Is it snowing?"

Outside a mansion in Qinghe City, two guards looked up at the sky. The fierce wind and raging blizzard made it difficult for them to keep their eyes open.

The two guards closed the mansion gates and stood behind them, rubbing their hands together for warmth.

"Who knows how long this snow will last," one guard said.

The other guard was about to speak when suddenly...

BOOM!

The large gates behind them violently exploded, the splintered doors flying forward.

"What?" The two guards standing right behind the gates were the first to be hit. They were too close; the heavy doors crashed down on top of them.

The terrifying force of the impact made both men spit out a large mouthful of blood as their bodies were sent flying along with the doors, ultimately crashing into the mansion’s courtyard.

"What’s going on?"

The other guards in the courtyard turned to look, their expressions changing drastically.

You have to understand, these two gate guards were at the Golden Core Realm Peak! How could they be sent flying and spitting blood by a pair of doors?

Immediately after, they saw a figure standing at the mansion entrance, dressed in a black robe with a longsword on his back, a thick, blood-red Qi swirling around him.

"Who’s there?"

A Guard Captain roared, but in the next moment, a flash of sword light swept past, and all the guards collapsed, lifeless.

WHOOSH~~

The blizzard whipped across the field of corpses, the snowflakes instantly stained red by the blood on the ground.

The figure in black walked past the bodies, which were rapidly stiffening in the blizzard, and proceeded step-by-step into the depths of the mansion.

From the corpses, wisps of blood-red Qi emanated and converged upon him.

This figure in black was, of course, Yi Xiaoyao.

Meanwhile, inside a hall within the mansion, several people were reporting to a man in a gray robe.

"Squad Leader, I’ve found out who was responsible. It was the Octagonal Alliance that ambushed our Viper Squad yesterday!"

Hearing this, the gray-robed man slammed his hand on the table. "The Octagonal Alliance? They actually dare to make a move against my Poison Dragon Alliance? What audacity!"

But suddenly... a shocking fluctuation of Spiritual Power, accompanied by the sounds of fighting and screaming, reached them from outside.

"What’s going on?" The gray-robed man’s expression suddenly changed.

"Could it be that the Octagonal Alliance has come to attack us?" a captain asked with a frown.

The group hastily rose and rushed outside.

The next moment, they could see a phantom-like figure hundreds of yards away.

The figure flickered and moved continuously, his Sword Intent soaring to the heavens. Flashes of sword light blinked in and out of existence, each one stained with the blood of the Poison Dragon Alliance’s members.

"Get over there, now!" the gray-robed man roared, leading the captains behind him as they shot forward.

At their speed, the distance of several hundred yards was covered in an instant.

But in that same instant, the people throughout the mansion had already been subjected to a frantic slaughter.

By the time the gray-robed man arrived, Yi Xiaoyao’s longsword was just piercing through the chest of the last early-stage Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.

"You’re courting death!!"

The faces of the gray-robed man and his group contorted with rage. A mere Second-Realm Nascent Soul cultivator had just slaughtered their entire sub-pillar’s forces right in front of them. This was an absolute challenge to their bottom line.

"Who is the Squad Leader here?"

Yi Xiaoyao pulled his Bloodthirsty Sword from the corpse and scanned the men before him.

Then, he activated the Soul Burning Forbidden Technique.

"Step forward and accept my challenge."

...

A short time later, Yi Xiaoyao stepped through the air and departed. The mansion below had been reduced to ruins, with not a single person left alive.

And the Slaughter Qi coiling around him had become even more condensed and demonic.

"Still not enough."

Yi Xiaoyao muttered to himself while standing in mid-air. He then looked into the distance and shot off toward another region, braving the wind and snow.

Next, he would embark on a journey of slaughter throughout the Chaotic Alliance Domain!

「Several days later.」

News suddenly exploded across the Chaotic Alliance Domain: dozens of sub-pillars from various powers had been attacked and annihilated by a man in a black robe.

Moreover, the black-robed man’s route of attack was completely random and seemed to have no objective, making it impossible for the various powers to guard against him...

Most importantly, this man in the black robe only had a Second-Realm Nascent Soul Cultivation!

...