Li Ling sized the fellow up, who incidentally stood more than a head taller than himself. With a strange look on his face, Li Ling struck out with the Dao Soldier Technique, attacking the Sea of Consciousness of the fellow before him with his spirit sense.

"ARGH!" The formerly confident Body Foundation warrior was completely caught off guard by the spiritual attack on his mind and was completely disoriented, allowing Li Ling to punch him in the gut with his Blood Qi, crippling him in one hit.

Li Ling glanced down at the kneeling fellow whose eyes were completely bloodshot due to the mental damage, coupled with his mouth which was leaking blood from the subsequent physical attack, feeling utter disdain in his heart.

The idiot thought that by coming close, he eliminated the distance that Li Ling could have used to flee, but he was unaware that it was the same for Li Ling. He had always had the ability to initiate attacks with his spirit sense to pierce the Sea of Consciousness of others even with the normal Soul Piercing Seal, much less its upgraded version that was a unique immortal art.

The cost was next to nothing for Li Ling too, because what decided the limitations of the Dao Soldier Technique were the distance—putting more load on his spirit sense—and the resistance, which was the strength of the opposing party's mind. Since Li Ling didn't even try to break into the Sea of Consciousness and seize control, rather opting to 'knock on the door' to distract, he found a rather easy way to disorient foes who were not in the second realm of qi cultivation.

Unfortunately, this trick would not work as easily on Foundation Establishment practitioners, as they had basic defenses set up even if their spirit sense was average. Still, it could be a good method to throw off the opponent in a split-second fight where every action was decided in milliseconds.

As for right now, it was naturally super effective, causing the only person here who could have possibly challenged Li Ling to be incapacitated. Precisely because of this, the others could not even muster the will to flee or fight, just standing there with pale faces as the Mountain Splitting Blade hovered around them menacingly.

"Answer my question. Was it fun to do what you did?" Li Ling asked with a slightly interested expression.

The pained Body Foundation fellow gritted his teeth and raised his head, his eyes filled with a mixture of fear and confusion at the situation, especially at the question posed to him.

"Is it… fun? Cough… I don't… understand…"

The fellow struggled to speak through coughs of blood as Li Ling's Blood Qi ravaged his torso without being easily subdued by the opposing warrior's Fire Aura, deeply scaring the latter because he couldn't understand why his second realm body qi was not able to suppress this mere first realm body qi.

Li Ling rubbed his chin and paced around slowly. "I mean rape. The act of forcing yourself on a woman. Is it fun?"

The Body Foundation warrior remained quiet, assuming that this young man was a righteous fellow who could not stand his previous actions and was questioning him. The others around also thought the same, and the eyes of the Governor's son lit up as he squirmed free from his captor's grip, his eyes red.

"Noble Hero, please vanquish these vile villains who have harmed countless innocents over the years!" he implored as he prostrated himself before Li Ling, making the other cultivators curse at this fellow, regretting not killing him earlier.

The Governor's eyes lit up with hope, his eyes also filling with hatred after the act while the young lady sighed with relief internally, feeling that things should finally come to an end. However, this wouldn't be enough for her poor mother who was still in need of urgent help inside…

CRUNCH!

However, the entire hallway was thrust into the depths of coldness when Li Ling casually crushed the head of the kneeling Governor's son while pacing, not even looking at the fellow he killed.

｢System Prompt: You have gained 0.01 Slaughter Points.｣

"Eh?" Li Ling was stunned, finally noticing the corpse at his feet and the blood underneath his boots, his face becoming dark.

"Who left this trash here? Tsk, clean it up!" Li Ling complained, kicking the corpse away, causing it to splat against the nearby wall and splash what remained inside the carcass across the onlookers.

Yet none dared to even wipe their faces.

"In fact, forget it. Who cares how or why cretins like you choose to go non-consensual? As long as one has the power, they should be able to do whatever they want." Li Ling finally concluded, waving his hand with boredom.

With a single step, he reached the side of the Governor's daughter, grabbing her by the throat and lifting her into the sky as the Mountain Splitting Blade came to rest underneath his feet.

Just like this, Li Ling left the manor after casually blasting a hole in the roof, not even leaving some final words nor looking back at the dumbfounded group he left behind. After all, once he reached the altitude at which he could overlook the whole city with a glance—with the young lady still grasping his arm and fighting his restraint—he used his free hand to summon a meteor down upon the entire city.

KRAKOOM!

Both parties watched with different expressions as an entire city with hundreds of thousands of lives was turned into a large crater with nothing but rubble and debris remaining. Li Ling was callous and largely unfeeling while the young lady's arms had gone slack, her eyes lost in a daze of shock and incomprehension at the massacre.

In the end, Li Ling snorted and glanced at his tally of Slaughter Points before heading toward the Fire Heart Sect's main headquarters.

｢System Prompt: You have gained 5,344 Slaughter Points.｣

Even if mortals only gave a flat 0.01 Slaughter Points, in a city with slightly above five hundred thousand in total population, it was still bound to pay off greatly. However, slaughtering mortals en masse like this was only a boon that could come from Wars of Annihilation, because anywhere else it would be heavily persecuted, even by a demonic sect.

This was just a city too, not even an entire kingdom. If Li Ling took his time and went from city to city, he could harvest an untold amount of Slaughter Points!

However, his sect merits were not doing as well.

Right now, after the cleansing of the True Light Sect and the various members of the Fire Heart Sect up to here, he had gathered barely over 800 Blood Credits, and this vanquishing of a mortal city only added 100 Blood Credits to that tally, making it 810 in total after the penalty was applied.

The 100 Blood Credits was a flat rate for mortal-killing based on its scale. Slaughtering a mortal village was 1 Blood Credit, slaughtering a town was 10 Blood Credits and a city was 100 Blood Credits. As for killing individuals? That was for you to enjoy; it meant nothing even if you wiped out an entire clan unless they were geopolitically counted as a village when the region was explored by the True Human Path assessors.

Come on, you did not possibly think the Six Paths Demon Sect was full of stooges, did you? If you could think of clever loopholes by farming mortals crazily, couldn't they as well? And since it was a basic resource of demonic cultivation, they wouldn't be as foolish as to let you eat your cake and still have it.

Li Ling figured that if he cleared out the Fire Heart Sect's headquarters and completed his dispatch, he would be able to amass just over a thousand Blood Credits to buy the second level of the Asura Blood Descent, then with his accumulated Slaughter Points, he could reach perfection in both second realm arts!

Thinking like this, Li Ling couldn't help but laugh with joy, something which made the young lass he kidnapped shake with fear. If it wasn't for the fact that she had some martial cultivation as a mortal, she likely would not even be able to survive the journey with Li Ling, much less be taken back as goods.

"I hope Majin One has collected some good specimens. The future of my lucrative dispatches depends on that Fatty," Li Ling muttered to himself.

It took only about a quarter hour to arrive at the location of the Fire Heart Sect's base, which was unsurprisingly set in the side of a small volcano which was semi-active. It was only in this kind of place that they could refine the kind of fire poison that could become the Fire Qi of their sect, along with other necessary fire-related elements.

Because of this, Li Ling did not dare to throw a meteor down lest he agitated the natural fixture and caused a disaster that would wipe out all life for miles around and change the topography.

Mostly because if he did that, all the leftover supplies and wealth of those who remained would be utterly destroyed.

So Li Ling jumped off the Mountain Splitting Blade and left the girl to hover upon it while falling downwards, his lips spreading into a wide grin. While he fell, his eyes shifted into a colorful glow that encompassed seven different hues, his Magic Power rapidly consumed as he glanced at the sect protection array of the Fire Heart Sect.

This one was not simple at all, being a Grade 3 Lava Shield Array that drew power from the volcano specifically, greatly enhancing its sustainability while giving it a high damage threshold. Truthfully speaking, were it not for this array, even Huo Yang would not dare to trust Shi Poyun to travel with him along with his sect's backbone, because he knew that even if he was gone, the Black Heaven Sect would not be able to break this array unless their ancestor came out and paid a heavy price.

But in the face of a top sect like the Six Paths Demon Sect, Huo Yang knew this awesome array would be besieged and eventually broken, hence devising the hiding away plan while using the sect headquarters and array as a smokescreen to distract the bloodthirsty Demon Sect disciples.

In fact, Pang Wen and everyone else thought so too, expecting Li Ling to gather a team for this dispatch before heading out like everyone else did, which was why he gave such a short timeframe like seven days. After all, traveling speeds in this world were extremely fast, even if the distances were exaggerated compared to Earth.

Who actually knew this greedy madman would take it all on himself?

Li Ling used his Dao Seeing Eye to scan all the important nodes of the array which were revealed to him even more intimately than to the one who created or laid it down. Immediately, he switched the technique off as it drained 40% of his magic power in just five seconds of use, exponentially more demanding than any of his perfected offensive daoist arts.

But this was enough for the young man who flipped, changing his fall to feet first, imbuing all his Blood Qi on his legs as he struck a key node and broke through the array individually, diving into the sect.

The array naturally patched itself right after he broke through, trapping Li Ling within.

But was he really the one trapped in here with them? Heh heh.

Landing noisily on the sect's square, attracting the attention of the nearly 200 disciples stationed here, Li Ling employed the Restoration Spell to heal his fractured leg bones from the fall—as regardless of his physical strength as a peak first realm body refiner—the height he dropped from and the collision with the array caused a rebound.

For the Fire Heart Sect disciples, all they saw was a small crater where a man with ruined legs began to rise to his feet shakily with a slightly crazed, murderous grin on his face, his leg bones visibly and audibly snapping back into place in an eerie manner.

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