Li Ling guessed it had to do with the nature of his breakthroughs, which were handled to the limit of perfection by the system. If a normal practitioner of the Blood Asura Descent used normal materials that were bought from the Feeding Blood Wing and followed every step dutifully, they were supposed to generate 120 meters of Blood Aura.

But since Li Ling did not follow every step dutifully and the generated resources by the system were the peak of their kind, it led to a far stronger and better foundation, befitting his assumed status as a Blood Child.

Satisfied, Li Ling finally had the frame of mind to glance at the duo he brought over, amused by the softhearted nature of Kong Beiwu. He was almost tempted to order him to throw the girl into the lava flowing below to see if he would do it, or even to defile her on the spot, which went against his fundamental values to the point where it poisoned him, but Li Ling resisted the urge.

Instead, Li Ling spread his spirit sense out and noticed a familiar face approaching slowly, making his expression become slightly speechless. Li Ling sat up from the Mountain Splitting Blade and landed on the ground with his feet, ignoring the heat of the rocks which couldn't even affect him in the slightest, sending the blade out to 'pick' up someone.

SHWWIM!

The duo of Kong Beiwu and the mortal girl only heard the blade's pleasant-sounding chime before it zoomed off like a bullet, diving downwards towards the lava sea below before coming up a few seconds later with a group of people on the back of a Level 1 Demon Sparrow, a common aerial mount of the cultivation world.

Landing on the plateau, the only man among this new group walked over to Li Ling with powerful steps, his power at the level of Body Foundation very obvious. Yet when he reached a distance of a few meters from Li Ling, he immediately got to his knees and bowed with reverence.

"Majin One greets the Master!" He paid his respects in the most obeisant way, making Li Ling's lips curl.

"Get up." Li Ling commanded, glancing behind Majin One to the crowd he brought along.

Unsurprisingly, it was a group of young women with relatively high levels of beauty, some cultivators and some mortals, numbering a total of nine. This made the poor Demon Sparrow overly crowded with the number of passengers, leading to the ladies long becoming terrified and pale-faced in fear that the bird would collapse or drop them into the sea of lava that came from nowhere.

Li Ling's lips twitched as he looked at the trembling mount which even ignored the heat of the rocks as it lay down flat while breathing heavily, its eyes in a daze and its tongue lolling out.

"Why not sacrifice some of them to reduce the weight, especially the weaker and less attractive of them?" Li Ling questioned with furrowed eyebrows.

As Li Ling did not lower his voice, his words were heard by the various captive women who had gotten off the beast and were struggling to stand on the hot rocks, making them show terrified expressions. One of them, a Qi Refinement level 8 cultivator, utilized her water attribute powers to cool a segment of the rocks with a sizzling sound, allowing the ladies to step on it to ease their suffering.

Majin One, who had just stood up, seemed puzzled. "Master, your order was to bring back as many beautiful females as I could. In fact, I even had many more lined up, but I calculated that the Demon Sparrow could only carry this many, so I executed those worse than these ladies in terms of looks."

Li Ling rolled his eyes and made the Big Dipper Seal. "You are in dire need of an upgrade. Wiping out your free will really makes you as rigid as a robot!"

Just as he did with Majin Three, Li Ling upgraded Majin One's slave seal, moving it from the Sea of Consciousness to the spiritual space, which caused a missing light in Majin One's eyes to return. At first, he was naturally confused, but he quickly gained his bearings and understood the situation.

He turned and glanced at the chaos he wrought and rubbed his head sheepishly. "Err, forgive me, Master, I was not thinking at the time…"

Li Ling waved a hand boredly. "I'm aware. Anyway, you have a different task now and won't be following us back."

Majin One bowed his head with excitement and obeisance, willing to heed anything Li Ling said. "Yes, Master, feel free to command me!"

Li Ling's eyes flashed with a bout of coldness and overt malice that caused all onlookers to shiver. "We must tie up loose ends. When I went to your hideout, I impersonated you and happened to tip off your family by mistake, allowing them to run."

Li Ling patted Majin One on the head gently, as one would a pet. "Your job is to search them out and kill them with your own hands, then kill yourself right after. Surely you can do this for me?"

There was a sea of lava flowing below this plateau that made the rocks the captives stood on steaming hot, releasing heat waves into the air, but none of them had ever felt more cold in their lives.

Majin One's face changed at first, but he raised his head with firmness and nodded. "It is the Master's mission, so I must carry it out! Leave it to me, Master!"

"Good, don't let me down." Li Ling responded casually, taking his hand back with a slight smile.

Majin One bowed once more and then kicked the edge of the plateau, causing a segment of it to snap off and plunge to the lava sea below. He then broke off another chunk and used his palm to chop it into the shape of a large spoon, jumping down and landing on the piece of flat rock he broke off.

Then without even looking back, he used the large spoon in his hand made of stone to row himself rapidly across the sea towards the location of the hideout, where his family would likely be holed up.

Li Ling curled his lips and nodded to Kong Beiwu. "Gather the females and board the Demon Sparrow. We are heading back to the sect outpost."

Kong Beiwu nodded and led the terrified women who had no inkling of resistance left in them to stand atop the back of the tired Demon Sparrow, but after one look from Li Ling, it could only muster its strength and stand up once more.

"Fine then, a reward for your hard work and an incentive to complete the job." Li Ling relented and took something out of one of the void rings he plundered from the True Spirit Sect.

Pointing over, Li Ling used the Restoration Spell to heal its torn muscles and ligaments, while also tossing a Grade 2 Beast Promotion Pill into the beast's eager mouth. The combination of the two would allow it to break through to the second realm if it was able to find some time to enter seclusion and digest properly, so the Demon Sparrow was more than happy to work hard.

Li Ling flew ahead on the Mountain Splitting Blade at full speed while the Demon Sparrow struggled to catch up, its renewed stamina not a match for the Perfected Spirit Sense Control of a Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivator.

Soon they left the lava area, which made the women sigh with relief and even Kong Beiwu's tense shoulders relax significantly. As they crossed miles of land, the group were privy to the damage and carnage below, with many people even cannibalizing each other before the demonic sect disciples could come over, making them feel a mixture of sadness and despair.

Even though they already understood their fate for being captured, at least it was better than being down there, where murders, rapes, and torture were occurring aplenty. At some point, most of them could not even bear to look anymore, while Li Ling was scanning the activities below with a look of interest, feeling his horizons had been broadened.

In the end, he was still too kind and generous!

Hmm, then again, he aimed to be a Slaughter God, not a Torture God. His goal was not to make his victims suffer needlessly to amuse him, but to reap their lives and end their line of karma cleanly to benefit himself.

So, could he afford to be a bit nicer?

Well, he wasn't so sure about that. After being repressed for over a decade in Firmament Heaven, his personality had warped too much, and after the awakening of the system and the near explosion from qi deviation, the him of today was just too malicious to do good easily.

Li Ling continued to ponder his morality and personality flaws as they traveled, only frowning when a giant sword of light slashed down at him from a tricky angle, to which he frowned. Activating the Perfected Golden Bell Shield, the Bright Sword was blocked at the edge of his defense, unable to take a single step further, as a group of figures rose from the nearby forest with cold expressions.

"Oh? To what do I owe the pleasure, Jian Chen?" Li Ling asked with narrowed eyes, his expression cold.

Jian Chen, leading his group of righteous sect cronies, arranged themselves before Li Ling with looks of disdain. "Demonic cultivator, you have gone to capture more innocent maidens! Let them go this instant or we refuse to let you pass!"

Kong Beiwu had a strange expression on his face while the women looked on with hope in their eyes, feeling the righteous aura and words of the handsome Jian Chen were like music to their ears. Meanwhile, Li Ling was thoroughly puzzled.

"Did we not make a Heavenly Oath not to interfere with each other for the duration of the war? How come you aren't being struck down?"

The group of righteous sect fellows shared a look and then burst into raucous laughter, as if they had heard the stupidest thing ever being said at this moment. Jian Chen himself smiled and shook his head with pity towards Li Ling.

"I knew it. After slaughtering a few more disciples from your devil sect and questioning them, I found that none of them knew your name nor your accolades. It turns out you were just a nameless nobody with a bit of skill, not a revered Blood Child like I thought."

Li Ling's face darkened as Jian Chen continued with his hands behind his back, looking down on Li Ling imperiously. "Otherwise, you would know that our three sects that form the Trinity of Righteousness had a pact with Heaven's Will to maintain stability and justice on the continent. As such, we are exempt from the punishment of heaven if we can justify the reasons, and taking down demonic sect disciples in such a brutal and senseless massacre qualifies!"

Li Ling sucked a deep breath, feeling that this was ridiculous and unfair!

However, he slapped his cheeks the next moment, clearing such childish thoughts from his head. With his two lives—and experience in this world especially—he knew that there was no such thing as fairness, and pining over it would only prevent one from reaching the necessary state of mind to dominate the world.

Rather, he smiled and glanced at the confused Jian Chen who was wondering if Li Ling had gone mad with fear or something.

"Alright then, that may be the case. However, you couldn't do anything about me before, so what makes you think you can do something about me now?" Li Ling asked the obvious question, which was more pressing for him.

Jian Chen snorted. "Who said we can't? We can attack you through the Heavenly Oath but you can't attack us back. In such a situation, we can tire you to death if we go all out, with no casualties to our side."

How shameless, Li Ling couldn't help but think to himself with amusement, but this was exactly what he expected from righteous sect fellows. If he tried to enter a war of words with them, he would lose no matter how eloquent or logical he was because they would adopt the moral high ground to justify all of their actions.

So rather than that, it was time to show them how a true demon handled such situations!

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