"Have you heard the news lately? Everyone in the village including me and you have been hearing voices in their heads! Some people even get sick too. The village elder says that he's sent a message to the city for help. They say a demon is haunting the village"
"My child has to sleep right next to me now because he's so scared of the noises in his head, I'm worried something might happen to us"
"People have been seeing shadows appear in their houses at night and in the morning some of their stuff is gone. This is giving me the creeps."
This had all been caused by Fan Huang and Yao Yang.
After a week of preparation the night had finally come. The stars were as big and bright as an emerald jade, the moonlight reflected onto the forest floor and animals were on the prowl at night time, Suddenly a shadow could be seen moving towards the village with fast and long strides.
As the shadow approached the village it jumped over a house and found itself in the middle of the village. The shadow slowly was showered in the moonlight and a young boy with long hair, tattered clothes and thick eyebrows was standing with his hands forming hand signs. This boy was Fan Huang, today was the night when the ritual would take place and the day he would rid this village of existence and use it as a stepping stone to further his strength.
He could be seen whispering words from his mouth but they were too faint to hear from a normal distance. If you came closer you could hear what he was saying.
"Use your hatred and anger as energy to cripple your enemies and strike fear into their heart. Using blood as sacrifice and my qi i shall take their strength to further my own! May the strong pray on the weak! Immortal Lust Demon heed my call!"
Fan Huang's last sentence sent out a sonic boom that spread out through the village. The blood circle on the outside of the village lit up and red hot amber color plagued the sky above the village.
"Fan Huang! I'm giving you 2 hours to complete the ritual before others get here or otherwise we might be in trouble. I am strong but since you are at the 1st level of qi condensation i can only use my fighting mortal skills but none of my cultivation techniques. After completing the ritual we must hurry to the east to Glory city"
Yao Yang warned Fan Huang in an inpatient tone.
The villagers of the village could be seen walking very slowly out of their house forming a circle around Fan Huang. There were children, elderly and adults, everyone in the village was here. All their faces were emotionless, their eyes were black and everyone's hair was slowly turning grey.
The village emitted an aura of death and lifelessness. laid beside Fan Huang was a rusty iron dagger.
Fan Huang slowly looked upon the crowd and thought about what he was gonna do. He looked at the village chief, the children and his auntie. Her previously beautiful self and body was now less appealing. During Fan Huang's preparation they had been laying different mortal grasses found in the forest to create demon whispering as you rubbed it against tree bark. The result would be the herbs creating an invisible smoke that would spread around the village and slowly weaken their minds and weaken their resistance to mind techniques.
He had also prepared the 81 talismans from earlier and walked around the crowd and placed the talismans on all the adults bodies. After putting the talismans he decided to put one last talisman on one of the bullies who had bullies him before. He then sat down in meditation for a minute and placed his hand on the ground and formed hand signs with his other. As he did this the people in the crowd looked up into the sky and blood could be seen flowing out of their mouths towards Fan Huang. The crowd's bodies could be seen becoming smaller and smaller. Their bodies were withering at a rate visible to the eye. In front of Fan Huang you could see a ball of blood forming and another ball but the color was black. The black ball was much smaller than the blood ball but contained more power than the blood ball. After the time it takes an incense to burn the 2 balls of blood and black were fully formed and everyone in the village's bodies were like mummies. If someone from the village were here and were asked to tell Fan Huang who was who they wouldn't be able to recognize them.
"This is the most important point. You have to now absorb the blood ball at a rate that you can handle. If you absorb it too quickly you will turn into something not human you could say. But don't do it too slowly because i can tell that some cultivator in the area has noticed the red lights in the sky. So try and take in as much as you think you can" Yao Yang spoke to Fan Huang .
The blood ball now was now being absorbed by Fan Huang and circulate and absorbed the power as told by Yao Yang before hand. He could slowly feel his body become lighter and stronger. The blood ball circulated throughout his meridians and was absorbed into his skin and muscles.
After the time it takes an incense to burn the blood ball was gone and Fan Huang then gazed to the Black ball that radiated a death aura.
"Now that you have done as i have asked your body will now be ten times as strong than before. You should be able to scale walls with ease and you could three times more than most fit mortal adults. This is the power this village has granted. Doesn't it feel great Fan Huang! " Yao Yang's voice reverberated within his mind and Fan Huang looked at his hand and tightly closed them.
"We are not done yet Fan Huang! We still have to refine the dead corpses of the adults. Quickly pull out the tub of herbal water and activate the talismans."
When Fan Huang first entered the immortal cave they found a bag of holding which when Fan Huang at the time wasn't able to open it but now that he was a cultivator he could.
Fan Huang slapped his bag of holding and pulled out a tub of water with multiple herbs within it.
Fan Huang then using the blood circle's powers ordered the lifeless corpses of the adults who had talismans on them to walk forward to the tub of water and herbs. One by one the villagers bodies dunked their heads within the tub of water and herbs. After that was done he pointed the the black colored ball. That ball was actually a ball made up of all the negative and hateful thoughts of the villagers over their lifetimes. This ball then split into 81 separate balls and pushed itself into each of the villagers. Their once lifeless bodies which emitted a aura of death now also emitted an aura of killing intent and negativity.
"Now chant the lines I've told you and they will all be yours and become gray hair zombies. These zombies will all have the strength of five adult men and with 81 of them could easily beat an 5th level qi condensation disciple. However using the Immortal Lust Demon's technique their strength will increase by a further forty percent which would allow you to defeat even a 7th level qi condensation disciple. You are one lucky kid i can tell you that."
He then repeated the chants that Yao Yang told them and slowly but surely he could feel a connection between him and the rest of the lifeless bodies. After a couple of breaths the bodies hairs slowly turned gray and their white eyes rolled forward revealing the red fiery blood colored eyes of the gray hair zombies. He slapped his bag of holding and put all the gray hair zombies within it. Fan Huang then turned east and ran straight forward to Glory city down the endless dirt road.
"Good job! you managed to complete the ritual within 1 and half an hour. That was faster than i expected Fan Huang. I just hope no one finds out we are the culprits. If you see anyone who might be a cultivator hide within the trees."
"Yes master." In the night time he felt like he needed to appreciate the moon a little a bit more than he currently he is. The night wind blew against his clothes and he gradually slowed down as he saw a silver back wolf in the distance. As the wolf saw Fan Huang it growled at him and stared at him with a vicious gaze. If the Fan Huang from yesterday he would have to run for his life or let Yao Yang defeat it for him but with his new found strength he didn't have to run anymore.
Fan Huang looked at the wolf with excitement and rushed towards the wolf and instantly dodged the wolf's jump and grabbed the wolf's neck just like Yao Yang did when he fought the wolf.
Fan Huang put on a smile of satisfaction as he broke the wolf's neck.
Like master, like student.