After that little show apparently the big boy showed up looking like he need a mighty good smack. It's kind of like how I imagine lucius malfoy would act if he was a cultivator.
He stood high up in the air looking down on everyone. "Who are you and why are you causing trouble here boy." He demanded
"I am a debt collector and have come to retrieve payment from the misty cloud sect on overdue money." I explained digging out a paper and writing stuff down on it.
"You see on the way up I being a doctor carefully examined all of your sect members as they were having fainting spells when hit too hard. This is a serious ailment and might be contagious so I carefully examined each and every one of them. I love wrote down my fees here I made sure to keep track." I throw the paper to him.
he catches it and reads it carefully before looking at me. "This paper just says this is a robbery?" he asks.
"Oh my bad wrong paper." I say taking out a different one tossing it over.
"This just has the word gazillion on it and money signs?" he asks again.
"Correct." I say closely examining a black spatial ring.
"How did you get my spatial ring?!" he asks in shock.
"Debt collector powers my man." I reply pocketing the item.
"You dare?!?" he shouts.
"Looks like I'm not the only one here who has come to collect debts." I say pointing behind him.
he turns around in confusion only to be speared through by a black sinister spiked looking chain.
"Soul hall has come to collect on the loans it has given you in medicine." A grim looking ghostly man says.
"Man your really in debt aren't you?" I snicker.
The grim man looks at me in confusion for a second as he can't sense me at all.
"You know it's mighty rude to interrupt someone doing business ghost boy?" I tell him.
"You dare mock me? I am from the mighty soul hall do you even know who that is boy?" he sneers.
"Buncha ghostly fuckboys?" I ask.
he fires his soul chain at me. I grab it out of the sky and stuff it in my inventory. "Thanks man I like chain style weapons." I smile at him.
"What are you? Noone should be able to touch soul chains." he asks with caution filling his eyes.
"Yao Lao your friends from spirit hall are here to play aren't you excited?" I ask the white haired man who is giving the ghost a very dangerous glare.
"Yao Lao?" he looks at the man years ago Yao Lao was world famous as the only tier 9 alchemist. Soul hall and plotted with his disciple to kill him and capture his spirit and convert it into a puppet for soul hall.
"Yeah i fixed him up good as new and he's not very happy with you guys or his disciple." I say happily pulling out a bean bag to sit in and watch the show.
a vine like dome comes up around the area locking everything in place.
"I'm sure he's very bitter about being stuck in a ring for years and needs to vent a bit." I say pulling out some popcorn and tossing some in my mouth.
Sure enough the temperature plummets as a ghostly white flame fluctuates over his body and he pulls out a giant black ruler from his spatial ring.
My lotus flame pops up around the bystanders keeping them alive from the drastic change in temperature.
it would be a good fight except for the fact that Yao Lao was much stronger than the ghostly man and had a heavenly flame which was super effective on ghost type beings. Much like lightning.
I just enjoyed the show. No matter what the ghost man tried it was futile he couldn't run and he couldn't fight back his cultivation was quite a few levels lower than the greatest alchemist. So what does a coward do when they know they are going to die?
"Please wait if you spare my life I can compensate you with items or information." He begged and bartered and pleaded.
"Nah its fine as long as he just kills you I can absorb your soul and steal whatever i want." I said casually.
"No please I'll be a servant a slave please!" He continues.
"You think I want a creepy old ghost man as a servant? Bro I have world toppling beauties that wear sexy maid outfits you think you can compete?" I shook my head.
he screamed out in pain as his arm is burnt to ash by the white flames.
The torture lasted for about 20 minutes before Yao Lao finally wasn't having fun anymore. The limb less ghost man lay panting on the ground in pain.
I got up and walked over poking his chest and tearing out his soul.
"Well this is ironic in a way. Soul hall members being desouled. Nice." I tore out the memories I needed before tossing him into hell.
He didn't have much on him just some dark junk I don't need.
I look over to the pale ancestor of the misty cloud sect. having your soul pierced is pretty crappy.
"You know most of your sect is marked by soul hall along with yourself right?" I say smugly.
"What do you want?" he says bitterly.
"All the books and these two women along with any hidden treasures I'll erase the marks and let you guys escape." I say happily.
"Deal." he spits out and I just rob the whole area.
"Well I've already destroyed all the marks on everyone else from the medicine so your the only one left." I neck chop him and erase the mark.
"Perfect." I clap happily before walking off with Yao Lao and Yun Yun who is carrying Yanran.
This would be the end of the misty cloud sect. No resources. No manuals. Being hunted down by soul hall. Rough.