It took more than 30 minutes of fast paced walking to reach the location of the hideout. It was extremely well hidden within the mountains masked a giant pile of snow and rocks.
Gang Zhihao told him about the formation and opened it for him. It was a grade 3 formation that they stole. It is an illusion and stealth type inscription device. It sets up a barrier around the area and covers all inside its range. It makes whatever is inside undetectable to anyone below middle stage 4.
He mentioned that it is personally guarded by the leader as its one of his most valuable treasures and requires a constant supply of Qi.
Once the formation was open Zhihao walked in with Fen Chang and the shadows. Once in he sent the shadows to go round up the 2 other brothers but leave the leader alone as he wants to personally meet this leader first.
The shadows rushed out into the cave and swiftly started to deal with the people inside. Himself, Zhihao and Mo Bao the girl started walking inside taking a tour around the place eventually ending up in front of the leader's room.
Fen Chang was surprised when looking around the cave as even though it's a cave it has things like doors and separate rooms even a crude kitchen, along with the obvious torture and prison area.
The door to the leader's room was a lot fancier that the others and even had some basic carvings on it and even fancy lamps that use Qi to run. He then opened the door and looked towards the almost thrown like seat.
On the seat was an old draped in a thick black cloak with scars all over his face and a prominent scowl on his face. When he entered the room the mans closed eyes opened revealing the craziness within him.
His eyes filled with madness looked as if they saw nothing but meat when looking at Fen Chang, and then lust when he looked over Mo Bao.
Not liking the look in the leader's eyes Fen Chang spoke up first with an almost mocking voice. "So, this is the peak stage 3 expert huh, looks more like a crazy bum manic to try to breakthrough. I'm disappointed to say the least. Here I was hoping for a smarter more calculative leader type. Sigh, guess I thought too much of a peak stage 3 leader."
The madness is his eyes quickly turned to rage. "Who are you and how dare you talk back to me. You are a lowly experiment test subject. Zhihao take him and make sure he suffers."
He continues shouting out insults and how he is superior with the ever-present rage and madness in his voice. Eventually he turned his words towards Mo Bao and how she should offer herself if she doesn't want to be tortured as well.
With each word the rage inside her increased, it quickly got to the point where she was about to lose herself to rage just so she can go over their and get her revenge.
Before that happened though Fen Chang made a sign and quickly a shadow formed behind Dong Yijun the leader. This was his strongest shadow under him, a stage 4 level 1. Originally, he was a stage 3 level 9 peak shadow he enslaved with permission from his father and then using his resources and a new technique the shadow quickly advanced to stage 4 and because the seal was already on the shadow he was in control.
The shadow made swift work of the manic Dong Yijun and sealed his cultivation and movements using the shadow technique that all the shadows have.
Once the leader was incapacitated, he turned to Mo Bao and told her to beat him as she pleases, so long as she doesn't kill him, he doesn't care what she does to him.
With the only thing keeping the rage inside her at bay being permission from her new master now being gone the rage flooded out as she rushed towards him and started to beat him up.
She punched, kicked, ripped off his ears and tongue, stuck things down his dick and many other torturous things. The leader on the floor actually crying from the pain happening to him.
At first due to the leader being a much higher cultivation and being older his pain resistance was very high, so Fen Chang gave him a torture pill he created which increases pain and sensitivity by over 100x. He has a separate one for sex which only increases sensitivity, that's how he got the idea for a torture one.
He decided to leave and let her have some alone time with Yijun since he doesn't want to bother watching. He instead goes and looks around the base once again this time, taking his time to look through records, checking over the test subjects as well as enslave the other 2 old men, Mao Yuhan and Qiao Zexian.
During his search he found many disturbing things. Baby creatures locked in cages, humans that are in a similar state to the one he found Mo Bao in, even half human half beast hybrids where locked in some of the cages.
The most disturbing one he saw was of multiple women pregnant with obvious monster babies. It made him feel sick, so he swiftly had them all killed painlessly and plans to give the other 2 old men an extreme amount of torture before wiping away their consciousness.
Wanting to give Mo Bao more time to get her rage out he sends off Mao Yuhan and Qiao Zexian, the 2 other old men to her. He himself decides to cultivate for a couple of hours since there is only a few hours till sunrise.
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The next day everything with the old men and their schemes was swiftly handled. The 3 old men were sent off to Ma Tan to get punishment. Mo Bao spent a few hours grief stricken over her village and family while also mentally breaking down after getting her revenge.
Fen Chang stepped in and talked to her and gave her a new life goal which is to serve him, of which during her mental breakdown made her look at him like he was her life. So, he sent her to his inner world to meet the other girls so she can resolve her mentality a bit while also train.
He himself met back up with Bjorne who was worried about him since he didn't get back last night. But soon they parted ways as they once gain left each other and continued on their training.
This time he didn't bother with assassination as he got enough practice for now from last night with successfully avoiding the detection of a stage 3 level 8, which left him in a good position on that front. Instead he decides to work on his sword moves.
The first creatures he finds is a small nest of cave bats. There where about 10 of them with each being late rank 1. The moment he entered the cave the bats became aware of his presence and started screeching together creating a tremendous sound blast.
Forcing himself through the discomfort of his ear drums bursting he got into position with his sword. He had his sword vertical just in front of his face, with one hand on the sword handle and the other just slightly resting on top of his hand.
Once the bats started moving, so did his sword. It started twisting and turning as he stood still. A few cherry blossoms started swirling around his sword creating an almost vortex.
The moment the bats where in range, he struck forward and the cherry blossoms shot forward as well. They shot through the first bats corpse creating tiny paper-thin holes, before following his dance like movements creating holes in most of the bats.
Unfortunately, due to him still being new to the Falling Petals sword technique he wants able to create many blossoms, but he was at least able to use it to kill over half of the bats leaving only 4 left.
He still only knows the first move of the sword technique and it used up most of his Qi so instead or trying another move he used his movement technique called silent steps to create some room.
Once there was some distance between himself and the bats he infused his sword with a layer of ice Qi before using his remaining Qi on 4 last steps with silent footsteps to silently stab each of the bats right through.
Their bodys quickly freezing over, they fell to the ground and smashed leaving only frozen chunks of bat and their cores.
Due to being out of Qi he takes a breather and takes out some beast meat jerky he made as rations for gaining back Qi reasonably fast. While eating his eyes where shining. He was incredibly pleased every time he sees the effects of the sword technique, although leaving him exhausted after a single move, the beauty of the cherry blossoms leaves him feeling happy and warm.
Deciding to put some more focus on cultivation so he can use the technique more he wraps up his outdoor training early by doing his senses training during the day, before heading back to cultivate inside his inner world.