Just as the man's eyes were turning lifeless he could hear the subtle sounds of metal as Marilyn sheathed her rapier and dagger.
Then a hand reached out and grabbed onto his body and then a burning sensation spread across his body.
Marilyn's hand was enveloped with a grey and ghostly looking flame qi and her palm thrust out and held onto the leaders dying body.
Her eyes watched as the fire qi on her palm began to spread on the man's body and devour him.
As he was breaking down and turning to ash even his blood, qi, and internal organs weren't spared as they were burnt up by the fire qi and devoured by it.
One of the martial art techniques of the evil flame emperor was devouring flame palm.
Just like the blood absorption palm art of the blood sect that focussed on taking away the blood and qi from a persons body the devouring flame palm acts in a similar way but is more greedy and does not spare a single part of the body.
Everything that can burn down and become fuel for the flame is absorbed into the flame qi as it spreads.
Just as the body turned to nothingness the flame qi that remained outside of her body returned to the flame qi that enveloped her hand and then travelled back through her meridians back to her dantain where the seed of evil qi devoured everything that had been taken away and refined it turning it into its own strength.
Just like a small flame coming into contact with several flammable items the flame began to grow bigger, hotter and more dangerous.
Seeing that nothing was wrong with her surroundings she took this chance to stabilise her qi by practicing her qi art in silence.
Behind her before all of that happened Ki had just finished killing the large man and sensed a pair of eyes examining her and then they turned to Marilyn.
Before she could react the figure left the cover of the tent which they had been hiding in and ran towards Marilyn with a greedy look in her eyes.
As Ki had stood up once more she reached for her throwing knives just as the girl was getting closer.
The distance was too far so Ki could only rely on her throwing knives so she ran at her fastest speed to close some distance before she threw them to increase her accuracy.
The outstretched had was covered in a whitish qi that also was displayed on the veins on the back of the lady's hand and it was close to coming into contact with the back of Marilyn's neck.
After witnessing this feature of the whitish veins on the back of the hand Ki was greatly alarmed.
Many martial arts show certain traits and can cause different body parts to have changes if practiced for a long time.
The whitish veins only matched one evil martial art which was known for creating chaos within the world and its evil practice which caused many crimes to appear within the world.
If she remembered correctly she had not noticed anything unusual during this time in her previous life so those involved must be laying low during this time.
Before the hand made contact with Marilyn's skin, Ki threw out a throwing knife which landed in the middle of her hand.
Just as the lady paused and withdrew her hand to try to remove the throwing knife from her hand, Ki had already cleared the distance between them and swiftly cut off her outstretched hand and then moved onto slashing her sword at the other arm.
Without her hands she would no longer be able to make use of the evil art ever again.
Ki no longer cared for the lady who had passed out because of the severe pain she had encountered.
Ki knew that this person was someone who grew up pampered and never faced any difficulty in her life so their tolerance for pain would be low which lead to her passing out.
Ki quickly found a torch nearby that was still lit up and pressed it against to wounds of the lady who had passed out.
Whether she would live or not was unknown but at least she was no longer a danger to others.
She tied the lady up and as she was doing that a blood mist travelled from the transcendent martial artists body and was absorbed into the runic patterns on her body.
After tying up the lady Ki picked her up and began to carry her back towards the forest and met one of the blood shadow group. "Carry her back to the carriages and if she still lives interrogate her."
Ki went back to the camp which had been wiped out and several blood mists were travelling towards different directions and Marilyn was busy refining the energy she had devoured.
She decided to search the tents within the camp and came across many stolen goods belonging to many people but as she entered the tent of the lady Ki noticed something unusual.
Many collections of different types of jewellery and accessories that seemed to belong to young to teenage girls and also some belonging to adult women.
They were all put together and arranged like they were trophies of the lady she had previously dealt with.
After Ki witnessed this scene she was more sure of her suspicions and searched through the tent.