"Ah, welcome! Everyone, please take a seat." Says Luo Kai when he slides the door open.
6 men and women including Yao Chang enter the room and sit.
"Thank you for attending despite your hectic schedule. I want to discuss the Heavenly Dragon Divine sect."
Once Luo Kai mentions that sect, the atmosphere tensed. Every single one of them glares at Luo Kai.
Luo Kai gulps. "Do any of you have any personal feud with that sect?"
No one answers him.
That's weird, why are they so quiet? Luo Kai thought.
"I want your cooperation to spread rumours and slanders about the Heavenly Divine Dragon sect. You see, I want the patriarch dead. I can offer a few life essence pills for each of you and I want influential martial artists to back my attack on his sect under the premise of exterminating evil." Says Luo Kai.
Luo Kai is enough to take on the entire sect but a display of power is what matters to him.
"Our apologies but we have discussed beforehand and came into an agreement." Says Yao Chang.
?
"We will no longer support and associate with any of your operations."
!!
"Wha-"
"That concludes this meeting." Yao Chang says along with many others as they stand up.
"What do you mean-"
"Please conduct yourself. You know the consequences of offending all of us and we know your secret." A bearded old man says.
"Traitors! All of us are accomplices. You have possession of the life essence pills as well." Says Luo Kai.
Yao Chang smirks. "Do you have proof?"
...
Yao Chang along with many prominent figures left the room.
...
"ARGHH!!"
Luo Kai smashes the table in the middle. "What happened? What did all of them suddenly turn on me? Is it Wang Ji? How...How??"
No cultivation pills are comparable to the life essence pills. In the black market, one life essence pill can be sold for 10 gold coins.
If so, did Wang Ji threaten them?
Impossible. Not with Wang Ji's current strength.
Luo Kai tried to think of every possible answer. None made sense.
Even if Wang Ji offered martial arts knowledge from the upper realms, Yao Chang is not one to falter and accept such temptations. He considers long term benefits.
Racking his brain does not provide an answer.
Luo Kai is the weakest and youngest son out of the three Luo young masters. However, he has one advantage, vileness. Luo Kai will resort to anything to become stronger. Luo Kai assassinated his second brother which joined a sect by taking advantage of the enemies his brother made.
As if fate agrees with Luo Kai's action, the eldest brother perished in a war against the demonic sect a thousand years ago.
Without a choice, Luo Kai succeeded the throne of the Luo family.
Since then, for a thousand years, Luo Kai used every despicable method to become stronger, formed many mutual relationships, and rise to the Golden Soul stage.
People who opposed him died, were tortured, enslaved, and everything that can happen to a human. Miraculously, despite several setbacks, Luo Kai manages to find a way out.
However...
Climbing to the peak of a mountain, he realises that there are even higher insurmountable obstacles.
Wang Ji...What's happening? How is he?...
Luo Kai felt like an ant. He couldn't do anything about it.
The feeling of Wang Ji's pressure overwhelms Luo Kai.
"No...I have to call for 'them'."
Luo Kai slips out a scroll and bites his finger, dripping the blood on it.
The wordings in the scroll glow red.
*WHOOSSH!!!*
Sudden wind surge in the room when a mysterious silhouette appears.
"Great lord! I-I need your help!" Says Luo Kai.
"Help? You called me for that?" A low voice says.
"M-My apologies, a practitioner called Wang Ji needs to be eliminated for producing pills."
...
"The decision has been made by the master. We will no longer contact you."
!??
Luo Kai widens his eye. "W-WHY-"
Luo Kai was flung up into the roof as a sharp black spike erects from the ground below.
!!!
"Wait-"
Luo Kai shoots a pulse of mana to the spike and dissipates the demonic qi before he was slammed into the ground.
"Ugh... A mere Nascent Soul attempting to kill me!" Luo Kai exclaims.
"Silence. You have outlived your usefulness, die without futile defiance and make my life easier."
"Fuck you!"
Luo Kai sets an outburst of Qi that destroys the entire building into a detonation. The peak of the mountain was blown off as Luo Kai boost himself into the air.
A mysterious thread of darkness materialises the demonic cultivator behind Luo Kai.
"Bastard!"
With a sweep of Luo Kai's arm, many mountains miles away were sliced into two and nature suffered widespread damage.
"The patriarch has gone crazy?"
"What is he doing?"
People across Tiansu, especially Qiang Jin, start to notice Luo Kai in the air.
"Huff...huff..." Luo Kai does not have his weapon. He is at a disadvantage.
But he won't give up, not yet, not when he has reached this far.
"STOP HIDING! COME OUT!!" Luo Kai shouts. The echo creates a repetitive burst of shockwave.
"Fool. I gave you a chance-"
Luo Kai grabs the demonic cultivator at his throat which turns into clouds of black dust.
"You! Stop hiding like a coward!" Luo Kai says.
"I wonder who really is the coward here?"
"SHUT UP!" Luo Kai extends both of his arms to the side. Combustion fire Qi emits from his physique, a giant fireball expands from Luo Kai's body and into the surrounding, burning and killing everything.
"R-Run!"
"He is crazy!!"
"Arghhhhh!!!"
His act arose an onslaught on the Luo family as well as Qiang Jin dwellers.
Huff huff...
Luo Kai stares unfazed at the chaotic destruction of the mountains and city. Piles of burnt bodies line the street. The mountains of the Luo residence are blown into pieces. However, it is okay. He kept telling himself. As long as Luo Kai is alive, he can rebuild everything from scratch.
Unexpectedly, Luo Kai felt a pointy tip at his nape.
"All bark and no bite. Who are you trying to hit with that technique?" Says the demonic cultivator.
!!!
"Mere Nascent soul- UGH..."
The demonic cultivator has his hand near Luo Kai, refining a sharp black Qi out of his index finger. The black Qi pokes slightly into his nape as a discharge of static electricity occurred.
Luo Kai can't move. What technique is that? Demonic Acupuncture?
The muscles of his mouth won't move. His throat is on fire.
"..."
Luo Kai trembles tremendously. Him? A Golden Soul losing to a Nascent Soul? Impossible. It is impossible.
The black Qi pierces through Luo Kai's throat.
...
Ah... Fuck. What have I been doing my whole life? Luo Kai thought moments before his death.
In actuality, Luo Kai only yearned for affection from his parents and recognition. Nothing else. He wants them to recognise him as his son.
Why was he born into such a cruel world?
The Qi in his body disperses into the atmosphere as the corpse falls to the ground.
Looking at the aftermath, the demonic cultivator vanished into thin air quickly.
Luo Kai wasn't one that is well-versed in combat. His speciality lies in controlling everything behind the scenes, the insignificant techniques he learnt and insufficient experience led to his downfall.
Meanwhile, a demonic cultivator at the Nascent Soul has survived endless tormenting battles and refined their techniques many many times. It can be stated that their kill tally can be up to 5,000.
The demonic cultivator reappears in a throne room. "It has been done, master."
A young man in a black ragged robe and tattered scarf sitting on the throne chair smirks. "Good work, you've displayed fabulous performance."
"Thank you." The demonic cultivator leaves when the young man gestured him to.
The whole room is filled to the brim with demonic Qi. Piles of bones stack at every corner.
Standing beside the seated young man are 3 people, 2 men and 1 woman.
All of them are in the transcendent realm.
"Aiguo." Says the young man.
"Yes my lord?" The man with blue hair replies.
"We will join in on the party. I need to return to the upper realm soon so let's play a bit."
"Understood."
The chaos caused by Wang Ji, terrorism formulated by the Blood Sect, and an odd onslaught by Luo Kai. The Murim has never been so chaotic.
And now the demonic sect has started to move.
A "young" teenager that wears an outfit befitting a beggar, his name is Jie Sheng, the Patriarch of the Heavenly Demonic Sect. His cultivation base? The Divine realm. A cultivation base that only exists in the upper realms.
The other three around Jie Sheng are the Heavenly Demons of the sect. There were four but one was killed and his soul was absorbed by Wang Ji.