As various kinds of insults left his mouth like sharp knives flying towards Gu Fa, Niu Chang couldn't help but stop.
No matter what kind of insults he had thrown, Gu Fa stayed still and remained calm.
'It feels… it feels like how an adult treats children's tantrums… am I childish?'
Pondering the question in his head, Niu Chang accepted the hard cold truth. But even so, he just refused to accept his loss.
"Are you gonna talk or not?" shedding away the remaining emotions, he coldly looked at Gu Fa.
Even so, Gu Fa just stayed the same, as if taking Niu Chang as nothing but a fool of himself.
"Ah," Niu Chang finally realized something that he had been feeling about Gu Fa's behavior. 'To put it plainly, he has already reached a new level of mentality. It's not good, but rather bad. Just like those who are kept in an asylum for being unable to connect with the outside world, they live in their own world and have their own unique set of minds. No matter how others treat them, they will take it as nothing but air. For them, this is the norm.'
Finally able to put his thoughts into words, Niu Chang also felt weird when he realized how sick Gu Fa was in the head.
'Isn't his case just like mine? Pah, I want to befriend him, but he chose the path of supreme pretentiousness. He has long since abandoned his humane nature, the childish heart, and carefree will.'
Then Niu Chang nodded hard at Gu Fa. "You and I aren't the same!"
Choosing to be silent, Niu Chang slowly brewed a plan in his mind.
Since the chatty Niu Chang no longer talked, Gu Fa and Mo Qi didn't talk either.
Both of the Heavenly Demon Cult members could telepathically speak to each other, but since her Lord didn't talk, Mo Qi didn't try to contact him either.
She stared hard at young Niu Chang, unable to understand why her Lord kept being silent for the whole time.
'Is this boy that strong that even the Lord chose to be very vigilant?'
Recalling fighting with Niu Chang's puppet, she found it rather wrong, 'although his beguiling art was weird, it is not to the point of being irresistible for me. In direct combat, beguiling techniques usually lack the explosive power of other arts.'
Mo Qi, who already knew how powerful her Lord was, chose to believe in him. 'This boy might be someone whose age differs from his real appearance.'
"I will make you a deal. Hand over the heads, and I will give you anything you want as long as it is within my capabilities," Gu Fa suddenly said.
Niu Chang, who was casually cultivating in this tense situation, raised one of his eyebrows. "A deal? Heads? Anything that I want?"
"Heh," he mocked. "Can you give me what I want? I bet you can't."
"Whether it is true or not, you wouldn't know if you don't try," Gu Fa unexpectedly kept the conversation going, always maintaining his pretentious demeanor.
"That was unexpected of you." Niu Chang made a face and continued, "let's talk about that later. How about you tell me about these two?"
He moved his waist to give a clear indication of his words.
The heads swayed slightly due to the motion.
"After you give those heads, they won't be your business anymore. So why ask?"
"Is that so?" Niu Chang just couldn't connect with his communication partner. It was like talking to a man who was clearly poor and weak, but he spoke in a high and mighty tone. No matter who it was, they would be irritated by this kind of behavior.
"I'm curious, will that stoic expression on your face ever change? Or have you already lost the ability to change it altogether?"
Niu Chang casted out his kind smile, but his eyes were smiling brighter.
The meaning of his words was clear.
His body didn't undergo any changes; it remained unmoving.
But Gu Fa… the most pretentious person that Niu Chang had met so far gave an immediate response.
It was as if the dark underground cave turned into the deepest layer of the abyss.
A powerful momentum exploded from Gu Fa's body and turned into a weightless dark red illusory flame that enveloped the whole underground cave in less than a blink of an eye.
At the same time, he moved forward in an attempt to attack Niu Chang.
Everything happened so fast that Niu Chang's eyes and other senses were unable to follow such rapid developments.
But his preparations were for nothing. Even if his senses were unable to control his body, and even his mind was unable to think fast enough, the various skills he had created would never betray his expectations.
There were no explosions, and the heads on his waist turned into fine dust before those dust also went into oblivion.
It was also the time when Gu Fa had already closed the gap and arrived in front of him. Gu Fa gathered dark red qi in his arm and slashed forward.
In these rapid actions, Gu Fa couldn't help but feel something was wrong. 'Was it only a coincidence?'
The moment Niu Chang said his words and the time he arrived near Niu Chang. Although it was a very short amount of time, Gu Fa could feel it was happening in an orderly manner.
He never underestimated Niu Chang, not even the slightest. Having lived long enough as the number one person in the Heavenly Demon Cult, his experiences were greatly vast and deep.
Whether it was martial problems or social problems, he had already experienced many of them.
So, following his hardened and refined instinct, he canceled his attack and chose to step back.
But it was too late.
Niu Chang's eyes were focused, but not on the fight since he was unable to catch up to the superhuman speed. It was his body that reacted for him, as if the body had its own mind and moved accordingly to any perceivable threats.
There were no qi leakages or anything; his body was able to contain everything and only used qi in the most efficient way.
The dark red illusory fire that filled the entire underground cave around Niu Chang changed and turned into red affectionate qi.
Having an endless supply of qi from the system, naturally, Niu Chang took the best of it and used his skills with no limitations.
Blinding the eyes, closing the ears, shutting the mouth, blocking the nose, enveloping the skin. Sealing all five senses.
Holding the physical body, interrupting the mind, and sealing the soul and spirit.
Catching the qi, infiltrating the qi, and locking the qi.
Turning a functional human into a harmless lump of meat was the easiest way to kill an enemy.
After doing all those cutting the root, Niu Chang moved to the next step of destroying the trunk.
The space around his body trembled as if an ancient creature woke up from its slumber. It was the pinnacle form of the Impact skill.
Having increased its proficiency and rank, Niu Chang arrived at the point where his attack was no longer superficial, but directly obliterated his enemy.
Naturally mastering such a powerful technique not only required tremendous effort and time but also luck.
But his second brain could do it; as long as the path was already built, they could fill it with no problem.
There was only one limitation for this skill: Niu Chang needed direct contact with his enemies.
Since he was already aware of such weakness, he just needed to come up with new skills to pull his enemy towards him and also push himself towards his enemy.
Then he also needed another skill that allowed him to penetrate his enemies' protection with no problem.
This was the reason why it's called a killer move, since this move would kill the enemy. Niu Chang called this set of well-connected skills "Parting Gift."
Mo Qi, who also began to react the moment her Lord made his move, was stunned when she saw the body of Earth Demon No.2 suddenly materialize in front of Niu Chang and stay still for a split second before turning into fine dust.
Her mind was in chaos as her pupils dilated. Before she could do anything.
She only saw a flash of light, and she lost consciousness.
When Niu Chang's mind was finally able to refocus to the present time, he found that only he and the unconscious Mo Qi were left inside this underground cave.
He then checked his karmic bond with Gu Fa, then let out a sigh of relief when he realized Gu Fa was far from his position and didn't make any move.
'Just to be sure,' Niu Chang thought and scanned the whole place. But he found nothing strange even after doing more than five types of scannings.
Since there were no grand visuals or sound effects, he deemed it rather safe to stay in this small underground cave.
'But, just finish this quickly and then relocate to another place.' Niu Chang ended his judgment. He was not a coward, but avoiding unnecessary conflict should be a wise move.
Pointing his index finger at Mo Qi's forehead, he started to dig up information from her. Niu Chang was not a reader for nothing; various skills were made in advance by him for every scenario.
Just like how his body reacted way before his mind, it was a skill called Massacre.
There were no strongest cultivation techniques or martial skills in this world. The reason was pretty simple.
All of them used qi as their resource, and any attack fueled by qi would have endless potential. As it grew in rank, it inevitably reached a point where "my skill is rank 1, so your rankless skill loses to me" and then "my skill is rank 2, so your rank 1 skill loses to me."
It was ridiculous, but it was a fact.
It's just like toddlers arguing between themselves, "my dad is so and so, while your dad is so and so."
But it was different from mortal skills. Mortal skills weren't fueled by qi but were very limited physically and mentally on a human's body.
Massacre skill was a mortal skill, but its power was able to topple anything, as it was the ultimate and strongest mortal skill.
It allowed the practitioner to train their body and mind to the point where they no longer needed to think, since the body already knew what to do as long as the senses were able to perceive the threats.
Again, this shows how limited the Massacre skills were, but thankfully Niu Chang had already created various senses enhancement skills, two kinds for each.
But that alone was not enough to be the ultimate mortal skill; the main reason was its adaptability and lack of forms.
It was reactive and thus had no weakness. When facing hardness, it would become soft or maybe harder, and when facing softness, it would become softer or hard.
'Now then, let's dig in.' Niu Chang started to explore Mo Qi's mind.