Tainted will

Xuan mountain.

It was cold afternoon with dark cloudy sky that lay overhead. The landscape was pillows of snow, there was serenity amidst the cold winds. It was calm and quiet.

Ye Clan pavilion.

"Lord clan head, I think we should not wait any longer." A middle aged man with broad shoulders spoke, his tone filled with urgency.

"Yes I know, I have already exchanged letters with the other village heads, we are going to wait for three more days if there is still no news we will immediately take action." Qing han responded calmly.

Rumble!

At this time, there was a huge earthquake, it was as if there was a huge python rolling around in the ground. it was a terrifying earthquake that seemed to devour everything, the world was shaking like the apocalypse was here.

"What is going on?"

"Why is there an earthquake all of a sudden?"

"This not an ordinary earthquake, this is something far worse?"

Woosh!

Ye Qing han directly flew out, he was a spirit realm Cultivator. All spirit realm martial artists have the ability to fly, just like how core formation realm martial artists have the ability to communicate with each other using their divine senses.

Ye Qing han levitated high in the air, his expression was grim, his eagle like sharp eyes observed the entire situation.

"The entirety of Xuan Mountain is shaking, even the nearby mountains are affected somewhat. Earthquake, no this must have something to do with the earth vein. Is this perhaps related to the that phenomenon.." Ye Qing han had a deep gaze the more he thought about this, more it seemed to be the case.

Within a few seconds he made his decision.

.....

"Why is there a earthquake" Bai Ming frowned deeply, the earthquake had just lasted for minute before calm returned.

"Strange, this the first time something like this happened in my 15years of life in this place. I have also not heard anyone mention about a earthquake happening in the village before. I have a feeling it's not that simple."

"Should I head out.. no, I should quickly master this art." Bai Ming once again continued to train the fifth layer of primeval sword art.

But only few minutes had passed when he heard hurried footsteps approaching him.

Bai Ming stopped practicing, he turned towards the source of the sound.

A bald old man with a muscular body quickly came into Bai Ming's vision.

"Elder Tian is something the matter, I still have seven days time limit to learn the sword art." Bai Ming stared at the old man calmly and spoke in a plain tone.

"First of all let me congratulate you on being promoted to the position of a clan elder, congratulations." Elder Tian congratulated.

He was a peak core formation realm expert and the person incharge of protecting the clans treasury, but in this room the only treasure was the high grade sword art, as for the clans spirit stone storage it was in a different room.

Bai Ming just nodded his head in acknowledgement, if it was before when his strength was meager, he would put on pretense but now there was no need for it, he was already a core formation realm expert, an elite. Even though he wasn't the strongest person in the clan, he had much capability and the clan will also start showing more attention towards him now.

'Arrogant, but considering his achievements at such a young age. If he doesn't have the right to be arrogant, who has! He is the youngest elder in the clans illustrious history, mid grade talent what bullshit. He probably will even breakthrough to the spirit realm, at that time he can contest for the clan head's position.' Elder Tian thought highly of Bai Ming, but he knew the urgency of the situation, he quickly spoke. "Elder Bai Ming we don't have time, come follow me. The clan head is waiting for us. As for your training it has to wait."

Bai Ming's eyes flickered, he had a vague idea of this sudden change. He quickly followed after Elder Tian to the clan conference hall.

.....

The atmosphere in the clan hall was solemn.

The clan head Ye Qing hai was sitting on the highest seat, there were dozen empty seats in rows by his left and right. Except for the clan head only Six other elders were present in the hall, including Bai Ming.

Most of the elders attention was more or less on Bai Ming, they had differing thoughts as they looked at him. But everyone shared the mutual feeling of astonishment.

Bai Ming sat upright, his hands resting on the sides of the chair, while his eyes were opened in two slits.

"Since everyone is here listen carefully, I think everyone should already know as to why I have called you here." Saying this the clan head paused and observed everyone, the elders quickly nodded their heads. Next he continued, "Never in the 600 years of our clans long history has there ever been a earthquake, and i believe it is the same this time. If my guess is Correct it has something to do with the golden light pillar, it is most likely that pillar of light has something to do with the mountains earth vein."

Upon hearing clan head's words, many clan elders started frowning.

The hall fell into temporary silence.

"Earth vein.." Bai Ming's eye's shone, as he kept on muttering this word in his heart.

After letting the group of elders digest his words, Qing han continued "But of course i could be totally wrong. This is an extremely important issue, if it truly involves the earth vein then we have to do everything we can. Otherwise if it were to be damaged, the entire mountain will collapse, the loss of life will be unimaginable. And we would have to move to another mountain and that is not as easy as it sounds."

"I agree with the clan head ever since the appearance of that pillar of light, I have been feeling much unrest." A middle aged man spoke.

The other elders also agreed to this.

"We have already waited for so long, it's time to act now. Elder Xu, Elder Tian and Elder Bai Ming will remain in the village and protect it, the remaining members follow me, we will join with the Luo and Song clan leaders and head to the place of the abnormality." Qing han spoke in an unquestionable tone, his mighty aura fully displayed.

Bai Ming heard this and showed no reaction, but deep within his eyes cruelty was perfectly concealed.

Saying that the group elders and the clan head quickly moved out, the situation was urgent. The survival of the clan was on line now, no matter the hatred between three big villages, in such situations they had to come together.

Bai Ming and the two elders watched the group leaving the village.

The group of three elders, one old, one middle aged and one young looked at each other and sighed.

"Elder Xu, Elder Bai Ming I will as usual be guarding the treasuries, if something happens please look for me." Elder Tian informed and turned around left.

Now only Bai Ming and elder Xu were remaining.

Elder Xu was the middle aged woman with peak core formation realm cultivation, who wanted her daughter to develop a good relationship with Bai Ming, she had even gifted him 2nd tier high grade healing pills.

"Elder Xu, since there are only three elders in the village now and elder Tian is gaurding the treasury we should not stay in the pavilion. How about it, I will be secretly guarding the inner part of the clan while you maintain the security on the village walls." Bai Ming suggested in a humble tone.

Elder Xu throught about it for second before agreeing to it, she conversed with Bai Ming for bit more time and left. Bai Ming was polite when talking to her.

But once she left, his gentle face returned to it's usual coldness and indifference. His eyes flickered with a cold light a he thought, "This is a golden opportunity, if I let go of this opportunity, I should just rot and die somewhere. But both of them are peak core formation realm martial artists, my soul force is only at the peak elemental realm and setting up a 3rd grade formation to kill them i will have to burn my soul again. As for fighting head on against them, even with my current strength i can't defeat them, but just because I cannot defeat them does not mean I can't kill them."

"But I should first put a isolation barrier around this pavilion." Bai Ming began to secretly set up a restriction around the pavilion.

An hour later.

"That senior brother told me she should be here, where is mother" A clumsy looking young girl was walking around the walls of the ye village, she had white skin and thick eyebrows which gave her a fresh aura.

"Oh isn't this Little mei, what are doing here?" A middle aged woman dressed in yellow clothing enquired.

"I am looking for mother, aunty have you see her. I have been looking around but I can't find her." Xu mei asked with some expectation.

"Elder Xu was right there a moment ago, but she looked busy so I didn't talk with her. Okay I will be going now it's almost time for lunch." the middle aged women waved her hand and left.

"Bye aunty" Xu mei quickly went towards location pointed by the women.

after walking for few more minutes, in her vision appeared a familiar person.

"Mother! mother!" Xu mei shouted as she ran towards her mother.

Elder Xu was standing on a watch tower giving a few instructions to the guards, but when she heard the extremely familiar voice she instinctively turned around.

Elder Xu saw her daughter running towards her, she quickly jumped off the tower and landed few steps away from Xu mei.

"What are doing here? why aren't you at home now? Have you had lunch yet?" In a single breath elder Xu asked barrage of questions to her daughter.

"Hehe, you will never guess who sent me here" Xu mei replied playfully as she held out the small package in here hand.

"Oh, what is this?" Elder Xu smiled and asked as she got closer to her daughter.

Xu mei smiled at her mother as she handed her mother the package, "Open it, I also don't know. It was elder Bai.."

Elder Xu had just held the package, at the next moment, an intense explosion occurred.

BOOM!!!!

A world shattering explosion occurred, everything within hundred meters of the explosion was caught on fire, the flaming gaurd station was sent flying, a large portion of the village wall was burnt to ashes, the people nearby be it cultivators or mortals had died a terrible death, most of them were turned into dust with not even their bones remaining.

A huge pit appeared in the place of the explosion, the ground was completely burnt.

Even the grand core formation expert Lady Xu was burnt till not even her ashes remained.

The sound of the explosion had spread throughout the entire village, the entire village immediately fell into utter chaos.

All the Cultivators in the village where rushing towards place of explosion.

Far away from the explosion, on top of a three story bamboo house Bai Ming stood with his hands behind his back as he calmly spectated.

"One has to be vigilant at all times or else they would just end up like this poor woman." Bai Ming thought as he watched the entire incident.

This whole incident was obviously Bai Ming's doing, after setting up the restriction on the clan Pavillion which isolates itself from the outside world, he quickly searched for Elder Xu's daughter and asked her to do him a favor, considering Bai Ming's status and Xu mei willing obeyed.

Bai Ming had given her Luo Cai's spiritual core, he had already placed his will in it. A spiritual core contained the person's entire cultivation, if it were to explode even spirit realm martial artists had to be careful, it was far more terrifying than martial attacks. Not to mention, elder Xu was only a core formation realm expert and the sudden explosion was really sudden for her, before she could even react, everything was over.

Woosh!

Bai Ming moved like lightning as he appeared on the site of the explosion, he directly moved towards the center of the flaming pit.

The people in the surroundings wanted to stop him, but these people quickly recognised him and didn't dare interfere, a barrage of questions was slammed at Bai Ming.

Bai Ming treated these people like air, once he got to the center of the explosion he began to search the ground, he quickly found a brunt yellow core. He quickly stored it in his storage pouch.

"A pity I couldn't get her body, it looks like I just have to settle for these worms." Bai Ming's eyes were staring at the ground below as he spoke in a soft voice, but due to the chaos others couldn't hear him, but there were always exceptions. Some people were closely observing Bai Ming's every single action, hearing his words their expression changed greatly as they took a step back in fear.

Bai Ming raised his head as he gazed at his surroundings with his demonic crimson eyes, his deep green robes fluttered lightly, his black hair danced in the wind, he revealed a devilish smile as his lips curled.

"Come on! Let's paint world red!" Bai Ming laughed loudly, as three solid sword Phantoms formed behind him.

Woosh! Woosh! Woosh!

The three fierce sword Phantoms dashed forward beheading three of the nearest martial artists.

Thud sounds were heard as three severed heads landed on the ground.

Soon after, Bai Ming continued his slaughter fest.