Tainted will

Dusk.

The last few rays of the sun were like blood, and crows screeched as they flew back to their nests.

Inside a dark cave.

"Does your clan have Yin-Yang void realm battle strength or any other special methods that could threaten such experts?" Bai Ming spoke in a low voice, calmly staring at the man within the 2nd-grade illusion formation.

"There..is no...one like that, we..only have three.....spirit realm masters protecting.....the village currently...But..it is said...that our clan's great elders....have a technique which can increase...a person's strength...immensely..for a period of time...but I have never..seen it personally..It is believed to be...a rumor." The middle-aged man spoke, his eyes looked extremely misty without any sense of clarity in them. He was like a mindless zombie.

Bai Ming continued his session of questioning for another half an hour.

Originally Bai Ming was going to directly attack the Jiang village, he wanted to face three spirit realm martial artists together, he wanted to purposefully put himself in a tough spot because he had a theory in mind, he wanted to go all out fighting and experiment whether he could awaken sword qi by pushing himself to the very limit while facing such a difficult situation. But then, Bai Ming gave up on it thinking of the unforeseeable future.

In the end, Bai Ming decided to slaughter them with the use of his formations, it was the safest and quickest way to be the victor.

Bai Ming had secretly kidnapped an elemental realm middle-aged man and put him under a 2nd-grade illusion array, getting even more information on his enemies, now he had complete information on the Jiang village.

After killing the middle-aged man Bai Ming quietly walked out of the cave, staring at a nearby mountain, Situated on the mountain was Jiang Village, giving the vast lonely mountain a rich touch of human civilization.

Unlike the Xuan mountain which housed three villages, Jiang village was the only village in the entire Jiang mountain.

"It's almost time..."

Woosh!

Bai Ming channeled his spiritual essence and used his mid-grade movement technique and silently moved through the dense forest.

After a minute Bai Ming reached the foot of Jiang mountain and began studying the mountain's surroundings.

Next, Bai Ming spent entire two days setting up a 4th-grade offensive formation around the entire mountain.

Even though Bai Ming had grandmaster attainment in formation path he needed to spend some time if he wanted to create a 4th-grade formation.

And the formation he set up had a huge quantity of beast cores ranging from tier 1 to tier 4 and his spirit stone storage had also run dry while setting up this formation.

But as long as he succeeds, they will be surely worth it.

"It's completed, now then let's begin." Bai Ming's hands started to form multiple seals and sending out multiple beams of light, before placing his palms against each other.

Waves of ripples appeared on the mountainside and started to spread.

Bai Ming pondered a little. His divine sense was fully immersed, after staring at the ripple for a while, he formed four illusionary circles and sent them toward the ripple.

The moment the circle landed, the ripple started to shake. Bumps appeared on the mountain. These bumps sometimes enlarged and sometimes shrunk. They were very strange.

Bai Ming didn't even bat an eye. His hand suddenly sped up and sent out dozens of illusionary shapes.

Buzzz....

A soft cry resounded, and a pitch-black light bloomed, suddenly expanding and turning into a spherical shield within moments.

Within a few breaths of time the entire Jiang mountain was sealed inside a gloomy barrier like an animal trapped inside a cage, while Bai Ming calmly stood outside watching like a spectator.

Inside the barrier.

The originally peaceful village suddenly turned extremely chaotic, It was like bai Ming had stabbed a beehive, causing everyone to stir.

Everyone looked at the jet-black light barrier with grim expressions, their hearts filled with anxiousness, uncertainty, and fear.

The mortals were especially panicking and running away, the flourishing streets had gone into chaos.

A loud siren rang in Jiang village.

"Heavens, what's that?"

"What kind of trick is this?"

"I don't have a good feeling about this, a calamity is definitely approaching."

Suddenly, the barrier shone momentarily as hundreds of elephant-sized purple skulls grew out from the formation and hovered hundreds of meters from the ground. The huge skulls had green jade-like eyes, and a thin layer of purple mist floated below them.

Noticing this change the situation inside the barrier became even more chaotic, even low-level cultivators began to lose their cool.

A core formation realm expert with a muscular build saw the situation getting worse, he immediately shouted loudly "Everyone, calm down and attack together. The great elders are.."

Bam!

Before the elder finished his words, a huge skull immediately crashed at him with lightning speed.

The core formation realm expert could not react, he was blown to bits, his corpse scattered everywhere. Everything within the hundred-meter radius of the explosion was turned into smithereens.

"Huh?!"

"Lord elder!"

The other martial artists screamed shrilly after a moment of shock.

At this moment, unparalleled fear filled their hearts. The high and mighty lord elder did not even have a chance to react before he was killed in one hit.

This attack was too sudden, Elemental realm experts could not even clearly see what actually had taken place, they only knew there was a sudden explosion that killed their esteemed elder.

"Lord elder is dead, he was killed in an instant!"

"Quickly retreat, this is not something we can deal with!"

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

Everyone madly rushed towards the village headquarters where the three spirit realm masters resided.

Bai Ming was currently seated on top of the formation, looking down from above imposingly watching the massacre unfold.

With a cold snort, Bai Ming sent a chain of skulls crashing down.

Bam Bam Bam....

With consecutive explosions, these core formation realm and below cultivators were turned into pieces of flesh without exception. The houses, taverns, shops everything was blown away.

"Their lives are so cheap, their peace was ruined just because of my selfish desires, it is truly unfair. But that is life for you, unfair. For this sole reason, I strive to be the strongest, so that I don't face the unfairness of life. But if I do face it one day, I shall not feel any resentment or regret, for I am a demon!"

"A demon who is free from the restraints of life and death!"

"A supreme existence that looks down on life and death itself."

Thinking of this Bai Ming couldn't help but laugh out loud. After becoming a cultivator Bai Ming killed thousands and thousands of people, every time he took a life he felt his resolve growing stronger, every time he faced a life and death situation the desires in his heart grew stronger, his heart had already turned indifferent towards everything else, only the desires of his inner heart mattered to him now.

And to accomplish that he was ready to walk on a path of no return and make the world his enemy.

And that was a path to becoming a demon!

At this instant, Bai Ming saw three shadows moving like lightning toward this area. In just a few breaths, the shadows with overwhelming auras emanating from their bodies had already closed in.

These figures had not concealed their auras, hence Bai Ming could easily make out their cultivation.

"Peak of spirit realm. Hehehe, you have come." Bai Ming spoke internally.

The three aged spirit realm experts; two male and one female looked on with grim expressions. Their aged hearts bleed from the heavy loss of life, but their eyes turned Increasingly colder with soaring killing intent.

Jiang hai expressionlessly glared at Bai Ming who was smiling back at him from above, looking at that arrogant smile, Jiang hal felt his blood boiling and a horrific killing intent suddenly surged out from him.

It was not just him, both Jiang Shang and Jiang Xuan were excluding bone-chilling killing intent.

Without saying a word the three attacked at once.

Jiang Hai made a hand sign sending out a thirty-meter-long spiritual dragon, made up of pure earthen essence.

"Evil demon, die for me" Jiang Xuan shouted with much passion, as she sent out hundreds of azure-colored Fist Phantoms toward Bai Ming.

"Die" Jiang Shang spoke in a low voice, as a massive fiery red palm was sent out at astonishing speed.

Boom!

The dragon, azure fists and fiery red palm mixed erupting in a spectacular fashion on contact with the black veil, even the sky seemed to collapse from the horrific explosion.

But even then there was only a slight ripple in the formation, within seconds the formation returned to calm.

"What!?" the three felt deeply shocked.

Immediately an odd silence was momentarily formed before it was broken by Bai Ming's evil laughter.

"Ha-Ha-Ha...Now, die!" Bai Ming glanced at them arrogantly, making a hand sign. He was delighted at the fact that all of their techniques and treasures were going to be his soon.

Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh....

Hundreds of skulls emerged out of the formation and began combining while dozens of skulls dashed toward spirit realm experts with evil intentions.

The three elders were constantly communicating among themselves using their divine senses.

The great elders sent powerful attacks toward the incoming skulls, resulting in a stalemate.

Before rapidly shifting their attention toward the fusion process.

"Meteor rain!"

"Cold Water spear!"

"Falling Phoenix!"

Hundreds of carriage-sized rocks materialized around Jiang hai and swept forward, like a meteor shower.

An incredibly long spear made of astonishing amount of water essence condensed above Jiang Xuan before shooting forward like a venomous serpent.

With a loud noise, from behind Jiang Shang, a towering flame rose 20 meters high. And with a bird cry, it took the shape of a phoenix. It spread its wings and launched itself.

Bai Ming's gaze flickered as he made another seal, the moment he finished doing that hand sign hundreds of skulls that were in the process of fusion exploded.

BOOM!!

Raging flames surged out crazily and the barrage of attacks from the great elders was immediately engulfed in the explosion, it wasn't long before even the elders were thrown hundreds of meters back with burnt marks all over their bodies.

"Cough, Cough.."

The elders coughed a few times, but before they could even recover, dozens of demonic skulls came flying at them.

Their expressions immediately turned grim, their eyes shone with severity.

At this time they understood that they had underestimated Bai Ming.

Bai Ming's cold gaze looked on with much interest at the ongoing battle as he continued to make hand seals, but suddenly Bai Ming's eyes widened in horror, his heart tightened feeling an immense sensation of danger.

He suddenly heard a voice filled with endless killing intent behind him, making his skin crawl.

"Die!!!"