Tainted will

Teng Zhe's gaze flickered, he didn't immediately give an answer to Bai Ming's request. Instead he unhurriedly turned towards Yan Shi who was still kneeling on the hard ground, unable to move a muscle under Teng Zhe's spirit suppression.

Hearing the conversation between Bai Ming and Teng Zhe just now, Yan Shi's face turned pale and his eyes showed intense fear. A panic that had never occurred before appeared in his heart.

"A waste of a good slave." Teng Zhe muttered to himself, then his divine will suddenly sunk into his consciousness and destroyed a certain drop of golden blood essence.

Suddenly Yan Shi let out a miserable scream, his eyes blurred as his soul shattered and his body collapsed lifelessly on the ground. To keep Yan Shi under his grasp, Teng Zhe had taken Yan Shi's spirit blood essence. With the spirit blood essence, he only needed an thought to eliminate him.

Seeing this a flash of happiness appeared on Bai Ming's cold face.

Teng Zhe waved his hand as Yan Shi's corpse floated towards Bai Ming.

Bai Ming swiftly stored the corpse, while also taking Yan Shi's storage pouch for himself. Bai Ming then faced Teng Zhe and flashed a look of appreciation.

Teng Zhe nodded in turn and spoke calmly, "Within next two days I'll hand over another four Yin-Yang void corpses. Then we will immediately set off to the red lotus sect."

"Fine." Bai Ming had no reason to refuse, he then turned towards Yang lai.

Yang lai immediately understood, he came running to Bai Ming's side like a loyal dog and immediately handed over all the storage bags and spiritual cores to Bai Ming, as for the corpses Bai Ming only stored An ying's corpse, using the core formation realm corpses did not bring much benifit to his body cultivation anyway.

Yang lai looked at Bai Ming with an extremely respectful expression, but his forehead was covered in cold sweat and he didn't dare to wipe it off. He thought in his heart, 'I don't know whether to curse or praise my dog shit luck, he even dared to call the city Lord a cunt and was still able keep his life. Just what kinda of godly luck does he posses. Sigh, I don't think I'll ever be able to get out of his control, much less eliminate him. But in the near future this person is definitely going to be a influential figure in the Northern azure continent. If I follow him with unwavering loyalty, I might have a better chance to rise in the future.'

Thinking of this the bitterness yang lai had towards Bai Ming vanished like thin smoke, now he was determined to become Bai Ming's right hand man. He was a smart man, he knew that he could not escape Bai Ming's grasp and following Bai Ming was the only way to live. Hence, he immediately made a decision to show his value and become Bai Ming's closest aid. If he wished to keep following Bai Ming, this had to be done.

His gaze toward Bai Ming had a subtle change, the respectful expression on his face turned much more natural now and his back bent forward even more.

Bai Ming noticed this change, but was absolutely indifferent. With a single thought from him, the soul binding vow on Yang lai's soul immediately tightened and crushed his soul.

Immediately, Yang lai let out a miserable scream as blood came out of his mouth and nose. Blood also gushed out from his eyes and ears as he abruptly died along with all of his unfulfilled dreams.

He didn't even have the ability show some form of resistance and could only unwillingly submit to his pitiful fate.

Bai Ming got a hold of Yang lai's corpse, his right hand callously dug out his spiritual core.

Bai Ming had no need for such a lousy subordinate, atleast not for the time being. He was an individual ment to roam the world alone, without any need for companionship.

Humans were born alone and shall die alone. As for family and friends they were just passers-by in this short journey, was there really a need to care about them.

These lines were firmly ingrained in Bai Ming's heart and soul.

"Good, you are indeed suited for the path of cultivation." Teng Zhe laughed lightly and waved his hand. With three bangs, the heads of his Teng family members inside the formation exploded. Blood sprayed everywhere.

Three clouds of green gas floated up from the bodies. Teng Zhe took out a flag and collected the three clouds of gas.

Shortly after, three faces filled with pain appeared on the flag. It was the soul of the teng family members who had just died.

Next, Teng Zhe once again waved the flag as even more souls flew into the flag from the multitude of corpses littered on the battlefield.

Seeing this Bai Ming's impression of Teng Zhe immediately went up a notch, digging out the roots and burning them was always necessary.

Lot of people were killed today, and that to inside a city which was under the rule of a inner elder of an righteous path first tier sect. How could they let people related to this incident just leave, Teng Zhe was a righteous path cultivator and Bai Ming also needed to keep appearances for now. Letting these people go would only cause future trouble.

Previously, Bai Ming had not killed these teng family members for the fear of touching Teng Zhe's bottom line, since Bai Ming previously lacked understanding of Teng Zhe's personality. He wanted to be on the safe side, but now looking at Teng Zhe's resolute nature Bai Ming held both admiration and wariness toward him.

'How foolish of me, how can a person who has reached the supreme mortal realm lack resolve.' Bai Ming silently mocked himself for underestimating a grand expert like Teng Zhe.

Bai Ming was an arrogant individual, but the type of arrogance he had was one which looked down on life and death itself, but at the same time he was humble. He was someone willing to take hundreds of steps back just for the sake of learning and improving himself.

Teng Zhe once again shifted his sharp gaze at Bai Ming, He coldly said, "Two days later we will enter the sect and you will act as my disciple, act accordingly from now on. If you attempt to escape along the way or do something funny, then you won't get another chance. I'll simply refine you."

Then Teng Zhe quickly drew a symbol in the air that flew into Bai Ming's body.

"This is a divine sense marker. It will do you no harm as it is only used to track your location. Once you have accomplished my task, I'll release it for you."

Bai Ming was already prepared for this as he would have done the something similar if it was him. Also, if Teng Zhe wanted to place any harmful substances, there was no need to wait until now.

Bai Ming didn't trust Teng Zhe, but he had fairly high confidence in his own judgement.

Bai Ming then began looting all the stalls inside the formation which were not destroyed during the battle, With Teng Zhe's help he managed to pull it off within a minute.

Bai Ming opened both of his palms, as an eerie purple flame manifested itself. Without any hesitation, he immediately used his flame essence to engulf everything inside the self-sword formation.

"Let's go." Saying that, thick white smoke crept out of Teng Zhe's body and engulfed both of them. And carried both of them outside the formation at lighting speed, easily passing through the self sword formation without even causing so much as a ripple in the formation.

Teng Zhe's speed was very quick. In a short period of time, he had already brought Bai Ming to his estate. He opened the courtyard's gate and inside the courtyard was a small herb garden. Bai Ming's eyes lit up has he quickly scanned this area with his diving sense.

"I'll come here two days from now, If you need something just contact me through this piece of jade." Saying that Teng Zhe handed Bai Ming a jade slip.

Bai Ming scanned the jade slip before accepting it, he looked at Teng Zhe and said, "I want a batch of tier-5 healing pills and five thousand tier-4 formation flags, also get me three highest grade formation base available and fifteen tier-4 formation base. It would be nice if I could also get a book regarding the sect's rules and regulations."

Teng Zhe pondered for a second before agreeing, "Fine, within half an hour a person will come and give everything you need. But, there's no such thing as free lunch." His eyes slightly narrowed and stared at Bai Ming intently, Bai Ming nodded his head in reply.

Seeing Bai Ming agree so easily, his gaze softened and handed Bai Ming a scroll containing all the sect rules.

Bai Ming gladly accepted it, after a minute of conversation Teng Zhe excused himself, Bai Ming watched Teng Zhe leave before entering his room. The first thing Bai Ming did was heal himself, then he took a bath, getting rid off all that blood and dirt all over him.

Half an hour quickly passed by, a peak spirit realm cultivator dropped by and delivered all the goods. Bai Ming had to pay a grand total of 7.8 million spirit stones. The ten tier-5 medicinal pills alone cost around 7 million spirit stones. Another five hundred thousand spirit stones for the five thousand tier-4 formation flags and 300,000 spirit stones for three tier-7 formation base and fifteen tier-4 formation base. But Bai Ming was able to afford the expense now without much heartache, he had nearly 9 million spirit stones still remaining along with various high grade and below magical treasures and weapons.

But what disappointed Bai Ming was the fact that Yan Shi's storage pouch was completely dry, there wasn't even single spirit stone. Bai Ming immediately cursed at Teng Zhe for being greedy, Bai Ming understood that Yan Shi wasn't a member of the teng clan and was previously under Teng Zhe's control.

'I already have a Yin-Yang void body material, but i am under observation for sure. I cannot expose my body cultivation method, so refining my body has to wait until I reach the sect and even then I need to find a secretive place to cultivate my body. After all, my body cultivation method is a demonic path method.' Bai Ming continued muse silently, 'Hmm, after entering the sect I also need to look for a pair of tier-6 beast wing. But even if get one and refine it, my other senses will not be able to keep up with its terrifying speed. My current beast wings are much more suitable for me, but I should prepare one just in case for future troubles.'

Then Bai Ming immersed himself in making formations. The formations he was making were teleportation arrays, with the help of these formation he could travel between any of those fifteen formations by just setting them up. But there was a catch, these formations being tier-4 could only let spirit realm experts and below to teleport through them. Once Bai Ming reaches the Yin-Yang realm these formations would just be useless for him, that is unless he has a way to seal off his cultivation base or just destroy his cultivation base.

Soon two days passed by.

Bai Ming sheepishly got up and stretched out his limbs, letting out a yawn he said "It's time to depart."