Tainted will

Bai Ming took out six storage bags from within his Scarlet robe and tossed them at the band of spirit realm cultivators hovering before him.

"The twelve of you form six pairs and enter the mystic realm. I'll be going in alone, the storage bags I have allotted you contain a few life-saving treasures. But more importantly, they possess your future responsibilities, perform your duties to the very end." Bai Ming informed in an authoritative voice, he gave the group a stern look before darting towards the crescent crack in the void.

Weng, a flash of brilliance wrapped around Bai Ming as his figure immediately vanished.

The group of spirit realm cultivators stared at his fading figure with a blank expressions, before they began spewing vulgarities.

'What is he playing at? Why would he venture independently? hmm, I genuinely can't grasp him sometimes.' Teng Zhe sighed internally as he closely observed Bai Ming's body disappear into the darkness of the void.

The group of twelve spirit realm cultivators right away engaged in a heated discussion, their original plan was to enter the mystic realm jointly and confront the dangers inside collectively.

But Bai Ming's actions had fully thwarted their plan, now even if they wanted to chase after Bai Ming it was almost impossible to achieve it. Since people were randomly teleported to different places after entering the mystic realm, the chances of them encountering Bai Ming were one in a thousand or even less.

Just when their argument had reached the boiling point, Overwhelming auras erupted within the far corners of the Red lotus sect. The hungry wolves lurking within the sect finally began to bare their claws at this moment.

"Holy shit, we need to leave immediately!"

"Let's just fucking do as he said. Whatever happens, happens!"

"I agree, quickly pair up and enter the mystic realm while maintaining some physical contact with your partner, or else you'll be alone when you reach the other side."

"We know that, now get your legs moving already."

In the end, the gang of spirit realm cultivators agreed to heed Bai Ming's instructions. They formed six pairs and quickly entered the mystic realm while clutching their respective partner's hands.

A minute later,

Within the eccentric ancestor's mystic realm was a 3-foot-long rift. Waves of black energy were being emitted from it.

The rift was rapidly expanding. In the blink of an eye, it was already more than 9 feet wide. The rift formed an arc, like the mount of a demon beast.

At the same time, the rift suddenly started to grow. Waves of black light came out of it, along with many strange energies. Soon, a young man wearing a scarlet robe calmly walked out.

The youth glanced back at the rift and that large rift behind him quickly started to close. In almost the blink of an eye, the rift disappeared completely, leaving only the cold-faced youth.

The cold-looking youth was none other than yours truly, Bai Ming.

Bai Ming surveyed his surroundings, he was in an unfamiliar place. It was a barren land with spherical rocks everywhere, a field of grey.

"This is a mystic realm, a small world?" Bai Ming looked afar, there was not a single soul within his field of vision.

"The Spiritual essence here is quite abundant, even the great Red lotus sect can't hold a candle to this place in terms of purity and density of heaven and earth qi. But it's also understandable since this place is usually closed for a 100 years from the outside world, but what's crazy is the difference between the time ratio of the true world and the small world."

"A day in the outside world is comparable to ten days within the mystic realm, it's truly fascinating. The wonders of this world are truly above me, it's times like these that make me feel insignificant but also glad about the fact that I was reborn in this cruel yet beautiful world of cultivators where the wonders are endless and ordinary humans like me can walk on their own path and strive for immortality." Bai Ming's gaze turned dreamy as he suddenly remembered his past life on Earth, he could only sigh. Those days of living as an ordinary mortal were far gone.

Taking a minute to let his emotions quiet down, the focus in his eyes soon re-awakened.

'This place seems quite safe, I'll plant one coordinate here.' As this thought appeared in his mind, his gaze flickered as he felt a change in the nearby void.

Nearly a hundred meters away, another rift manifested, before just as quickly disappearing.

From the rift a very fine beauty walked out, her skin was smooth like jade. She had long slender legs. Her bosom was ample and extremely captivating.

She was obviously somewhat at a loss in the start, but very soon collected herself. And at the same time, she discovered Bai Ming and revealed a vigilant expression.

Fighting over treasures in the mystic realms, everyone was a hidden enemy. So what if you were from the same sect, so what if you were friends, so what if had the same teacher? Here, the most important thing was to protect oneself and reap benefits. There was no need to care about face and whatnot, here one could act as unrestrained as they desired!

Of course, they needed to be prepared to face the consequences of their actions as well. Otherwise, they would be simply digging their graves.

"Hm?"

Bai Ming suddenly felt a shred of crisis and immediately unsheathed his extremity-grade sword in hand.

The girl in the distance thought Bai Ming harbored killing intent towards her, immediately turning around to escape.

BAM!

A bizarre scene played out; a grey rock "stood" up, smashing its fist ahead, and the girl instantly turned into meat paste.

This was a grey-colored golem. It had shrunk its body earlier to conceal itself, as if it was an inanimate stone. But now it suddenly rioted, smashing a delicate flower-like beauty into a mush; the scene was somewhat tragic.

The golem wasn't huge, only two meters or so tall. Its head and limbs wormed out of its jagged body, which was also made of accumulated pieces of rocks.

"Earthen rock golem," Bai Ming spoke to himself, as his eyebrows rose slightly.

Heaven and earth had spiritual power that could birth all kinds of living creatures, several of which weren't completely made of flesh and blood.

For example; Nightmare fiends, a creature that was birthed within the nightmares of demonic qi cultivators. Then there was the 'Manji' race that was formed after plants possessed wisdom and many more.

The one he faced now was an earthen rock spirit.

The living spirits of the elemental paths had some things in common; they felt no pain like normal living creatures and were very hard to kill. The special trait of an earthen rock spirit was its scary defensive power.

After smashing the girl, the earthen spirit turned to face Bai Ming. Despite having no facial features, it still gave Bai Ming a feeling of being stared at.

'This place may be a sacred land for cultivation, but it's also a dangerous place. However, if I can subdue a few earthen rocks spirits, then I could use them to safeguard the formation coordinate.' Bai Ming's crimson pupils shone with a bright light.

In the time Bai Ming was lost in thought, the golem charged over and fired a monstrous punch, breaking through the speed of sound. A visible ripple instantly formed behind the fist, with a chaotic burst of sonic boom.

Bai Ming laughed heartily, also greeting with a terrifying punch, and declared, "Haha, bring it on. Let's see whose fist is harder!"

Peng!

The two fists clashed as a shock wave instantly burst forth. The golem was sent flying, its right arm devastated.

Bai Ming was slightly surprised. He didn't hold back in this punch as he punched out with his peak Yin-Yang void real physical prowess, simply not using arts or battle qi. But it only shattered one of the golem's arms yet not made the golem explode completely. It could be seen how powerful the golem was and how tough its physique was.

Against the golem, there was no need to hold back.

Because…

The golem's shattered arm turned into a multitude of tiny rocks that fell on the ground but immediately began rumbling as if it had its own life. When the rocks gathered underneath the golem's feet, the rocks fluttered and attached to the severed arm.

In an instant, the golem's arm returned to how it was. The golem not only had a tough physique, but on top of that, it possessed a terrifying recovery ability.

"Yaaang!" A gap was revealed on the grey golem's head as if cracking open a large mouth. Unleashing a furious roar; it had never suffered such a great loss, having its arm entirely shattered by someone else it was beyond furious.

Teng, teng, teng,  it sprinted at Bai Ming in large strides, and with each step, the ground trembled slightly and deep imprints were left on the hard ground, showing its terrifying mass.

It fired another punch.

"Hungry for more, come here little one." Bai Ming chuckled and also fired a punch. Peng, the golem's right arm was shattered again, and this time, Bai Ming didn't wait for it to recover, pressing forward and firing a flurry of punches and kicks.

The golem's body was very hard, similar to the rare metals of upper superior grade. But the Earthen rock spirit was still somewhat lacking in defense when compared with a peak superior-grade treasure, which was simply a notch above it.

After receiving a dozen hard-hitting moves from Bai Ming, the earthen rock golem was completely shattered into bits and pieces, which were scattered all over the ground.

However, these small pieces of rock immediately began rolling and recombining. Bai Ming didn't stop it, but intently watched the process. When it was about to finish reconstructing, he fired a punch and shattered it into bits and pieces again.

But it wasn't long before the Earthen rock spirit began to rebuild itself.

'Oh, I get it now. It doesn't have a true physical body that I can permanently harm, but...' Bai Ming's claw immediately pierced through the rock golem's head. When he took back his palm, there was a shuddering earthen core on it.

'Maybe if I refine this core I can make it submit, or is it better to place a soul suppression seal on it?' Bai Ming began to contemplate, he was a bit worried that refining the core would lead to the golem's death. And he didn't want to waste his soul suppression seals needlessly, as they were limited in number.

"Ang!" Without any prior warning, a deafening roar escaped from the golem's core. Instantly, the pieces of rocks that lay on the desolate field all "stood" up.

They were all golems!

"Fucking hell, it's more than I expected." Bai Ming wasn't surprised in the least, he predicted there to be more of them hiding. Since he wasn't able to sense the golem earlier, how could he not consider the fact there were more of them lurking around?

But what made him wonder was the fact that he landed in a den of golems -was his luck exceptionally awful or exceedingly good?

"Haang!" All the golems roared towards the sky, echoing one another.

"Hmph!" Bai Ming grunted, with these many golems, he could organize a powerful brigade to protect the coordinates. Dreadful spiritual qi surged out from his body, he quickly pulled out a piece of glittering paper and firmly stuck it on the earthen core in hand.

The earthen core trembled violently, a fierce battle erupted between the core soul and the soul suppression seal. Bai Ming sensed the earthen rock spirit's futile struggle and immediately poured his divine sense into the seal future strengthening it. Almost immediately Bai Ming formed a close connection with the Earthen rock spirit.

"Now let's see," Bai Ming tossed the core aside and the golem once again recovered its physical body pretty quickly. But after rebuilding its body this time, it didn't display an ounce of hostility toward Bai Ming, instead, it appeared much more docile as it quietly stood behind Bai Ming like an obedient dog.

'The life force and healing ability of these spirits are truly a bit overbearing.' Bai Ming thought as he placed his attention on the mob of earthen rock monsters.

Peng, peng, peng , there were at least a few hundreds of massive golems charging toward Bai Ming.

Bai Ming laughed heartily and greeted them by firing punches wildly at these golems. His battle prowess was too terrifying, sending a golem flying with each punch, but these golems were only slightly injured each time, immediately charging right back.

'Just the right time to polish my fist techniques.' Bai Ming thought as battle qi shrouded his entire being, during his stay in the Red lotus sect Bai Ming had accumulated and learnt various skills and techniques, fist techniques were also included in this list.

Bai Ming launched the Golden garuda fist technique and nine flashes of golden light shot out, evolving into nine humongous golden fist phantoms that rammed into those golems. He pulled no punches as his battle prowess immediately skyrocketed and dominated the battlefield, mercilessly crushing any golem that was touched into tiny rock fragments.

However, this only suppressed the golems and couldn't destroy the golems' strong recovery power. They still reconstructed, entering the fray again and again.

Bai Ming suddenly flashed ahead like a bolt of lightning and used his hands to ruthlessly smash apart the head of a golem before plucking out its earthen core.

Bai Ming swiftly poured his divine sense into the core and began refining it, while also sending out waves of golden fist phantoms toward the golem army.

Bam, bam, bam, under the fierce barrage of gigantic fist phantoms the golems unsurprisingly were sent flying once again.

"Failure.." Bai Ming had completed refining the core but unfortunately for him, after refining the core, the spirit inside the core had completely disappeared. Hence, the core now was nothing but an earth path resource.

'I don't have many soul suppression seals on me, Hmm, perhaps if I can instill fear into them and then with the help that golem I subdued earlier, I might be able to make them work for me, I'll give this theory an attempt.' Bai Ming right away came to a decision and unsheathed his treasure sword.

But at this time!

The entire battlefield started to tremble violently, and the mob of golems cried out in dismay.

'What's going on?' Bai Ming was puzzled for a second before his heart jumped.

Bam!

The ground under Bai Ming's feet suddenly grew and turned into a lump, Bai Ming was quick in his movements, he immediately shot up to the sky, narrowly avoiding the horrifying explosion below his feet.

Bai Ming had not flown far away, he slightly turned around and looked, his pupils shrunk rapidly.

Dozens of enormous beastly claws had gotten close to Bai Ming without him noticing anything. Bai Ming could not dodge it in time, he was firmly caught and the monumental claw snatched him down at lightning speed into the ground, like a poisonous snake's assault!