A New Threat

Yang Fan moved with the shadows and moved past the Core Formation 1st stage guard without her noticing, as it was a mid tier area, the guards were obviously higher leveled, the guards were all women and they worked for the Frozen Azure Sect.

They knew that the city would attract a lot of lecherous people and they killed or crippled all the 'perverts.' Many men were bullied by the women here and were threatened with losing reputation or them telling the female guards lies, who also naturally detested men and would mostly encourage this.

This situation reminded Yang Fan of earth, except the situation was more complicated, men had the societal advantage and women lost a lot of opportunities because of their gender, but there were also various cases of women using their gender to cause havoc.

He still shuddered when he remembered Johnny Depp lost his whole career, because of his ex wife, Amber Heard, who also cut off one of his fingers and continuously abused him, and the newspapers accused him as an abuser instead, he lost 500 million because of that.

He stopped thinking meaningless thoughts as he was nearing an inconspicuous inn, he strode up to the register and asked, "Can I get a room." The lazy receptionist looked up without much care at first but then noticed his face and clothes, she then cheekily asked, "Sure, if you do something special for me ~~~" Yang Fan had obviously changed clothes to fit with the customs.

His clothes were top notch in quality and he had added many formations that made it a rank 2 artifact! And he had many of such clothes! He had 10 rank 3 artifacts that he wore for missions! The only reason he could make them was because of the denser Spiritual Qi and faster Qi Recovery in the Palace.

This was only casual wear but he always concealed the formations, his eyes narrowed and he placed a blade over her neck, "Watch your mouth." he coldly uttered, "Feisty huh? I like it!" the woman replied in a natural manner as if she had seen this many times, she couldn't wait to break him!

"The guards aren't for show! I'll tell them you raped me!" she maliciously continued, Yang Fan had heard of situations like this but didn't expect this to happen to him so quickly! He nonchalantly waved his hand and her head flew, in her eyes there was shock and surprise, as well as a tinge of fear.

Yang Fan didn't care, he was already going to offend the sect when he steals the foundation of their sect, it had to be known that rarely any Nascent Soul Cultivators had rank 4 artifacts, they were extremely rare to naturally find as well as to forge.

Lower ranked artifacts were easier to make and were in abundance, some high level sects even granted rank 1 artifacts to disciples who reached 5th stage Qi Refinement! Yang Fan cleaned up the scene then hid all his traces.

No one would notice the body for a few hours as he chose an inconspicuous inn on purpose, he made his way to a different inn and wisely hid his face this time, he bought a room then decided to list down all the treasures he currently had.

From the Tang Family he had plundered the martial skill Power of Streams, the Tang Family Leader's inheritance and several rare treasures as well as many miscellaneous treasures as well.

From the Blood Devil Sect he had received the martial skill Blood Palm which was a giant palm made of the aura of the blood the user accumulated, the palm would also suppress the blood aura on him while manipulating the blood within someone's body, "I didn't choose the slaughterer path, the slaughterer path chose me." Yang Fan wryly muttered.

This technique was too good to pass on, and it had many different effects, Yang Fan had also gained many treasures from that sect as well as many from the other large organisations, some noticeable ones were the snow essence harvested from a snow beasts faeces, the vermillion fruit that contained pure yang essence and the Nightstone orb from the auction house.

The Nightstone was his main objective as it contained abundant shadow energy. Yang Fan spent the next few days incorporating the techniques into his arsenal, after he reached the city, he heard rumours about his feats as it was an unprecedented event, no one dared to challenge the Heavenly Devil Sect.

They all gossiped that the Divine Thief would be dealt with by the envoys within 2 months, after all, even with teleportation formations, the distance was astronomical, he also heard rumours about a girl who massacred the Nightstone Auction House.

Apparently she had been biding her time, waiting to be strong enough to face the shadow king until her brother was killed as a result of Yang Fan's actions. Yang Fan wasn't bothered however and went back to practicing in a secluded mountain range.

She revealed this information because she wanted others to help locate Yang Fan, many spectators were astonished by her foolishness, wouldn't helping her declare they are also against the Heavenly Devil Sect, they hadn't grown tired of living just yet!

It had to be known that if all the high level organisations teamed up against the Heavenly Devil Sect, sure the Sect would be defeated but half of them would be massacred, and the others would be crippled enough for even mid rank sects to benefit from them. This kept the other sects in place.

Yang Fan practiced peacefully for two months and his cultivation reached the peak 8th stage of Foundation Building Realm, he had heard news that for the first time in 10,000 years, envoys had actually come to discipline others! The terror of the Sect had been established in the early days of forming it.

The punishment made others had nightmares and that was how they established their role, the real elites of the Sect were inside it and the envoys were even more talented. The Envoys landed in the city of stars in a huge airship.

There were two reasons Qin Feng and Qin Bai Sheng came here, the first was to deal with some pesky brats who thought they were tough stuff and the other was of course, women! Normally the city of stars would detest men, but they were extremely welcoming and even sent some women in their private quarters!

Sure they had their own ideals but what were they when the fate of their whole sect was on the line, the Sect Leader, Su Yonghuang immediately left her closed cultivation session to meet the guests, as expected, the sect had sent out Nascent Soul cultivators!

They were going to 'Kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.' But in this case it would be more like torture... public... torture. Yang Fan who heard the news was suprised then ecstatic, (obviously not because of the torture,) he hadn't seen a Nascent Soul cultivator in action, if it was a Soul Formation Cultivator he would run straight away as they could lockdown space laws and stop him from escaping.

[AN: Lol I had to search that up, I'm suprised I somewhat remember all these Chinese idioms, it's way too hot in England right now, I have a mini fan right next to me and I'm still sweating. 🥱🥱🥱😒]

Although he knew he had at most a week as even Shadow King could locate him, he still went to bed with a smile on his face. He woke up groggily and went to his usual place to practice and was mildly suprised to see an elegant young woman in a red kimono sitting there.

"Zi Shan Wei, I presume," he asked nonchalantly, the woman's eyes seemed to widen at that before they reverted back to her real expression, madness, Yang Fan had studied her profile as although he didn't care much about her, she still wants to kill him and it would be foolish not to prepare.

She petted her stomach lightly then muttered, "My brother must be lonely on the bridge of life and death, I'll send you to meet him!" she screamed the last part and was on all fours, once again, going beserk.

Another anomaly huh? He smiled, so she gained an incomplete inheritance from the King of Gluttony, Beelzebub, and thinks she's important now? Hahaha! "Wait! Before you kill me, at least tell me how you found me!" he screamed with despair.

Her eyes regained a bit of clarity and she stopped her mad charge, a bit suprised by the Divine Thief's cowardness, she then chalked it up to her incredible power. She playfully joked, "Since you're going to die anyway, I might as well tell you, can't have you bothering my brother with questions on the bridge of life and death can I?"

"Through my amazing sense of smell of cou-" She couldn't finish her sentence before she was smashed towards a large boulder and flew straight through. She climbed out with anger blazing in her eyes, all hints of clarity lost, then resumed her mad charge.

'Hmmmm? It seems that when she enters beserk mode, she really fights like a wild beast and loses her intelligence! This should be quite easy then he smiled and cracked his knuckles, he was going to try out his new techniques!

He also made a note to use the new skills he gets to completely eliminate his smell as well, after all on earth, most people didn't have super noses so he never really concentrated on that aspect.

Meanwhile, in the private quarters, both the envoys were frustrated, "These two really managed to hide themselves well! No wonder they had the guts to be so brazen!" he screamed, "Brother, calm down, getting angry won't do anything, it will only take 3 more days to get their location!"

Zi Shan Wei was quite lucky she came to Yang Fan's area, he had placed a large amount of formations to conceal his presence as he certainly didn't want to get attacked when he was tired from training.

"You're right brother I shouldn't have gotten angry. Besides, the more time we waste, the more fun we can have here!" he smiled lecherously as the other joined in as well and made their way back to their private quarters with a sinister gaze.