Blocking your path (II)

After leaving Akagi with Shen Zhi, Xieren decided to check up on the noble that was supposedly killed, together with Xiao Ling.

"Master... I don't want to walk..." His disciple complained to which he sighed, kneeling Infront her.

"Come on, we don't have much time" Xieren turned the little girl, helping her adjust to his back as he stood up.

"Master's piggyback ride!' Xiao Ling exclaimed, feeling excited, she then giggled, being able to see the world from her master's view...

She kept her hands on his hand and hummed a tune while Xieren walked through the meadows.

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"So this is the place huh..." Xieren mumbled, staring at the small mansion that had been ruined, set ablaze and ruined.

He felt Xiao Ling tremble slightly and helped her down, seeing her pale face, he gently soothed her and walked inside holding her tiny hand...

He saw something move and immediately covered the little girl's eyes, his face darkening as if he were the devil himself in human form.

The sheer amount of fury emitted from his body choked the hidden figure...

"...To think we humans could fall to such levels of degeneracy... I don't even know what to call you... corpse defiling filth!" Xieren spoke, his voice was colder than the coldest winter.

Bringing his sword upto the man that was partaking in sexual activities with a dead maid from the manor, he pierced the man's eye, smiling at the screams of pain coming from the garbage...

"Serves you right!" He chuckled, clearly enjoying the torture session, "Now die" He sighed and slit the man's throat.

Turning over to Xiao Ling that looked horrified, Xieren opened his mouth to speak...

"My little disciple, some people just need to die. If you see anything like this, I hope that on that day, you will take my place and deliver divine punishment upon these monsters!" He smiled at her, ruffling her hair with adoration in his eyes.

As the duo ventured deeper into the territory, Xieren felt several presences surrounding them.

'Trained and high cultivations... they are most likely from the capital...' He deduced, glancing at the auras they were emitting...

Stepping into the hall, Xieren sighed once again, the bodies were still fresh... the women had been stripped naked and the men had been quartered...

Their expressions were of pain and anguish, he then walked over to the storage room, smiling to himself.

It would seem that the bandits had actually tried opening the door to the treasury, however, there is a high level defensive talisman attached, meagre Heaven realm cultivators won't even be able to get through the first layer of defense, let alone those of lower levels...

Xieren sent a bit of Qi through the tip of finger, it's target being the talisman that tore apart immediately.

As he walked in, Xieren was blinded by the glow emitted from the amount of gold, silver and precious jewels inside the room...

"For a small-fry noble, this guy has way too much money... either he's that good or this guy was in some funny business..." Xieren chuckled, absorbing everything inside except for one gold coin.

"Master, why did you leave that gold coin?!" Xiao Ling asked, unwilling to part ways with it.

"It's called manners, little one" Xieren smiled.

"Manners?" Xiao Ling repeated the said word, not quite sure how leaving a gold coin relates to manners.

"Yes, it is bad to take everything at once, only uncultured swines do that! You need to leave one for your victims so that they will use it to get more, so you will be able to steal a second time!" He explained the complex art of thievery, hoping Xiao Ling would follow his foot steps!

"Ohhh... so it's like an investment!" She exclaimed, nodding her head over the facts stated by her master, not that she would doubt any of his words that were akin to pearls that would be dropped from his mouth...

"Yes! Yes! Wait, from where did you learn that word?" He inquired, surprised by the vocabulary used by his disciple.

"Old man said it!" She grinned, happy that her master was patting her head for using "adult" words...

"Old man as in, my old man?" Xieren laughed, bringing her upto his shoulders.

"You are too cute, Xiao Ling!" He rubbed his face on hers, once again full of affection...

However, just as they exited through the gate, Xieren and Xiao Ling were surrounded by several tens of cultivators, most wore orange robes while some wore dark green...

"Did the Yang clan betray the Qiu?" Xieren demanded, preparing to dash towards the enemy, he was not worried about Xiao Ling as she was covered by a layer of his Qi, something that these cultivators would not be able to get through!

"Oh no... nothing like that! We are but an offshoot branch of the Yang clan that despises the Patriarch..." An old man answered, he was from the Yang clan.

"Your leader is Yang Ning, I presume?" Xieren smirked at the mouths that closed, and the figures that tensed...

"Tell that fellow to kill himself before I help him!" Xieren laughed, vanishing from their eye sight, and almost immediately, the Saint realm cultivators were cut off, slashed through their necks as they bled to death...

"Die Qiu bastard!" An elder whose clothes were of orange attacked Xieren who raised his hand, effectively nullifying the puny strike.

"Silence Tang trash"

"Divine Providence: Phoenix blazing the world!" Xieren's arms produced crimson red flames, which tore through several cultivators, the flames burnt through the skin, turning the once cream white to black blemishes as they screamed in agony.

"Master, above you!" Xiao Ling alerted him, her eyes brightening in excitement, having experienced first hand of how her master fought the baddies!

"Haha die!" She laughed when Xieren's sword punctured through their meridians.

"My cultivation!" Three cultivators wailed as the rest glared at Xieren as if he had committed an atrocity...

"You monster! The Heavenly Cultivation laws states that destroying someone's cultivation is a crime against the heavens itself!" An elderly man bellowed, to which Xieren responded with a shrug.

"Oh really... Then strike me down Heaven!" He raised his hands at the sky, which darkened considerably but in the end only produced a slight gust of cold wind that even the weakest cultivator could just shrug off as nothing...

"..."

"A pity... because the thing is... I am backed by something that far exceeds heaven!' He laughed as lightning struck in the background, almost as if the heavens itself were threatening the cultivators not to do anything foolish...

"You... what are you!? Are you from the mythical Heavenly realm?!" The elderly man stood still, shocked...

"Hmm... nope" Xieren just smiled, walking away as the cultivators moved away creating a pathway for him.

"What are you fools doing?!" As if on queue, Yang Ning walked out of the dense vegetation.

"I've been waiting for you" Xieren informed the man that frowned as their eyes met.

"Xieren..." Yang Ning's eyes glinted with insanity...

"You betrayed your clan, for this?" Xieren stared at Yang Ning with pity in his eyes.

"Shut up!"

"Just so you couldn't bare to see me and my wife, you decided that it was a good idea to betray all three clans? You truly are a fool, now leave, I have places to be..." Xieren sighed, he shook his head in disappointment, only to be blocked by Yang Ning.

"SHUT UP! I will kill you this time, FOR SURE!" The man charged at Xieren, who groaned.

"Shall we leave Xiao Ling?" He asked his disciple, who nodded, yawning at the dull voice Xieren spoke in.

"WAIT UP!" Yang Ning shouted furiously, however, Xieren ignored his rants and floated away.

"Listen here you bastard, if you don't come back right now, I will defile your wife and the little girl when you are gone..." Yang Ning laughed seeing Xieren stop in his tracks...

"How can you say such words with only a Saint Knight realm cultivation? And how dare you disrespect this little girl... I will cripple you for it!" He turned to Yang Ning.

"Divine Providence: Heavenly extinction..." Just one formed on his hand.

Xieren then threw it at Yang Ning with all his strength, bordering a Divine Sword!

An attack of that level cannot be blocked by someone of a lower realm as they have been blessed with luck from the heavens, never missing it it's target...

The sword went through Yang Ning, who stared at Xieren with widened eyes.

'How... I... dodged...' Yang Ning fell on his knees, several cultivators from his clan immediately came to his rescue, but it was too late...

Saint sword...

Heaven knight...

Earth Duke...

Mortal sword...

Yang felt the Qi escape his body, damaging it in the process...

But for now, he would close his eyes and never open them again, Xieren later arrived Infront of Shen Zhi's house in the village and knocked the door.

"Master, you were so cool and dashing!" Xiao Ling complimented, hugging him tightly as he felt a smile creep into his face...