16. It Was Deliberate Accident

There was a killer. He was known as a mortal slayer because of his habit of slaughtering

mortals. His name is Ma Teng.

In the beginning, Ma Teng was an ordinary cultivator in a certain village. He couldn't enter

the sect because his talent was too poor. At the age of 50, he was still stuck in the fourth

rank and was unable to break through to the next rank. Even so, he was still living normally

along with the villagers without bothering the outside world.

One day, disaster struck him. It started when he found a treasure-like pendant. He felt the

pendant stored quite a large amount of spiritual energy like a highly concentrated spiritual

stone. His thoughts filled with his chance to break through to the fifth rank, Golden Core. As

it turned out, getting that treasure was a big mistake. Or rather, what he did was the

beginning of his downfall.

He had protected the village he lived in from monsters and bandits for decades, so it was no

wonder if he trusted the villagers. At that time, he was at the bar talking about his magical

pendant. Of course, there were only the villagers, especially the middle-aged men who had learned hunting techniques from Ma Teng.

However, in the corner of the bar, a young man in his 15s was sitting listening to the

conversation of middle-aged men. When they mentioned a magical pendant, the youngster's eyes lit for a moment, then went back to normal. That youngster wanted to become a cultivator, however, he did not have any parents to support him in entering the sect. No money, nor insider.

The day before, that youngster had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change his life.

He met a young master who seemed to be looking for a treasure in the form of a pendant. That young master said the treasure was an inheritance from his family which was passed down from generation to generation. The youngster from the village didn't believe the young master's words, however, when the young master offered to give him the resources to cultivate, the youngster immediately agreed.

The young master could have looked to the nearest village because the treasure had already been taken by someone. There was no guarantee that someone who got the treasure would admit it and make a futile search. Furthermore, if he attacked the village inhabited by mortals, his family would be in big trouble. That was why the young master asked someone for help and paid it cheaply.

After the youngster contacted the young master that the treasure he was looking for was in Ma Teng's hands, the young master headed straight for the village.

Ma Teng was immediately slandered by the young master that Ma Teng had stolen a treasure from his family. And to make others believe him, he also didn't forget to make false evidence. With evidence and witnesses that Ma Teng had stolen a treasure, everyone lost faith in him.

Worse still, his dantian was destroyed which resulted in his cultivation being crippled so that he was no longer able to cultivate. It was humiliating torture for a cultivator.

After that incident, he left the village he had protected for decades with hatred. Or rather, he was kicked out of the village by the villagers. His life changed 180 degrees from being adored to being a loser.

Ma Teng began to harbor a deep hatred for the mortals. He didn't expect, just because of a little profit, someone could change so drastically. He also could not forgive the young master and intended to take revenge. Too bad it was impossible for him because apart from his crippled cultivation, he also had no allies for revenge.

One day, luck favored Ma Teng when he accidentally found a secret inheritance in the mountains. The secret inheritance was a magical pill that could restore his crippled dantian instantly and a cultivation technique that was not an ordinary technique. However, such a cultivation technique was too evil for the Jianghu world where it used human souls to cultivate.

Even so, with his heart already filled with hatred, he didn't care what cultivation technique it was, the important thing was that he could increase his power for revenge.

In just about 2 months, his strength increased drastically until he reached the peak of the second rank and almost broke through the third rank. But in return, he was hunted by cultivators from several sects for his slaughter of mortals.

When he was hiding somewhere, he was accidentally caught in a battle between high-level cultivators.

Even though he wasn't directly involved and their battle in the sky could only be watched from afar, Ma Teng still felt great pressure.

The battle was so terrifying. The shockwave of the battle destroyed the surroundings. Stone, plants, mountains, and everything near their battle turned to dust. Not only that, the shockwave could even create dimensional cracks.

Unfortunately, whether intentional or not, the battle shockwave created a one-kilometer dimensional crack behind Ma Teng and caused him to receive injuries from the shockwave. Not only that but he was also thrown backward and was coincidentally drawn into the dimensional crack.

He was unconscious for quite a long time.

As soon as he regained consciousness, he realized that he was in a very strange white room filled with the smell of medicine and furniture that he had never seen before.

There was no mistaking it, Ma Teng was in the hospital.

His fractured left hand had been given support, but his body still felt the pain of being pulled into the dimensional crack.

He didn't want to linger for long, otherwise, the cultivators hunting him would find him. So, unbeknownst to the nurses at the hospital, he immediately jumped through the window.

As soon as Ma Teng came out through the window, he couldn't help but be stiffly shocked when he saw the sights or buildings around him that were so foreign to him.

The passing vehicles on the road, the mortals walking on the side of the road, and the large buildings that looked sturdy made him unable to describe in words.

Seeing his magical surroundings, he jumped from building to building and landed in a narrow alley where there were many thugs gathered there.

Seeing that they were just mortals, Ma Teng tried to find out where he was now.

After killing some of them, he got information about what he wanted.

"I've told you everything, you're going to let me go, right?" The thug pleaded to Ma Teng. However…

"You look like you're up to something if I let you go. Besides, I need your soul too, hehehe."

The thug's face looked pale which made him make up his mind by taking a gun in his back pocket.

Ma Teng didn't know what the thugs would do. Since the thug was just a mortal, Ma Teng underestimated the thug because of the obvious difference in strength.

Suddenly…

*Bang*

Something was launched toward him swiftly. Spontaneously, he dodged and his hands moved as if to take the attack head-on. However, since he was late to channel his Qi into his hands…

*Splatter*

His right palm was not strong enough to withstand the bullet which then sent blood splashing out of his palm.

Not expecting him to be hurt, he was furious for underestimating a mortal. Coldly, he immediately killed the thug and fled from the narrow alley.

The sound of the bullet earlier was so loud that the place he was standing was no longer safe. Moreover, even though the thug told him that he knew nothing about cultivators, Ma Teng was still wary because there was no guarantee that "Earth" didn't have a cultivator.

How could he expect that the earth didn't have cultivators when he had seen those magical things such as vehicles, a communication device called a phone, and even a weapon that could hurt a cultivator like him.

In the Jianghu world, he had never gone far from his village before he was kicked out. Therefore, he felt that the magical things he saw on earth were the creations of cultivators who came to the earth whether intentionally or not. Just like Ma Teng himself who accidentally came to earth by being dragged into a dimensional crack, there must be cultivators who suffer the same fate as him. Or it could be that a cultivator came to earth using a formation after learning of its existence.

Ma Teng didn't want to attract the attention of other cultivators because he didn't want to be chased by the cultivators again since he had escaped their pursuit after setting foot on the earth.

That made him decide to carefully collect souls so that other cultivators would not find out. And when his strength was enough. He would find a way to return to the Jianghu world so that his revenge would be fulfilled.

From then on, Ma Teng began to devise a plan. Of course, the plan was to harvest souls by deliberately causing a traffic accident that seemed to be a common occurrence on earth. He had learned common things in the modern world in a short time using the classic way which used his identity as an old man in wanting to know about cyberspace. So, he understood that he had to choose a suitable place to harvest souls from a traffic accident.

On a fairly deserted highway in Haixing county flanked by fairly dense trees on both sides, he had set up an array formation. Not long after, an oncoming bus had activated the formation which caused the bus to accelerate and the bus wheel on one side broke.

Ma Teng, who saw the highway was still deserted, immediately approached the bus to harvest souls. Even though he knew that some were still alive and he thought that the passengers would die with the finishing touches, he didn't expect that there would be an uninjured passenger.

Ma Teng grinned.

"Eh, a Qi Condensation cultivator? As I thought, there are cultivators in this world. Hehe, lucky for me. The soul of a first rank cultivator will allow me to break through to the third rank."

That first rank cultivator was none other than Johan. His face was so tense because he was facing an opponent he couldn't possibly defeat.

Ma Teng took out his dagger and attacked Johan to kill him. Johan, who had activated his Empyreal Eyes, tried to dodge. Too bad his body movement was not agile enough to respond to his sight.

The dagger aimed at Johan's heart missed, so Johan's death was delayed. Even so, the stabbing pain from the dagger was unbearable. Johan's left hand grabbed the broken glass, he imbued it with his Qi then threw it at Ma Teng while pulling the dagger stuck in his chest with his right hand.

"Crap!"

Ma Teng was quite surprised by what Johan did suddenly. He quickly dodged the throwing glass. But, because the inside of the bus was so narrow, he didn't have much room to dodge and that throwing glass stabbed his shoulder. Even though Johan was still a first-rank cultivator, his Qi quality had already exceeded the lower level of a second rank. It was not surprising that Johan could injure Ma Teng.

With all his might, Ma Teng counterattacked with his kick that was aimed at Johan's head. Johan was thrown back by Ma Teng's hard kick. Worse yet, he was thrown right into a piece of the iron bar which then stabbed Johan's hip from behind.

Johan groaned in pain after being stabbed. Blood was pouring out of his wound. He became unable to circulate his Qi regularly. His vision was also getting darker and darker. And finally, he lost consciousness.