Chapter 7: Chapter 7
Out of the trial, in the Feng clan's village, three of the thugs from Black Demon mercenary guild were pressuring Feng Baichun to open up the seal of the 'heavenly treasure'. Upon repeated denial, they were about to abduct some of the children from the clan.
This was the situation that greeted Yun Che when he finally came out of the trial. He remained hidden, not exposing himself too soon, waiting for the right opportunity to launch a sneak attack.
Simultaneously, he was trying to convince himself in his mind to kill a person. After all, this would be the very first time he would kill someone, in both his original life and the current one. The original Yun Che's memories contained a lot of killing experience, but since he didn't inherit any of the emotions of those memories, this would indeed be his first kill, something very nauseous to a modern man like him.
He told himself that this was a cultivation world, very different from modern Earth, a world where killing was a necessity in order to survive or do many necessary things. He then accessed the original Yun Che's memories of killing millions of people at Azure Cloud continent.
Watching them made him a bit sick, but he steadily held on and watched the entire memories. They would inure him a bit to the idea of killing.
Finally, he told himself some philosophical words to complete the process, 'Death is a law of life, an inevitability. Completely immortal beings may exist in some other fictional worlds, but not in this one. Even the Ancestral God, Creator Gods and True Gods died. Killing an individual would simply accelerate this inevitable process. In fact, the individual should be grateful that he died a quick death, instead of a painful and agonizing one due to old age.'
Having come to terms with what he was about to do, he finally took action. Using his newly gained fire elemental powers, he launched several bolts of fire, each shaped like a phoenix, towards the three thugs. The bolts of fire let out a phoenix screech and accurately struck the targets, instantly burning them in the process.
The thugs were only at the Nascent Profound realm. How could they withstand the attacks of someone at the True Profound realm, who had enough combat strength to kill an early stage Spirit Profound realm practitioner?
Yun Che didn't care whether the thugs felt any pain during their death. What he did care about, was that nothing was left of them after they had been completely burnt by the fire, nothing to remind him of what he had just done.
Taking deep breaths, he calmed himself from the intense rush he was feeling. Finally, he turned to the clan leader, Feng Baichun, and greeted him, "Clan leader, I have got my part of the deal. I have obtained the divine Phoenix inheritance."
Feng Baichun was gobsmacked and dumbfounded. When Yun Che had not emerged from the trial even after a month, he had been convinced that the enthusiastic youth had died inside. While feeling some guilt, he had been simultaneously relieved that the Phoenix spirit had not punished them.
It was completely out of his expectations that Yun Che would return right now, right when some children of his clan were going to get abducted. With tears of happiness, he thanked the divine Phoenix spirit for this blessing and expectantly looked towards Yun Che.
Knowing what he wanted to ask, Yun Che chuckled and nodded, "Don't worry clan leader, I will keep my end of the deal. First of all, call all the members of your clan here. I will remove the curse."
Then, he lit a fire in his hand and instinctively burned off the Phoenix imprint curse marks on the foreheads of all the clan members. Their cultivation had been unsealed, they could now cultivate beyond the Elementary Profound realm.
The clan members were overjoyed at this pleasant surprise. They enthusiastically requested Yun Che to take part in a banquet to celebrate this.
Yun Che agreed, "Alright, but first I must deal with the rest of the Black Demon mercenary group as was agreed upon our deal."
First, he verified from the clan members whether anyone of them had already been abducted by the mercenary group and received a negative answer. Then, he set off towards the base of the mercenary group, to kill some more people.
It didn't take him long to arrive at his destination. He could see the settlement of the mercenary group from a distance and knew exactly what he must do.
He executed his newly learnt technique, 'Star Scorching Demon Lotus', and jumped into the settlement. His entire body was covered in phoenix flames, and as he struck the ground in the middle of the settlement, waves of phoenix fire were launched all around him, burning everything to ashes in a 60 metre radius.
All the people of the Black Demon mercenary group, all their houses and belongings, were burnt to cinders, erasing them from the surface of the planet.
Yun Che stood up and looked around, to find that he had succeeded and eliminated the entire despicable mercenary group with a single move, just like he had planned. He returned to the Feng clan and reported this news to everyone.
That night, there was a celebratory banquet, and Yun Che got to eat some delicious food and enjoyed himself a lot.
Jasmine spoke to him from within the Sky Poison Pearl, "Congratulations. You now have another divine legacy. Though I am curious, who was that girl in the third trial? You have told me your general life story but I don't remember any such person?"
Yun Che smiled smugly, "You can take that deal anytime. I will tell you my entire life story and all my secrets, as long as you do so too."
Jasmine snorted, "Humph. Don't get cheeky, disciple... I will think about it."
The next day, Yun Che left the mountain and set out towards New Moon city, his next destination.
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